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 […]
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 […]
Wadaro, a start-up to watch, has been discussed in a number of previous weblog articles. They’re now deployed across a number of operators and the tip of a very large iceberg of results from monitoring the network as the customers’ experience it are described here. For reasons of confidentiality the networks these results were gathered […]
The 6th SDP Asia Summit 27-30 March was reviewed previously here and here. Tom Clayton gave an excellent presentation on BubbleMotion’s transition from being VAS (Value Added Service) provider to being an App provider at the conference, his case study is the focus of this article. Use of applications on smartphones is growing rapidly in […]
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 […]
This year I brought my wife and 2-year-old son to Barcelona; we arrived on the Thursday before MWC (Mobile World Congress). Barcelona is great for small children with lots of playgrounds, some with crèches that bring out their toys to play with making it great fun. The restaurants go the extra mile in making the […]
An operator is composed of three domains: Network, IT and Services. Historically we’ve treated the services domain as something that can be solved by a piece of technology, called the SDP (Service Delivery Platform). This has resulted in the industry’s slow response to the competitive threats of web-based service providers, which are now starting to […]
Voxeo has quietly built over the past 12 years an impressive enterprise voice and messaging business. Their business began in hosted IVR (Interactive Voice Response) where they’ve achieved a leadership position as shown in the Ovum analysis below. However, through their 250k strong developer community they’re really now a leader in communication enabled business processes. […]
I was in the UK last week and caught up with the CEO of HTK, Marlon Bowser. HTK Horizon™ is a hosted service (“Software-as-a-Service”) that helps organizations or any size to “sell more and serve better, at lower cost” through highly personalized (‘micro-targeted’) inbound and outbound communication using email, SMS text messaging and interactive voice […]
Urban Airship came to my attention recently, thanks to Sean O’Sullivan, in the rapidly emerging category of push notification aggregation. Push notifications allow developers to send messages directly to customers who have installed their app, even when the app is closed on their device. Its yet another lost opportunity for SMS as operators remain stuck […]