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• Nuance Australia launches new reseller reward program

  By Hafizah Osman | 26 March, 2012 10:54

  Nuance Australia launches new reseller reward program

• Nuance to acquire medical transcription firm Transcend

  By Joab Jackson | 08 March, 2012 03:39

  Expanding its software-aided medical transcription services, Nuance Communications will purchase medical transcription service provider Transcend Services for US$300 million, the two companies announced Wednesday.

• TVs are interesting again

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 15 January, 2012 06:06

  TVs notched a starring role at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas instead of the flashier smartphone, tablet or Ultrabook thanks to a new crop of innovative and high-tech sets.

• Nuance to acquire mobile speech software provider Vlingo

  By Joab Jackson | 21 December, 2011 08:28

  Consolidating the rapidly growing market for voice recognition systems and services, Nuance Communications is in the process of acquiring Vlingo, a provider of mobile voice recognition and analysis software, the two companies announced Tuesday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

• Mindscape: how to survive an IT crash and look good in 2011

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 25 May, 2011 12:50

  Mindscape in Australia has had a long and convoluted history. It started out as SoftKey International – a business started by of one man, Kevin O’Leary, and is very much the ‘from the basement to superstardom’ story. O’Leary took a $10,000 investment from his mother and turned it into a billion-dollar company by 1994 that had acquired over 60 companies – including the likes of SSI games, Brøderbund and The Learning Company (which the group later took the name of).

• Nuance deal could be game changer for Apple's iOS 5

  By Tony Bradley | 09 May, 2011 00:27

  Rumor has it that Apple is engaged in serious negotiations with Nuance. A potential deal between Apple and Nuance suggests that Apple is aggressively pursuing new voice recognition capabilities for iOS 5.

• Nuance buys automated customer service provider, iTa

  By ARN Staff | 21 July, 2010 15:43

  Nuance buys automated customer service provider, iTa

• Voice Perfect goes into liquidation

  By Spandas Lui | 28 May, 2010 09:26

  Speech dictation software distributor, Voice Perfect Systems, has gone into liquidation.

• Nuance debuts continuous text input technology

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 24 March, 2010 05:35

  Nuance Communications has announced T9 Trace software that lets users input text on a touchscreen phone by gliding their finger from one letter to another on a virtual keyboard, the company said on Tuesday.

• Nuance looks to telecommunications with Addcom

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 14 May, 2009 12:33

  Software vendor, Nuance, has added another distributor to its stable. Addcom has been brought on-board to target telecommunications.

• Nuance seeks government niche

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 14 August, 2008 15:39

  Voice recognition software vendor, Nuance, is looking to expand its channel reach and make a greater push into government after enhancing its relationship with distributor, Scholastic.