News Stories

2008

Tellme Bucks Microsoft SaaS Trend
A Microsoft partner community blogger compares Tellme's new partner program to Microsoft's Software-plus-Services partner model.
July 9, 2008

Tellme featured in Bill Gates' keynote at CES 2008
Gates and Bach talked up improvements in ways for people to interact with software by voice, touch and gesture. In addition to the speech-recognizing functions in Sync-enabled cars, Microsoft plans to soon upgrade the voice-activated information searches available through its subsidiary Tellme.
January 6, 2008
See the official press release and webcast of the keynote address.

2007

More startups choosing mergers than IPOs
An interview with Tellme leader Mike McCue reveals that dreaming big is precisely why Mountain View-based Tellme became a Microsoft subsidiary in May.
November 11, 2007

American Airlines Launches "Remember Me" Feature
The world's largest airline launches their personalized phone service using Tellme's team and platform. An industry first, this personalized experience gives travelers a faster custom experience.
November 7, 2007

Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Tellme For Excellence in Hosted Voice Self-Service Solutions
The Product Line Strategy Award recognizes insight into customer needs and product demands. Tellme has strong vision for the future, which includes multimodal platforms that unify and enhance the caller experience.
October 24, 2007

Microsoft's Live Search 411 : Voice Activated Search Results
This week Microsoft launched their voice activated local search service, Live Search 411, which harnesses the technology behind Microsoft acquisition Tellme to deliver local, maps, directions and web results to mobile phone users after the ease of a telephone call.
October 19, 2007
Learn more and hear audio demos of Live Search 411 on 1-800-CALL-411.

Wall Street Journal: Innovation Awards, Ahead of the Pack
Tellme wins in the category of Network and Internet Technologies
September 24, 2007

Sprint And Microsoft Extend Mobile Partnership, Offer New Services
Sprint and Microsoft are touting the Tellme-powered download as the first application with GPS-enabled voice search capabilities. It is initially available to Sprint users of the Samsung A900, A920, and M610; Motorola Razr V3M; and LG Musiq.
September 17, 2007

The Economist: Are you talking to me?
Technology that understands human speech could be about to enter the mainstream.
June 7, 2007

Wall Street Journal: Mobile Search is Dialing Up Voice Recognition
Voice-recognition technology is emerging as the latest tool in the competition among technology companies to carve out a share of the fledgling mobile-search business... The appeal of voice recognition is that users need only make a phone call and talk like they're used to...
May 31, 2007

New York Times: Big Money in Little Screens
And while battle for search on the computer desktop looks pretty much settled for now... the search wars on the mobile phone are just beginning.
April 20, 2007

Reuters: Tellme speaks in a new language for Microsoft
Tellme brings to Microsoft the world's largest database of voice-recognition data, and employees versed in a Web-based business model that threatens Microsoft's traditional, out-of-the-box software business.
April 18, 2007

ComputerWorld: Tellme expands voice search for mobile devices
...The choice of voice is natural. 'Voice is the easiest way to ask for something and is easier than typing or cutting and pasting. After all, we learned to talk first, before writing. You might call it the default mechanism.'
April 17, 2007

MSNBC: Tellme launches new mobile search service
Tellme said its experience handling nearly 80 percent of automated 411 calls in the United States provided the company with an understanding of what people search for.
April 17, 2007

C|Net: What the Tellme deal says about Microsoft
March 21, 2007

BusinessWeek: The Perfect Pitch
March 19, 2007

Public Relations contact:
Marci Pedrazzi
marci@tellme.com
650-693-9060