2008 Forecast: Data Portability Means Sharing is Caring

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 by Dawa Riley

Yesterday, Google and Facebook announced that they would be joining the Data Portability Workgroup. The workgroup was founded with the goal of creating a reference design document that contains the best practices for integrating existing open standards and protocols for maximum interoperability. Issues of data portability, openness and ownership of data ...

2008 Forecast: The Age of Disruptive Telephony Has Arrived

Monday, January 7th, 2008 by Kyle Outlaw

2008 has the potential to be a landmark year for '"disruptive telephony", a term used by Dan York and others to describe the impact of convergent devices and web 2.0-style application mash-ups on the telecommunications industry. Key indications of this trend can be found on the following fronts: Application ...