ALU (Alcatel Lucent) has done something interesting in the API Gateway space with their latest announcement. They’ve open sourced their API Management platform, it’s called apiGrove. So rather than offering freemium access to an API gateway, they’ve taken the route of allowing developers to use apiGrove and do it themselves. ALU have done open source […]
I’ll be chairing the first day of LTE Asia, which is much broader in scope than simply the air interface LTE (Long Term Evolution). Its focused on the evolution of an increasingly important service to customers, broadband internet access, and the networks that support that service. I purposefully did not insert the term mobile, as […]
Here is a link to an article I wrote for No Jitter on the dawn of true information communication technology (ICT) services, in which IT and Communication services are enabled and integrated by cloud computing and APIs. Cloud-based document management services are growing rapidly, e.g. DropBox, Box.net, Mozy, KnowledgeTree, SpringCM, WebEx and recently Google Docs. […]
<UPDATE: At the request of a client I will be attending MWC in 2013, so see you there 🙂 If it was on my own company’s dollar then this article still stands. Also I just booked the flight, the price was good and seats were left, which was a little surprising.> Usually by this time […]
I reviewed GotoCamera (previously called HomeCamera) in a 2008 article, since then the service has grown from strength to strength. This year an important development has taken place in the market, standalone IP WiFi cameras are now available for less than $100. That is, no PC is required, just plug-it in and you’re monitoring whatever […]
Back in March an article on this weblog reviewed the challenges in cutting the payTV cord: the difficulty in receiving the FTA (Free To Air) service, in the end we gave up as we couldn’t get it working at a reasonable cost; and through the process discovered we were trapped in a 2 year contract […]
I remain amazed that Telco API standards are still considered seriously. I’ve just returned from a quick trip to the Bay Area were I was talking to people who lead the market in APIs, they consider the Telecom industry’s perverse need to standardize APIs amusing at best and at worst yet another death knell for […]
Finally, someone was prepared to speak on WAC, pity it wasn’t the GSMA or WAC itself before the deal went through to demonstrate respect to the developers they keep talking about. At least Apigee has declared the 5 year odyssey of WAC and JIL dead on arrival (2008-2012). See the article here from TechCrunch, and […]
The conference agenda and slides can be downloaded here. At first blush it would appear RCS (Rich Communications Suite) has adopted OMA’s (Open Mobile Alliance) Converged IP Messaging (CIM) spec so work is complete. But that means CIM is wholly dependent on RCS, which has the dumb dependency of IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem), which is […]
Here is a link to an article on Web APIs are Transforming Enterprise Communications and Collaboration for No Jitter I was asked to contribute. The article reviews the status of web APIs (Application Programming Interfaces): Why they have become so important for enterprise communications and collaboration; the business strategies web APIs enable; some of the […]