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Recent Swype Purchase A Game-Changer For Nuance Communications - Seeking Alpha [16Oct11] - 0 views

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  • Nuance Communications (NUAN) CEO Paul Ricci must have taken copious notes in class because his company's recent purchase of Swype has catapulted it from a voice recognition company to an input organization.
  • I think this is a big move for the company because it expands what it, as an entity, does.
  • To "swype," a person traces across keyboard letters in a continuous motion to comprise a word. Swype says its input method lets people do more than 40 words a minute, and says the application is meant to work across not just phones and tablets, but also game consoles, kiosks, televisions and other screens.
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  • Swype is licensed by a number of Android-based device makers, and that Swype has signed with 15 manufacturer partners and is on 50 million devices shipped in the last 18 months.
  • That's a lot of smartphones, and let's not forget that Apple (AAPL) is a player in that arena, too. In fact, it recently released its much ballyhooed iPhone 4S with the usual media circus in tow. The technology and investing press have written extensively about the device, and the big selling point of the communicator is its voice-recognition wizardry, more commonly known as Siri. Nothing has been confirmed, but Nuance Communications purportedly has the technical know-how that is the backbone of this game changer.
  • Dragon (the Nuance voice engine) happens to be almost universally regarded as the best voice recognition software.
  • As we've moved from predictive text to voice activated mobile computers, one thing is apparent - not one company can do it all alone. These wireless communication devices are a symphonic whole of many efforts. "The nature of the Mobile business is changed to one where our engagements with a number of important partners has become more extensive in co-development.
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Fortumo unveils HTML5-based mobile payments [26Oct11] - 0 views

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  • Mobile payments company Fortumo (which we’ve already covered in the past) unveiled cross-platform, HTML5-supported mobile payments, allowing developers to monetize users of mobile web apps in 60 countries, on any mobile device, with single integration.
  • The solution is praised to require “less clicks” relying on the data already stored on a device, ensuring for both better user experience and, well, more money for developers.
  • What’s more, thanks to operator billing capabilities it [solution] offers “strong alternative to credit cards,” especially in emerging markets.
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  • In that sense, Fortumo has carrier billing partnerships in 60 countries spanning 230 carriers, and where such payment method isn’t allowed, the system automatically “falls back” to Premium SMS, which is cool…
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