Before getting into the main message of this weblog, remember to beware “black and white thinking”. It’s about focus, not absolutes. This weblog came about as I realized this subtle but important distinction between mobile and telecom app developers is not broadly appreciated, it gets lost in the collective noun of developers. Most developers that […]
The Big Data 13 conference will run from 30 Sep to the 1 Oct in Dubai, the agenda is now available. Its focused on the practical application of Big Data and Real-Time Analytics with a particular emphasis on the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) region. To kick off the conference we’ll have a fun live interactive […]
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 […]
I’ll be attending TVXperience World from July 16-17 in New York City. It’s nice to have a conference on my backdoor. The conference will examine how multiscreen is influencing the evolution of the TV User Experience. It’s an important issue for telcos, cablecos, broadcasters, content producers, OTT TV providers, as well as the many device […]
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 […]
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 […]
I’ve just read an article that really frustrated me. Earlier this year at the Mobile World Congress the VP Marketing of CocaCola asked to use Joyn to reach their fans in one of the conference sessions. Obviously Joyn did not adequately respond. As CocaCola partnered with LINE, a unique blend of technology and pop culture […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]