Nuance Communications has agreed to buy Tegic Communications, the developer of the T9 predictive text input software for mobile phones, from AOL for $265 million in cash. http://www.wirelessweek.com/article.aspx?id=149702 Article goes on to say T9 is in use on over 2.5billion phones - wow now that's a patent worth filing. Regards, Dean Collins Cognation Pty Ltd dean at cognation.net <mailto:dean at cognation.net> +1-212-203-4357 Ph +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20070622/3e9eb415/attachment.htm
Steve Underwood
2007-Jun-27 15:56 UTC
[asterisk-users] Nuance Buys Tegic from AOL for $265m
Dean Collins wrote:> > Nuance Communications has agreed to buy Tegic Communications, the > developer of the T9 predictive text input software for mobile phones, > from AOL for $265 million in cash. > > http://www.wirelessweek.com/article.aspx?id=149702 > > Article goes on to say T9 is in use on over 2.5billion phones ? wow > now that?s a patent worth filing. >I've never really used the English version of T9, but the Chinese version sucks. There are several other similar input schemes which do a far better job. Steve