WirelessWeek - August 20, 2007
The first known pirated copy of "The Simpsons Movie" to make it onto the Internet was tracked to a 21-year-old Australian man, who will be formally charged in October. Police said the man recorded the movie using his cell phone on July 26 and that it had been uploaded to video-sharing sites based in the United States before the movie opened in theaters here. Reports claim the movie had been downloaded more than 110,000 times within 72 hours of being uploaded.
• Excendia, a developer of speech-enabled unified communications solutions, announced the availability of Excendia Virtual Assistant on IBM WebSphere Voice Server. The solution provides mobile workers with hands-free, eyes-free access to their business information and office communications tools from any telephone as if they were sitting at their desk. Using speech commands over any telephone, users of the solution can access and manage their phone calls, e-mails, appointments and contacts. Excendia uses the IBM WebSphere speech recognition and text-to-speech technologies to understand user voice commands and deliver text content over the phone.
• LGC, a telecommunications services company, announced that after a successful introduction in the European market, it is now launching its Mani Minutes service in the United States and Canada. This service will make the 4-Cents-Overseas-Calls available to everyone who has a cell phone. Mani Minutes offers users, free of charge, a set of U.S.-based numbers that they can permanently assign to their international contacts. Manifone will charge a small per minute fee, which to most destinations would be 4-6 cents a minute.
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