All posts by Alan Quayle

TADHack Location Winners

The winners from the 14 TADHack locations running around the world are reviewed in this weblog. The Global Winners are reviewed in this weblog. TADHack 2015 was roughly doubled the size of last year, with close to 1400 registrations, 800+ attendees and 90+ hacks. It was an intense experience for everyone involved. Cooperation between teams … Continue reading TADHack Location Winners

TADHack Global Winners

TADHack in 2015 was roughly double the size of last year, with close to 1400 registrations, 800+ attendees and 90+ hacks. It was an intense experience for everyone involved. This weblog summarizes the winners of the global prizes, we’ll review all the local prizes in another weblog. Cooperation between teams was amazing, diversity is important … Continue reading TADHack Global Winners

Eircom strives to assist web developers on real time comms

The telecommunications company Eircom, have teamed up with the TADHack Dublin organisers Kodacall and the TSSG to provide Irish web developers with the assistant they need to help re-imagine the humble phone call and what it means to communicate via a web/mobile application over the Internet. Brendan Kearns of eircom said “we are always looking at different ways … Continue reading Eircom strives to assist web developers on real time comms

Remote Entry Process and Newsletters

You can see all the old TADHack newsletters here, as well as join the mailing list. For those taking part in TADHack remotely, for submitting a remote video pitch the format is: 5 minutes maximum, this is a strict limit. Introduce you / the team (and team name if you have one) Introduce the hack … Continue reading Remote Entry Process and Newsletters

Turn to TURN before you have WebRTC Connectivity Problems with StreamStack

You’ve studied up on WebRTC, the sponsor APIs, and worked feverishly to getting your hack together. You’ve been running tests on your local machine and everything is going great, and think to yourself “this WebRTC stuff is easy”. You run some tests between machines on the local network and it works. WebRTC is magic! So … Continue reading Turn to TURN before you have WebRTC Connectivity Problems with StreamStack

Bandwidth and Telestax Team Up for New TADHack Prize

Bandwidth and Telestax have teamed up for a Bandwidth network powered version of Restcomm for TADHack.  For developers who are interested, Telestax and Bandwidth have pre-installed and configured Restcomm integrated with Bandwidth APIs for activating phone numbers, voice and messaging. Developers who build their hack on this deployment will qualify to compete for an added … Continue reading Bandwidth and Telestax Team Up for New TADHack Prize

Global Keynotes

This weblog reviews the global keynotes streamed live from Lisbon on the 13th June, all times are local to Lisbon. Please see here for the timings at your location. The keynotes provide a unique insight into the vision and experiences of the industry’s thought leaders. 13:00  Welcome from Alan Quayle 13:10 Jonathan Christensen, Co-Founder and … Continue reading Global Keynotes

Third Space Learning by Steev Goodwin

Third Space Learning aims to make specialist one-to-one numeracy tuition available to as many children as possible, in a format that is directed by Teachers. To achieve this we have taken a global approach to maths talent; recruiting and training Maths graduates from one part of the world, to help teach students in another. We … Continue reading Third Space Learning by Steev Goodwin

PSTN at LyteSpark by Igor Pavlov, CTO

LyteSpark is a video conferencing platform for businesses and communities. Both IT start-ups and established companies use 3rd party services, there are no general rules dictating when you should develop some modules yourself. However, there are some questions you might want to ask yourself before taking decisions: “Is this area our core competence? If not, … Continue reading PSTN at LyteSpark by Igor Pavlov, CTO