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Happy to be owned by Microsoft: Mike McCue, founder of Tellme is quoted in the Seattle P-I: "We are pretty much doing everything we were doing before -- just a lot more of it," said McCue. We had a nice offsite meeting with our Tellme friends last week and I can say the same thing. Read More...
Posted 04 March 08 03:57 by sprague | 0 Comments
Filed under Microsoft General, tellme
Live Speech: I've been busy with Response Point the last few months, but my old speech team hasn't stopped working. Today, together with the Windows Live team, they released to the world some very cool ways to search from your mobile phone. Try any of the following: Read More...
Posted 16 October 07 09:41 by sprague | 1 Comments
Filed under tellme, phone, speech
Tellme Wow: It's official: the Microsoft Speech Deal of All Time : we announced that Tellme is now a part of Microsoft. My boss is in Mountain View today to meet the new people. You'll hear a lot more about this in the next few weeks. And meanwhile, I'm not the official Read More...
Posted 14 March 07 03:00 by sprague | 2 Comments
Filed under tellme
What it feels like to merge with Microsoft: The last time I quit my company to look for a job, I joined a small start-up company in Silicon Valley. It had fewer than 100 employees and everyone was extremely smart, hard-working, and in love with our technology. Many of us had specifically chosen Read More...
Posted 14 March 07 08:36 by sprague | 3 Comments
Filed under tellme