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"Slim, known for his Midas touch in turning struggling businesses into profit-making machines, told Reuters this year he did not calculate his fortune on a regular basis."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/02/AR2007080202218.html
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS AND KEY EMPLOYEES
The following table sets forth information about our executive officers, key
employees and directors as of July __, 2007.
Name Age Position
---- --- --------
Dean Weber 44 Chairman of the Board, President, Chief
Executive Officer, Interim Chief Financial
Officer and Director
Bradley J. Ammon 42 Director
Rahoul Sharan 44 Director
Directors serve until the next annual meeting and until their successors are
elected and qualified. Officers are appointed to serve for one year until the
meeting of the board of directors following the annual meeting of stockholders
and until their successors have been elected and qualified. There are no family
relationships between any of our directors or officers.
http://app.quotemedia.com/quotetools/showFiling.go?name=ONE%20VOICE%20TECHNOLOGIES%20INC:%20POS%20AM...
273 MCC downloads from Ian's Site as of today. Thats like 40 more than a week ago isnt it?
http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/files/default.aspx
Did any1 get past ONEV commercial and listen to todays MEdia Center Show by Ian Dixon?
http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/Default.aspx
Monster Announces First v2 Media Center Extender
[CES] Monster First to Announce Media Center Extender; Teams with Lifeware (CE Pro) | I’ve already covered Exceptional Innovation and Monster, but here’s the cooler part.
Monster is creating PowerCenters with Media Center Extender built in! Not much information other than that at this point. Sadly, Julie notes that Monster is the only company to announce a v2 Extender at CES. It was not on display at CES, but will be at the Spring Electronic House Expo.
http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/archive/2007/01/09/479815.aspx
Navarre Corporation is a distributor and publisher of physical and digital home entertainment and multimedia products, including PC software, CD audio, DVD video, video games and accessories. Since inception in 1983, we have established distribution relationships with major retailers including Best Buy, Wal-Mart/Sam’s Club, Circuit City, Staples and Costco, and we have historically distributed to over 19,000 retail and distribution center locations throughout the United States and Canada. We believe our established relationships throughout the supply chain, our broad product offering and our distribution facility permit us to offer industry-leading home entertainment and multimedia products to our retail customers and to provide access to attractive retail channels for the publishers of such products.
Historically, our business has focused on providing distribution services for third party vendors. Over the past several years, we have expanded our business to include the licensing and publishing of home entertainment and multimedia software content, primarily through our acquisitions of software publishers in select markets. By expanding our product offerings through such acquisitions, we believe we can leverage both our sales experience and distribution capabilities to drive increased retail penetration and more effective distribution of such products, and enable content developers and publishers that we acquire to focus more on their core competencies.
Our business is divided into three segments — Distribution, Publishing and Other.
Distribution. Through our distribution business, we distribute and provide fulfillment services in connection with a variety of finished goods that are provided by our vendors, which include PC software and video game publishers and developers, independent music labels (through May 31, 2007), major music labels (through December 2005), and independent and major motion picture studios. These vendors provide us with PC software, CD audio, DVD video, and video games and accessories which we, in turn, distribute to our retail customers. Our distribution business focuses on providing vendors and retailers with a range of value-added services including: vendor-managed inventory, Internet-based ordering, electronic data interchange (“EDI”) services, fulfillment services and retailer-oriented marketing services. Our vendors include Symantec Corporation, Adobe Systems, Inc., Webroot, Inc., and Dreamcatcher Interactive, Inc.
