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Interview with George Kapetanakis, VP Marketing of Tropo, about TADS

George has recently joined Tropo as VP Marketing.  He brings a wealth of marketing and product management experience from BSkyB, his own start-up Spontly, Velti, T-Mobile and Ericsson.  One of his first decisions on the job was sponsoring TADS (Telecom Application Developer Summit).  I asked George some questions around TADS, I’m doing this with all […]

Telecom Application Developer Summit

Most of my working life has been spent building telecom applications within telcos (BT), vendors (Lucent, Cambridge Technology Partners), in my start-up Teltier (mobile presence applications), and working with many tens of telecom application developers as an independent. Based on this experience, telecom application developers exist and are grossly under-served by the telecom industry.  A […]

Mid-Year Review on Telecom APIs

I thought it worth taking a moment to review some of the companies I’ve talked to over the past 6 months that are either running their business on Telecom APIs, or helping others run their businesses on Telecom APIs.  Common themes from the interviews are: Focus on running the core business.  Telecom APIs means a […]

delivery.com. Your Neighborhood. Delivered. With Telecom APIs.

I had the opportunity to chat with Pierre Davidoff, VP Technology at delivery.com. They focus on truly representing the local businesses within a neighborhood.  And it’s not just food, its groceries, wine and spirits, and recently announced cleaners.  You’ll see the local businesses in a neighborhood, not just some instance of a big corporate chain.  […]

Start-up to Watch: Speak2Leads, “Press 2 to Triple your Sales!”

Continuing the series of weblogs exploring businesses running on Telecom APIs, I spoke with Sammy James, founder and CEO of Speak2Leads.  Speak2Leads’ proposition is simple, respond almost immediately to a customer lead, with six in total carefully timed contact attempts.  A Kellogg study on Lead Response Management (LRM) revealed the odds of connecting with a […]

IMS. What Choice Do You Have? IMS World Forum 2013 Summary.

In the effective duopoly of IMS core supply between Ericsson and Huawei, it’s fair to ask, “IMS.  What choice do you have?”  Talk to many people in Telecoms not directly working on IMS and they’ll simply right it off as dead.  For a dead technology, the conference was very much alive, the busiest I’ve ever […]

Summary of the WebRTC Pre-Conference Workshop

The WebRTC pre-conference workshop at the IMS World Forum was well attended, close to 70 people, with a 50:50 split between suppliers and operators.  The agenda was structured so the morning was spent reviewing WebRTC technically and commercially, then we had WebRTC demos in the afternoon showing how WebRTC can be mashed up in many […]

Final Agenda of WebRTC Workshop on Monday 22nd April at IMS World Forum

Here is the final agenda for the WebRTC pre-conference workshop we’re running on Monday 22nd April at the IMS World Forum.  The interesting stuff is at the end with all the WebRTC demos, its going to be exciting, there’s a rich variety of demos showing just the tip of the iceberg of innovations we’re going […]

Tropo’s Secret Sauce

Voxeo Labs continues to give me free reign across their customers to chat about their experiences in running their businesses on Telecom APIs; such as myaNUMBER, Crunched, TeleSmart and there are many more weblogs to come.  It’s a wonderful experience to see real businesses built on telecoms APIs and those businesses loving it.  Love is […]

Voice APIs in the Philippines

I’ve reviewed a number of businesses running on voice APIs this year, including: Crunched (love their service, especially now it supports wideband voice), Telesmart, myaNUMBER, Drum by Netdev.  There’s no doubt there’s a business in Telecom APIs, seriously, there are still deniers out there (mostly within Telcos).  And it’s good to see this knowledge spreading […]