<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">this might be classifyed to some of you as "ot" but i wonder what this will do for the asterisk community?<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">October 5, 2008 5:17:36 PM GMT-08:00</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Fonolo: Visually Navigate & Dial IVR Phone Menus in Web/Mobile Browser</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Source: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Tech[dot]Blog</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Author: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Abdul Aziz</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><p>It is a fact that everyone hates to listen to automated phone menus- Interactive Voice Response (IVR)- and go through endless options to reach a human being. A service called<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://fonolo.com/" style="text-decoration: none; ">Fonolo</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>has tried to make this experience easier by listing the entire phone menu tree visually on one page and provides call buttons to skip right to that part of the menu. The best part is that it actually calls you when it’s time to talk to someone and you don’t even have to do any dialing.</p><p>Fonolo transcribes the phone menus of large companies to navigate them visually. Pick the company you need, scan through their phone menu visually, then just click the spot you need to call. Fonolo will automatically dial, navigate their menu and then dial your phone. When you answer, you will be connected to the right spot in the menu. You can even bookmark any point in a phone menu and access that bookmark as a simple URL through your browser or smartphone.</p><center><br><img src="http://thinkabdul.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/fonolo.jpg" alt="Fonolo: Visually Navigate & Bookmark IVR Phone Menus on Mobile Device"><br></center><p>Fonolo also provides an “Intelligent Call History” that allows you to keep track of your calls, notes and recordings. It automatically organizes all of your calls to a given company, regardless of which phone you used or which number was dialed. It stores recordings of all the calls that you can review at any time or forward to someone by email. It also allows you to write text notes during a call that get stored with the history. You can later search and review those notes.</p><p>Fonolo’s revolutionary technology “spiders” the phone menu system, much like a search engine spider crawls a website. 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