Publishing. Through our publishing business, which generally has higher gross margins than our distribution business, we own or license various PC software, CD audio and DVD video titles, and other related merchandising and broadcasting rights. Our publishing business packages, brands, markets and sells directly to retailers, third party distributors and our distribution business. Our publishing business currently consists of Encore Software, Inc. (“Encore”), BCI Eclipse Company, LLC (“BCI”), FUNimation Productions, Ltd. and The FUNimation Store, Ltd. (together, “FUNimation”). Encore, which we acquired in July 2002, licenses and publishes personal productivity, genealogy, utility, education and interactive gaming PC products, including titles such as Print Shop, Print Master, PC Tool’s Spyware Doctor, Monopoly Here and Now and Hoyle PC Gaming products. BCI, which we acquired in November 2003, is a provider of niche DVD and video products such as He-man and the Masters of the Universe, Pride Fighting Championship, Classic Cartoons and in-house produced CDs and DVDs. FUNimation, acquired
MSFT Version 2 Extenders will emerge! This means more potential customers for the BEAN and MCC! Extenders caryy HD content and much much more
MSFT Media Center Extender Porting KIT will allow consumer electronics manufuacturers to integrate the 360 Extender function into TV's, etc....,
Can we all discuss todays show this evening? It all works folks I have tried it. Sales are growing, can we all cool are jets and listen to this show and have a discussion about the viability of COMMAND and COntrol One Voice is bringing to the table?
Yes it took a long time, so did VISTA! Why is it so hard for so many of us to understand why?
Listen to Todays Digital Lifestyle Show. Any one posting that has not had the time to listen to the whole show, really need to take some time and give it a listen.....
I can set up a home of the Future!
My Fall '07 Global Hypothesis
Pre 700MHZ FCC auction for open access.
LTB BEAN and MCC, media center communicator by ONEV, already access your PC thru walls, by voice coolmands! Its available at the retail level. You can set up a house that is better than the CES Home of the Future with RETAIL PRODUCT's!
PC manufacturers will surprise us with new gadgets this fall and I guesss MCC will be on more than one menu. Why? VISTA Ultimate is out and growing....
Most will laugh at where I go from here, its a new vibe I am picking up..
Remember the first cordless phone? The satelite/cell phone followed.
Remember the first remote? It was widely accepted and is now commonplace. We all have too many remotes, correct?
IRIS, APPLE PHONE, whats next? A device that sings... I've got my whole world in my hand, I ve got my whole world in my hand... hmm it one more time and think...
You and me retail little guys can check up on our housesitting kids via the PC someday...
My summer '07 Mexico hypothesis...
Telnor has landlines not cell phones. It took a while for that to register with me.
Many in Mexico pay for Internet Cafe services. These customers do not have a PC, or internet access, at home. The IRIS fee is about the same as a One time charge at an internet cafe, yet gives the user unlimited access to its email account from home.
Busdog recently posted that a Carlos Slim organization will be opening a Starbucks in Tijuana this friday, August 3, 2007. Will this Starbucks have internet cafe services? Will Mr. Slim take this as an opportunity to release publicly who IRIS is and how she can bring your email home with you?
This is starting with 750K LANDLINES! 17 million more landlines and Cell phones to follow.
What other reason could ther be for such a mystery campaign? To stimulate big interest for Big BUcks to TELMEX/TELNOR and little ole' One Voice Technologies and their COmmand and Control dillysoh!
Overview
Navarre Corporation is a distributor and publisher of physical and digital home entertainment and multimedia products, including PC software, CD audio, DVD video, video games and accessories. Since inception in 1983, we have established distribution relationships with major retailers including Best Buy, Wal-Mart/Sam’s Club, Circuit City, Staples and Costco, and we have historically distributed to over 19,000 retail and distribution center locations throughout the United States and Canada. We believe our established relationships throughout the supply chain, our broad product offering and our distribution facility permit us to offer industry-leading home entertainment and multimedia products to our retail customers and to provide access to attractive retail channels for the publishers of such products.
Historically, our business has focused on providing distribution services for third party vendors. Over the past several years, we have expanded our business to include the licensing and publishing of home entertainment and multimedia software content, primarily through our acquisitions of software publishers in select markets. By expanding our product offerings through such acquisitions, we believe we can leverage both our sales experience and distribution capabilities to drive increased retail penetration and more effective distribution of such products, and enable content developers and publishers that we acquire to focus more on their core competencies.
Our business is divided into three segments — Distribution, Publishing and Other.
