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. Here are my […]
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 […]
I recently chatted with John Logsdon, CEO and founder of NetDev, and Mark Daley, Business Development Director, about their new service called Drum, a real-time web meeting and audio conferencing service. Drum is designed so that it can be used not just for business meetings and presentations, but for other tasks such as project updates, […]
I’ve been having fun over the past couple of weeks putting the pre-conference workshop together for the Policy Control and Data Pricing Conference, entitled “Policy Control and Charging Workshop: An Independent and Quantified Review.” Its been an interesting extercise to review what was predicted through 2012 and what actually happened. Global mobile data traffic grew […]
Continuing the series of ‘Start-Ups To Watch’ that are building their businesses on Telecom APIs; I had the good fortune to chat with Roger Billerey-Mosier, VP Engineering and Product at Crunched, introduced through Voxeo Labs and reviewed on their weblog. The next company in this series is Drum from NetDev; I’ve known the CEO, John […]
The overall feel of MWC (Mobile World Congress) this year is upbeat. More people attending, up from 67k to 72k. The money being spent on LTE (Long Term Evolution) is starting to percolate through the industry, and later this year LTE-A (Advanced) as Telstra and several other operators announced. In these articles from 2008 and […]
It’s with sadness for all involved that GotoCamera has closed its doors after 4.5 years in business. I’ve reviewed GotoCamera several times on this weblog, used the service for monitoring my son when he was a baby, and treasure the pictures and videos it’s given us. I’ve discussed in previous articles the importance of failure […]
Now in its third year, the Policy Control and Data Pricing Conference has followed the progress of policy in the industry, in the first year the focus was ‘what is policy’, last year focused on ‘how do you deploy policy’, and this year ‘how do you make / save money with policy’. This year’s focus […]
This year’s IMS World Forum is shaping up to be an excellent event, with a solid focus on WebRTC (Web Real Time Communications). At last year’s event I asked the opening panel about the impact of WebRTC on their plans to a muted response. And this year there is a pre-conference WebRTC Workshop on the […]
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 […]