Next week at the CTIA’s conference in San Francisco, John Donovan, AT&T’s Chief Technology plans to announce that it will open new facilities in Palo Alto, CA; Plano, TX; and Tel Aviv, Israel which will serve as a venue for mobile application developers to pitch their latest wares.
Articles
Tropo is AGItating today! Cloud Access to Asterisk
The folks at Voxeo Labs are at it again. As VP Jason Goecke reports here, the company is making it very easy for phone app developers to use the Tropo platform to build new apps that treat Asterisk as a service (Aas).
Orange’s “Open Source Widget Platform” Has Industry-Wide Implications
Orange is taking major steps toward extending Internet and Web-based applications to those wireless subscribers who have, for whatever reason, opted *not* to purchase smartphones.
Linguasys Packages Machine Translation for “Mobile Chat Rooms” on Android-based Phones
GigaOm’s Mobilize Conference is certainly the epicenter of mobile services today, but this press release out of Boca Raton caught our attention.
Avaya and Skype Announce Alliance
Avaya is making it easier for its existing customers to initiate and control voice calls over Skype’s network. At the same time, the two companies have chartered a “strategic alliance” and are ironing out details of a technology roadmap that will bring video teleconferencing and “federated” instant messaging (in the U.S. only) into the service mix.
Stop The Presses: National Research Council says “Biometric Recognition Needs Work”
On September 24, the United States’ National Research Council released a report entitled “Biometric Recognition: Challenges and Opportunities”
Orange, Cisco, EMC and VMWare Offer “Flexible 4 Business”
Branding may turn out to be an issue, but 4’s are definitely wild for a formidable team of technology providers and their initial package of four, “cloud-based” service offerings.
Google Has People Talking About Two-Factor Authentication
Earlier this week, Eran Feigenbaum, Director of Security for Google Apps posted this on the Google Enterprise Blog. In an effort to attain greater acceptance among enterprise IT departments, Google has added a second factor – in this case a four-digit code transmitted to a registered wireless devices as an SMS-based text message – to its log-in procedures.
Alcatel-Lucent’s High Leverage Network Takes Holistic Approach to Connectivity
With its acquisition of Programmable Web in late June and (more recently) OpenPlug, Alcatel Lucent (ALU), by its actions, has indicated that it’s a changed company.
Ellison Shows Fusion Apps Running in the “Cloud-in-a-Box” at Oracle Open World Keynote
It was very late in the evening and deep into the flow of keynote speeches at Moscone Center, but Oracle CEO Larry Ellison finally got around to showcasing that the company’s long-awaited set of Fusion applications.