Moving Forward with Technology Transitions Trials
www.fcc.gov
on 05/10/2013
Excerpt: Today, the Technology Transitions Policy Task Force issued a Public Notice proposing to conduct real-world trials and seeking input on specific potential trials. The goal of any trials will be to assist the Commission in ensuring that its policy decisions relating to ongoing technology transitions are solidly grounded in good data. Communications networks are changing from copper to fiber and from time division multiplexing (TDM) to Internet protocols; wireless voice and data services are increasingly important. These are exciting developments. The ongoing technology transitions hold the promise for tremendous benefits for consumers.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Communications, Federal Government, Mobile, Telco
Klout Moves Into France with Major Orange Agreement
corp.klout.com
on 04/02/2013
Excerpt: It’s well known that Orange, one of the world’s largest telecommunications brands, is ahead of the curve when it comes to recognizing and supporting its millions of customers. Now, in the ramp-up to the launch of its much-anticipated 4G network in France, Orange is becoming Klout’s first major partner in Europe. As always, our goal is to help influence get recognized everywhere. Last week we moved further toward that goal on the web by adding Bing and Instagram to the Klout Score, and today we’re taking a huge step forward geographically by rewarding influencers in more parts of the world. During our exclusive, long-term agreement, we’ll work closely with Orange to craft experiences especially for the French market.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Klout, Orange, Social Analytics, Social Data, Social Influence, Telco
Trying Out SIP From Twilio Using FreeSWITCH
www.twilio.com
on 03/19/2013
Excerpt: Twilio recently introduced the new noun which lets you directly dial a SIP server from your Twilio app. But what if you don’t have a SIP server? In this post I’ll show you how you can set up and use FreeSWITCH, a free, cross platform and open source communication server that includes SIP capabilities, to try out the noun. Before you get started setting up the FreeSWITCH server, it’s useful to have at least a cursory understanding of what SIP is. SIP, or session initiation protocol, is a common protocol used by IP Telephony equipment and software to create and manage communication sessions between two parties.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Phone, Telco, Telephony, Voice
New Layer 7 eBook: 5 Ways Every Telco Can Benefit from APIs
www.layer7tech.com
on 03/06/2013
Excerpt: The recent Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona reminded us about the growing importance of APIs to the telecommunications sector. Telco was actually one of the first sectors to show an interest in APIs but most carriers have still not taken full advantage of the opportunities presented by APIs and some have got their fingers burned trying to court the long tail of third-party app developers. Still, with Web and mobile technologies creating competition from outside the telco sector, carriers need ways to quickly adapt to technological change – and APIs provide the perfect solution.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Telco
Speech recognition using Visualforce and the AT&T toolkit
blogs.developerforce.com
on 03/05/2013
Excerpt: Many consider speech recognition to be the next ‘killer app’ for mobile. Apple famously (or infamously, depending on how much you’ve used it) added Siri in iOS 6 and Android responded with Google Now. So how do you add speech recognition to an enterprise mobile application built on the Salesforce Touch Platform? I thought you’d never ask! We recently hosted a webinar introducing the AT&T Toolkit for Salesforce Platform and I demoed a simple mobile application built using Visualforce and the Salesforce Mobile SDK that uses the AT&T toolkit to search for Case records in Salesforce based on a user’s voice input. You can jump to this point in the webinar recording to watch a demo of the application.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, CRM, sales, SalesForce, Stack, Story, Telco, Voice
Ducksboard for Twilio: A New Way To Monitor Your Twilio Metrics
feedproxy.google.com
on 02/19/2013
Excerpt: A few months ago we released our Usage API, which allows developers to make a single API request to get their usage stats for a given time period. This way, companies can build dashboards or internal tools to figure out what they’re doing with Twilio. (For more information, please visit our REST API documentation). Today, we are very excited to announce a new integration with Ducksboard, a company that lets users design, display and share their company’s most important data in a beautiful way. With our Usage API, Ducksboard built a preconfigured dashboard for Twilio where users simply enter their Twilio Account SID and AuthToken and the dashboard will automatically be created to reflect their Twilio usage.... read the full post.
