Cloud Asia delivered its third year co-organized with Singapore’s IDA (Infocomm Development Authority) with 400+ attendees. My workshops on Cloud Computing and Big Data and Real-Time Analytics ran in parallel with the main conference and were packed with 40-50 people in each session. Cloud Asia continues to be the most frank and focused discussion on […]
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 […]
Arnaud Budkiewicz, CEO and founder of Bistri, has launched WebRTCStats with AddLive, UberConference, Drum, Symonics, Twelephone, Apidaze and Zingaya as a start. Many of whom demoed at the WebRTC workshop last month. And the support of Phil Edholm, Tsahi Levent-Levi, myself and Dean Bubley. The aim is simply to get the data out there on […]
Verizon have just launched their Powerful Answers Award, its a global challenge to inspire and reward innovative solutions that address society’s biggest challenges in education, healthcare, and sustainability utilizing Verizon’s network, device and platform technologies. A total of $10 million in cash prizes will be awarded. You don’t need to be a geek that is […]
Cloud Asia enters its third year co-organized with Singapore’s IDA (Infocomm Development Authority). Cloud Asia 2013 runs from the 15-16 May 2013 in Singapore. An exciting change from last year’s event is entry to CloudAsia and the co-located Cloud Security Alliance Asian Congress is free for all enterprises, small and medium businesses, and operator users, see here for […]
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, […]
Genband ran Perspectives13 over the 29 April – 2 May, customers from over 80 countries came together to see how Genband are bringing their communications platforms and services together. Genband has both built and bought a portfolio of communications-centric products across telco and enterprise, see M&A history at the end of this weblog: from the […]
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 […]