TADS (Telecom Application Developer Summit) is an independent grassroots initiative to raise the profile of telecom application developers with the resources to support them, and create a sustainable and profitable telecom application ecosystem. One of the requests from people who could not make it to the TADSummit last year was to help organize local events […]
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 […]
TADS (Telecom Application Developer Summit) is an independent grassroots initiative to raise the profile of telecom application developers with the resources to support them, and create a sustainable and profitable telecom application ecosystem. One of the requests from people who could not make it to the TADSummit last year was to help organize local events […]
TADHack (Telecom Application Developer Hackathon) is a global event, created and driven by the grassroots of the industry to help developers discover the latest ways to add communications to their application, services and business processes. And compete for $20k in prize money. It is unique because it brings together all relevant telecom application development tools […]
Telcos are faced with a tough choice by some of their vendors, “IMS, what choice do you have?” If telcos’ services do not work reliably they suffer through public humiliation. Remember when AT&T had an exclusive deal on iPhone in the US? Jon Stewart from the Daily Show said about owning an iPhone in NYC […]
Below are photo reviews from TADS 2013. I hope they give you a flavor of what happened at TADS, and for the 100+ attendees a nice reminder of what happened only 2 months ago. My TADS review is here. All the presentation slides are available for the Telco Summit and Developer Summit, and the videos […]
At the WebRTC Workshop during the Rich Communication event in Berlin at the end of October, Juan from Solaiemes mentioned they were building an SDK for their WebRTC-Telco gateway to demo a range of services. They completed it last month and have been demoing some simple services, in this weblog they focus on enabling a […]
The Telecom Application Developer Summit took place from 21-22 Nov 2013 in Bangkok, the slides are now available here, the videos and photos will be available soon. TADS is much more than just 2 days in Bangkok. Our objective with TADS is to help build the telecom application developer ecosystem from the grassroots, to expand […]
At the Rich Communications event in Berlin, we ran a pre-conference workshop on WebRTC that included Tim Panton from Westhawk, Victor Pascual Avila from Quobis, Juan Mateu from Solaiemes, and myself. The material from the workshop is show below. It was a packed day, with the realization that an RCS strategy that does not include WebRTC […]
Guest post from Ben Klang of Mojo Lingo on the Telecom Apps Ecosystem from a developer’s perspective. At Mojo Lingo, we build voice applications that work like magic. That means we’re focused on one thing: happy users communicating effortlessly in real-time. Today I want to talk about the Telecom App landscape from our perspective, as […]