Monthly Archives: June 2013

Making API Management Easy to Consume

Intel and Amazon made an interesting announcement today, the Intel® Expressway API manager is now available on the AWS Marketplace.  For many enterprises that are using AWS this makes adding API Management to projects quite easy.  The obvious application is in enterprise mobilization, as discussed last year in this weblog article on mobilization, where using […]

WebRTC Meet Up Innovations

Tsahi Levent-Levi invited me to the WebRTC meetup he organized as I happened to be in Israel, his summary of the event is here.  My presentation is shown below, it was a quick review of what WebRTC offers, across telecoms, gaming, machine to machine, telematics, surveillance and monitoring, to embedding communications everywhere.  I reviewed Dean […]

Instabridge: WiFi Made Easy and Social

To not offer WiFi access to visitors is on the same level of social faux pas as to not allow visitors access to the toilet.  I’ve reviewed previously the great market research Instabridge did on the typical consumer’s view of WiFi and 3G, with the classic quote “WiFi is free, 3G isn’t,” as shown in […]

A View on the Twilio Investment

Over the past 24 hours the emails, instant messages, and discussion in the Linkedin Telecom API group have been flowing faster than usual as people digest the news of Twilio’s latest $70M round with the usual fawning uncritical tech reporting that passes for journalism from TechCrunch.  And don’t get me started on people who call […]

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.  […]