The iWorld

Microsoft's Tellme has launched an application for the BlackBerry that has been designed to help people speak commands into their smart phones in order to search for businesses, look up movie times, check traffic and make other queries.

This new program from Microsoft's Tellme only works on some of Research in Motion Ltd.'s newer BlackBerry models. Tellme, which Microsoft acquired in 2007 for $800 million, said versions for Helio, Windows Mobile and Apple Inc.'s iPhone devices are in the works.