Tags: Analytics, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Metrics, Story, Telco, Telephony, Twilo, Voice
FCC: Verizon must allow tethering apps
boingboing.net
on 12/22/2012
Excerpt: Stacey Higginbotham at GigaOm: "Verizon customers will soon have the option of downloading Android apps that let them turn their phone into a mobile hotspot –apps that Verizon blocked initially because it didn’t want customers circumventing its $20 a month mobile hot spot fee. The FCC has determined that nation’s largest wireless carrier was in the wrong in this situation because it had purchased spectrum back in 2008 that required Verizon to allow open access to its network. " ⟿ Rob Beschizza tells weird stories about the stuff you can't quite remember.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, FCC, Mobile, Telco, Verizon
Telco APIs White Paper | Layer 7 Technologies
www.layer7tech.com
on 12/17/2012
Excerpt: As technology evolves, telecom services are increasingly embedded across platforms like smartphones and Web browsers. Meanwhile competition is emerging from a variety of new sources. APIs are making it possible for telcos to respond to these developments. Initially, telcos focused their API strategies on the long tail of third-party developers. However, it has become clear that the most immediate returns will come from exposing APIs to internal developers and partner organizations.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Layer7, Telco
Reinvent Payphones - Splash
reinventpayphones.splashthat.com
on 12/17/2012
Excerpt: Today the City of New York manages over 11,000 payphone kiosks across the five boroughs – and we know that with the rise of mobile phones and digital media, the way that New Yorkers share information is changing rapidly. In order to modernize our powerful communications infrastructure, the City of New York is hosting Reinvent Payphones, a public design challenge that seeks to rally urban designers, planners, technologists and policy experts to create physical and/or virtual prototypes that imagine the future of payphones. Have ideas on how New York City can reinvent payphones to create a safer, healthier, more sustainable, accessible and informed city?... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Pay Phone, Phone, Telco
Excerpt: It’s well known that Orange, one of the world’s largest telecommunications brands, is ahead of the curve when it comes to recognizing and supporting its millions of customers. Now, in the ramp-up to the launch of its much-anticipated 4G network in France, Orange is becoming Klout’s first major partner in Europe. As always, our goal is to help influence get recognized everywhere. Last week we moved further toward that goal on the web by adding Bing and Instagram to the Klout Score, and today we’re taking a huge step forward geographically by rewarding influencers in more parts of the world. During our exclusive, long-term agreement, we’ll work closely with Orange to craft experiences especially for the French market.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Klout, Orange, Social Analytics, Social Data, Social Influence, Telco
Trying Out SIP From Twilio Using FreeSWITCH
www.twilio.com
on 03/19/2013
Excerpt: Twilio recently introduced the new noun which lets you directly dial a SIP server from your Twilio app. But what if you don’t have a SIP server? In this post I’ll show you how you can set up and use FreeSWITCH, a free, cross platform and open source communication server that includes SIP capabilities, to try out the noun. Before you get started setting up the FreeSWITCH server, it’s useful to have at least a cursory understanding of what SIP is. SIP, or session initiation protocol, is a common protocol used by IP Telephony equipment and software to create and manage communication sessions between two parties.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Phone, Telco, Telephony, Voice
New Layer 7 eBook: 5 Ways Every Telco Can Benefit from APIs
www.layer7tech.com
on 03/06/2013
Excerpt: The recent Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona reminded us about the growing importance of APIs to the telecommunications sector. Telco was actually one of the first sectors to show an interest in APIs but most carriers have still not taken full advantage of the opportunities presented by APIs and some have got their fingers burned trying to court the long tail of third-party app developers. Still, with Web and mobile technologies creating competition from outside the telco sector, carriers need ways to quickly adapt to technological change – and APIs provide the perfect solution.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Telco
Speech recognition using Visualforce and the AT&T toolkit
blogs.developerforce.com
on 03/05/2013
Excerpt: Many consider speech recognition to be the next ‘killer app’ for mobile. Apple famously (or infamously, depending on how much you’ve used it) added Siri in iOS 6 and Android responded with Google Now. So how do you add speech recognition to an enterprise mobile application built on the Salesforce Touch Platform? I thought you’d never ask! We recently hosted a webinar introducing the AT&T Toolkit for Salesforce Platform and I demoed a simple mobile application built using Visualforce and the Salesforce Mobile SDK that uses the AT&T toolkit to search for Case records in Salesforce based on a user’s voice input. You can jump to this point in the webinar recording to watch a demo of the application.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, CRM, sales, SalesForce, Stack, Story, Telco, Voice
Ducksboard for Twilio: A New Way To Monitor Your Twilio Metrics
feedproxy.google.com
on 02/19/2013
Excerpt: A few months ago we released our Usage API, which allows developers to make a single API request to get their usage stats for a given time period. This way, companies can build dashboards or internal tools to figure out what they’re doing with Twilio. (For more information, please visit our REST API documentation). Today, we are very excited to announce a new integration with Ducksboard, a company that lets users design, display and share their company’s most important data in a beautiful way. With our Usage API, Ducksboard built a preconfigured dashboard for Twilio where users simply enter their Twilio Account SID and AuthToken and the dashboard will automatically be created to reflect their Twilio usage.... read the full post.
