Tellme is a free, Microsoft-owned voice powered search engine. Want to find a local coffee shop? Call up Tellme and ask for it. Want to know the weather forecast? Boot up the free BlackBerry application, hit a button, and say “Weather”.
In addition to local business searches, weather forecasts, movie times, and directions, TellMe has now added support for up-to-the-minute sports scores to the BlackBerry application.. Need to know how Kobe’s doing tonight? Hit up TellMe, and say “sports” and then “Lakers” – it’ll show up right on screen. Sure, sports scores tend to be what the search engines add once the idea well starts running dry – but it’s free, and it might just get you your sports fix when you’re stuck at dinner with the in-laws.
Sports scores have always been available from Tellme, the old fashioned way (dialing 800-555-TELL and speaking to the system).
The new service that Greg is referencing is the ability for a BlackBerry user to access sports content and visually see the results on the screen. Yes, sports scores have always been available via the 800 number but this new services lets you say your favorite team and visually see the current score on the screen.
Tellme enterprise products are really great. this consumer service is cool, too. it might be a good idea to send the content/message as MMS so more (most) phones could get it, save it, forward it, etc.