Where are the Telecom API millionaires? We all know about the Apple App Store and Google Play millionaires. Flappy Bird being a recent in a long long line of developer successes. But in Telecom APIs, where are the AT&T Developer Program Millionaires? The question is fair, though its comparing apples and oranges. The successes in […]
Let me kick off with an obvious statement but it needs repeating: WebRTC is about communications not just telephony. Which has an important corollary: telephony is not dead, its just becoming a bit-part in the emerging web-centric communications landscape. The first ever WebRTC Global Summit ran from March 31st – April 2nd in London. Congratulations […]
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 […]
Orange Poland are running a contest called OpenAPIHackathon dedicated to developers with innovative ideas to create new, compelling applications, system or services using Open Middleware Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), in partnership with Oracle and IQ Partners. Open Middleware APIs (Orange Poland’s API platform) allow developers to access common technologies such as communications, government, bus&train schedules, […]
Cloud Asia enters its third year co-organized with Singapore’s IDA (Infocomm Development Authority). Cloud Asia 2013 runs from the 15-16 May 2013 in Singapore. An exciting change from last year’s event is entry to CloudAsia and the co-located Cloud Security Alliance Asian Congress is free for all enterprises, small and medium businesses, and operator users. Here are my […]
I’ve been having fun over the past couple of weeks putting the pre-conference workshop together for the Policy Control and Data Pricing Conference, entitled “Policy Control and Charging Workshop: An Independent and Quantified Review.” Its been an interesting extercise to review what was predicted through 2012 and what actually happened. Global mobile data traffic grew […]
This year’s IMS World Forum is shaping up to be an excellent event, with a solid focus on WebRTC (Web Real Time Communications). At last year’s event I asked the opening panel about the impact of WebRTC on their plans to a muted response. And this year there is a pre-conference WebRTC Workshop on the […]
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 […]
Much is made of the Telco’s natural fit in delivering IT Solutions to SMB (Small Medium Business), and hence the much touted Cloud Service Broker opportunity for telcos. I am a small business, and this assumption doesn’t ring true. Telcos in my experience struggle with the SMB segment because they are structured to sell pre-packaged […]
CloudAsia 2012 is the second year of the conference co-organized by Singapore’s IDA (Infocomm Development Authority), the summary of 2011 is here and here. In a later article I’ll review the main conference. CloudAsia 2012 is a great event to meet the decision makers across the cloud computing eco-system from enterprises, telecom operators, regulators, government […]