Service is free for consumers and paid for businesses. Once you register you can access your account from any Internet enabled device, save your most called companies and frequently used numbers (PINs, account numbers etc.), record calls and more. Sign up to get started.

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Features:

• Skip automated phone systems and connect directly to your desired extension.
• One click calling – instantly dial “common actions” for most companies.
• Includes extensive list of companies in its database.
• Quick tones – save your frequently used numbers (account numbers, PINs etc).
• Add frequent calls to a bookmark list and access them with one click.
• Records calls and add notes.
• Phones menus of companies constantly updated as they change.
• Free for consumers. Sign up to start using.
• Similar websites: IVRHacks, DialAHuman and GetHuman.

Check out Fonolo @ www.fonolo.com

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Enter the address, intersection, or a zip code and click Search. PrimoSpot will then show you a neighborhood map along with available parking spots (see above) in the area. The different color legends indicate the time left at that parking spot. Click on the pin to see some photos and additional details. There are currently over 13,500 locations in the PrimoSpot.

Furthemore you can access PrimoSpot straight from your mobile device. The mobile version of the site can be accessed at m.primospot.com. Search results will be sorted based on the distance from the given address, starting from the closest.

Features:

• Find parking spots in the busy areas of New York (Manhattan, Brooklyn).
• Coming soon: Queens, Philadelphia and Boston areas.
• Access PrimoSpot from PC or mobile phone. (iPhone-optimized version available as well).
• Contribute by adding parking spots and garages that aren’t listed.

PrimoSpot Demo

Check out PrimoSpot @ www.primospot.com

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• Google Ride Finder: Find Taxi, Limousine or Shuttle in the Area
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• OhMyGas: Find The Cheapest Gas Prices In Your Area
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• GasPenny: Find The Cheapest Gas Station in Your Area

It will also show the exact location of the place on the area map. Currently Outalot supports only New York City and SF Bay areas.

You can bookmark places you like, places you dislike, or want to try. Simply tap the heart icon on a restaurant or bar to bookmark it to your profile page. Furthermore you can give places you like a thumbs up, the places you don’t, a thumbs down. Similarly, you can see how other folks feel about particular place. Also share your favorite places with friends, and add others to your network to combine your bookmark list with theirs.

The cool thing about Outalot is that it can be accessed from a mobile phone as well. It supports iPhone, as well as many other popular mobile devices like Danger Sidekick, HP, Kyocera, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Palm Treo, Panasonic, RIM/BlackBerry, Samsung, Sanyo, Sony Ericsson. Here is how it looks on mobile phone.

Check out Outalot @ www.outalot.com

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Features:

• Check out live traffic conditions from your mobile phone.
• Browse traffic cameras by country, state, city and street.
• Includes over 4600 cameras across US, Canada, Austalia, China, Luxemborg, Sweden, United Kingdom.
• Requirements: web-enabled mobile device with a data plan.
• What’s missing: Maps integration, no search option.

Please note, if you plan to use this service on a regular basis then make sure to check with your mobile carrier about the data usage fees. Unless you are on an unlimited data plan, using MobileTraffic.tv from a mobile phone can be quite costly.

Go to MobileTraffic @ www.mobiletraffic.tv

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• Google Ride Finder: Find Taxi, Limousine or Shuttle in the Area
• CostToDrive: Estimate Gas Cost For Your Next Travel
• CommutePrice: Car Commuting Expense Calculator
• CarRentals.com: Site For Comparing Car Rental Rates
• ZimRide: Carpooling Website To Find & Share Rides

How does it work?

(1) Text Message Alerts: Follow-up on important events via text message alerts. Select what you wante to track (news, weather, stocks, favorite blogs, package tracking etc.), enter trigger words, and choose time and number of alerts you want to receive per day.



Available alert categories: Sports Scores, Player Stats, Weather, Stock Quotes, Horoscopes, Celebrity Gossip, Celebrity Birthdays, Health Tips, RSS News Feeds, Package Tracking, Craigslist, Personal reminder

(2) Text Message Search: Instantly lookup specific information by sending short text message. Type in a search term and send a text message to 4INFO (44636) Type a search term in the message body. Your serach term may vary depending on what type of information you want to lookup (stocks, weather, flight status etc.).



