Awesome Techs

Recently I read an article about the Ribbit Mobile in TechCrunch.

This ribbit mobile works just like GoogleVoice, a very handy service by google to manage Voice mails. It showed that there is a better way to manage voicemails than to listen to 15 in a row just to get to the one you care about.

“Ribbit Mobile is in private beta, but the first 500 people to sign up with the invite code “techcrunch” will jump to the front of the line.”

Tech Crunch Said.

Ribbit mobile will take over your mobile default voice mail. This is done by some code that you will be prompted to enter while the sign up process.Once you set up your voicemail, and record a new greeting message, you can get started. After this process,all voice mails will get diverted to your ribbit account and will be stored there. All voicemails will appear in your Ribbit inbox. This can be played on your computer. Using Phonetag/Simulscribe’s speech-to-text engine, this ribbit mobile is able to transcribe messages. And it is pretty accurate. Every transcribed voicemail also gets sent to you as an email.

So there is really no need to listen to a voicemail again. But you can retrieve them the normal way, by calling an assigned number you can save to your phone.

Ribbit also lets you route calls to any number, including Skype and Ribbit’s own Java phone which enables us to take calls on our computer by using any browser.

When you are online, you can also sign into various social networks (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr) and see recent Tweets, status messages, and photos from the person who is calling. It’s very Xobni-like in that way.

Ribbit Mobile will launch with a free basic package, and then start charging between $10 and $30 a month for more services, such as human transcription. Ribbit was acquired by British Telecom last year for $105 million, so it’s not going anywhere.

Website: ribbit.com

You’re a Person who  usually search something in google using your Nokia phone, then this is a good news for you. Because now google developed an application which comes with Google Apps for mobile by which we can tell our mobile to search something.

The best thing about this is, Google voice search is location aware, so that you can just give queries in your native language. Also it is not limited to simple search queries.

Google India Blog says,

Downloading the Google Mobile App places a shortcut to Google search on your Nokia phone’s home screen. It’s now fast and easy to search for anything on the Internet. Holding down the call button activates voice search so you can speak your query. Search by voice is not limited to simple queries. Try complex queries like — “pictures of gateway of India”, “what is the length of a cricket pitch”, or even something very Indian like “makki ki roti and sarson ka saag recipe”.

You can also type queries quickly thanks to Google Suggest, which provides search suggestions for common queries. You can search for anything — from “kebab corner” to “coffee shop”.
Whether you’re in Bangalore or Gurgaon, you can turn on the My Location feature to give you the most relevant results nearby.

First of all google voice is an invitation only service. And it still got a B-I-G number of  users. Its 1.4 million and it is huge. But this number of users was never expected to be a public information. It was a secret until BusinessWeek got a copy of a letter to the US Federal Communications Commission in response to the FCC’s questions about, among other things, Google’s blocking of certain rural phone numbers from using Google Voice.

The public version of that letter was supposed to have had chunks of sensitive info redacted and replaced by empty sections bracketed by “Begin Confidential” and “End Confidential”.

Also from this letter, register reported that google may have plans to expand this google voice service outside the US.