API Management Platforms Capabilities - Aurora. CTO, Zain, Jordan: “Monetising data networks has become more challenging” » Telecoms.com - Aurora. Yousef Abu Mutawe, CTO, Zain Yousef Mutawe, CTO, Zain, Jordan, is delivering a keynote on Day One of the LTE MENA conference, taking place on 13th-14th May 2013 at the JW Marriott Marquis, Dubai.
Ahead of the show we speak to him about the challenge of meeting the data demands of Zain’s customers. What major developments have there been with regards to the LTE industry in your region this past year? The increased adoption of an internet life-style combined with the immaturity of fixed and wireless broadband networks in the region makes it challenging for the operators to fulfil the increasing demand for bandwidth. In the past few years fixed and wireless broadband has become extremely demanding in terms of infrastructure and spectrum. What are the chief challenges you are facing? Meeting the demand for data is one challenge. What are the key techniques for network optimisation in LTE and what effect can it have on the customer experience? Pricing for LTE is a controversial subject. Move Over, Twilio: AT&T Integrates Speech, Messaging And Payment APIs Into Appcelerator’s Developer Platform. In the rush among carriers to be more than a dumb pipe, AT&T today became the latest to expand the way it offers APIs to developers, in a bid to drive more revenue from its mobile network: it is partnering with mobile app developer platform Appcelerator to offer APIs for speech, mobile messaging and mobile payment services into their apps.
This is the first time that a carrier has partnered with Appcelerator, whose Appcelerator Titanium platform is used by 350,000 developers, but there are likely to be more. TechCrunch has heard that Deutsche Telekom is among those that are in talks with the company. The move by AT&T is a sign of how carriers are now starting to get more focused in how they approach developers so that they can get a bigger piece of revenue action from apps — with AT&T specifically turning to Appcelerator, already popular with developers, to help with that strategy. AT&T has been running its own developer program since January 2012. How Can Carriers Attract Developers? : BlogGeek.me - Aurora. Microsoft Word - Building Data Lenses with Layer 7 v9.docx - Building Data Lenses with Layer 7.pdf - Aurora.
APIhub. Japan Mobile Company Debuts Real-Time Voice Translation App. Language barriers are starting to crumble.
This month Japan's dominant mobile phone operator, NTT DoCoMo, introduced the world's first app for real-time voice translation. When a user with a DoCoMo smartphone places a call through the app, he speaks in Japanese and his words are promptly translated into English, Mandarin, or Korean. To complete the conversational circuit, the other person's words are translated from any of those languages back into Japanese. AT&T's research lab showed off its own translation service earlier this year, but NTT's is further along and seems better integrated into the phone call itself. The free DoCoMo app relies on the cloud for the heavy processing, namely speech recognition, machine translation, and voice synthesis.
To test the app, the company gave out a beta version that handled Japanese and English to tourist facilities, retail companies, and hospitals. Image: NTT DoCoMo. Mobile messaging, mobile payments and mobile data specialists - Portio Research.
Telekom Conference Call API for iOS, Android, Windows Phone and HTML5. With our Conference Call API, several phone numbers in the fixed and mobile network can be linked up in phone conferences by calling up a simple web service.
Non-binding, simple and fast. No contract commitment, monthly charges and minimum revenue. The participants are either automatically called at the start of the conference (dial-out) or dial in themselves (dial-in). This way, desktop, web or mobile applications can be extended across platforms to include telephone conference functions. Key Functions: Dial-out: Participants are automatically called at the specified timeDial-in: Dialing in to conferences in progress possibleConference server messages customizableConferences can be planned up to 365 days in advanceConferences can be set up in seriesThe original conference duration can easily be extendedThe organizer of a conference decides whether a subscriber’s number should be hidden or displayedSecure: Participants dialing in to conferences use a six to ten-digit PIN Useful Links: