If you use a cellphone, you use voicemail.  And if you use voicemail, you know the unfortunate pitfalls involved in its daily use:   dialing in costs you minutes, it takes time to wade through multiple messages (you’re forced to listen to the messages that are drivel or spam in nature), and you are forced to press your ear to your mobile device or have your bluetooth headset on in order to retrieve your messages with any degree of privacy.

SpinVox has an answer for those of us who dread the daily doldrums of message retrieval.  It’s a voice-to-text program that makes voicemails easier to use.

The service monitors your calls and turns what’s spoken into a text message.  It then Read the rest of this entry »

Technology has certainly come a long way in bringing us together.

In the past couple of decades, we’ve seen the proliferation of the Internet and e-mail, advanced cell phones and their associated features: MMS picture and sound messaging, SMS text messages, advanced voice mail features, voice calls, Myspace pages, the Twitters of the world, and others.

Although, even with the advent of these readily available technologies, there is still the small percentage of us who enjoy our anonymity, our sense of privacy - our hands-off, unplugged, Zen-like lifestyles.

And for those of us who fit into this latter category, this MobileSphere company would like to provide us with a new tool to Read the rest of this entry »