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October 30, 2009
Have Apple-Verizon Talks Broken Down? | www.businessweek.com
It's not likely that Apple will push to have the iPhone on the Verizon network. The Droid ads are just one of the reasons. Here's why.
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HTC Has The Best Chance To Make a Good Smartphone
October 14, 2009
It's All Android, All the Time | www.businessweek.com
It's unlikely that any one Android handset manufacturer will be able to gain more market share than Apple's iPhone. Apple has many advantages. Since Android is really a partnership between the OS consortium and the handset manufacturers, any manufacturer cannot be analyzed on its own and to some the manufacturer is irrelevant. User experience is key, and most of that is provided by the OS. If the hardware is great, but the OS is not (or vice versa), things will not go well.
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Nuance Gets Serious About Europe
September 30, 2009
Nuance to Open European Research and Development Center of Excellence for Open Voice Services | www.nuance.com
Nuance has announced that it will be opening a "Open Voice Services European Center of Excellence" in the UK.
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September 24, 2009
AT&T takes the phone out of iPhone | news.cnet.com
Yes, ATT was not prepared for the iPhone. Yes, it's causing a vocal minority some problems. However, this isn't news. People that use crappy cheap phones don't really complain because they bought crappy, cheap phones.
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Nuance To Continue Acquisitions, But At a Slower Pace
September 23, 2009
Nuance Communications Acquisition Facing U.S. Probe | www.bloomberg.com
Since 2000, Nuance has acquired 28 other companies, spending over $1.9 billion in the process. For many reasons, this EU antitrust case included, growth of this nature is unsustainable.
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It Makes No Sense for Ebay to Keep Skype
May 4, 2009
Speculation grows over eBay plan to sell Skype internet telephone division | business.timesonline.co.uk
Ebay's core business needs more attention. Skype doesn't fit in with that core business and Ebay hasn't paid too much attention to it since the purchase. Ebay will attempt to sell Skype sometime this year.
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While Sony is currently outselling Nintendo, the overall market is weak
May 4, 2009
Nintendo Loses Some of Its Luster | online.wsj.com
Sales of game consoles in Japan are down 18% in general. The Sony PS3 is currently outselling Nintendo's Wii. This is not likely to last for long.
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TellMe cuts the cord to Nuance
April 29, 2009
Microsoft's Tellme Unveiling Upgrades In Speech Services | www.investors.com
TellMe just had their best quarter so far. It's taken them over two years to upgrade their platform to lose reliance on Nuance technology.
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Talking while driving still not safe
March 30, 2009
Study Proves Talkers Are Lousy Drivers | blog.wired.com
In 2008 Nuance released results from a study that showed that using speech recognition is safer than using tactile controls. However, that does not mean it's actually safe.
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Nuance prepares to exit Israel.
March 27, 2009
Nuance Moves Closer to Closing Down in Israel | www.globes.co.il
Nuance continues to cut costs in R&D.
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Nuance finally acquires Zi Corp.
March 24, 2009
Nuance's $35 Million Hostile Bid For Zi Ends | www.informationweek.com
Nuance now has a product in almost every aspect of mobile. They currently lag in the smartphone market. Competitors: watch out!
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Nuance (NUAN) makes a second attempt to purchase Zi Corp (ZICA)
December 4, 2008
Zi Corporation Responds to Unsolicited Offer Made by Nuance Communications, Inc. | money.cnn.com
With this second unsolicited offer for Zi Corp, Nuance is making it clear that they want to dominate the mobile and embedded input / output markets. Nuance has exhausted their purchasing space for speech recognition technologies and now is focusing on other aspects, including typing, handwriting recognition, self-service, and mobile advertising.
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December 3, 2008
Nuance Announces Fourth Fiscal Quarter 2008 Results | www.nuance.com
Nuance showed their first quarter of profits this past quarter (Q408), mainly due to an increase in licenses sold. Nuance projects that FY09 revenues will be roughly the same as FY08. I've outlined the risks.
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Turnabout is Fair Play: a patent infringement suit against Nuance
November 3, 2008
Image Recognition Integrated Systems, Inc. v. Nuance Communications, Inc. | www.rfcexpress.com
Nuance has been known to file suit against other companies for patent infringement reasons. There has been some question about the merit of some of those suits. Now a lawsuit has been filed against Nuance about optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
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Nuance Shakes Up The Management
November 3, 2008
Nuance Company Management Team | nuance.com
Nuance ejects some executives and rearranges it's departments. Is this growing pains from too many acquisitions? Was it just a turf war?
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Nuance updates earnings upwards
October 3, 2008
Nuance Communications adjusts fiscal 4Q outlook | www.forbes.com
Nuance announces a better earnings forecast for FQ4 2008 based on a boost from Dragon 10. However, given the pace and cost of acquisition and legal action, can that be sustained?
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Nuance's interesting corporate strategy may claim another victim: Zi Corp
September 8, 2008
Zi Corporation Provides Update on Strategic Alternatives | www.sys-con.com
Recently, Nuance made an unsolicited acquisition bid for Zi Corp, a Canadian company involved in the mobile ad display space. When Zi Corp did not agree to to the terms (which were quite generous, actually), Nuance filed a patent infringement lawsuit. Now, a few weeks later, Zi is "reconsidering it options".
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August 11, 2008
Convergys to Acquire Intervoice, Enhancing Leadership in Relationship Management | www.reuters.com
By purchasing Intervoice, Convergys is strengthening it's hand in the enterprise speech recognition services market.
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AT&T makes a very interesting speec rec play
August 11, 2008
AT&T Research Working on Speech Mashups | www.research.att.com
AT&T's new speech recognition technology may make speech application development as easy as web development. However, there is currently only one demo video, showing quite limited capability.
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Microsoft makes an interesting investment in automotive.
August 4, 2008
Microsoft to build on auto unit | www.detnews.com
Microsoft is increasing it's investment in automotive automation.
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