Distribution. Through our distribution business, we distribute and provide fulfillment services in connection with a variety of finished goods that are provided by our vendors, which include PC software and video game publishers and developers, independent music labels (through May 31, 2007), major music labels (through December 2005), and independent and major motion picture studios. These vendors provide us with PC software, CD audio, DVD video, and video games and accessories which we, in turn, distribute to our retail customers. Our distribution business focuses on providing vendors and retailers with a range of value-added services including: vendor-managed inventory, Internet-based ordering, electronic data interchange (“EDI”) services, fulfillment services and retailer-oriented marketing services. Our vendors include Symantec Corporation, Adobe Systems, Inc., Webroot, Inc., and Dreamcatcher Interactive, Inc.
Publishing. Through our publishing business, which generally has higher gross margins than our distribution business, we own or license various PC software, CD audio and DVD video titles, and other related merchandising and broadcasting rights. Our publishing business packages, brands, markets and sells directly to retailers, third party distributors and our distribution business. Our publishing business currently consists of Encore Software, Inc. (“Encore”), BCI Eclipse Company, LLC (“BCI”), FUNimation Productions, Ltd. and The FUNimation Store, Ltd. (together, “FUNimation”). Encore, which we acquired in July 2002, licenses and publishes personal productivity, genealogy, utility, education and interactive gaming PC products, including titles such as Print Shop, Print Master, PC Tool’s Spyware Doctor, Monopoly Here and Now and Hoyle PC Gaming products. BCI, which we acquired in November 2003, is a provider of niche DVD and video products such as He-man and the Masters of the Universe, Pride Fighting Championship, Classic Cartoons and in-house produced CDs and DVDs. FUNimation, acquired on May 11, 2005, is the leading anime content provider in the United States and licenses and publishes titles such as Dragon Ball Z, Fullmetal Alchemist, Trinity Blood, Samari Seven, Basilisk, Yu Yu Hakusho, Negima and Robotech. Our digital strategy consists primarily of the sale of home video titles through online digital retailers such as iTunes. The Company also continues to explore additional digital distribution opportunities for other product categories.
Other. The other segment consists of a variable interest entity (“VIE”), Mix & Burn, Inc. (“Mix & Burn”), included in our consolidated results during the period commencing December 31, 2003 and ending December 31, 2005, in accordance with the provisions of FASB Interpretation Number 46 (revised December 2003), Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities (“FIN 46(R)”). Mix & Burn designs and markets digital music delivery services for music and other specialty retailers. During the three months ended December 31, 2005, the Company deconsolidated Mix & Burn, as the Company was no longer deemed to be the primary beneficiary of this VIE.
On May 31, 2007, the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Navarre Entertainment Media, Inc. (“NEM”), sold 100% of the outstanding capital stock of NEM for $6.5 million in cash, plus the assignment to
IRIS news from TELMEX/TELNOR! Can anyone from this board make it the Starbucks opening in Tijuana tommorow? Any idea what time? Ever since Busdog posted that I have felt there must be a connection, its a perfect way to get peoples attention on many levels......
Yes that caught my attention. VISTA is out and therefore many more steps to follow! Finally, I might add...
The best steps being earnings growth!
Interesting Find? Colors seem to match? Powered by Google? Ok mr Sherpa am I going to need oxygen for the real news?
Correction S&P500 back at 1500, 1518 if I wanted to be exact....
Why so emotional? Oh we are all human! Look at the Indexes, all down on LAST YEARS NEWS! Its my opinion this overall market Sell Off is a little dishonest at this point.... Banking woes? That is LAST YEARS News! Look how media blitxkriegs by the like of MURDOCH are chasing people out of stocks... When they are done S&P 500 will be back over 500 befoer most can blink...
I will not bet on the date, but it will happen
FCC greenlights open access rules for 700MHz auction
The open access rules demanded by the FCC for the 700MHz spectrum have been largely approved in advance of the auction for the frequencies, the US broadcast agency announced on Tuesday. As proposed by the government body's chariman Kevin Martin, 22MHz of the 60MHz to be abandoned by analog broadcast TV in 2009 will require that any licensed operator allow any cellphone, notebook, or other device to operate on the spectrum. Operators will also have to allow any software to run on the network and therefore could not block VoIP or other services to artificially create business, the FCC noted. Many companies have expressed interest in the frequencies due to their exceptionally long ranges and penetration through walls, which could spur the development of faster, more reliable cellphone and mobile Internet access.
