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YouMail, the visual voicemail service that’s been described as “isn’t a business anymore” (more on that later,) has over 17.5 million monthly active users according to today’s announcement. The 17.5 million active user figure means that approximately 23 percent of anyone who’s ever used YouMail is using it on at least a monthly basis because…
LetsTalk.com and YouMail struck a deal that will benefit each of the company’s services — an even exchange, if you will. LetsTalk.com, will soon begin preloading the YouMail visual voicemail service on select Android and BlackBerry devices. In return, the new YouMail online store for phones and accessories will be powered by LetsTalk.com. Both parties…
YouMail has returned to the Android Market after previously being yanked out because of a T-Mobile complaint. While there were some concerns about why it was pulled, it turns out the story is more complicated than maybe YouMail was trying to portray it. Yesterday we reported that the app had been removed because T-Mobile said…
Google had previously loosened the reigns on Google Voice for students but now the search giant is making its calling service free to everyone, no invite needed. If you’ve never used Google Voice before, it’s essentially a call-forwarding service that enables all your phones to be routed to a specific number. This means your cell…
MetroPCS just launched a new voicemail-to-text service for $3/month, that can send full voicemail messes via SMS or e-mail. The audio files are attached if you need to listen to it the old-fashioned way because the transcription is wonky. This is similar to the services offered by third parties like Google Voice, SpinVox andPhoneTag, only this MetroPCS…
Voice recognition giant Nuance Communications has just picked up a pretty big company in the transcription sector: Spinvox. Among other things, Spinvox runs a voicemail service that translates voicemail into text and sends it to you as an e-mail. Nuance’s involvement in mobile is wide-spanning, but the latest from them has been a pair of…
Good news, everyone! Visual voicemail on BlackBerry, a feature heretofore unseen north of the border, is now available to Bell Mobility customers. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept, it allows you to cruise through your voicemail messages in a list, complete with dates and caller IDs, and listen to them on-demand, rather than having to…
OS 4.6.0.297 for the BlackBerry Bold on AT&T is once again available after an initial release followed quickly by some technical difficulties and a retraction of the firmware earlier this month. The big deal with this particular patch is the addition of a free visual voicemail application, allowing subscribers to cruise through their voicemail without…
Visual voicemail on the BlackBerry Bold has been a feature looming since January, but rumour has it that AT&T subscribers will be able to activate it for free starting tomorrow. Some particulars of the service have also bubbled up, if you’re you’re interested: Store up to 40 voicemails for up to 14 days Archive voicemails…
SpinVox, one of the big names in white label voicemail transcription services for carriers, could be in trouble as it has come to light that at least some voicemails are transcribed thanks to human ears in the Phillipines and South Africa. The company claims that some non-live listening is required to build the automated algorithms…