Tags: Analytics, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Metrics, Story, Telco, Telephony, Twilo, Voice
FCC: Verizon must allow tethering apps
boingboing.net
on 12/22/2012
Excerpt: Stacey Higginbotham at GigaOm: "Verizon customers will soon have the option of downloading Android apps that let them turn their phone into a mobile hotspot –apps that Verizon blocked initially because it didn’t want customers circumventing its $20 a month mobile hot spot fee. The FCC has determined that nation’s largest wireless carrier was in the wrong in this situation because it had purchased spectrum back in 2008 that required Verizon to allow open access to its network. " ⟿ Rob Beschizza tells weird stories about the stuff you can't quite remember.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, FCC, Mobile, Telco, Verizon
Telco APIs White Paper | Layer 7 Technologies
www.layer7tech.com
on 12/17/2012
Excerpt: As technology evolves, telecom services are increasingly embedded across platforms like smartphones and Web browsers. Meanwhile competition is emerging from a variety of new sources. APIs are making it possible for telcos to respond to these developments. Initially, telcos focused their API strategies on the long tail of third-party developers. However, it has become clear that the most immediate returns will come from exposing APIs to internal developers and partner organizations.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Layer7, Telco
Reinvent Payphones - Splash
reinventpayphones.splashthat.com
on 12/17/2012
Excerpt: Today the City of New York manages over 11,000 payphone kiosks across the five boroughs – and we know that with the rise of mobile phones and digital media, the way that New Yorkers share information is changing rapidly. In order to modernize our powerful communications infrastructure, the City of New York is hosting Reinvent Payphones, a public design challenge that seeks to rally urban designers, planners, technologists and policy experts to create physical and/or virtual prototypes that imagine the future of payphones. Have ideas on how New York City can reinvent payphones to create a safer, healthier, more sustainable, accessible and informed city?... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Pay Phone, Phone, Telco
Excerpt: The recent Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona reminded us about the growing importance of APIs to the telecommunications sector. Telco was actually one of the first sectors to show an interest in APIs but most carriers have still not taken full advantage of the opportunities presented by APIs and some have got their fingers burned trying to court the long tail of third-party app developers. Still, with Web and mobile technologies creating competition from outside the telco sector, carriers need ways to quickly adapt to technological change – and APIs provide the perfect solution.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Telco
Speech recognition using Visualforce and the AT&T toolkit
blogs.developerforce.com
on 03/05/2013
Excerpt: Many consider speech recognition to be the next ‘killer app’ for mobile. Apple famously (or infamously, depending on how much you’ve used it) added Siri in iOS 6 and Android responded with Google Now. So how do you add speech recognition to an enterprise mobile application built on the Salesforce Touch Platform? I thought you’d never ask! We recently hosted a webinar introducing the AT&T Toolkit for Salesforce Platform and I demoed a simple mobile application built using Visualforce and the Salesforce Mobile SDK that uses the AT&T toolkit to search for Case records in Salesforce based on a user’s voice input. You can jump to this point in the webinar recording to watch a demo of the application.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, CRM, sales, SalesForce, Stack, Story, Telco, Voice
Ducksboard for Twilio: A New Way To Monitor Your Twilio Metrics
feedproxy.google.com
on 02/19/2013
Excerpt: A few months ago we released our Usage API, which allows developers to make a single API request to get their usage stats for a given time period. This way, companies can build dashboards or internal tools to figure out what they’re doing with Twilio. (For more information, please visit our REST API documentation). Today, we are very excited to announce a new integration with Ducksboard, a company that lets users design, display and share their company’s most important data in a beautiful way. With our Usage API, Ducksboard built a preconfigured dashboard for Twilio where users simply enter their Twilio Account SID and AuthToken and the dashboard will automatically be created to reflect their Twilio usage.... read the full post.
