Free service plans to take fees from partners for delivering services to users In this segment, Bambi Francisco interviewed Tom Gruber, co-founder and CTO of Siri, a company that recently came out of stealth mode, and is a virtual assitant on the iPhone. BF: We were going to talk about the business model. It’s a great application as soon as it launches. It's going to be a free application but you have to make money somehow. So how is Siri going to make money? TG: The great thing is that when you're in a mobile situation with your phone, and the virtual personal systems exist to help you do things such as things you want to do online or offline. For example, if you want to get tickets to a concert, game, make ...   [ Read more ]