Thomas Howe, founder of TextGen / GREENBOT, has come up with a slick way of removing adoption friction for instant inbound customer texting with KISST. KISST automates customer conversations using messaging. Each KISST service attaches to a telephone number, and listens and responds on behalf of the business. When the conversation is over, KISST emails […]
The Shango team have an impressive history spanning over 6 years in building and integrating telecoms and web backend systems. They built the back-end-as-a-service platform business that One Source Networks’ bought last year, and the team have spent over two years building their new platform that bridges the telephone network and the web. The good […]
TADSummit was held from 12-13th November at in Istanbul, Turkey. Attendance exceeded our estimates, with close to 200 innovators coming together over the two days focused on building the Telecom Application Development Ecosystem from the grass roots. Compared to the first TADSummit in 2013, we doubled the attendance; and implemented the feedback provided with a […]
LTE Asia (23-25 Sept) is a big event with over 1000 attendees, 60% of whom are representing operators from 50 countries across the region and beyond. You can see the agenda at a glance, and you’ll notice on the evening before the main event kicks off we’re running a TADMeetup Singapore on Tuesday 23rd September from […]
The TADSummit website is live, you can see we have an unprecedented line-up of sponsors and partners supporting TADS including: Sponsors: APEX Communications, Apidaze, Ericsson, hSenid Mobile, Huawei, Nexmo, OpenCloud, Oracle, Shango, Solaiemes, Telestax, Tropo, Ubuntu / Canonical, and Voxbone Partners: Metaswitch, Truphone, Tyntec and many more helping get the word out on what we’re trying […]
Firstly, a big thank you to Jim Machi, Vince Puglia, Robin Carley and the rest of the Dialogic team for providing the meeting venue, great demos, coffee, cookies, soda and pizza 🙂 You made TADMeetupNJ a great event. We had another packed event with over 25 people, this time including some telcos: Tata Communications and […]
The 2nd TADMeetup will be on Wednesday 16th July at Dialogic’s old offices, 1515 Route 10, Parsippany, NJ 07054. The focus of this event will be a very quick review of what happened at TADHack in June, as most of the content is online for you to review at your leisure. The bulk of the […]
At the IMS World Forum we ran a workshop on IMS and WebRTC, its full title “IMS World Forum Pre-Conference Workshop: A New Wave of Communication Service Innovation: IMS and WebRTC.” The presentations are shown below, the running order kicked off with me frankly reviewing the challenges we face with service innovation, so after I got […]
Over the past couple of months this weblog has taken a break from interviewing businesses running on telecom APIs, to get TADHack together. Keep an eye on TADHack, we have lots of exciting announcement coming up, its going to be an exciting event in building the telecom application development ecosystem. But getting back to talking with […]
It was the first time in 15 years I did not make the annual pilgrimage to MWC (Mobile World Congress). Some of the reasons being: The BS and detachment from market reality of the GSMA which impacts MWC; The ridiculously large event which means I’m spending more time racing between meetings than in meetings; The […]