981 — Slovenia is on its way into the third mobile generation
As one of the first network operators in Eastern Europe, Si.mobil - Vodafone is starting its commercial EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution) services. The network was delivered and set up by Siemens mobile. By January 2004 the new high-speed network will be...
980 — Siemens and Sony Ericsson outpace sluggish European mobile phone market
Despite retaining a clear lead in terms of market share, Nokia lost ground to both Siemens and Sony Ericsson in a Western European mobile phone market that overall remained flat year on year. As expected, IDC's European Mobile Phone Tracker research found price cuts...
979 — Shopping for customers: rewarding your top performers. The analysis of Lior Arussy
As the biggest shopping season starts, we are all preparing lists of gifts for our loved ones, friends and family, to demonstrate our appreciation and affection. It is customary to use the gifts as a way to express our feelings and demonstrate the importance of the...
978 — Philips releases UK MultiMed ConText for hospital-wide speech recognition
Royal Philips Electronics announced the release of the UK MultiMed ConText for its speech recognition software SpeechMagic. For the first time ever, UK hospitals can now integrate a hospital-wide speech recognition system with their Electronic Patient Record (EPR)...
977 — Babel reads SMS, symbols and messages for Imagetalk
Imagetalk has selected Babel-Infovox embedded Text-to-Speech solution, PocketBabil, for its mobile communication tool on Imagetalk Pocket and Imagetalk Smartphone applications. The Babel-Infovox speech synthesis integrated in these products supports all major...
976 — Laurent Philonenko, new CEO of Genesys
index.php?headline=87&visual=24 Banco de Imagens - Daily Picture Banco de Imagens-Quem é Quem Banco de Imagens - Centros de Contacto
975 — Laurent Philonenko appointed new CEO of Genesys
Alcatel announced that, effective January 1, 2004, Ad Nederlof will assume the position of chairman of Genesys. Since February 2000, he has been president and CEO of Genesys. In his new role Mr Nederlof will expand his consultative work with customers while continuing...
974 — ASC launches new call recording solution for SMEs
ASC telecom, a provider of performance improvement solutions for contact centres, announced today the launch of MARATHON EVOlite, ASCs new plug-and-play communications recording solution for Small to Medium Enterprises. MARATHON EVOlite, lays its engineering...
973 — India call centres do not provide good service to customer, ContactBabel finds
New research published today by ContactBabel shows that Indian call centre agents get paid less than an eighth of their UK counterparts salaries, and do not provide as good a service to the customer. A survey of over 300 UK and Indian call centre operations finds...
972 — Hydratight tightens transatlantic operations with BT deployed IP solution
BT today announced the decision by Hydratight Sweeney, a manufacturer of bolt tightening equipment, to implement a converged infrastructure based on Nortel Networks' Succession IP product offering. The solution went live in August 2003, and has been installed in the...
971 — Voice portal : French weather goes sound
Météo France, the French meteorology organisation, has chosen Elan Sayso's golden tone TTS to read out the sea weather forecasts, flight condition information or weather alerts, available over the phone 24-7. The Météo Marine sea weather forecast service for the...
970 — Women champion UMTS, finds Europressedienst
Coffee mornings are out, mobile communication is in: Women are already the world champions when it comes to messaging. They view technology in terms of the functionality it offers and are favourably predisposed to UMTS. That is the result of a survey of 3,000...
969 — BT to deliver Siebel CRM OnDemand for businesses in the UK
BT will be the first UK-based company to introduce Siebel CRM OnDemand to businesses in the UK. The new on-demand service enables small and medium-sized organisations and divisions of larger businesses to organise, manage and streamline their sales, marketing and...
968 — Case-study: UK Royal Mail relies on speech recognition to track special delivery packages
United Kingdom's Royal Mail announced has significantly reduced call handling costs for its Track & Trace (T&T) delivery tracking service by investing in a speech recognition solution. Aspect Customer Self-Service with speech recognition by Nuance automates...
967 — Implementing performance management in the contact centre. Donna Fluss, principal, DMG Consulting
Last week, we previewed the promising new world of contact centre performance management. We established that contact centre performance management could liberate contact centre managers from time-consuming data collection and reporting and empower them to capture and...
966 — Alcatel launches 3G Reality Centre
Alcatel officially launched its latest-born 3G Reality Centre in Milan, Italy, today. This facility is part of Alcatel's worldwide programme which offers a live end-to-end network environment open to operators, content and services providers and dedicated to the...
965 — Tecnomen to supply messaging system enhancement to Swisscom Mobile
Tecnomen has been selected by Swisscom Mobile to provide new enhanced messaging services for their existing Tecnomen messaging platform. The enhancement will expand Swisscom Mobile's messaging solution portfolio by offering new services such as wireless e-mail, as...
964 — Cyantel provides tracking application to Vodafone Germany
Cyantel, an Irish developer of location-based services, has announced that it will deliver their E-Z-Manage Resource Manager to Vodafone Germany to start a service called Vodafone FleetManagement. E-Z-Manage Resource Manager is a location-based service that enables...
963 — Cyantel provides tracking application to Vodafone Germany
Cyantel, the Irish developer of location-based services, has announced that it will deliver their E-Z-Manage Resource Manager to Vodafone Germany to start a service called Vodafone FleetManagement. E-Z-Manage Resource Manager is a location-based service that enables...
962 — Audentify provides dataforce with dynamic agent assistance
Audentify, a provider of contact center technology and a division of Autonomy Corporation announced that Dataforce, a contact center representing a number of the UK's leading brands, has selected Audentify to automatically monitor and manage all customer interactions,...
961 — RNIB and Rhetorical announce partnership
Rhetorical, a Scottish provider of text-to-speech (TTS) technology, and the Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB) announced a partnership to increase information access for people with sight problems. Rhetorical's text-to-speech (TTS) product 'rVoice' will be...
960 — Lloyds TSB answers 70 Millionth Call
Lloyds TSB has received its 70 millionth automated call representing more than 84 million financial transactions through a speech-enabled customer self-service telephone system based on an interactive voice response (IVR) solution from Nortel Networks. The system...
959 — City of Cologne wins European CRM award
The City of Cologne has won the 'CRM Best-Practice Gold Award' in the category Business to Customer (B2C). The municipality received the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) award for its call centre solution, which was developed in conjunction with Siemens Business...
958 — Russia`s Combellga introduces voice-over-IP services based on an Alcatel NGN solution
Alcatel announced today a contract with Combellga, one of Russia's carriers, to enhance its existing voice network by using a next-generation IP-based infrastructure to interconnect its local services areas. Alcatel NGN solution enables Combellga to initiate IP...
957 — TNT uses Sakrament TTS in the TV reality-show
Sakrament, a Belarus software developer in the sphere of speech recognition and text-to-speech (TTS) technologies for the Russian language, announced that TNT TV Network has selected its TTS Engine to use in the TV reality-show. TNT is among the first in the world and...
