Okay, maybe that’s not the only reason.  We also have the latest version of Vlingo for Android, codenamed Calypso, due out very soon that we will be previewing.  On top of that, the new Voice Talk feature that Vlingo powers on the Samsung Galaxy S II will also be on display for an advanced screening.  Needless to say, we’re excited for the event and we want you to be a part of it with us!

What we’re giving away: 20 VIP Tickets to our party @ 111 Minna Art Gallery, Monday May 9th from 5-8

How to win: Tweet the phrase “I want IN to Vlingo’s Google IO party @111minnagallery on 5/9! Follow @Vlingo and RT for a chance to win VIP tickets #io2011“  (we recommend a copy/paste)

Timing: We’ll select 20 of our followers at random who have tweeted or re-tweeted that message at 3:30pm ET on Friday May 6th!

You’ll have a chance to check out the exclusive Vlingo previews, hobnob with geeky mobile types and tech press alike, and of course sample the fine selection of (free) food and drink.  If you live in SF or if you’ll be in town for IO, there’s no better place to be on Monday evening.

Who ever thought having so much fun could be so easy?  Hope to see you at 111 Minna!

Cheers,

TJ

To help elicit your feedback, we’ve got a great little contest for you. Just tell us what you’d want Vlingo to do for you and you’ll be automatically entered into a contest to win a $100 Amazon Gift Card!

Entering is easy!
1.Follow @Vlingo on Twitter, you must follow @Vlingo before you enter. Just go here, it take two seconds Vlingo Twitter Page

2.To enter, tweet what you would have your perfect virtual assistant do for you. Your tweet must include the hashtag “#HelpMeVlingo @Vlingo”

Multiple entries are OK! Each tweet you do will count as an entry. Be sure to include “#HelpMeVlingo @Vlingo” in your tweets.

For example: I want my virtual assistant to translate my emails in French #HelpMeVlingo @Vlingo

Good luck!
The Vlingo Team

We’re super excited to be offering an amazing deal in conjunction with our friends at Nokia.  As part of an Ovi Store promotion featuring apps that help “create more time in your day,” now through September 3^rd Nokia users worldwide can get Vlingo Plus for the amazing price of just €3 or the equivalent in your home currency.

That’s over 50% off!!

We’re privileged to share the stage with other great utilities and tools like Snapfish, Opera and Quick Office.  Click here to purchase a copy of Vlingo Plus before the promotion ends on September 3^rd.

In addition, we’ve also launched a Facebook Contest where we’ll be giving away some great prizes:

Grand Prize (2)

• Brand new, unlocked X6 smartphone from Nokia
• Copy of Vlingo Plus

Second Prize (2)

• Brand new, unlocked 5233 smartphone from Nokia
• Copy of Vlingo Plus

Click Here to “Like” Vlingo on Facebook and enter the contest

Here are a couple fun little facts for our Nokia customers as well…

Vlingo factoid #1: did you know that Vlingo for Nokia has been used by people in over 180 counties?  That’s almost every country in the world!

Vlingo factoid #2: of those 180 counties, did you know that the country with the most active Nokia users is the United Kingdom.

Cheers and Good Luck,

TJ

In addition to the Grand Prize Winner and Runners Up, there were a ton submissions that deserved recognition. We had shrunken sweaters, Hindi proverbs, and even a little Engelbert Humperdinck. Here are a few other quotables that made us smile:

“As with most 6 year olds, he is a full time fire-cracker, part time trouble maker.” That description sounds strangely familiar…

“A drill sergeant, a cook, a medic, and the sweetness of cool summer morning is my Mom.” Maybe our favorite description of the contest. We know just want you mean

“I’m a mom and a wife, a full-time student, own a small business and run the mad menagerie of our lives.” Managing madness seems to be what Motherhood is all about!

“My boys always say — ‘Mom is going Vlingo again!’ Oh-Yeah!” Oh, Yeah is right!! That’s what we call setting a good example

“Her picture is in the dictionary right next to the ‘Mothers Day.’” From all the great posts, it sounds like that page in Webster’s might be filled with photographs!

Okay. Now onto the Moment of Truth.

Congratulations to our Grand Prize Winner, who exemplifies what “working mom” is all about, and is now the lucky owner of a new Vlingo-supported smartphone of her choosing, a copy of Vlingo Plus and a Jabra headset:

Denise MacISAAC

Busy does not even begin to describe your life, Denise! We’re happy Vlingo helps you balance your daily heroics in some small way. You are a total rock star!

