Creaceed is glad to announce that Vocalia is the very first speech recognition application supporting French on the iPhone. French is the first new language supported by Vocalia, and Creaceed plans to add other languages in the future. Relatives, friends, colleagues, neighbours, or even restaurants. They all are in our address books. Vocalia helps you find quickly and easily the person or company you want to call or send an email to.

The debut version of FileMaker’s Bento () offered users an interesting product, but reviewers and users complained about the program’s limitations. FileMaker listened to that feedback, as the newly released consumer-oriented database application boasts a number of significant improvements, including better data import and export, enhancements to the spreadsheet-like table view, on-the-fly customization of forms, [...]

Fonix Speech announces the immediate availability of Fonix iSpeak for the Apple iPhone. Fonix iSpeak 1.0 is a voice-activated user interface for the Apple iPhone. Use your voice to call a contact in your address book or simply dial any number. It’s couldn’t be easier.

Speak the number to call or say the contact’s name followed by a location designator (home, work, or mobile). For example, “Call John Smith at work,” or the shorter “John Smith work.”

Berlin, Germany - Berlin based nova media updated ‘Phone plugins’ to version 2.1 today. Phone plugins is a utility to quick-dial a selected number and quick-send a text message with one click from any program in Mac OS X Leopard. Version 2.1 now offers context menu support for most applications and compatibility with more than 165 cell phones.

Phone plugins from nova media revives a long lost function in Mac OS X. Back in 10.4 it was possible to dial a number and send a text message from the Address Book using a cell phone connected over bluetooth. Using Phone plugins, this option is available again for Mac OS X 10.5 and many cell phones from Motorola, Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson.

Berlin, Germany - Berlin based nova media unveiled ‘Phone plugins’ today, a utility to quick-dial a selected number and quick-send a text message with one click from any program in Mac OS X Leopard.

Phone plugins includes its own Bluetooth wizard to connect a cell phone to the Mac in one convenient step. The software can be used immediately after the pairing with no need to restart the Mac.

“Back in 10.4 it was possible to dial a number and send a text message from the Address Book using a cell phone connected over bluetooth.” states Jan Fuellemann, PR spokesperson at nova media. “Apple has discontinued this option in 10.5. We did not only bring it back to life, but have improved it as well.”

London, UK - John Maisey has released version 1.4 of YAI. YAI is a plug-in for Apple Mail that translates and automatically transfers Exchange style meeting invitations to iCal. It corrects incompatibilities between Microsoft Exchange style meeting invites and what Mail/iCal interprets.

Version 1.4 brings Leopard support to YAI. Although the handling of Exchange style meeting invitations is much improved in iCal 3 there are still areas where it need some help. YAI enables automatic transfer of invitations to iCal while maintaining the correct permissions on the event.

YAI also includes several options to process the invite emails in Mail. The options include flag, mark as read, color, copy or move the message. These make it much easier to manage a busy inbox.

Nobody knows for sure what Apple is planning with mobile.me (the soon to be defunct .mac) service, if everything works à la Apple then it will be a success, in the mean time there are things that Apple needs to incorporate to make it even more interesting.

Here is a list of what I consider to be features needed by mobile users: