Yesterday I made my first WebRTC call to Lance Berks (of HollyConnects fame) using FrisB from the latest Chrome browser, and after that went on the explore a number of services available using WebRTC. So I thought I’d start to compile a list of interesting start-ups with WebRTC-based services. A previous weblog article provides a […]
An API (Application Program Interface) is a great way to expose services or data from your company for use by your company, customers, partners and independent innovators, that is across the tail as discussed in the SDP Asia article. Doing cool stuff isn’t limited to people who code for a living which the term developer […]
Instant messaging is old, it predates the Internet, first appearing on multi-user operating systems like Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS) and Multiplexed Information and Computing Service (Multics) in the mid-1960s, its older than me! During the bulletin board system (BBS) phenomenon that peaked during the 1980s, some systems incorporated chat features that were similar to instant […]
Asked recently if there was an update of the old SDP landscape weblog entry, I was shocked at how out of date it had become. The categories needed updating, lots of companies had come and gone. The 2012 SDP landscape can be downloaded here, and is also shown at the end of this entry, though […]
At the IMS (IP Multiedia Subsystem) World Forum I gave a pre-conference workshop that summarized some of the results gathered in the IMS Status Report. The conference backed up the findings in the Report, and highlighted the many technology and business challenges we face as IMS rolls out. An interesting discussion point raised on both […]
I’ll be gave a Webinar on “Making Money through Service Exposure (APIs) and the New Business Models It Enables” on Wednesday, April 04, 2012. Its now available for viewing here at the TMForum website. The webinar covered: Why telecommunications is lagging behind most other industries in API adoption Where the money is in network APIs […]
I’m often asked what’s the difference between Aepona, Apigee, Twilio, Voxeo? The diagram below is my attempt to provide a framework to understand the similarities and differences between the 4 suppliers. This can only present a current snapshot and my view, other frameworks are possible, and of course all 4 suppliers have a future vision […]
The 6th SDP Asia Summit was held in conjunction with 3 other conferences: Smartphone Applications & Operating Systems (OS) Asia 3rd Mobile Value Added Services Asia OSS/BSS & Convergent Billing Asia The SDP Asia Summit and Convergent Billing Asia were run as a single stream which made sense as they are both platforms necessary to […]
I’ll be giving a Webinar on “Making Money through Service Exposure (APIs) and the New Business Models It Enables” on Wednesday, April 04, 2012; 12:00pm – 1:00pm New York / 5:00pm – 6:00pm London. You can sign up here. In the webinar we’ll be covering: Why telecommunications is lagging behind most other industries in API […]
In March 2009 I wrote an article about “Why the Mobile Industry needs to keep an eye on Cable’s Canoe Ventures“. This article was prompted by what I saw at MWC 2009 (Mobile World Congress), where the mobile advertising initiative announced in 2008 at MWC between Vodafone, Orange, O2, T-Mobile and Three was quietly swept […]