The product features an eight-microphone array and will integrate Microsoft's Skype for non-proprietary chatting.
In future builds, Fried says the app will introduce more features designed to make chatting "fun," including some proprietary features he declined to detail.
It boils down to the way these sites calculate their whisper numbers: Whispernumbers.com uses its proprietary-mining software to cull whispers from chat rooms, message boards and between 200,000 to 350,000 Web sites, according to cofounders John Scherr and Paul Hauck.
"I get e-mails from people saying, 'I worked for XYZ company for 20 years and I just got laid off,'" says Brian Shannon of Alphatrends, which, for $60 a month, offers proprietary online videos and a once-a-week live chat.
They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc.
"Our proprietary clustering algorithms automatically cluster our customer's historical data (chat, email, knowledge base) to train our neural network.
This meshes neatly with Microsoft's broader.Net strategy of using its new XP operating system to funnel video, music, chat and other Web-based communications through its proprietary systems as well.
This meshes with Microsoft's broader.Net strategy of using its new XP operating system to funnel video, music, chat and other web-based communications through its proprietary systems as well.
All iPads are installed with iCore's proprietary software, which it sells to other businesses, allowing users to manage phone calls and video chat requests.
