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FREE-411 launches Dial DIR-ECT-IONS
FREE411 has launched a new service called Dial DIR-ECT-IONS that lets you get step by step directions on pretty much any phone. If you can receive text messages, you can use the service.
Here's how it works. You dial 347-328-4667 (DIR-ECT-IONS) on your cellphone and a friendly voice asks where you'd like to and where you are. When you hang up, the service will send your directions in a text message. If your carrier charges fees for SMS, they will apply. But can you really put a price on a good set of directions when you're lost?
Dial DIR-ECT-IONS isn't the only game in town. Ask.com launched a similar service last month.
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Rob said 6:42PM on 2-21-2008
Google's (GOOGL) text service has been doing directions as well as other services since its inception. Although I will admit that an initial voice prompt would be less cumbersome than texting your query like you do with GOOGL.
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Richard Frisch said 3:02PM on 2-24-2008
There is a privacy issue here and a related "do not call this phone number" issue as well.
Does using this or Ask.com's service mean giving your cell phone number to a third party who may then sell it to someone else who may sell it to someone else...? This could be impossible to undo once done.
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