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Pudding Media is a San Jose-based start-up that aims to intrude our privacy more than any other company. Their idea is to provide users with free, advertising supported phone service via Internet. When you’re using their service, voice recognition software monitors the calls, selects ads based on what it hears and pushes the ads to the computer screen while you’re still talking.
While this may sound scary to some people I find it quite useful especially for long distance calls to some countries in Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe where calling rates are usually higher. In addition, if you think about it, Google monitors your email and chat sessions to serve relevant ads to GMail, so it’s actually not the first time this happens…
[Via: textually.org]
About The Author
Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
