Sunday, September 2, 2007

Today's Globe column: Google's prototype phones spotted in Cambridge

As soon as I moved back to Boston in mid-July, I started noticing that a lot of entrepreneurs were brandishing their new iPhones as status symbols. But an even rarer status symbol, I discovered, was being able to claim that you'd seen a prototype of Google's new cell phone, some of the software for which is being developed in Google's Cambridge R&D office. That's the topic of today's Globe column.

In today's Innovation Economy video, I talk about the phone, and interview the founders of two local start-ups working on cool new cell phone apps, Veveo and Vlingo. Veveo is doing video search; Vlingo (once known as Mobeus) is doing speech recognition.



I'd also gotten a tip a few weeks ago that Google will triple its space in Kendall Square and move from One Broadway (the Cambridge Innovation Center) to Cambridge Center (above the Marriott); while I'd planned to include that info as an aside in this Sunday's column, the BBJ published something first. Then, Watha wrote a short piece in the Globe yesterday.

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1 Comments:

Blogger RSoxFan said...

Helps prove my point that commercial acceptance lags innovation by 5-10 yrs. In 2000, as analyst tracking voice rec for local research shop(Aberdeen), tracked Nuance, Speechworks, IBM play, Tellme.Back then no bites from phone manufacturers. Tellme allowed me to keep updated on my BC/BU hockey games simultaneously.

December 5, 2008 10:45 AM  

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