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. As Google strives to bring actual knowledge into search...
The new search feature, which will be released this holiday season, uses the Microsoft TellME voice recognition technology and the Xbox 360 Kinect sensor to allow a search experience that makes the user's body into the controller.
Powered by Microsoft Tellme, the voice search provides another very natural way to search. With the tag line "Touch and Decide," Bing has released an incredible new search app for iPad. Available for free in the App Store, Bing for iPad was...
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. Over the past decade, search has evolved based on a combination...
Microsoft to Bring Tellme to Windows Mobile Phones Gomez and dotMobi have collaborated on mobile benchmarks, and for the mobile search category, Yahoo! snagged first place overall in March 2009. There were five categories used to measure.
Microsoft is bringing Tellme, a voice service it acquired a couple years ago, to Windows Mobile phones. Tellme will enable voice search as well as voice commands for the phones it's used on. Here are examples of how you'll be able to use Tellme:
Go 3.0 and Microsoft's recently-acquired TellMe service. Unless you've been living in a cave this past week—or at least not reading this blog—you've heard about Microsoft's offer to buy up Yahoo! for $31 a share, for a total of $44.6 billion.
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 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 headlines from around the Web:
Yahoo Snags TellMe Execs, GigaOm It began with Web developers moving into SEO. 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 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 headlines from around the Web:
Voice search – along with SMS – is currently the most user-friendly form of mobile local search, and Tellme's multi-modal functionality lends an extra degree of capability by allowing users to choose between text messaging and voice input, as well...
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...
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