{"id":6618,"date":"2012-09-27T09:36:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T08:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=6618"},"modified":"2012-09-27T09:36:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T08:36:35","slug":"att-partners-with-twilio-to-offer-communication-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/6618-att-partners-with-twilio-to-offer-communication-apps.html","title":{"rendered":"AT&#038;T partners with Twilio to offer cloud communication apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telecommunications giant AT&amp;T has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.att.com\/gen\/press-room?pid=23354\" target=\"_blank\">partnered<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twilio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Twilio<\/a> to offer cloud communication apps through a web portal:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Powered by Twilio\u2019s cloud communications services and API platform, ACS offers a Web portal for AT&amp;T business customers to browse from a collection of voice and SMS-enabled apps \u2014 such as appointment reminder services, polling &amp; surveying data collection tools, ad-hoc workgroup calling &amp; messaging, business continuity, and geo-smart messaging. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When I read the announcement I was reminded of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/5415-telcos-have-a-dying-business-model-apis-and-cloud-services-are-the-future-says-alcatel-lucents-laura-merling.html\" target=\"_blank\">this talk<\/a> by Laura Merling at the Redmonk Monki Gras conference last year:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Her final prediction? \u201cJeff Lawson becomes the CEO of AT&amp;T. Why? Because the model has to change.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telecommunications giant AT&amp;T has partnered with Twilio to offer cloud communication apps through a web portal: Powered by Twilio\u2019s cloud communications services and API platform, ACS offers a Web portal for AT&amp;T business customers to browse from a collection of voice and SMS-enabled apps \u2014 such as appointment reminder services, polling &amp; surveying data collection &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/6618-att-partners-with-twilio-to-offer-communication-apps.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AT&#038;T partners with Twilio to offer cloud communication apps<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,56,80],"tags":[173,267,762,921],"class_list":["post-6618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-computing","category-mobile","category-software-development","tag-att","tag-cloud-computing","tag-redmonk","tag-twilio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}