Available search categories: sports scores, player stats, stock quotes, wifi hotspots, package tracking, weather, yellow pages, news, flight status, city search, TV Guide, movie show times, drink recipes, price lookup, jokes, joke, horoscopes, pickup lines, celebrity gossip.

Additional Features:

• RSS Alerts: Monitor updates from your favorite blogs and websites.
• Customization: Choose time and number of alerts you want to receive per day.
• Create as many alerts as you like. Manage, modify or edit your alerts online.
• If you want to test message search functionality right now you can do it from here.

[Video] 4info Intro

Check out 4info @ [ www.4Info.net ]

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LifeHacker: “Boopsie, a free mobile search app, aims to cut down the number of keypad clicks between you and the information you’re looking for.”

There are over 100 channels in total. Search match scores, lookup stock prices, local weather reports, find phone numbers, search Wikipedia, find nearest Starbucks or FedEx store, movie reviews (via IMDB.com), area code lookup, search Amazon books, read global news and lots more. .

Features

• Live search: As you type letters, Boopsie finds and shows answers in real-time.
• Works over any data connection (GPRS, EDGE, EVDO, WiFi, 3G etc.) Basically, if you can browse web on your phone, you can most likely use Boopsie.
• Works with pretty much all popular phones (BREW, Blackberry, Java (J2ME), Palm OS, Symbian, Windows Mobile and iPhone). See a full list of supported devices here.

Boopsie video demo (no sound)

Check out Boopsie @ www.boopsie.com

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Features

• Currently supported cities: Barcelona, London, Madrid, New York, Prague, Rome and San Francisco.
• For each city, view main transport hubs (airports, stations, etc.) and popular tourisitc places.
• Check out popular taxi trips.
• Get direct access links to calculted fares (i.e. London Heathrow Airport -> Trafalgar Square).
• Mobile friendly: Lookup taxi fare from your mobile decive (www.worldtaximeter.com/m).
• View featured local taxi services.

Check out WorldTaximeter @ www.worldtaximeter.com

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1. Access, retrieve and update profile information (ex. LinkedIN, Facebook): update your Facebook ’status’, get ‘un-read’ messages from your Facebook inbox, get someone’s profile info from LinkedIn, and lots more.

2. You can also use MoDazzle as a directory service: get driving directions, restaurant reviews, location of the nearest Starbucks, and so on.

MoDazzle Features

• Access your profile on: LinkedIN, Facebook, Lavalife, Salesforce.com, Hoovers, and VentureSource.
• Additional services: latest news, Stock quotes, weather forecasts, driving directions, nearest Starbucks locations, restaurant reviews, flight updates, yellow pages. See how here.
• Invite friends from your Yahoo Mail or Gmail address books.
• Use MoDazzle from several email addresses or mobile phones.
• Note: Modazzle is a free service, however depending on your mobile contract standard text messaging fees may apply.

Examples:

For instance, to update your Facebook status you can either send an email to ‘fbprofilestatusupdate@modazzle.com’ with your new status message in the subject line, or send an SMS message to ‘22553′.

Check out MoDazzle @ www.modazzle.com

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Feature Overview

• Get direct phone numbers to support personnel.
• Read tips on how to get connected to human personnel.
• Browse companies alphabetically or by service category (credit, finance, government, hardware, insurance, internet, mobile, pharmaceutical, shipping, software stores, telco, travel, and tv/satellite).
• Improve service by rating existing numbers and adding new ones.
• Note: Service lists only US branch phone numbers.

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Yahoo Tech: “You could always print directions before you leave the house, but if you’re already on the road you now have an option to call 347-328-4667 (or dial DIR-ECT-IONS if you forget) for a text message with turn-by-turn directions.”

Feature Overview

• Get quick info on upcoming events, request driving directions, or get an address for local store/business/restaurant.
• Receive address and driving directions (incl. route map) on your mobile phone.
• Works with all carriers any cell phone.
• US only: Currently available only in 15 major cities (Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Dallas, Denver, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Philadelphia, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.)
• No registration or sign-up required.
• More Questions? Go to service FAQ page.

