Category Archives: Voice Applications

Why Two Factor Authentication Should be a Part of Your Security Plans for 2013

Cyber security heats up this week at the RSA Conference with more than 20,000 people in San Francisco discussing President Obama’s recent executive order, the growing number of password hacks and how to protect your business against them. Twilio will … Continue reading →

Posted by twilio on February 25, 2013 Tagged , , ,

MyAKA Offers Private Numbers, Supports Non Profit To End Dating Violence

MyAKA helps users keep their private phone number private. Using Twilio Voice, MyAKA gives them a number they can use publicly and control privately on their phone. We talked with CEO John Skorick (pictured right) about MyAKA’s partnership with Break The Cycle, … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on February 22, 2013 Tagged , ,

Music Hack Day Recap: Bonhamize It, Saxophones As Keyboard Controls, Laptop Orchestras

You give developers 24 hours to hack at Music Hack Day and the next thing you know they’re controlling your computer’s keyboard by playing saxophone. Seriously, that happened. Music Hack Day challenged developers to build apps at the intersection of … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on February 21, 2013 Tagged , ,

Music Hack Day App Lets You Unlock New Tracks From Beastie Boys and Trent Reznor

Ian Rogers, CEO of digital music service Daisy, a new company launched by Dr. Dre didn’t go into Music Hack Day with a specific idea, but in 24 hours built a Twilio app with two very special musical guests. Maebe … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on February 18, 2013 Tagged , , , ,

Day in the Life: Being a Twilio API Software Engineer

Twilio is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the API team! We’re looking for someone who is driven to improve and maintain our API framework, and build new features for customers. You can find out more about the job here, … Continue reading →

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To Save The Poet of El Barrio, mGive Twilio and Heroku Join Forces to Launch Hotline

Dial (630) 4-A-Rhyme or (630) 427-4963  to listen to some poems. Text “poetry” to 80077 to make a $5 donation to support public poetry On Friday, February 8, I read a heart-breaking story in the New York Times. Jesus “Papoleto” … Continue reading →

Posted by Elise Ackerman on February 14, 2013 Tagged , , , ,

Bangalore Gets Down to Business (of APIs)

Over the weekend, Twilio participated in our first-ever developer event in India, supporting around 300 developers in the Business of API hackathon. 37 hacks were demoed, and we were very impressed with the results. As always, Twilio DOers led the … Continue reading →

Posted by Kevin Whinnery on February 13, 2013 Tagged , , ,

Hacking For Good: IDEO.org Cleans Up Kumasi With Twilio

Flying 7,500 miles from San Francisco to Ghana wasn’t new to Robin Bigio. He worked in Tanzania architecting new cookstoves and in Kenya building scalable water and hygiene businesses as part of IDEO.org’s Fellowship Program. But, Robin’s project in Kumasi, … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on February 12, 2013 Tagged , , ,

Our Mobile SDKs Just Got Better: Twilio Client iOS and Android updates

Today, we’re updating our iOS and Android Twilio Client SDKs. In addition to performance improvements, this release adds support for ARMv7s on iOS and x86 support for Android. To upgrade, just download our most recent version of the SDK and … Continue reading →

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