Comments on: Say What? ‘Dial Directions’ Acquired By Arabic Language Specialist Sakhr Software

By: peter james

peter james — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:48:55 +0000

It was nice to know that there is something going on in arab world about computers and information technology. You did not explain if their services can be used with internet phone also as i m using voip service on my iphone

By: مركز تحميل

مركز تحميل — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:31:21 +0000

cool that is major computer science

By: منتديات

منتديات — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:27:30 +0000

TC usually never reports acquisitions in the middle east, but they do in fact buy a whole lot of crap. It’s never on the public record though, so you never read about it.

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By: khalid

khalid — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:59:43 +0000

This is really great stuff. If it does make it to the field, where the people need it desperately, it will be very helpful for communication. This application will expedite the promotion of conflict resolution and global harmony!

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By: Mahmoud

Mahmoud — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:24:12 +0000

Yes. I had an MSX-170 running MS Basic 1.0 in the late 80’s. Sakhr (literally ‘rock’) is a household name in the Middle East.

By: Al

Al — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:34:16 +0000

Wouldn’t http://www.Yamli.com be a nice buy for Sakhr???

By: Dial Directions acquired by Sakhr Software to bring Real Time Voice Translation to mobiles | Startup Meme - Technology Startup and Latest Tech News

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:45:29 +0000

[...] activated mobile service Dial Directions that provides directions to cell phone users has been acquired by Sakhr Software. The software provides natural language processing in Arabic and the two will [...]

By: marc

marc — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:35:54 +0000

This will certainly not help hard line republicans who try to keep the distance between “them” and “us” as big as possible AKA gaining benefits by alienating Muslims: G-BAM will suffer!

By: Puranjay

Puranjay — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:52:09 +0000

This would be super cool if you could have it in different languages. Plus, spoken translations would be good – often, we don’t know what the pronounciation of a foreign word would be

By: ammar

ammar — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:26:07 +0000

very impressive

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By: ArabCrunch

ArabCrunch — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:40:57 +0000

I remember the first PC I used in my life was from Sakhr back in the late 80s, running its own property Arabic Operating system, where I used to play games. But Sakhr PC met the dust for Win-tel based PCs, during the 90s. However this announcement is significant because, I think it is the first time an Arab tech company acquires an American IT company, Dial’s cofounder is Arabic i think.

By: Sakhr Software Acquires Dial Directions, Launches Spoken Arabic Translation via Mobile | ArabCrunch

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:22:05 +0000

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By: Chris Wheat

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:24:02 +0000

Thats cool software, this is the kind of report/blogging TC needs to get back to…

By: Solomon Sal Ayyad

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:19:18 +0000

Wow this is an amazing app. i speak arabic but mainly as a second language i could totally use this on my next trip overseas. pretty accurate but it almost sounds like you have to speak like a robot for it to understand you.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:29:23 +0000

My email software was acquired by Kuwaitis in 2006 because it supported right to left.

They acquired it for no other reason than the arabic/chinese language support.

As a developer you tend to think that Eastern markets are worthless because most people from those regions steal intellectual property any how, but you have to keep in mind that there are some rich mofos over there in the oil lands.

TC usually never reports acquisitions in the middle east, but they do in fact buy a whole lot of crap. It’s never on the public record though, so you never read about it.

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By: Needmoney.com

Needmoney.com — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:58:18 +0000

UI looks nice.

By: silicon valley dropout

silicon valley dropout — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:46:27 +0000

cool that is major computer science

By: 墨尔本

墨尔本 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:44:03 +0000

The next battle is on mobile phones.

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By: geekevaluation

geekevaluation — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:04:50 +0000

That is a cool piece of technology. Is the buyout amount known ?