Tag Archives: telecom APIs

Programmable Telecoms Evolution at IIT RTC Conference and TADHack Chicago Winners

On Wednesday 17th Oct I gave a keynote at the IIT RTC Conference covering Programmable Telecoms Evolution along with the 3 winners from TADHack Chicago. The slides from the session are shown below, and you can see the keynote video here. This link is the live stream, so you’ll have to hunt through it. Just […]

Enterprises are Now Driving the Bulk of Telecoms Innovation

Apidaze, Nexmo, Flowroute, Telestax, Tropo, Twilio and many more are leading the way in telecoms innovation. That is easily embeddable in applications, services and business processes. We’ve seen many early adopters of this trend achieve phenomenal success, for example: Leaders of the on-demand services movement like Uber and Airbnb in connecting customers to their back-end […]

Taking TADS Local with TADMeetup

TADS (Telecom Application Developer Summit) is an independent grassroots initiative to raise the profile of telecom application developers with the resources to support them, and create a sustainable and profitable telecom application ecosystem. One of the requests from people who could not make it to the TADSummit last year was to help organize local events […]

Telecom Application Developer Manifesto Released for Public Comment

The sponsors of the Telecom Application Developer Summit made a press release today on a Manifesto to solve the Telecom Industry’s innovation gap. Austin TX, Cambridge UK, Colombo Sri Lanka, Paris France, San Francisco CA, 1st October 2013 – Apidaze, hSenid Mobile, OnMobile, OpenCloud, Telestax, and Tropo, the companies leading the new wave of telecommunication […]

TimeForge, Employee Scheduling made Simple with Telecom APIs

One of the things I enjoy about interviewing companies using Telecom APIs is talking with interesting people, like Anthony Presley the founder of TimeForge.  They’re energetic, focused, and to the point.  Such conversations are always insightful and a delight. TimeForge provides labor management tools which are particularly suited to industries with hourly workers, primarily restaurants, […]

Telecom APIs in Poland

Orange Poland are running a contest called OpenAPIHackathon dedicated to developers with innovative ideas to create new, compelling applications, system or services using Open Middleware Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), in partnership with Oracle and IQ Partners.  Open Middleware APIs (Orange Poland’s API platform) allow developers to access common technologies such as communications, government, bus&train schedules, […]

TeleSmart: An Uncommonly Seductive Offer Using Telecom APIs

Last week I had a discussion with kindred spirits Brian Lynott CEO and Owner of TeleSmart and Jim Lundeen Solutions Engineer at Telesmart on their experiences with running their business on Telecom APIs, thanks to an introduction from Voxeo Labs, who also review Telemart on their weblog.  The reason I felt they were kindred is […]

Start-ups to Watch: myaNUMBER Simple, Secure Family Communications using Telecom APIs

At the AT&T Developer Summit myaNUMBER gave an excellent presentation of their Telecom API-enabled service, there’s a sweet video demonstration at the end of this article.  At the AT&T event I was fortunate to have Voxeo Labs introduce me to the founders of myaNUMBER, John Wantz, Chief Dad, and Kyle Schei, Ops Dad; and we […]