Twilio has joined the Google Cloud Platform Partner Program, making them the first provider of an API through which Google’s community of developers can integrate SMS text messaging and voice calling into their applications.
Voice Mashups
No Real Answer to why Google is “Deprecating” its Translation API
Claiming “substantial economic burden caused by extensive abuse,” Google has officially “deprecated” its Translate API.
Hey, It’s All Pattern Recognition: TTS, QR Codes and Mobile Devices Simplify Museum Tours
Public museums in Bologna, Italy, are launching a novel way to initiate audio tours.
2600Hz Project Provides Preview of “Whistle”
People attending the most recent SFTelephony Meetup were treated to a preview of “Whistle,” a very impressive suite of call processing fabric designed to work on multiple processors at high-volumes with high reliability.
Waze Adds Voice Features to Crowdsourced Traffic Reporting App
Waze was one of the earliest mashups of crowdsourcing, Maps and Navigation services on an application for Apple’s iOS based devices. It has, over time, added versions for Symbian, Android, Blackberry and Windows Mobile based devices.
Google Buys SayNow: Social Media Meets Telemedia
Google has purchase SayNow, a voice/telephony service provider whose offerings were lots like the old pay-per-call (976) numbers offered by Ma Bell in the 1970s through 1990s.
PhonoSDK: Plug-in Makes Any Browser into a SIP-based Softphone
Over the weekend at a conference of jQuery developers, the folks at Voxeo Labs launched a new technology that transforms “any Web browser” into a platform for SIP-based multimodal communications.