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Bubble Motion, a start-up based in Mountain View, California raised $14 million in new funding for its “voice SMS” technology.
The company’s BubbleTALK provides a “click, talk, and send” short voice messaging service that works on any mobile phone. Operators can limit the messages to 30 seconds in length.
The new funding came from existing investors Sequoia Capital US and Sequoia Capital India, as well as new investors Comcast Interactive Capital and NCD Investors.http://www.bubblemotion.com
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From the Technology Graveyard
You just read about SMS. Here is what it replaced:
ReFLEX two-way paging served 1990–2010. What ultimately replaced it?
ReFLEX two-way paging pagers on dedicated high-power, low-frequency networks with a low-speed return channel for acknowledgments; the long wavelengths punched deep into buildings where early cell phones failed. Its job passed to SMS — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.
