Posts Tagged ‘Developer Garden’

Talk candy to me…using Tropo and Cumulocity

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013

Continuing on our recent post about a clever phone-enabled coffee machine hack comes another ingenious hack from our friends at Developer Garden. (We announced our partnership with Deutsche Telekom’s Developer Garden giving developers full access to the Telekom Tropo API last year.) Flexing that well-known German ingenuity, these developers created a phone-enabled vending machine app. Yes, you can now get your 4pm gummy bear fix by simply talking to the vending machine. You no longer have to scrounge for change or ask your coworker to borrow another quarter, simply call up your vending machine and just ask nicely.

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Tropo + #RaspberryPI = Delicious #coffee

Tuesday, November 27th, 2012

Continuing on our recent post about a nifty christmas light hack comes another fun hack from our friends across the pond at Developer Garden.  Last July we announced our partnership with Deutsche Telekom’s Developer Garden allowing developers full access to the Tropo API.   Recently the folks over a Developer Garden got together with some friends at Oracle for a “DIY Workshop” focusing mostly on Mobile-to-Mobile (M2M) devices.

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Tropo sprouts up in Deutsche Telekom’s Developer Garden

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012

Since we initially launched Tropo back in 2009, we’ve always held the view that mobile carriers hold a unique position in the developer ecosystem.   Beyond the obvious massive technology infrastructure that carriers employ that makes it so Grandma can easily pick up the phone and call you to say “happy birthday”, carriers also have other advantages like millions of subscribers, frictionless billing, and strong partnerships with mobile device manufacturers.

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