It wasn’t clear at the time (and still isn’t) to which Microsoft product Ballmer was referring, though it could have been their TellMe voice integration for Windows, XBox and Windows Phone. Amit Singhal, Google Fellow and SVP of Search, spoke with...
Microsoft earlier this week launched a voice-powered mobile navigation app powered by Tellme and available on Windows Mobile (6.x) devices. During BIA/Kelsey's November Interactive Local Media conference in Los Angeles, Google Product Manager...
Mobile products from Vlingo, Tellme, and Google have similarly taken advantage of the phone's internal microphone to build voice search interfaces that find and call local businesses. Smaller screens and keypads will force mobile product developers...
Microsoft to Bring Tellme to Windows Mobile Phones Gomez and dotMobi have collaborated on mobile benchmarks, and for the mobile search category, Yahoo! Discoverability -- how readily a consumer can find the mobile Web site using different URLs.
Microsoft is bringing Tellme, a voice service it acquired a couple years ago, to Windows Mobile phones. What do you think of Tellme being rolled out to Windows Mobile phones? Tellme will enable voice search as well as voice commands for the phones...
Go 3.0 and Microsoft's recently-acquired TellMe service. For one, it is about mobile, one of the last frontiers in which Google's dominance is still tenuous. Google has spent time and made waves developing the Android mobile operating system, but...
For example, with the new Vlingo app (Microsoft TellMe competitor), searchers can speak into their mobile phones send SMS messages to find and download Souljah Boy Tellem songs. Machine translation from voice to text promises to be the grail of...
At the top of the list of new features is the launch of Live Search 411, a voice search product built on technology acquired from Tellme earlier this year. Following up on the major updates rolled out in September, Microsoft today made another...
Multi-modal search and ad serving technologies being developed by Tellme and others show a great deal of promise in having the user-centric qualities that these data highlight. Pay-per-call provider Ingenio and market research firm Harris...
This is the third mobile ad acquisition in the last 18 months for Microsoft, following its acquisition of Paris-based mobile search and ad provider MotionBridge in February 2006, and voice-enabled mobile search provider TellMe in March 2007.
SEW blogger and Kelsey Group analyst Michael Boland breaks down some of the highlights from the recent conference in today's SearchDay, "Video and Mobile Search Take Center Stage," including voice-enabled search from Tellme, mobile mapping from...
Tellme, Screenwerk Adds Mobile Search Ad ManagementWith the latest version of the Decide DNA platform, marketers can now manage mobile search campaigns in the same interface as Web-based paid search, SEO, and feeds.
Yahoo Snags TellMe Execs, GigaOm It’s A Small (Mobile) World After All, StayGoLinks A few years ago, SEOs expanded into paid search. Today, one area that more and more search marketers are moving into is social media marketing.
Yahoo Snags TellMe Execs, GigaOm It's A Small (Mobile) World After All, StayGoLinks Want a snapshot of the day's search marketing news? Here we've collected today's top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related...
Tellme VP of marketing Sanjeev Agrawal sat on a mobile search panel in which he affirmed the competitive advantage in mobile local search that Microsoft can gain over its search competitors, given new voice search capabilities and the installed...
SEW blogger and Kelsey Group analyst Michael Boland breaks down some of the highlights from the recent conference in today's SearchDay, "Video and Mobile Search Take Center Stage," including voice-enabled search from Tellme, mobile mapping from...
Microsoft Confirms Tellme Acquisition Google and Microsoft Rumors: Implications for Mobile Local Search Yahoo Uses Windows Mobile To Escalate Yahoo Go Reach Ingenio and Medio Developing Pay Per Call Mobile Search
Microsoft Confirms Tellme Acquisition Yahoo Uses Windows Mobile To Escalate Yahoo Go Reach Google and Microsoft Rumors: Implications for Mobile Local Search Ingenio and Medio Developing Pay Per Call Mobile Search
Microsoft Confirms Tellme AcquisitionThe rumors that Microsoft was about to acquire voice-enabled mobile search provider Tellme have been confirmed, with an announcement from Microsoft today. Want a snapshot of the day's search marketing news?
The rumors that Microsoft was about to acquire voice-enabled mobile search provider Tellme have been confirmed, with an announcement from Microsoft today. Tellme brings to Microsoft the talent, technology and proven experience in speech that will...
