In this end of year article I’ll review 2012 and look at a few of the things coming up in 2013. 2012 has been an eventful year, we tend to miss how eventful as we’re busy working and raising our families (a life-long commitment!). The year opened with some operators finally admitting revenues are in […]
Mobility Tech is part of about 14 conferences that run in parallel, covering topics such as: ITExpo (Internet Telephony), MSP (Managed Service Provider) World, HTML5 Summit, VideoWorld, StartupCamp, LatinCom, Cloud4SMB, Cloud Communications and M2M Evolution. So there a lot going on at the same time. I ran a panel in Mobility Tech on service innovation, […]
At the Mobility Tech Conference in Austin 3-5 Oct, Verizon, AT&T, Ericsson and a real live developer recently wrangled from the wild will take part in a frank and open discussion on the future of Service Innovation at 11 AM on Wednesday Oct 3rd. Panelists include: Bill Goodman, Director – Technology, Verizon Ivelin Ivanov, Founder […]
Overall Summary The fog of ‘hype / BS’ and ‘strategic consulting organization misdirection’ lifts, revealing a focus on real business coupled with an eye to long term survival. The conference was packed with quantified API case study successes. The end of this weblog has some slides with a few highlights from the conference. The biggest […]
I recently read “WebRTC, APIs and RTCWEB Protocols of the HTML5 Real-Time Web by Alan Johnston and Daniel Burnett.” It provides an excellent review of the current status of the standard covering: An overview of Web Real-Time Communications; How to use WebRTC; An explanation of WebRTC Peer-Peer Media; W3C WebRTC documents and protocols; IETF WebRTC […]
The conference agenda and slides can be downloaded here. At first blush it would appear RCS (Rich Communications Suite) has adopted OMA’s (Open Mobile Alliance) Converged IP Messaging (CIM) spec so work is complete. But that means CIM is wholly dependent on RCS, which has the dumb dependency of IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem), which is […]
Here is a link to an article on WebRTC (Web Real Time Communication) for No Jitter I was asked to contribute. Already some great comments on the article, for example from Glen Sykes on the issue of global addressing as mentioned in the article.
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 […]
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 […]
As promised in the IMS World Forum summary article, here is a quick review of WebRTC (Web Real Time Communications). WebRTC is a HTML5 standard being drafted by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the project began in early 2011. The framework was open sourced in June 2011 […]