Opening part of the 700MHz range will also allow for a universal emergency network that should allow fire crews, hospitals, and police to collaborate together when indoors -- a problem during the World Trade Center attacks, when a lack of teamwork and interference from the buildings prevented rescue teams from understanding the full scope of the disaster in time to safely exit the collapsing structures.
However, the FCC simultaneously denied a condition backed by Google which would have required any licensees resulting from the auction to sell the rights to other companies at wholesale rates. The stipulation was intended to permit startups and other smaller companies to piggyback on larger companies' services without the threat of restrictive pricing or limited terms. Bidders will still be free to resell their part of the spectrum in bulk, but Google is no longer expected to place its suggested $4.6 billion bid that was dependent upon the wholesale terms.
AT&T and Verizon had at first directly opposed the open access concept but gradually relented with the belief that they could retain their existing subscription models that demand contracts. AT&T's multi-year agreement with Apple for the iPhone was nevertheless cited during a Congressional debate as an example of the problems created by allowing devices to be limited to individual company networks.
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201603 07/31, 5:27pm, EDT BUT
But what if verizon doesn't want the iPhone on their network? Does the law mean that now Verizon HAS to support iphone & its features? This kind of doesn't make sense. Verizon wants to soak you for every little feature, like taking a picture, adding a ringtone etc.
posted by l008com
201631 08/01, 7:47am, EDT Re: but
It has to support the phone, not the features. The point of 'open access' is to make the spectrum open like land-lines are open. You can plug any device into a phone line (of course, being it has been approved by the FCC and such as following the standard protocols of the phone system) and it has to be allowed to work. This is the law that allowed you to buy and plug in your own phones in your house, use modems without paying the phone company, the advent of fax machines, and many other advances.
So, in this spectrum, if Microsoft wants to make an iPhone killer, they can do whatever they want, people can buy it, and it will just work, regardless of the provider you have.
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Why the FCC’s 700Mhz auction matters
Posted by Larry Dignan @ 7:16 am
Categories: General, Hardware Infrastructure, Wired & Wireless, Mobile, Google, Telecommunications, Verizon
Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Spectrum, Auction, Wireless, Larry Dignan
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Worthwhile? The Federal Communications Commission’s auction of 700 Mhz wireless spectrum can easily be portrayed as a he said, she said fiasco. But the bigger picture is worth watching.
Google dangles $4.6 billion to prod the FCC to opening up wireless spectrum. Verizon agrees sort of. AT&T doesn’t. Everyone wonders what Google is planning.
Frankly, it’s all a bit hard to follow and the open access debate looks like a smoke screen. Nevertheless, the auction is proceeding as the FCC laid some groundwork to begin the auction process.
So why does this auction matter? Here are a few answers.
1. The auction is one of the FCC’s largest and could fetch anywhere from $10 billion to $15 billion. What’s really going to be interesting is the bidding war that’s likely to erupt between Verizon, AT&T, Google and potentially eBay and even Comcast.
2. What is 700 Mhz spectrum? Analog TV broadcasters currently use most of the spectrum to deliver programming. However, these TV stations are required to go all digital in 2009. That opens a lot of signal for wireless companies. Another wrinkle: 700 MHz signals go farther from the base station than other spectrums.
3. New network buildouts. Bear Stearns analyst Philip Cusick reckons that AT&T and Verizon are likely to use the newly opened spectrum for so-called “4G” services. Despite gripes about wireless broadband today, it’s quite an engineering feat considering how bandwidth constrained wireless carriers are. Google wants spectrum for some undisclosed reason, but rest assured there’s a big advertising play there somewhere. Ultimately insurgent bidders want to offer alternative services to walled garden set up we have today with wireless carriers.
4. Public safety matters. The FCC is allocating 24 MHz of the 700 MHz being auctioned to a public safety network. The rub: There are no plans on how to use this spectrum. The general idea is to create a national public safety network.
