However, I'm guessing he's writing about Synfonic. One post discussed that Synfonic's technolgy had been licensed for use in China. Postscript 2: Testing the free directory services reminded me of Tellme, a speech activated (free) info service that...
Synfonic (Gas Price Comparison info) Along with services where you can buy items directly from your phone, numerous mobile search services allow users to obtain comparison pricing info. Bob Tedeschi's article in the New York Times: Those Born to...
Access Local Gas Prices via SMS with Synfonic - Synfonic now provides local gas price comparison info for the U.S. Congress Info Site and Search Tool "THOMAS" Receives Upgrade. I haven't seen this info available via any other SMS service.MORE”
Synfonic offers what you would expect from an SMS provider including local directory info (powered by Yahoo), movie showtimes, stock quotes, sports scores, and more. However, I noticed the other day that Synfonic also provides local gas price...
Synfonic (SMS) Need mobile flight tracking info? Other services, aside from the airline sites themselves, provide near real-time tracking info with data direct from FAA computers and other sources. Unlike other mobile web flight checkers, this...
Synfonic The new service is primarily about accessing pricing info, timetables etc. This is DIFFERENT than the flight info "shortcuts", "Smart Answers," etc.that most of the major web engines, the airlines themselves, and others have been offering...
What the article doesn't mention is that both 4info.net and Synfonic are two US-based SMS services that provide real-time flight info. For example, this service allows you to track commercial flights from many airlines and then places the info on a...
Yahoo SMS and Synfonic also provide SMS access to databases of WiFi hotspots. If don't have SMS capabilities on your phone or mobile device (or SMS messages cost too much) but you do have mobile email access, you're now able to access all of 4INFO...
What the article doesn't mention is that both 4info.net and Synfonic are two US-based SMS services that provide real-time flight info. It's also another example of real-time info on the web. I wouldn't doubt that one of these days we'll see one of...
UpSnap, Synfonic and Simply click, and assuming you have mobile web access, a web browser will open with more info. Running an Yahoo SMS search is easy. Simply send a text message to Y-A-H-O-O (92466) and enter the required shortcut.
Last October I blogged about a new info service available from a Bay Area company named Synfonic that provides stock quotes, local listings (using Yahoo data), flight info, wi-fi finder, sports scores, and other info via SMS aka text messaging.
They are 4info.net and Synfonic. The MSN Mobile site does not offer local business info but does provide maps and driving directions. Yahoo Local Mobile lets you save various locations, allowing you to search local info quickly for more than one...
INFO.net and Synfonic are two other services that offer stock quotes via SMS. Google has joined Yahoo and Ask Jeeves and is now placing a current stock chart and other info directly into search results pages.
We've blogged about many new services over the past few months from established names (Google and Yahoo) along with new companies like 4info.net, FeedBeep, and Synfonic.com). It's becoming increasingly apparent that along with vertical engine...
Yahoo Mobile, 4info.net, and Synfonic are a few of the services that provide this service. Google has just launched a search "shortcut" to help users access local movie showtimes (U.S.only), film info, and reviews.
Beta MSN Search Gains Submit Tool Synfonic; Smarter.com. More info via this blog post. Here's a new and cool info visualization tool (it requires Flash) that comes from Jonathan Harris, the developer of WordCount.org.
At the same time we saw Synfonic go live. Google's service includes an option to access pricing info from the Froogle database. A new SMS service from comparison shopping engine Smarter.com that offers access to pricing info for more than 100,000...
Google & Synfonic Both Launch SMS Search Tools By Gary Price, Oct.http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/041007-244 Kayak, simultaneously searches more than 60 site for air fares, hotels, and car rental pricing info.
Btw, just yesterday, Berkeley based Synfonic launched an SMS-based search tool called Synfonic411 that offers directory and local business info from the Yahoo Local database. I've posted the complete text of the Google and Synfonic announcements...