My wonderful husband introduced me to Vlingo! I am a mother of three by birth and often more by choice! Also adopted grandmother to an amazing 2 1/2 year old! I run two of my own businesses, of which I rely on my phone for emails, voice mail, and phone calls. Between keeping up with what is going on with our “kids” and running both business (oh by the way, looking into a third), I NEED my hands free so I can do more than one thing at a time! As busy as my life is my husband and all our kids come first and I can always use the help to keep organized! Thanks Vlingo!!!

And Runners Up, who can take their “On the Go” stylings to the next level with a copy of Vlingo Plus and a Jabra headset:

Mickey Matteson

“Technology allows me to be a better mom.” Aw, shucks. But truly, with a schedule like yours, you deserve ALL the credit.

I am a sales professionals for a global company, the mother of 3 children (9,10, and 13) and very dependent on technology. My day is full of juggling, smiling, karate, soccer, cheer, school work, being a taxi…and that is all before my job begins at 7ish. Did I mention that I travel for work all over the country on a …bi-weekly basis. That means juggle kids and their calendar posted online, phone calls late at night, and a demanding sales job that often times has me editing presentation and sending sales materials from the road where internet access can be spotty. Technology allows me to be a better mom. I am sure any working mother would agree….without it we would just be average. So thank you to all the moms out there that are hanging on by their teeth, driving from appointment to appointment, praying for a vacation, and especially to technology companies that allow us to do it all and then some with grace.

Ellen Beck

This beautifully illustrates that being a great “Mom” is much more about a state of being than a birthright.

This tribute is to Aunt Mary- my own Mom passed away-Aunt Mary stepped in and gave us comfort. She wraps her arms round us keeping us together, always giving of herself and her time. She never had children of her own, and took care of our Grandparents until their passing. For a woman who has never had kids, she treats …all of her nieces and nephews with love and respect. She has never had a lot, and she asks for nothing for herself, so I will ask for her- she deserves a Mother’s Day prize for being a Mother to so many in so many ways. Thanks for giving her a chance. I also follow you on Twitter!

You all put us in a generous mood, so we also wanted to award a bright shiny copy of Vlingo Plus to the following Honorable Mentions:

• Michelle Putzrath Goldberg
• Jacob Reynolds
• Lori Tourish
• Waiki Cheng
• Ryan Mills
• Pamela Grant
• Hardeep Singh
• Marie Hailey Osypian
• Jay Presley
• Thomas Stevens
• Angela Akinniyi
• Allen Gaddis
• Alvin Copeland
• Albert Cotton
• Lisa King
• Jessica L Lane

Thank you once again to all our participants. It was a wonderful week sharing in all your Mom-related goodness. We’ll certainly be back with another installment next year. In the meantime, remember to listen to your mothers and EAT YOUR VEGETABLES!!

TJ Leonard, Director, Marketing

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Author Jane Sellman once wrote, “The phrase ‘working Mom’ is redundant.” We here at Vlingo couldn’t agree more, so we wanted to send a Thank You to hardworking Moms everywhere this Mother’s Day. Only thing is – not all Moms want tulips, some want technology! So it’s with that in mind we present to you the “Moms on the Go” Mother’s Day Contest…

Who’s eligible to enter: Anyone! You don’t have to be a Mom to enter. If you’re a Son, Daughter, Husband, Grandchild, Relative or Friend – ANYONE – you can nominate a Mom you know and love for a chance to win. If you are a Mom, just tell us why you deserve the prize on this Mother’s Day!

How do you enter: Simply visit our Facebook page, www.facebook.com/VlingoPage, and nominate any Mom you appreciate by posting a tribute – it can be a story, a quote, a picture, whatever. Remember, you have to “Like” Vlingo at the top of our page in order to post on our wall.

What’s the prize: There will be a Grand Prize for one lucky Mobile Mom, and two Runner Up prizes.

GRAND PRIZE (1)

• A Vlingo-supported mobile phone of Mom’s choosing

• A new Jabra Extreme Bluetooth Wireless headset
• A copy of Vlingo Plus

RUNNER UP (2)
A new Jabra Extreme Bluetooth Wireless headset
A Copy of Vlingo Plus

When do I enter: Right now! The contest is open from now through Mother’s Day May 9^th. We’ll announce the winner on Monday, May 10^th on our Facebook page.

This package is the perfect way for “Moms on the Go” to juggle those tasks that keep families running, handsfree, using the power of her voice! That means safer families, which we know means happier Moms. And happier Moms are just good for everyone.

Thanks to all in advance for their tributes and nominations! We hope that Moms on the Go all over feel a little extra love this Mother’s Day. Let them hear it here www.facebook.com/VlingoPage!

