While there were no blockbuster announcements made at this year's CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment conference in San Francisco there were some products that stood out from the rest for their originality. ABBYY USA, an OCR [Optical Character Recognition] vendor unveiled its Business Card Recognition [BCR] applet. The applet resides on a cell phone and uses the handset's built-in camera as the OCR reader. The soft While there were no blockbuster announcements made at this year’s CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment conference in San Francisco there were some products that stood out from the rest for their originality.ABBYY USA, an OCR [Optical Character Recognition] vendor unveiled its Business Card Recognition [BCR] applet.The applet resides on a cell phone and uses the handset’s built-in camera as the OCR reader. The software then extracts the contact information and puts it into the phone address book. Currently it is only available for Windows Mobile platform.WeatherBug certainly sees which way the wind is blowing and announced a Web application for the iPhone and iPod.Users will be able to access so-called streaming neighborhood-level weather conditions. What I like about this is the fact that while in Phoenix if its hot its hot all over Phoenix, in a city like San Francisco which has probably a dozen micro-climates within the city boundaries, neighborhood level weather forecasts are a great boon. Figuring out what to wear in the city by the bay is always a crap shoot.A WeatherBug Dashboard Widget is also available for Mac OS X Tiger. Mobile Fuelfinder from NumberLink aids drivers in finding the cheapest gas in their area.User’s register free online and then dial one number, 1-877-637-6374 and automatically get the lowest priced gas available in their area via a text message. Symbian announced a couple of interesting technologies: FreeWay and ScreenPlay to enhance graphics and connectivity on a cell phone. FreeWay is an IP networking technology that will give users “broadband” speeds, according to Symbian officials.In other words it takes whatever 3G service you have and uses client technology on the handset to enhance performance.ScreenPlay is a graphics technology that integrates hi-def video quality with games and animations. Finally, AT&T teamed up with Napster to offer 5 million full-track songs over the air. Starting in mid-November, Napster Mobile service will offer the 5 million song catalog along with preview samples of every song. Of course, users can download the song and I imagine the cost will be added to your wireless bill. A five-track Pack option offers a discounted price of $7.49. Otherwise a single song is priced at $1.99.AT&T also announced a deal to stream MobiVJ, MobiTV music video channels for up to eight music genres directly to the handset for $6.99 a month. Technology Industry