Techcrunch's Michael Arrington reported this morning that Seattle-based voice-to-text service Jott has left beta and realeased a free service called Jott Basic. Jott's 420,000 current users are now using this free service (along with an iPhone app of course) but have the option of upgrading to a $4/month premium service.
Jott has raised $5.4 Million to date and investors include the founder of Skype, the VC behind Overture and Hotmail, Bain Capital, and Ackerley Partners. Jott was nominated as a finalist for CNET's Webware 100 and for the Northwest's top startup.
Jott.com is one of Seattle's hottest startups, delivering hands free email and text messages, notes to self and more, on any cell phone. The... [more]
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