Tags: Analytics, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Metrics, Story, Telco, Telephony, Twilo, Voice
FCC: Verizon must allow tethering apps
boingboing.net
on 12/22/2012
Excerpt: Stacey Higginbotham at GigaOm: "Verizon customers will soon have the option of downloading Android apps that let them turn their phone into a mobile hotspot –apps that Verizon blocked initially because it didn’t want customers circumventing its $20 a month mobile hot spot fee. The FCC has determined that nation’s largest wireless carrier was in the wrong in this situation because it had purchased spectrum back in 2008 that required Verizon to allow open access to its network. " ⟿ Rob Beschizza tells weird stories about the stuff you can't quite remember.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, FCC, Mobile, Telco, Verizon
Telco APIs White Paper | Layer 7 Technologies
www.layer7tech.com
on 12/17/2012
Excerpt: As technology evolves, telecom services are increasingly embedded across platforms like smartphones and Web browsers. Meanwhile competition is emerging from a variety of new sources. APIs are making it possible for telcos to respond to these developments. Initially, telcos focused their API strategies on the long tail of third-party developers. However, it has become clear that the most immediate returns will come from exposing APIs to internal developers and partner organizations.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Layer7, Telco
Reinvent Payphones - Splash
reinventpayphones.splashthat.com
on 12/17/2012
Excerpt: Today the City of New York manages over 11,000 payphone kiosks across the five boroughs – and we know that with the rise of mobile phones and digital media, the way that New Yorkers share information is changing rapidly. In order to modernize our powerful communications infrastructure, the City of New York is hosting Reinvent Payphones, a public design challenge that seeks to rally urban designers, planners, technologists and policy experts to create physical and/or virtual prototypes that imagine the future of payphones. Have ideas on how New York City can reinvent payphones to create a safer, healthier, more sustainable, accessible and informed city?... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Pay Phone, Phone, Telco
Excerpt: A few months ago we released our Usage API, which allows developers to make a single API request to get their usage stats for a given time period. This way, companies can build dashboards or internal tools to figure out what they’re doing with Twilio. (For more information, please visit our REST API documentation). Today, we are very excited to announce a new integration with Ducksboard, a company that lets users design, display and share their company’s most important data in a beautiful way. With our Usage API, Ducksboard built a preconfigured dashboard for Twilio where users simply enter their Twilio Account SID and AuthToken and the dashboard will automatically be created to reflect their Twilio usage.... read the full post.
Tags: Analytics, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Metrics, Story, Telco, Telephony, Twilo, Voice
FCC: Verizon must allow tethering apps
boingboing.net
on 12/22/2012
Excerpt: Stacey Higginbotham at GigaOm: "Verizon customers will soon have the option of downloading Android apps that let them turn their phone into a mobile hotspot –apps that Verizon blocked initially because it didn’t want customers circumventing its $20 a month mobile hot spot fee. The FCC has determined that nation’s largest wireless carrier was in the wrong in this situation because it had purchased spectrum back in 2008 that required Verizon to allow open access to its network. " ⟿ Rob Beschizza tells weird stories about the stuff you can't quite remember.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, FCC, Mobile, Telco, Verizon
Telco APIs White Paper | Layer 7 Technologies
www.layer7tech.com
on 12/17/2012
Excerpt: As technology evolves, telecom services are increasingly embedded across platforms like smartphones and Web browsers. Meanwhile competition is emerging from a variety of new sources. APIs are making it possible for telcos to respond to these developments. Initially, telcos focused their API strategies on the long tail of third-party developers. However, it has become clear that the most immediate returns will come from exposing APIs to internal developers and partner organizations.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Layer7, Telco
Reinvent Payphones - Splash
reinventpayphones.splashthat.com
on 12/17/2012
Excerpt: Today the City of New York manages over 11,000 payphone kiosks across the five boroughs – and we know that with the rise of mobile phones and digital media, the way that New Yorkers share information is changing rapidly. In order to modernize our powerful communications infrastructure, the City of New York is hosting Reinvent Payphones, a public design challenge that seeks to rally urban designers, planners, technologists and policy experts to create physical and/or virtual prototypes that imagine the future of payphones. Have ideas on how New York City can reinvent payphones to create a safer, healthier, more sustainable, accessible and informed city?... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Pay Phone, Phone, Telco
Excerpt: As technology evolves, telecom services are increasingly embedded across platforms like smartphones and Web browsers. Meanwhile competition is emerging from a variety of new sources. APIs are making it possible for telcos to respond to these developments. Initially, telcos focused their API strategies on the long tail of third-party developers. However, it has become clear that the most immediate returns will come from exposing APIs to internal developers and partner organizations.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Layer7, Telco
