Monthly Archives: January 2014

IMS and IP Communications, Two Different World Views?

Telcos are faced with a tough choice by some of their vendors, “IMS, what choice do you have?” If telcos’ services do not work reliably they suffer through public humiliation.  Remember when AT&T had an exclusive deal on iPhone in the US?  Jon Stewart from the Daily Show said about owning an iPhone in NYC […]

TADS 2013 Photo Review + Quick Update

Below are photo reviews from TADS 2013.  I hope they give you a flavor of what happened at TADS, and for the 100+ attendees a nice reminder of what happened only 2 months ago.  My TADS review is here. All the presentation slides are available for the Telco Summit and Developer Summit, and the videos […]

WebRTC Global Summit

The WebRTC Global Summit runs in London from April 1-2, with a pre-conference workshop on Monday 31st March from Tsahi of bloggeek.me focused on “WebRTC in Telecoms”.  Some of the highlights of the agenda, apart from catching up with lots of good friends focused on WebRTC such as Victor Pascual Ávila, include: Patrice Crutel, from […]

Simple Example of Extending Telcos Services with WebRTC

At the WebRTC Workshop during the Rich Communication event in Berlin at the end of October, Juan from Solaiemes mentioned they were building an SDK for their WebRTC-Telco gateway to demo a range of services. They completed it last month and have been demoing some simple services, in this weblog they focus on enabling a […]

HireIQ Revolutionizes Interviews with Telecom APIs

Continuing the series of companies running their business on Telecom APIs, I interviewed Kevin Hegebarth, Vice President, Marketing and Product Management at HireIQ.  HireIQ’s SaaS-based on demand interviewing and assessment solutions improve hiring efficiency, lower attrition, and improve workforce performance.  When Kevin explains their proposition to me it was obvious, and that’s the power of […]

Textizen, Public Engagement using Telecom APIs

I had the good fortune to talk with Serena Wales, CTO of Textizen, about how they are using SMS to encourage people to be more involved in their communities, non-profits and local government.  Textizen uses SMS because of its ubiquity to engage people through surveys, over 90% of Americans have text. Textizen began at a […]

BBWF 2013: History keeps repeating itself…

Better late than never, I’ve finally got around to the BBWF (Broadband World Forum) summary.  No 2014 trends weblog this year, its simply become too passé.  I’ll likely do something in the summer on trends. BBWF is a great litmus test across the whole of the telecom industry.  This year the theme that hit me […]