People who purchase the new Samsung Exclaim may be surprised to note that they will get something extra as Scanbuy has added its ScanLife 2D barcode app, making the Samsung Exclaim the first mobile device to be shipped with ScanLife technology in the U.S.

ScanLife allows users to scan 2D (two-dimensional) barcodes with a standard camera phone to automatically display a specific mobile Web site, launch a video, and more. A user can then view and share that information through social networking communities; Samsung Exclaim will also feature social networking applications such as Facebook and MySpace.

“This is an enormous milestone for the development and adoption of mobile barcode technology in the United States,” said Jonathan Bulkeley, chief executive officer of Scanbuy. “The demand for this technology by users and publishers has been growing rapidly, and placing the ScanLife application into new phones will make the experience easier than ever.”

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For iPhone owners who want to record their voice, Spin Vox has announced the launch of the first SpinVox-enabled application to be available through Apple’s App Store.

Using the SpinVox API (Application Programming Interface) nFinity has been able to rapidly develop a new feature for nFinity’s QuickVoice Pro, the latest version of the award-winning voice recorder that instantly became a Top 100 product in Apple’s App Store when it was released in July 2008.

With QuickVoice you can already conveniently record voice notes, reminders, dictations, meetings, interviews, shopping lists, to do lists, and even entire lectures and multi-session seminars. With the new enhancement, QuickVoice Pro users will be able use their iPhones for the first time to record voice messages which will be automatically converted to text by SpinVox and sent to the email inbox of the user’s choice.

SpinVox API leverages SpinVox VMCS, the world’s largest commercial speech platform– a Cloud service which already has over 30 million users and is growing fast - to enable Speech 2.0 applications to be built and launched quickly. It enables SpinVox to collaborate with third parties to foster further innovations in voice and expand the Speech 2.0 market.

Over 400 developers have already registered interest in SpinVox API and, of these, 20 have been selected by SpinVox to be part of the co-creation programme. Those selected include business efficiency, personal productivity, games and social networking applications on Apple iPhone, Nokia Series 60, and Microsoft Windows Mobile platforms.

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