Andy Abramson

A very interesting web based for telephony followers called Spokn has launched out of India, that looks like a combination of GoogleVoice, Truphone and a SIP trunking provider.

Some of you will remember my Phweety, Joanna Stern, when the two of us had a voice call about 18 months ago over GoGO, back when they were saying “no way could you make a voice call” using Phweet. Or you may recall her from her Queen of the Netbooks role at Laptop Magazine where … Read more

The reports are swirling that Skype has been taken out of the Apple app store. Well I think otherwise. Here’s what I think: 1) Apple is revising its Terms and Conditions around 3G Voice. 2) Skype is preparing a 3G native application 3) The next version we see in the Apple App Store will be … Read more

After a short stint with Voxeo, Jay Phillips, perhaps one of the brightest young minds in telecom, has resurfaced with his Adhearsion blog. I hold Jay in the same class as Thomas Howe, Alec Saunders (iotum, Calliflower), Jonathan Rosenberg (SIP, CISCO and Skype), Vincent Paquet, Craig Walker (GoogleVoice), Michael Robertson (Gizmo), James Tagg (Truphone) and … Read more

The folks at Nerd Vittles have gotten uber geeky, and have fallen in love with how to make a marriage between Twitter and Google Voice. But unless you have an Asterisk server, you won’t need to read just how they managed to make Twitter a calling engine that fires up Google Voice to call you … Read more

Great story in today’s Wall Street Journal that explains why some walls make WiFi impenetrable due to Chicken Wire.

Great story in today’s Wall Street Journal that explains why some walls make WiFi impenetrable due to Chicken Wire.

A Texas company has released a product called DataJAck that is promising an unlimited amount of 3G data in the USA for $39.95. To top off the offer, they are claiming no activation or termination fees and no contract, you can turn the service on and off as you wish. It would appear they are … Read more

I read this very nice year in review on the Ribbit blog. It highlights all kinds of things, but after a year of being part of BT one thing we have yet to hear about is revenue and customers. In the space Ribbit competes in companies like Voxeo, ifByPhone (a client) and Twilio are all … Read more