Telcos and APIs: Got an Ology?
British Telecom TV ads of the ‘80s are fondly remembered. Their star, suburban housewife Beattie (geddit?), encouraged a nation to talk. In one famous ad, Beattie comforts her hapless grandson about his dismal exam results. Discovering he’s at least passed sociology, she exclaims: “You get an Ology, you’re a scientist!” Many telecom operators think the same about [...]
WAC folded into GSMA as Apigee buys tech assets
The Wholesale Applications Community, a mobile operator alliance focused on the creation of a web runtime environment for device and OS agnostic mobile apps and the wide scale provision of network APIs to developers, has sold its technical assets to specialist firm Apigee. Meanwhile the GSMA has announced that it will absorb what remains of WAC, just two years after it was created.
Apigee to support Telefonica mobile APIs
US software developer Apigee, which specialises in the development and management of network APIs, has been tapped by Telefónica to lay the technical foundations for the carrier’s upcoming mobile initiatives.
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