Truphone Announces Winners from ClueCon 2014 Dangerous Demos

LONDON, Aug. 19, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Truphone, the world's first global mobile operator, hosted Dangerous Demos, a competition of the most risky and entertaining technology demonstrations, at ClueCon 2014, an annual telephony and voice over IP developer conference in Chicago on Wednesday, Aug. 6.

Dangerous Demos were started by Truphone's Head of Research, James Body, to identify new and emerging technology that can eventually be deployed by Truphone or other carriers and mobile operators.

"The idea behind the Dangerous Demos series of competitions really evolved from Truphone's own history," said Body. "When we started, we debuted our own technology in risky, challenging and unproven ways, such as making the first live, public mobile VoIP call on Nokia phones in 2005 at the VON Conference in Stockholm and then on the iPhone in 2007 at DEMO in San Diego. Today, much of the technology that we debuted first as a live demonstration was at the time considered impossible, but now is possible. And we're deploying some of that today in our own Truphone network and inside our flagship service, Truphone World.

For this year's ClueCon Edition, James Tagg, Truphone CTO and founder, and James Body, head of research and development, vetted the cream of the crop in the developer world awarding the riskiest, most entertaining and audience favorite competitors.

"Dangerous Demos at ClueCon reached a new high this year, thanks to the stellar group of competitors assembled, including some of the finest voice and web developers surrounding telephony and real time communications," said James Tagg.

Truphone awarded glass trophies with etched depictions of the most recognized buildings and structures from all 8 Truphone Zone countries in three categories.

• Riskiest Demo - awarded to Silent Circle's Phil Zimmermann, creator of the Blackphone for iOS and Android.
• Most Entertaining Demo – awarded to Ben Klang of Mojo Lingo for his incentivized interactive language instruction service built upon an Interactive Voice Response system.
• Audience Favorite Demo – awarded to Emil Ivov of Bluejimp SARL for Jitsi Video Bridge. 

"Demos that are done live are always very dangerous for the presenters," said Brian West, organizer of ClueCon 2014. "Truphone's efforts to have the best of the best push the envelope to the bleeding edge shows us today, what we'll all be doing with our phones and tablets tomorrow."

To learn more about Dangerous Demos please visit www.dangerousdemos.com and follow #DangerousDemos on Twitter.

ABOUT TRUPHONE
Truphone is the first mobile operator in the world without country borders. Truphone achieves this via its unique GSM network and by providing people with multiple international mobile numbers on a patented single SIM card.

Bundles of voice, text and high speed data work across the Truphone Zone, which includes, Australia, Germany, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, USA and the UK. Beyond the Zone, Truphone World offers subscribers the same rates for voice, text and data in 66 countries and serves people in over 200 countries, with regional bundles that provide predictable costs and higher quality network performance in key business areas including, Asia Pacific, Europe and North America.

Headquartered in London, Truphone has 10 offices across 4 continents and continues to expand globally. Clients include FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 companies across multiple sectors.

To learn more, visit www.truphone.com

ABOUT CLUECON
ClueCon is an annual telephony and voice over IP developers conference started in 2005 by the FreeSWITCH core developer team. The conference brings telephony developers face-to-face with each other and with interesting new start-up and enthusiasts alike. ClueCon is the very best opportunity to get under the hood of many telephone related products and learn from the actual developers who made them possible. For more information, visit https://www.cluecon.com.

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