5. Open access is now on the table. Google’s FCC lobbying isn’t likely to result in the search giant getting all of its requests: Open applications, devices, services and networks. But FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has indicated he’s receptive to some of those ideas. Open access is now on the table and Google may get some of what it wants. It remains unclear whether Google will bid.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5807
Where did u read that? Is the Auction date set yet? No?
Does that mean all the details have not been worked out yet? I will check out FCC info on the Auction after market closes.... Unless you would like to share....
I am sure GOOG would want all to know its bidding or not bidding in advance, dont you think the same? Oops that sounds kind of foolish assuming .......
Thanks BUSDOG, that would be a good time to PR IRIS?!?!?! I think TELMEX is on the right track..... Maybe the Hipe/Hyoe will tirckle over the border..... Or is this a vice versa situation.......
Posted by: busdog
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The conglomerate associated with Carlos Slim Helú – the Mexico City billionaire who recently edged out Bill Gates as the wealthiest person on Earth – plans to open the first Starbucks in this city Friday in the Plaza Rio Tijuana shopping center, Tijuana economic development director Octavio Corona said.
STARBUCKS
Headquarters: Seattle
Founded: 1985
Number of stores: 12,000 in 11 countries
D'VOLADA
Headquarters: Tijuana
Founded: 2000
Number of stores: 64 in Mexico and two in San Diego County
It's the first of several Starbucks expected to open this year in Tijuana, Mexicali, Ensenada and Rosarito Beach, he said.
“They have a lot of plans to expand in Baja California,” Corona said. “They plan to expand in the short and medium term. They'll create an initial 10 this year.”
A sign posted at the Plaza Rio shopping center touts the Starbucks opening there Friday, but the company is saying little.
“Starbucks Coffee Co. is excited about the great opportunities that Tijuana presents to the company. We currently have 125 stores in Mexico and look forward to bringing the Starbucks experience to Tijuana later this summer,” Starbucks spokeswoman Bridget Baker wrote in an e-mail.
She declined to provide further details, including when and where the Baja California shops will be located or how much the coffee drinks will cost.
“Those are all great questions, but unfortunately I can't share any further information or details with you now,” she wrote.
Corona said one of the businesses under Grupo Carso – the Mexican conglomerate created by Slim – wields control of Starbucks outlets in Mexico.
Slim's influence over the telecommunications industry in Mexico and much of Latin America through his Teléfonos de México (Telmex), Telcel and América Móvil companies, as well as a number of other businesses, recently propelled him to the top rank among the world's wealthiest people, according to Mexican financial Web site Sentido Comun.
AdvertisementRecent gains in the América Móvil group boosted Slim's wealth to an estimated $67.8 billion, compared with $56 billion for Microsoft founder Bill Gates, said Eduardo Garcia, who does the calculations for the Web site.
Slim opened the U.S. headquarters of Telmex in San Diego in the late 1990s but moved it to Houston several years later. Attempts to contact Slim and Grupo Carso to comment on the Starbucks plans were unsuccessful.
The Starbucks move into Baja California puts the chain with 12,000 locations in 11 countries in competition with D'Volada, a Tijuana-based operation that has just begun its own expansion north of the border in San Diego. It has modern franchises in 64 locations in Mexico, including 43 in Tijuana, as well as new shops in San Diego County.
D'Volada's shops introduced the Starbucks-like concept to the northwestern region of Mexico. With their light wood, Ralph Lauren-hue colors, glass pastry showcases, paper cups and friendly young baristas, the shops do resemble Starbucks outlets.
But there are important differences between the two chains, D'Volada Chief Executive Ricardo Gallegos said. D'Volada coffee has a strong body like that served in Starbucks but a milder taste to appeal to Mexican palates, he said.
Mexicans traditionally have not been considered big coffee consumers. According to a poll taken four years ago, 70 percent of those who drink coffee preferred the instant variety.
But the growth of coffee shop franchises has been significant in the past several years. Companies such as Yellow Cafe, the Coffee Factory, Cafe Moretto and Starbucks have had limited success in the interior of the country.
