Bruce Sterling and the Transition Web

Best I can gather, Bruce Sterling just spun everybody’s head around from a New Zealand pulpit with a fantastic blizzard of words about the silly vagueness of Web 2.0, and offered up as its replacement a monumentally vaguer futuristic apparition he calls the Transition Web. And nobody’s really sure if they like that or not.

Skype Now Offering Voice To Text Messaging Conversion

Skype has introduced a new feature that converts voicemail to text via speech technology firm SpinVox. SpinVox converts voice messages to text in English, Spanish, French, and German. The messages are sent by Skype as an SMS text directly to a mobile phone for users to read.

Mobile Phone Sales Grew 6% In 2008

Global mobile phone sales increased 6 percent in 2008 over the previous year while sales declined 4.6 percent in the fourth quarter due to the economic downturn, according to Gartner. Worldwide mobile phone sales reached 1.22 billion in 2008, up from 1.15 billion in 2007.