Video Intro and Demo

Check out DialDirections @ www.dialdirections.com

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O’Reilly Radar: “Get a call from an unrecognized number on your cell? Look it up to see who it was, where they are, and who else they called that didn’t like it.”

WhoCalled.us Features

• Lookup ‘name unavailable’ phone numbers.
• See how many other people received calls from the same caller.
• Comment and view comments from others who received calls from particular phone number.
• Browse numbers by: ‘Who called the most’, ‘Most commented’ and ‘Most called state’ (by all time, last 7 days).
• Add new numbers to WhoCalled.us directory.
• Registration is encouraged but not required.

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Laptopmag.com: “Yahoo Go 2.0 is among the most ambitious attempts to put a Web portal on a phone. And it works.”

Yahoo! Go Features

• Easily access Yahoo Services directly from mobile phone.
• Search Engine: Access Yahoo web search
• Flickr: Acces and View your Flickr albums and pictures.
• Yahoo Mail: View, Manage and Reply to your emails. All changes will be automatically synchronized with online Yahoo account.
• News: Latest Global, Entertainment, Sports and Finance News.
• FeedReader: Add feeds from favorite blogs/websites.
• Weather Tool: Configure quick weather access for your zip code.
• Access Local Maps and Business Listings i.e. restaurants, pizzerias, etc., with direct dial feature.
• Supports over 120 mobile phones. Custom iPhone version available.
• Try Yahoo! Go right from the web interface here (no registration required@yahoo.)
• Important: Yahoo! Go is a free service however depending on your carrier and mobile service plan data-transfer fees may apply.

Visit Yahoo! Go [http://mobile.yahoo.com/go]

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Directory Services (from Google SMS)

- Stock quotes
- Weather
- Dictionary (eg. ‘define iniquity‘)
- Translation (’translate hello in French’)
- Flight updates and airline information
- Movie screening times and nearest theater locations
- Calculator
- Currency and Unit conversion (’8 GBP in USD’)
- Q&A service (’Albert Einstein birthday)
- Product prices (based on the listing from Froogle.com)
- Driving directions and maps
- Local business listings (car repair, sushi bars, restaurants, pizzerias, etc)

Google SMS Features

• Send free SMS to 466453 (”GOOGLE”) and instantly receive an answer.
• Service currently available in USA, Canada, Germany, Japan and Spain (more to come).
• Note: Google SMS is a free service however depending on the user’s mobile contract text messaging fees may apply.
• More Questions? Check out Google SMS FAQ page.

Visit Google SMS [www.google.com/sms/]

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Sullr Features

• Supported Countries: Argentina, United States, France, Belgium and Italy (maybe more).
• Access Sullr directly from your mobile (wap.sullr.com). Works with iPhone as well.
• Option to view address location on the map.
• Coming soon: Mobile phone reverse lookup.
• More information available on Sullr FAQ page.

Check out Sullr @ (www.sullr.com)

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There are 3 ways to use TellMe

1. Call 1-8000-555-TELL (8355)

• voice-supported assisstance: Say “Business Search” at the main menu and ask for business name like “McDonald’s” OR for business type “bowling”
• Request details to be forwarded to your phone as text message by saying Text me the info”

2. Text 83556

• get maps+directions by Business Name: ’starbucks cambridge ma’ OR ‘pf changs 75287′
• get maps+directions by Business Type: ‘golf lancaster pa’ OR ‘locksmith 92054′
• and more …

3. To make things even easier download Tellme software for your mobile (See whether your phone/provider is supported here).

Video demo

Go to TellMe @ (http://www.tellme.com/)

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GOOG411 Features:

• Dial from any phone: 1-800-GOOG-411 (or 1-800-466-4411).
• Get instantly connected to the right business for free.
• Use quick voice commands (shortcuts).
• Request map and directions via ’sms’. If calling from mobile phone, simply say “text message”.
• Your phone number always remains anonymous, even from the business you’re trying to reach.
• Currently available in English only.
• Small Business Owners: Add your business listing to GOOG411 database.
• Got more questions? See video demo below or go to GOOG411 help section here.

Official GOOG411 Intro Video

Check out GOOG411 @ labs.google.com/goog411 OR dial 1-800-GOOG-411

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