http://thethomashowecompany.com Expertise in the Integration of Real Time Communications and the Business Process Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:10:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ZDNet's roundup of the smart phone battles is an excellent primer to the battle of the goliaths. For me, the most compelling part of the story comes when they handicap the field: Apple: The 3G iPhone will move units because it has an enthusiastic customer base that will continue to buy ... http://thethomashowecompany.com/404/battle-of-the-smart-phones Next Monday, I'm really pleased and excited to be running the "Voice Mashup Business Models" panel and the "Service Delivery Platforms" panel at the Voice Peering Forum in San Francisco. The REASON I'm so excited is because the caliber of speakers we have is simply excellent. To prepare ... http://thethomashowecompany.com/403/voice-peering-forum-voice-mashup-business-models Actually, it only feels that way. I downloaded Firefox 3 this morning onto my laptop, and so far, so good. I'm sure the bugs are there and all, but I really do feel like I'm running a new machine. And isn't that telling? Enough of the applications I ... http://thethomashowecompany.com/402/ive-got-a-new-computer I'll take the other side of Phil Wolf's criticism of iPhone's push notification service. Phil says it sucks; I say it rocks.To summarize and to be fair to Phil (as I like Phil very much, as a neat guy and a bright boy), his criticism centers around user interface, ... http://thethomashowecompany.com/401/3g-iphone-push-notifications-rock Found this post from telecomtv today about Google's taking the wraps off of the Google Android operating system. Here's what caught my eye:Rubin also said that the days of the "traditionally' high cost of software development for mobiles are numbered and believes that once Android hits the market the costs of such ... http://thethomashowecompany.com/400/google-unveiling-android-os Thanks to Simon Wardley for finding Earle who found this: The Evolution of the Cell Phone http://thethomashowecompany.com/399/evolution-of-the-cell-phone I'm happy to announce that I've become a regular contributor to Fierce VoIP. Every other week, I'll be writing a column about Telco 2.0. I'm very happy to be a member of the fierce family, and I'm looking forward to exploring all those thorny Web 2.0 issues with all of ... http://thethomashowecompany.com/398/fierce-wireless Alec pens a thoughtful piece today taking the results from a recent report from Jajah based on their interviews with C-level telecom executives and findings from IBM and postulating what they mean for the future of our industry. Check it out, it's very nicely done.The interesting part for me ... http://thethomashowecompany.com/397/change-is-in-the-wind Here's some take-aways from my last Enterprise Voice Mashup project. Thought I'd record them for posterity... share them with who cares The up-front planning was very critical, and helped the back-end go much smoother. Our program manager was excellent, and put together a cross functional team that really covered ... http://thethomashowecompany.com/396/real-world-voice-mashup-takeaways The top 50 android applications were announced this week. From Silicon Alley - "Each of the 50 finalists will receive $25,000. Another 10 of them will get $100,000 and 10 will get $275,000, for a total of $5 million." Not bad for a little app. Now I'm ... http://thethomashowecompany.com/395/android-developer-challenge-top-50