{"id":811,"date":"2006-07-17T22:13:36","date_gmt":"2006-07-17T21:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/17\/frucall-an-online-comparison-shopping-site-for-mobiles\/"},"modified":"2006-07-17T22:13:36","modified_gmt":"2006-07-17T21:13:36","slug":"frucall-an-online-comparison-shopping-site-for-mobiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/17\/frucall-an-online-comparison-shopping-site-for-mobiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Frucall an Online Comparison Shopping site for Mobiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever needed to find the comparison price of an\u00a0item while shopping, but in that moment in time you don&#8217;t have access to a computer or internet connection\u00a0to use services like <a href=\"http:\/\/products.live.com\/\">Windows Live Product Search<\/a>\u00a0or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kelkoo.co.uk\">Kelkoo.co.uk<\/a>, the answer is probably yes as we always want to try and get the best deal when out shopping.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s why you can now use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frucall.com\/\">Frucall<\/a> a new US Web 2.0 Service which will\u00a0allow you to find the comparision of shopping prices by calling\u00a01-888-DO-FRUCALL and typing in or reading the product&#8217;s barcode number to the system. Frucall will then search the product on Amazon.com, Yahoo! Shopping and Streetprices.com and will return the pricing results within ten or so seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Consumers can use a voice menu to &#8220;bookmark&#8221; items, leave themselves voice notes for later reference, listen to customer ratings, and soon purchase the product directly from their cell phone. Consumers can also register at Frucall.com to personalize their shopping experience and also access more valuable features.<\/p>\n<p>Technical Specs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Frucall is a Web 2.0\/m-Commerce mashup service which combines a wide range of technologies such as SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), XML, VoiceXML, TTS (Text To Speech), ASR (Automated Speech Recognition), SMS and WAP to deliver real-time information from the Internet to consumer cell phones.<\/li>\n<li>Currently, the information Frucall delivers to consumers&#8217; cell phone is comparison shopping data.\u00a0 The format of delivery is voice.\u00a0 Therefore, Frucall can be called from any mobile or land line phone.<\/li>\n<li>Frucall has a voice portal (1-888-DO-FRUCALL) and a web portal (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.frucall.com\/\">http:\/\/www.frucall.com<\/a>) tied together with backend business logic implemented in Java, deployed on the Apache Tomcat J2EE platform.<\/li>\n<li>In addition to comparison shopping, Frucall also offers basic social networking services such as reminders and group messaging via SMS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks goes to Michael Brito from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frucall.com\/\">Frucall<\/a>\u00a0for providing me with this information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever needed to find the comparison price of an\u00a0item while shopping, but in that moment in time you don&#8217;t have access to a computer or internet connection\u00a0to use services like Windows Live Product Search\u00a0or Kelkoo.co.uk, the answer is probably yes as we always want to try and get the best deal when out shopping. 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