phone # for company that wants to spy on your phone calls for advertising purposes

[fed-up]

feel free to call and express your opinion about their new product...

I can't even believe that people would sign up for this service...What happened to our privacy laws? What happened to our want of privacy? I am beyond words to express how I feel about how our society has been subdued to put up with just about anything. ...

big brother is now US



http://www.demo.com/demonstrators/demo2007fall/113047.php

408-241-1099

Conference
2007 DEMOfall
Show Contact
email
Address
4100 Moorpark Ave., Suite 201
San Jose, CA 95117
408-241-1099
Company URL
www.thepudding.com


Product Description
Soon, every call you make—from your mobile, home or computer—could be free, and you’ll see valuable information, entertainment and advertising based on relevant keywords spoken in a call. Pudding Media is building a platform to speed the transition to free calls and the proof of The Pudding is in the fun, relevant content and offers related to topics you care about.

http://puddingmedia.com/

[fed-up]

1. looks like I missed LBN story which I have cross-posted below

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3003522

Skinner ADMIN (1000+ posts) Mon Sep-24-07 06:15 AM
Original message
Company Will Monitor Phone Calls to Tailor Ads

Source: New York Times

[fed-up]

2. about the founders of the company

just snippets taken, go to website for full bios

http://puddingmedia.com/about_us.html


Ariel Maislos, Founder and CEO
A graduate of the prestigious Talpiot program of the Israel Defense Force (IDF), Ariel served in an elite R&D unit of the IDF, developing advanced and innovative digital communication systems.

Ruben E. Maislos, Founder and GM Israel

C, later acquired by Intel, where he gained over 8 years of experience in speech research and advanced mobile telephony platforms. Ruben has filed several patents in the field of mobile communications and speech recognition. Ruben holds a B.Sc in Math and Computer Science from Ben Gurion University.


Eran Arbel, Cofounder and VP Products

Prior to Teklee, Eran served in an elite R&D unit of the IDF, developing mission-critical networking systems.

Eyal Keren, VP Business Development

Prior to joining Pudding Media, Eyal was the Head of Business Development at A9.com, an Amazon.com company responsible for leading its strategic relationships in the internet search and advertising domains. Previously, as an investment professional at Pitango Venture Capital, Eyal led investment analysis and execution, and represented the fund in support of portfolio companies. Eyal also served in marketing management and strategic planning roles at IBM. Eyal holds an M.S degree in Information Systems, University of Rochester in New York, an M.B.A and a B.A in Economics from Tel Aviv University in Israel

[lurky]

3. Free cell phone service? I think a LOT of people will bite.

And I'm sure they would never give this keyword info to the US Govt. :sarcasm: