Microsoft tries to spark Telco 2.0
InternetNews | at | by Mike
Microsoft today announced a new contest in the hopes of sparking development of new Web 2.0-type applications for the telecom market.
The Redmond, Wash.-based software behemoth expects that the impetus from this competition will blow fresh wind in the sails of its Connected Services Framework.
CSF is essentially middleware that enables telecommunications service providers like Nortel and British Telecom to aggregate, or mash up, different types of services. Microsoft began shipping CSF to operators three years ago, but according to Andy Chu, group manager for planning and strategy in the Microsoft communications group, its customers have been slow on the uptake.