Though Internet is widely popular, its availability to mobile users is very limited. Less than 4% of mobile phones in US and 1% worldwide are equipped with internet connections.  Furthermore, phones have limitations such as the difficulty to enter data, slow data rate etc. 800 Genie aims to eliminate this gap by enabling the users to access their favorite Internet applications over the phone.

Built using the patent pending technologies, 800 Genie provides a wide gamut of services including reading and replying to your mail (Gmail, Yahoo!, AOL and most  service providers are supported), real-time tele-blogging, group messaging, reminders, traffic updates, directions, weather, podcasts, various kinds of news including business, top stories, sports etc. Genie can also maintain your calendar and notes. Genie uses advanced speech recognition engines to match voice inputs. Besides speech, Genie can also understand touch tones.

Some of the applications supported by Genie are described below:

Email

Genie has support for several popular email service providers supporting POP3 and IMAP including GMail, AOL, Yahoo etc. Besides consumer email, Enterprise version of Genie also supports corporate email (Microsoft Exchange). To know more about enterprise version, please send an email with your requirements to enterprise@800genie.com

The user can also reply to the email by recording a voice message which will be sent as an attachment. The file is sent directly and is not stored  on our servers.

Tele-blogging

800 Genie supports real-time blogging. With Genie, the bloggers need not wait to get to their blog. Real-time blogging is made very simple. Call up genie, follow the simple prompts, leave a message and your blog is updated immediately.

To make it easy for bloggers to share these recordings real-time, genie provides a simple flash component that bloggers can add on their web sites before the event. The blogger can also associate an image for this event.

As the audio blog content will be streamed real-time from genie servers to the blog websites, the blogger need not worry about the bandwidth consumption.

Group Messaging

Users who want to send a single message to a group can use Genie to do so. The user should first setup the phone numbers in the group (currently limited to 5) by logging into the panel. After the setup, the user can leave a message which will be broadcasted to the entire group.

Reminder Services

Reminder services help the users to leave and retrieve personal reminders for themselves. Genie can even send you the recorded file through email.

Weather, Traffic and Local information

Users can access weather, traffic information for any city by entering or saying zip code over the phone. The user can also get the local information of any city including the information such as bus stations, restaurants, gas stations etc.

Movies

Users can get information on theaters in any city including the movie show times, reviews etc.

Finance

Users can get complete finance information including the current prices for their favorite stocks in the portfolio, latest business news, stock market news etc.

Sports

800 Genie can provide the latest scores and news updates on NBA, NFL, NHL, Cricket, Fifa, Soccer, Hockey and many more.

News

With 800 Genie, get top stories, international, US news, technology, science, BBC and lot more news.

Free service

Yes, 800 Genie is absolutely free. To take advantage of Genie, sign up, login to your account, personalize and genie is just a click away.

Text service

The user can optionally receive the text transcripts of the information accessed over the phone. We understand that, in some cases, text transcripts would be very helpful so that the information can be accessed at a later time. Genie can send text transcripts to phones on request.

About 800PBX

800 Genie is a free service from 800PBX Inc., Virtual PBX and toll free number provider for small businesses and entrepreneurs. The company is also known for custom IVR solutions such as automated appointment scheduling, realtor services, self-serve support ticketing system, questionnaires, hosted call center and more.

Click here to learn more http://www.800pbx.com.