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November saw the publication of seven reports looking at M&A activity in CPaaS, product updates for Google Assistant and Cortana, and a couple of reports looking at digital healthcare transfo...

http://telcolatam.blogspot.com/2019/12/cpaas-google-assistant-cortana-news.html

October brought a total of nine reports including several company impact reports (Deltapath, Rammer.ai, Speakeasy.ai and Brightlink), analyst notes, spotlight reports and a deal analysis report o...

http://telcolatam.blogspot.com/2019/11/cpaas-speech-recognition-news-roundup.html

Vonage hosted an analyst event to coincide with its first user conference, Vonage Campus, the last week in October in San Francisco. The user conference was a good reason to host an analyst event...

http://telcolatam.blogspot.com/2019/11/vonage-analyst-event2019.html

Highlights in September include a Sector IQ report where we looked at M&A activity for speech technologies; and two deal analysis reports,one in CPaaS and one in speech technologies. We also ...

http://telcolatam.blogspot.com/2019/10/cpaas-speech-recognition-iot-news.html

We recently finalized the 2019 edition of our Workforce Productivity & Collaboration Market Monitor for communications platform as a service (CPaaS). CPaaS is a cloud-based platform that enab...

http://telcolatam.blogspot.com/2019/09/workforce-productivity-collaboration.html

Our production this month included company impact reports, user deployment reports and our coverage of two vendor events, Twilio SIGNAL and VMworld. Company impact reports this month included Spe...

http://telcolatam.blogspot.com/2019/08/bandwidth-twilio-intermedia-news.html

Next week I will be hosting a panel discussion at SpeechTEK '19, a technology conference focused on speech, voice, and AI. The event will take place at the Renaissance Washington DC Hotel in Wash...

http://telcolatam.blogspot.com/2019/04/speech-technologies-inside-enterprise.html

Slack's annual user conference wrapped up yesterday after two days filled with product and business updates. The opening keynote featured founder and CEO Stewart Butterfield and tennis star Seren...

http://telcolatam.blogspot.com/2019/04/frontiers-19-slack-is-expanding-as-core.html

Had a busy week in the West Coast, first with BlackBerry for their annual Analyst Summit in San Ramon and then rushing over to San Francisco for Slack Frontiers. I was tweeting and blogging throu...

http://telcolatam.blogspot.com/2019/04/blackberry-analyst-summit-2019.html

"Don't tell me what I'm doing right ... tell me where I can improve ... it's constructive criticism ... I'm competing with someone that is working as hard -or harder- than I am ..." great insight...

http://telcolatam.blogspot.com/2019/04/dont-tell-me-what-im-doing-right.html

Full house for opening keynote at #slackfrontiers #Collaboration #Workforce productivity pic.twitter.com/aPtAeUlVCU — Raul Castañon (@rcastanonm) April 24, 2019

http://telcolatam.blogspot.com/2019/04/slack-frontiers-kicks-off-today.html

Mobile Ecosystem Forum (MEF) just published an interview I did with them earlier this year at MWC in Barcelona. Below an excerpt from the interview, for the full text and video follow this link&n...

http://telcolatam.blogspot.com/2019/04/ott-messaging-apps-are-still-problem.html

In San Francisco this week for Google Cloud Next '19. This is my third time attending and every year it has significantly grown in the number of attendees, sponsors/exhibitors and speakers.&...

http://telcolatam.blogspot.com/2019/04/google-cloud-next-19.html

I attended Enterprise Connect again this year; this was my fourth time attending and probably the busiest ever. I had the opportunity to meet with many vendors including Poly (formerly Polycom/Pl...

http://telcolatam.blogspot.com/2019/04/enterprise-connect-2019-aws-google.html

451 Research has announced the Q1 2019 451 Firestarters award recipients. 451 Firestarters is an analyst-led program that recognizes exceptional innovation in the technology industry. A...

http://telcolatam.blogspot.com/2019/03/451-firestarters-award-recipients-for.html

Foldable phones and the promise of 5G dominated the headlines at MWC this year. 5G is not a new topic; it has been a headliner at MWC for the last two years. What's different this time is that ne...

http://telcolatam.blogspot.com/2019/03/5g-foldable-phones-and-promise-of.html

#MWC19 starting in one hour pic.twitter.com/nOx6JSWaWx — Raul Castañon (@rcastanonm) February 25, 2019 Excited to attend MWC for the fifth time. A lot of briefings lined up including Samsung, ...

http://telcolatam.blogspot.com/2019/02/mwc-2019.html

I had the opportunity to attend the Cisco 2019 Collaboration Analyst Summit in San Jose. This was very good timing on Cisco's behalf. The company shared upcoming updates that will be announc...

http://telcolatam.blogspot.com/2019/02/2019-cisco-collaboration-analyst-summit.html

Excited to attend the analyst summit for Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE) Connex '19 in Monaco. It is a special occasion as ALE is celebrating its first 100 years. This is my first time attending ...

http://telcolatam.blogspot.com/2019/02/alcatel-lucent-enterprise-connex-19.html

Apple made voice recognition mainstream when it launched Siri with the iPhone 4S in October 2011, influencing consumers' familiarity with voice-enabled applications. Our expectation was that huma...

http://telcolatam.blogspot.com/2019/01/ai-and-voice-enabled-applications-will.html

At its 2018 industry analyst event Vonage shared its progress in the past few years, highlighting its shift from the residential market to its current focus on business customers. Company executi...

http://telcolatam.blogspot.com/2018/12/2018-vonage-analyst-event.html

451 Research CEO Martin McCarthy recently announced the 451 Firestarters program at the Hosting & Cloud Transformation Summit. 451 Firestarters is an analyst-led program that recognizes excep...

http://telcolatam.blogspot.com/2018/10/introducing-q4-2018-451-firestarters.html

This week I attended the 2009 Latin America Mobile VAS Forum in Miami (June 8-10), with the participation of analysts, technology vendors and operators.The global economic downturn is, not supris...

http://telcolatam.blogspot.com/2009/06/mobilepedia-world-class-mobile.html

This is a draft of my presentation for the 2009 Mobile VAS Forum in Miami, June 9-10.2009 IBC VAS Mobile Forum LATAMView more OpenOffice presentations from Raul Castanon.

http://telcolatam.blogspot.com/2009/06/2009-ibc-vas-mobile-forum-latam.html

A recent article published by the New York Times (Jill Colvin, "You’ve Got Voice Mail, but Do You Care?", April 1st, 2009) announced the demise of Voice Mail and the rise of new technology and ...

http://telcolatam.blogspot.com/2009/04/do-you-know-your-voice-mails-full.html