This allowed D'Volada to gain a hold on coffee drinkers along the border. In the past year it has added two outlets on the U.S. side of the border – one in Chula Vista and another in San Ysidro – and is in the process of opening shops in Los Angeles.
“We've only been in business seven years,” Gallegos said. “We're moving along as fast as we can.”
Tijuana newspaper La Frontera recently asked readers which coffee shop they would choose: 42.3 percent said D'Volada versus 19 percent for Starbucks. The remainder were undecided in the Internet poll.
Gallegos said he is not concerned about the competition that Starbucks might pose to D'Volada.
“I'm not trying to compete. I'm just here offering good products at a good price,” he said.
Price might be the issue that D'Volada chooses to emphasize as it goes head to head with the larger Starbucks chain. Starbucks announced last week that it will raise the price of its drinks by an average of 9 cents, following a 5-cent increase last fall. It blamed rising costs for dairy products, energy and fuel.
The latest increase applies only to U.S. company-owned stores, but the affiliated Starbucks shops in places such as airports often raise prices at the same time.
The price increases, effective Tuesday, will vary by region and type of drink. They don't affect bottled drinks.
No information was available on what Starbucks will charge at the Baja California coffee shops. D'Volada's prices for all drinks are less than $4 on both sides of the border. In the Chula Vista and San Ysidro D'Volada shops, a large, regular coffee is about $1.45, compared with $1 in Tijuana.
“People are afraid of their (Starbucks) prices in Mexico,” Gallegos said.
He plans no major strategy moves, besides D'Volada's more affordable prices, to compete with the $7.8 billion coffee chain.
Retail analyst George Whalin says pricing has long been a complaint about Starbucks, but it hasn't seemed to hurt the Seattle-based company.
“Anybody who operates a coffee chain has one eye on Starbucks,” said Whalin of Carlsbad-based Retail Management Consultants. “There are a fair number of consumers who don't like Starbucks, but (their coffee shops) are very popular.
“Starbucks seems to have a magic formula, and wherever they go, from China to Europe, they seem to be successful.”
Did sum1 say a Starbucks is opening Friday?
Interesting thought from Adam at MRVL YAHOO board...
Re: What will blow Iphone away? Will MRVL be inside? (Not rated) 18 minutes ago When google comes out with it's phone, it should be even more revolutionary than the iphone. they are already making a bid for the 700mhz spectrum which can penetrate through walls and will be more reliable than current cell phones. They are developing a phone that is always connected to google servers which offers 2g+ space. you'll be able to check email do word spreadsheets add programs without having to download locally run everthing from the servers, it will not even need storage like a HDD or flash drive. It will be more like a network terminal with a cell phone.
What is TELMEX up to.... Is IRIS a messenger for the real deal....!!??!?!? Just having sum fun......?!?!?!?
Hey DART I enjoy hitting the ASK when I am Bullsih and hitting the Bid when I am Bearish! I find it amuzing you refuse to answer whether or not you got filled at .021 on the day after your prediction of a low at 200 day MA of .020....
I did not write this to argue, just having sum fun..... SO how much did you get? When and at what price? Also what was your price after commission? If you cant answer stop asking me questions.....
I am adding SKYPE and MCONTROL to my MCC use this weekend. Its my guess that my plan will increase my productivity. Any one want to argue about that or share their experiences with the product?
I am serious, I WILL EXPERIENCE PRODUCTIVITY GAINS in my personla life as a result of these products.
There was a time when these products woudl have cost too much time and money, and as a result it was not worth the effort. Processing speeds, INNOVATIVE OPERATING SYSTEMS, Smart hardware all make it possible, practical and fun.....
Many will need help setting up there new stuff.
These are all signs of a robust global technology boom getting ready for its next leg UP!!!!!
Any thougth on this?
Mobile Voice Landline appears it might be an additional contract other than that stated in 5/07 10Q for Deployment of MOBILE VOICE. MOBILE LANDLINE is a different service, correct?
