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The Old OS Pangs, Only with Mobile Devices Now

In yesterday's blog about CTIA, I mentioned that the iPhone hysteria has disappeared. And that got me to thinking about the developers out there. With different Smartphone Operating Systems, what's a Smartphone developer to do? I remember back...

Published 03-25-2010 10:50 AM by Jim Machi

Filed under: smartphones, CTIA, developers

March CTIA Madness and a Mobile Concierge

I find myself in the middle of NCAA Basketball March Madness in, of all places, Las Vegas. It turns out I'm leaving before the Sweet Sixteen starts and that's good. If not, I'm sure I'd find myself sitting in one of the betting rooms here...

Published 03-24-2010 10:29 AM by Jim Machi

Filed under: LTE, WiMAX, IPhone, smartphones, CTIA, application developers

When TV Goes Mobile

In the world of TV things are changing fast. In the UK where I live, digital TV was introduced back in 1997, and by 2012 analogue TV will be completely gone. I understand that the transition in the US has been even faster. Alongside this, there are many...

Published 03-22-2010 6:07 PM by Martyn Davies

Filed under: mobile, TV, canvas

Interactive Voice/Video Response - the next evolution in customer self-help

Video is fast becoming the hottest topic in the communications sector. However, the challenge remains to develop a model to monetize video, either through real increases in ARPU (Average Revenue Per Customer) or ARPT (Average Revenue per Transaction)...

Published 03-22-2010 10:50 AM by Jeff Dworkin

Filed under: IVR, Video Conferencing, video technology, IVVR, Diastar, Asterisk, FREESwitch, enterprise, video calling

Creating Mobile Feral Hogs

All of these network and network infrastructure improvements, as well as likely tiered pricing options in the future, will help get us to improved mobile network service. The mobile internet marches on, and there will be increasingly more and more usage...

Published 03-18-2010 12:21 PM by Jim Machi

Filed under: LTE, Femtocells, mobile, Mobile World Congress, network infrastructure

DiaStar Release 2.0

For those of you may have missed the press release last week, Release 2. 0 of The DiaStar TM Server is now available for Download at www.projectdiastar.org . This new release brings a variety of video features from the Dialogic® product portfolio...

Published 03-17-2010 12:40 PM by Jeff Dworkin

Filed under: Video, Mobile Video, IVR, Open Source, Redundancy, SIP-SS7 gateway, IVVR, Diastar, Asterisk, Woomera, FREESwitch

Can Internet Video be Free?

Content-owners attitudes to YouTube vary wildly. On the one hand some (like Viacom) have decided on high-stakes legal battles for "massive intentional copyright violations". On the other, some conventional broadcasters (like NBC) have created...

Published 03-13-2010 9:32 AM by Martyn Davies

Filed under: Video, mobile, over-the-top, TV, internet

DiaStar Redux

I've been at the UC Expo in London, where we have a show stand, with one of the major themes being our open source project, DiaStar . We're located close to the Digium Asterisk Pavillion, where there are several Asterisk-related talks going on...

Published 03-11-2010 1:11 PM by Martyn Davies

Filed under: Open Source, Diastar, Asterisk

SIP Trunking and the Enterprise Network Edge

I have been a product manager in the enterprise media gateway space for a number of years. Over that time, enterprise media gateways have matured from simple toll bypass devices which enabled cheap long distance calling to elements which enable a wide...

Published 03-09-2010 1:21 PM by Vince

Filed under: SIP Trunking, SIP, network edge, SIP Mediation, SIP-SS7 gateway

Cloud Computing – the Terminator Movies had it all right!

In one of my last blogs, I talked about why the concept of Cloud Computing has taken hold now and what’s involved from a technical and non-technical standpoint. Cloud Computing sounds so easy, so all companies should just do this, right? Wrong....

Published 03-08-2010 2:17 PM by Jim Machi

Filed under: Cloud Computing

Video Conferencing - an Underused Technology

Video-phones used to be the stuff of science-fiction. In the 1960s the movie 2001: a Space Odyssey , one character calls home from a payphone on the way to the Moon. Of course it was a video-phone, and he was able to have a video conference with his daughter...

Published 02-26-2010 3:07 PM by Martyn Davies

Filed under: Video, science fiction, video calling, videoconferencing

The Fire Is Back at the Fira

Mobile World Congress, held at the Fira in Barcelona (Catalonian for fairgrounds is what I understand the word to mean), is always an exciting time for me and our company. Everyone is having back-to-back-to-back meetings and you feel the excitement of...

Published 02-24-2010 4:35 PM by Jim Machi

Filed under: LTE, Femtocells, Mobile World Congress, applications

Snowflakes, Bad Internet, Barcelona & the Video Convergence Forum

By the time you read this, I will have been in Barcelona for a week. While I was coming to Barcelona anyway for Mobile World Congress, I came early since the Video Convergence Forum was launched the Thursday before MWC started. Next week, I will report...

Published 02-17-2010 2:45 PM by Jim Machi

Filed under: Video, Mobile World Congress, Video Convergence Forum

mLearning - the School in Your Pocket

This week the BBC made an interesting announcement about BBC Janala , a service that is using mobile to teach the English language in Bangladesh. Janala (which means "window") is a relatively low-tech solution, using SMS and voice on mobile...

Published 02-17-2010 9:48 AM by Martyn Davies

Filed under: mLearning

Cloud Computing - What Factors Make it Viable?

In a previous blog , I discussed the early stages of cloud computing, and now I’ll touch on why this concept has taken hold now, or shall we say, why cloud computing is at least more viable now. First of all, we have better technology now than we...

Published 02-10-2010 7:44 PM by Jim Machi