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	<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Alert: Telisma and Persay to Partner</title>
		<link>http://strategy.vicorp.com/2008/02/14/alert-telisma-and-persay-to-partner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Telisma, the speech recognition firm that is making waves for its innovative solution for rapidly deploying new languages has announced its partnership with Israel&#8217;s speaker verification leader Persay. The partnership establishes a joint marketing relationship between the two firms.
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		<title>Alert: Voxify Raises $15 Million</title>
		<link>http://strategy.vicorp.com/2008/02/14/alert-voxify-raises-15-million/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a show of support for its speech-enabled managed services model, Voxify press released its $15 million infusion on February 12.
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		<title>An Invitation to Innovation</title>
		<link>http://strategy.vicorp.com/2008/02/11/an-invitation-to-innovation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the mid-90s, the enterprise voice world has been stuck in a rut. By 1997, every call center or large enterprise had chosen its primary carrier, its PBX supplier and its IVR vendor. During this time, it was all about proprietary technology. If you bought a Lucent (now Avaya) G3R switch, you did all your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IT/Telecom Convergence in SMBs</title>
		<link>http://strategy.vicorp.com/2008/01/24/ittelecom-convergence-in-smbs/</link>
		<comments>http://strategy.vicorp.com/2008/01/24/ittelecom-convergence-in-smbs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In large enterprises across the globe, corporations are quickly realizing that with the migration to soft-PBXes and VoIP, the artificial barrier between the IT and Telecom organizations is ready to come down. It hasn&#8217;t been a fast transition: the first time I experienced this was over six years ago when my director of Telecom services [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alert: Oracle Acquires BEA</title>
		<link>http://strategy.vicorp.com/2008/01/16/alert-oracle-acquires-bea/</link>
		<comments>http://strategy.vicorp.com/2008/01/16/alert-oracle-acquires-bea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oracle, the venerable database supplier to the world has purchased BEA. This move accelerates Oracle&#8217;s corporate transformation from being a database company into a full service application platform.
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		<title>Scorecard: Voxeo Releases Designer 8</title>
		<link>http://strategy.vicorp.com/2007/12/24/scorecard-voxeo-releases-designer-8/</link>
		<comments>http://strategy.vicorp.com/2007/12/24/scorecard-voxeo-releases-designer-8/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>avery</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Voxeo snuck in a pre-Christmas press release on December 21, announcing the general availability of Designer Version 8. Designer, an AJAX based voice application development tool, allows users of the Voxeo Prophecy (premises) or Evolution (hosted) to build simple voice applications without the need to purchase any additional products.
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		<title>Has Natural Language Run Its Course?</title>
		<link>http://strategy.vicorp.com/2007/12/20/has-natural-language-run-its-course/</link>
		<comments>http://strategy.vicorp.com/2007/12/20/has-natural-language-run-its-course/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a general myth that people should be able to converse with a system - either by phone or on the web - just like they were talking to a human. In fact certain voice applications even go as far as to name their personas. The idea is that by combining advanced personas and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Brief: TuVox Raises $20 Million in 4th Round of Financing</title>
		<link>http://strategy.vicorp.com/2007/12/12/investment-tuvox-20m-12-dec-07/</link>
		<comments>http://strategy.vicorp.com/2007/12/12/investment-tuvox-20m-12-dec-07/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Capping off this year&#8217;s major investments in the voice application/voice tooling space, investors have pumped an additional $20 million into TuVox.
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		<title>Scorecard: Nortel Reselling VoiceObjects</title>
		<link>http://strategy.vicorp.com/2007/12/06/scorecard-nortel-reselling-voiceobjects/</link>
		<comments>http://strategy.vicorp.com/2007/12/06/scorecard-nortel-reselling-voiceobjects/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>avery</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Disclosure: VoiceObjects, as a platform solution for managing voice applications, is in some ways competitive with the Vicorp xMP offering. 
On December 5, VoiceObjects published a press release stating that Nortel was now a reseller of its phone application platform.
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		<title>Scorecard: TringPhone - Flash SIP Phone</title>
		<link>http://strategy.vicorp.com/2007/12/03/scorecard-tringphone-flash-sip-phone/</link>
		<comments>http://strategy.vicorp.com/2007/12/03/scorecard-tringphone-flash-sip-phone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>avery</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Though there are a number of softphones available on the market, one of the &#8220;holy grail&#8221; solutions that the VoIP market has been driving for is the creation of an &#8220;embed-able&#8221; softphone. Today&#8217;s announcement of the release of TringPhone brings the industry one step closer to moving the traditional telephone off of the desk.
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