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Cell Phone Suggestions For Europe Trip

Feld Thoughts

I’m spending some time in Europe (Paris and Tuscany) this summer and trying to figure out the best cell phone approach for me and Amy. In both cases, the “use your US iPhone in Europe&# seems like a total fail on pricing so we are looking for other options. We are both iPhone users – me on AT&T and her on Verizon.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Top 10 Online Advertising Trends For The Decade

ReadWriteStart

Then Umashankar Balasubramanian of RDimensio pitched an SMS-based classified service. He is using natural language processing to translate free text SMS queries to classified queries, and then translating the responses back to SMS format. The answer to that question, I believe, is the 1M/1M Premium Lounge.

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Leading Business Transformation – Featured Founder Mitul Ruparelia

The Startup Magazine

Beginning of 2009, Mitul designed and sold a solution that enables mobile operators across the globe to seamlessly exchange SMS, while taking care of billing, settlement, and routing. During that time, he had key successes. Mobile phone technological advance. Passenger Processing in the Pandemic. How Citius Partners helps their clients.

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Launching The Customer Loyalty Programs The Big Guys Use? Slow Your Roll!

YoungUpstarts

With all of these factors in the backdrop — and keeping in mind potential sensitivities around giving out personal information — consider the following ideas for your loyalty program: Use SMS Text Features. Make it easy for even your most reluctant customers to join your loyalty program by implementing a text to join option.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

Farmers subscribed to daily updates via SMS on weather and crop prices. Villagers in rural areas are now connected to health services via SMS updates and “dial a doctor” services. Spotify came to the the US from Europe this year, and TaskRabbit and Outbrain just raised money to grow beyond the US.

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Qunb wins the LeWeb 12 startup competition, helps users find and visualize numerical data

The Next Web

So has the startup competition, an important part of the annual conference for Europe’s finest in tech. Utilizing the existing 2G network that the company says covers 86 percent of the planet, the application basically lets users experience mobile access to the Internet from anywhere … over SMS.

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Speech recognition anyone? AT&T; opens up Watson API

gigaom.com

The contexts are Web Search, Business Search, Voicemail-to-Text transcription, SMS speech transcription, Question and Answer, TV and a category called Generic used for general dictation purposes. Tech News and Analysis. gigabarb : Microsoft’s Ballmer to Apple: It’s on (again) [link]. Follow us on Twitter. -->. Speech recognition anyone?

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