Tag Archives: iPhone 4G

Start-ups to watch Ivona: Making the web readable again for Smartphones

I was approached recently by IVO software, a leading TTS (Text To Speech) company, with their IVONA TTS service.  Now on first sight you may think TTS is a rather old technology, which generally sounds like a disjoint Stephen Hawkings, struggles with acronyms and the contextual pronunciation of many words.  But this is where IVO […]

Apple Facetime Sounds the Death Knell for Upfront Per-Service Charging

Apple Facetime looks like its going to be another in the series of video communication applications that are proving to be more successful than the mobile industry’s attempts at video telephony, which began at the turn of this century and unfortunately have changed little since. Skype was the first video communication service to hit mainstream.  […]