reQall Helps Britain Remember


LONDON, December 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Free service works with a phone call

reQall (http://www.reqall.com) today announced the launch of a free trial 
service which will help people across Britain remember better. In the run-up 
to Christmas, the pressure to remember all those little things is greater 
than ever. From trying to be better organized, to getting things done early, 
to taking memory pills ... there are many 'foolproof' solutions. Finally 
there is, and it's free, and it's available to anybody who owns even the most 
basic mobile phone. reQall is a new service which allows people to record 
voice notes, reminders or even short conversations, and then be automatically 
reminded of them, search for them and recall them weeks, months or even years 
later.

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Here's how it works: simply dial a freephone number, leave yourself a
voice message such as: "buy a Christmas present for my wife before 5pm on
Christmas Eve this year." You can then access this message at any time as: a
voice mail, an email, a text message, an event automatically added to your
calendar, or on a searchable web page. There's nothing to install and no
technology to think about.

Amongst reQall's advisors is Peter Cochrane, BT's retired Chief
Technologist. "The simplicity of reQall belies the complexity of the problem
it is solving. reQall helps us remember those things that really matter, by
simply making a phone call."

reQall helps you remember all the big and little things in your life.
Simply speak your ideas and to-do lists and reQall does the rest. For
example, if you save a task for a particular date, reQall will remind you
about it on the day, in whatever way you prefer. reQall is designed to work
with your phone and your computer and to fit into your lifestyle, so that you
don't have to forget any more. reQall is available to you via:

Phone

Simply call free on +0800-692-8780 and record and recall things you want
to remember.

Text

reQall will send you a text message at just the right time.

Email

reQall will email you daily summaries and reminders.

Web

Because reQall converts what you say to text, you can read and edit your
notes, add new notes, see what you need to remember, search for a particular
item or see an overview of your activity in a calendar.

Calendar

reQall will automatically create entries in your Google calendar, Apple
iCal, Outlook 2007, or any calendar that supports the iCal standard.

iPhone

reQall is optimized for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. Simply, open the
web browser and login -- now the iPhone has its own task manager!

Live feeds

reQall will deliver your personal RSS feed straight to your desktop.

"It's easy to lose the thread of your conversation when you're busy,
distracted or overwhelmed; this is especially true in the holiday season.
Rather than bombard people with more technology and make their lives more
stressful, reQall uses the simplest and most intuitive way to help you
remember -- your voice," says Sunil Vemuri, reQall's co-founder and Chief
Product Officer.

Despite its seeming simplicity, reQall is based on Vemuri's research from
the Media Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) into
individual memory and "memory prosthesis". reQall deploys speech recognition
software to transcribe audio data into text and then uses advanced search and
retrieval tools to find a specific conversation or piece of information. The
retrieval criteria can be anything from words or phrases to a date range.

About reQall

reQall is a venture-funded technology international company with
operations across the US and India. reQall develops compelling and
easy-to-use tools to help people remember. reQall's technology is designed
and provided through partnerships with the world's largest mobile carriers,
VoIP service providers, and wireless telephone manufacturers. The company's
international management team has senior experience at international
companies including: Apple, IBM, Oracle, Sybase, and France Telecom.

reQall's management team includes: Rao Machiraju, formerly Principal
Scientist at Apple; Sunil Vemuri, whose research into memory prosthesis at
MIT is the basis of reQall's service; and Ash Vasudevan, a Silicon
Valley-based Venture Capitalist and management expert.

reQall's Advisory Board includes:

    -- Professor Peter Cochrane: BT's former Chief Technologist;
    -- Gordon Bell: Microsoft's principal researcher in Silicon Valley;
    -- Edward de Bono: the person who introduced the phrase 'lateral
       thinking' into our vocabulary and, in many ways, could be the best-
       known international thinker;
    -- Don Norman: an expert on user-centered design who has been awarded the
       Benjamin Franklin medal in Computer and Cognitive Science.

    Media contacts
    Kathy Johnson
    Consort Partners
    +44-777-450 8098
    reqall@consortpartners.com



Web site: http://www.reqall.com

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