TJ Leonard, Director of Product Marketing, Vlingo

Jabra Bluetooth Wireless Headset Giveaway

Vlingo will be giving away two new Jabra headsets today and tomorrow to celebrate Tweet Week. Vlingo works with Jabra’s Bluetooth enabled headsets, which means you can update your Twitter or Facebook status, search the web, send emails/texts, and all the other voice powered activities you normally can with Vlingo, handsfree via your Jabra headset. Makes Vlingo even safer and easier to use on the go. Pretty dynamite stuff, if we do say so ourselves.

On Wednesday, April 21st, we’re giving away the Jabra Extreme Bluetooth Wireless Headset (MSRP $79.99)

On Thursday, April 22nd, we’re giving away the Jabra Cruiser Bluetooth Wireless Headset (MSRP $99.99)

To enter, all you need to do is follow us @Vlingo and either RT our official contest tweet, or tweet the following:

“More Tweet Week giveaways. Follow @Vlingo and RT for a chance to win a new Jabra Bluetooth headset.”

We will randomly select one entrant at 8 pm ET today (April 21) to win the Jabra Extreme, and one entrant tomorrow (April 22) to win the Jabra Cruiser. Winners will be notified via DM!

Updates from the #140conf to follow later today, so stay tuned…

TJ Leonard, Director of Product Marketing, Vlingo

Vlingo Tweet Week 2010 (Cue guitar solo from “Rock You Like a Hurricane” and commence the B-2 bomber flyover.)

All week long, we will be releasing Twitter themed excitement. In part to coincide with the 140 Conference in NYC, in part because we find Twitter and all of our fans who follow us @Vlingo to be generally radical (launch pyrotechnics). To commemorate our First Annual Tweet Week, there will be blog posts, updates from the 140 conference where we will be hanging with our friends from Jabra, and (hooray!) giveaways. To kick off what promises to be a fun week, we present to thee . . .

How Tweet It Is: iPad Giveaway from @Vlingo

Been dying to get an iPad but don’t want to pay for it? Well here is your chance. Just follow these 3 simple rules and you will be entered to win an iPad!

1. Follow @Vlingo
2. Tweet: “Vlingo lets me update Twitter using my voice! Follow @Vlingo and RT this message for a chance to win an iPad”
3. Do so before Friday April 23rd at 5pm ET. That’s when the contest ends – nothing lasts forever, after all.

One lucky @Vlingo fan who tweeted the above message (or something pretty close) will walk away with a brand spankin’ new iPad (crowd roars).

Check back each day this week and stay tuned on Twitter as we release other exciting updates throughout the week.

Our current BlackBerry & iPhone users LOVE to update their Twitter status using their voice. Check out the word clouds below to see some of the most popular Tweeted words!

BlackBerry:

iPhone:

Erin Keleher, Senior Marketing Communications Manager, Vlingo

We have an exciting giveaway this week that involves a Blackberry Bold smartphone and a useful mobile voice app called Vlingo, which perhaps you’ve heard about already.

To help get the word out about its new 4.0 Plus app for the BlackBerry, Vlingo is offering Crave readers the chance to win a BlackBerry Bold 9700 and a voucher code for the Vlingo Plus app, a $19.99 value. One important note: the BlackBerry is from AT&T but it doesn’t come with service (you’ll have to activate it to install Vlingo).

What does Vlingo do exactly? Well, according to the company, it enables you to launch applications by voice and speak your commands and text entry. It also reads spoken text back to ensure accuracy. The big deal about Vlingo 4.0 Plus is it allows you to speak text into any field where your BlackBerry smartphone already allows you to enter text.

Normally, the Blackberry 9700 with Vlingo would cost around $499, but you have the chance to get it gratis. (Read CNET’s full review of the Blackberry Bold 9700)..

So, how do you try to win the Blackberry Bold + Vlingo? Let me enumerate the basic rules. Please read them carefully; there will be a test.

• Register as a CNET user. Go to the top of this page and hit the “Join CNET” link to start the registration process. If you’re already registered, there’s no need to register again.
• Leave a comment below. You can leave whatever comment you want. If it’s funny or insightful it won’t help you win, but we’re trying to have fun here, so anything entertaining is appreciated.
• Leave only one comment. You may enter this specific giveaway only once. If you enter more than one comment, you will be automatically disqualified.
• The winner will be chosen randomly. The winner will receive (1) AT&T Blackberry Bold 9700 (with no service) and a voucher for Vlingo Plus 4.0. Approximate retail value is $499.
• If you are chosen, you will be notified via e-mail. Winners must respond within three days of the end of the contest. If you do not respond within that period, another winner will be chosen.

Entries can be submitted until Monday, February 8 at 11:59:59 a.m. ET.
How To Do Things Faster With Your Mobile Phone Using Vlingo on Howcast

The WINNER is Martyn Cox. For winning, Martyn receives a Nokia N97 with Vlingo pre-installed! Check out his video entitled ‘The Magic of Vlingo’.