Tellme Launches Voice Search for BlackBerry
Added on 2008-04-24 03:33:00
by Tanya Palta
 Tellme, a Microsoft Corp.'s subsidiary launched a voice search application for the BlackBerry smartphones. Using their voice one can search for information pertaining to businesses, movie times or even traffic.
On downloading the application, a user has to push on their phone's green "talk" button and say either the name of a business, type of business, or the keywords "weather," "movies," "traffic," "map" or "driving directions."
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OneSearch 2.0 at CTIA
Added on 2008-04-04 04:03:00
by Tanya Palta
 At the CTIA Wireless 2008, Yahoo unveiled its much-anticipated OneSearch 2.0, which would let users sift through the Web via their voice. One can search either with a text entry or via voice. Expect the service to debut by the second quarter of this year.
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Google Releases Today Screen Plug-In for Windows Mobile
Added on 2008-03-22 11:59:00
by Tanya Palta
 Windows Mobile users can now download a new plug-in from Google which puts a search shortcut onto the phone's Today Screen. You can download the plug-in from http://mobile.google.com/
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Yahoo OnePlace Unveiled
Added on 2008-03-05 03:09:00
by Tanya Palta
 Yahoo at the CeBit technology show in Hannover, Germany unveiled their new service called Yahoo OnePlace, which organizes Web content for quick access. Via OnePlace users can mark links, news feeds or search results which then can be easily accessed through a mobile device. Yahoo OnePlace, will be available in the second quarter of 2008, according to Yahoo.
"Yahoo OnePlace is where users will be able to find what matters to them the most, no matter where their interests, passions and information come from," Marco Boerries, Yahoo's executive vice president of "connected life," said in a statement.
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Google gets 50 times more traffic from iPhone
Added on 2008-02-25 03:32:00
by Emily Price
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 Google is reportedly impressed with the volume of traffic coming to its site from the iPhone. At Mobile World Congress the head of the company’s mobile group said the amount of traffic (which was 50 times more than the traffic Google receives from any other mobile device)”made their engineers check the logs again.” He then went on to hypothesize that mobile search will overtake desktop search in the next few years if manufacturers continue in the same trend as the iPhone.
[via EngadgetMobile]
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Google Unveils Search Client for S60 Devices
Added on 2008-02-22 03:04:00
by Tanya Palta
Google yesterday released a native client of Google search exclusively for the S60 phones. To access this application one needs to point their browser to the Google mobile site. Once the software is downloaded and installed, a shortcut to a Google search box is placed on the Idle Screen.
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Sprint Launches Slifter
Added on 2007-06-08 14:51:00
by Tanya Palta
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