Friday, July 4, 2008

Say2GO wins the First Prize in Microsoft's Partner Contest

Say2GO is gaining momentum. Our technology has won the First Prize (ISV/Software Solutions, Innovation Partner of the Year nomination*) in Microsoft's 2008 Partner Contest. The Prize will be handed to vendors of Say2GO at the Microsoft Annual Worldwide Partner Conference to be held in Houston, TX on July 7-10, 2008. Winners of the contest were selected among global network of Microsoft partners which comprises 47 thousand member companies.
Say2GO messenger is yet to develop to the full-fledged Public Beta stage - what’s currently out there is a reasonably stable limited beta. So understandably this high recognition by Microsoft is mainly due to the innovative, patent pending concepts of what Say2GO creators call “voicing” – communicating in voice in ways others than plain, real-time “phone calling”. Technically, current Say2GO voicing modes are called near-real-time voice messaging and regulated conference calling. Say2GO, Inc. believes that voicing can become an important extension of presently dominant internet calling which is considered intrusive and badly (if at all) archived. It’s similar to how modern text Instant Messengers, which are in fact near-real-time, have replaced early-days Unix “talk” command which was true real-time.
Another patent-pending innovation of Say2GO which has undoubtedly appealed to Microsoft is seamless speech recognition distributed to users’ PCs. Say2GO has in fact brought technically superior but rarely used speech recognition function of Vista/XP into the vast domain of inter-personal communication.
It’s also good to notice that, along with innovations, Say2GO keeps adding useful, long-demanded features to its messenger such as ICQ connectivity (added in the latest version of Say2GO, downloadable at www.say2go.com).
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* This First Prize is for Central and Eastern Europe because Edvantis Software (www.edvantis.com), the principal vendor of technology for Say2GO, Inc. is headquartered in Eastern Europe.