Don’t you love it when someone goes ahead and invents something you’ve been wishing existed?

“I dial a number on an ordinary mobile phone. There is a pause of 10 to 15 seconds, then a voice on the phone tells me it is the Cranberries’ Ode to My Family. A short while later, a text message arrives confirming it.

I’m impressed but not convinced. I ask him to put on the Radiohead CD – and the phone correctly comes up with The Bends followed by another text message. Later, I ask him to switch off his CD player and get the phone to identify the background music in the cafe. After a couple of failures (because the songs were not yet on his fast-growing database), it succeeds again (Finally by Kings of Tomorrow). By now I’m no longer impressed. I’m wishing I owned the company.”

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