Mobile secretary

Wednesday, July 09, 2003

Hasta la Vista baby! This is what you might be telling your secretary soon enough if software engineer Nick Jennings’ plot comes true! Believe it or not, Jennings and his team from the University of Southampton are writing code that will make your 3 G cell phone an intelligent self-learner and a secretary. It will listen to your conversations, observe your habits and soon learn your preferences. So the next time by the time you start planning your trip, it would have automatically reserved your airline tickets and hotel reservations. Not to talk about booking a table at your favorite restaurant for your wedding anniversary and then reminding you to take your wife out. Jennings’ team is backed by a consortium of consumer electronics firms, cellular service providers and broadcasters including Nokia, Sony, Vodafone and the BBC.

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