Monday, August 09, 2004

Date Rescue
Here's a fun use of technology. Fake rescue calls are now available on Cingular and Virgin to help people escape bad dates from Hell.

According to a report from AP: "For both Cingular and Virgin Mobile, the prerecorded messages are created at a high-tech central command in California's Silicon Valley. There, five people with doctorates in linguistics dream up excuses for folks to repeat before suddenly dropping a date gone sour. Dan Enthoven, director of marketing for BeVocal, the California company that designs complex voice-driven software for the telecom market, said the number of rescue calls go up on weekends, especially Fridays at about 8 p.m. BeVocal's two rescue-call clients in North America, Cingular and Virgin Mobile, generate at least 10,000 calls a month, he said."


# Permalink   Posted at 10:26 AM        0 comments       Email this Link

---