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HYDERABAD, India Sept. 4, 2008 -- Fans of the new iPhone can now forget
about forgetting thanks to a
new memory product made in India. reQall (www.reQall.com) is bringing its award-winning memory aid that has been
such a hit in the US and Europe to Indian consumers. Any owner of the new
iPhone or iPod Touch can now download reQall's application for free from
Apple's App Store and use it to better organize schedules, to-do lists and
reminders.
Launching the application in their home country, India, is particularly
rewarding for reQall's founding team of Rao Machiraju, Sunil Vemuri and Ash
Vasudevan, as it comes on the heels of a successful international
debut.
"Our development team in Hyderabad helped build a product that has
been praised from the BBC to the New York Times," said CEO Machiraju. "Now
we're bringing reQall home."
"reQall is based on groundbreaking research from the world-famous MIT Media
Lab in the US and developed in Hyderabad under the guidance of one of the
best executive and advisory teams in the technology industry," adds
co-founder Ash Vasudevan.
How it works
reQall lets users record reminders by speaking into
their phone. It converts these reminders into text, which are delivered
back precisely at the right time. The product can prompt users via text
message, instant message, email or as a calendar alert. It also recognises
the keyword "buy" and automatically adds the entry to a shopping list or
agenda.
reQall automatically recognises dates and times, so if you say
"remind me to use my airmiles before May 18," a reminder is inserted in
your calendar. If you use the word "meet" reQall will automatically
schedule a meeting. You can even use your iPhone to remind your friends or
family members by saying things like "ask Jenny to get the car washed."
Jenny will then immediately receive a reminder from you by text, email or
instant message. You can even take pictures using your iPhone and store
these within reQall, so you can remember things that you can't easily
describe.
reQall user Jon Kim explained: "All my life, I have suffered from very
severe Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. In no way did reQall
erase my disorder, but it did the next best thing by giving me the most
efficient memory aid that no paper and ink, nor any other voice recorder or
other device, could have ever offered me. I've been using this program for
ten days now, and I refuse to be without it."
About reQall
Dr. Machiraju is a long-time Apple employee who in 2004 joined two fellow
expats to form a global company with strong Indian roots. reQall's three
founders all hold Ph.D. degrees and have pooled their global high-tech
experience for this digital memory aid. Co-founder Sunil Vemuri earned his
doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he
conducted pioneering research into human memory assistance, information
retrieval and visualisation, speech recognition and interface design. Like
co-founder Dr. Machiraju, he worked at Apple Computer before focusing on
Hyderabad's potential as an ideal incubator for new IT ideas. Ash
Vasudevan, the third co-founder, is a Founding General Partner of
high-profile Venture Fund with strong Indian connections and activities,
having recently backed the Sports Talent Hunt Content and TV series "The
Million Dollar Arm."
reQall today employs 34 people in Hyderabad, plus additional staff in
Silicon Valley's NASA Research Park and in Hong Kong. The flagship product
for the iPhone was launched earlier this year in the US, Canada and the UK.
Information Source: Marketwire
Image courtesy of www.reQall.com
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