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Instant Voicing
Send voice messages without calling, and listen to them from a phone--or a laptop.
By Larry Aragon
Company: Pinger
Founding date: 2005
Funding amount: $11 million
Worldwide, people sent 1.9 trillion text messages last year. That's a lot of tedious triple-tapping on mobile phones, and it's not free. Pinger, a startup in San Jose, CA, is giving us a voice version of text messaging that's Web accessible, so picking up messages need not trigger mobile-phone charges.
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