One Voice Announces Availability of MobileVoice Landline in Mexico
One Voice Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB:ONEV), developer of 4th Generation voice solutions for the Telecom and Interactive Multimedia markets, announces today the availability of One Voice’s MobileVoice Landline™ service in Mexico to select subscribers of Teléfonos del Noroeste, S.A. de C.V. (TELNOR), a subsidiary of Teléfonos de México, S.A.B. de C.V. (TELMEX) (BMV: TELMEX; NYSE: TMX; NASDAQ: TFONY, LATIBEX: XTMXL). Under the brand IRIS, TELNOR will offer a package of services including: Voice Dialing, Group Calling and Conference Calling, along with Reading and Sending E-mail.
“We are very excited with the availability of IRIS and our strong relationship with TELNOR,” said Dean Weber, president and CEO of One Voice Technologies. “With IRIS you simply pick up your phone and tell the system to call someone, read-send e-mail or make group calls to friends, family or business colleagues. This is the future for telecommunications companies and it is here today with One Voice.”
MobileVoice and MobileVoice Landline are trademarks of One Voice Technologies, Inc. All other products and company names herein may be trademarks of their registered owners.
The Cervelle Group
Rob Karbowsky
Phone: (407) 475-9966
Fax: (407) 475-9859
rob@thecervellegroup.com
Source: Business Wire (July 30, 2007 - 8:30 AM EST)
News by QuoteMedia
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The Company recently signed a deployment contract with TELMEX for deployment of
One Voice's MobileVoice solutions to the over 18 million TELMEX subscribers
throughout Mexico. The anticipated launch is June 2007 beginning with TELMEX
subsidiary TELNOR with over 750,000 subscribers in northern Mexico. National
rollout throughout Mexico is anticipated to begin in Summer 2007 to the
remaining 18 million TELMEX subscribers. We are currently bidding on additional
contracts within TELMEX for other services to be offered by TELMEX to their
subscribers. At this time, we do not know if these additional contracts will
ever come to any material fruition.
Verizon bought Rural Cellular? And Alltel and Lucent release earnings this week.... I wonder what news we get an when? I still think there is something we are all missing that is postive and generates/generated revenue....
No ADs in Frontera. I did miss one last week, but i am pretty sure there is no ad today?!?!?!?
Hey dart who does that? 100 shares on the BID of a penny stock ?
14:55:16 100 shares on the BID? Did you get filled on the BID this am? If so how long did you have your order in for?
Size of last trade is 100 shares.
And Id rather pay .024... haha
So your long now? Too bad we cant find out who sold them to you?!?!? haha
OFFICE Depot selling the BEAN
http://www.techdepot.com/pro/search.asp?Operator=ALL&CONTEXT=SITE&Keyword=ltb+bean
Gee maybe the will need sum software with their BBEANS
This HIPE PC bundled MCC by ONEV! When you go to configure page scroll down and check out how much it costs to add ONE Voice! $0.00! Bundle! How may more bundles brundle?haha
http://www.hipepc.com/store/pc/configurePrd.asp?idproduct=680
WOW ONEV's MCC made it MCONTROL's VISTA PAGE already! Its shows almost exactly the same MIC I bought for my use of MCC and last years upgraded VISTA ULTIMATE ! Its on page 10 of the PDF! I cant wait to set up a house with this stufff!!!
http://www.embeddedautomation.com/mControl%20v2%20(Home%20Edition)%20Summary.pdf
Voice Control Systems
Control devices and initiate macros using voice control
Voice Control Supported Platforms
One Voice Technology’s Media Center Communicator
Run an mControl macro by a voice command
mControl Utilities
mControl Utilities
Its my belief, most if not all things eventually add up.... I believe the TECH engine will roar for 2 years and change all Global incomes levels daily experience with the TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION!
How many Media Centers exist versus TIVO? Thats a tangible number. Its my belief Media Centers lagged for many reasons over seasons past.
How many Vista Premium/Ultimate machines exist? Thast also a tangible number.
So these MSFT tivo type PC's are new? These products were all delayed two years?
At what rate will these prodcucts use increase?
Does One Voice technologies make this product easier to use than TIVO?
There are real answers to these questions... If you have the time help me out and find sum....
Thanks!
Thanks fro keeping it Fun!