Andy Abramson After almost six weeks in Europe, with stops to see clients and company executives I advise in no less than four countries (UK, Spain, Austria and France) I feel very good that I was really able to combin both business and pleasure over my much too short two week vacation with my wife. We got … Read more
Skype was sent a warning by Peter Csathy, on his blog this week, explaining why Skype, which is currently using the ON2 codec should be worried after Google acquired them. Google is also using parts of Vidyo and video technology from client GIPS, and sometime back purchased a company with video expertise out of Scandinavia. … Read more
Pal and Sorenson Media CEO Peter Csathy has interviewed the CEO of Fuze (the company formerly known as CallWave) on his blog this week as part of a series of CEO interviews. His post gives some good insight to what’s been happening over at CallWave, one of the companies with great ideas in the past, … Read more
TechCrunch’s fearless leader Michael Arrington is reporting that Mark Andressen’s venture fund is looking to be a part of a larger consortium of investors that wants to buy Skype before eBay spins it out as an IPO. While this could be a short term win for eBay, a company that I’m convinced has the blind … Read more
As TMC Publisher Rich Tehrani was waiting for his flight at JFK to head to the west coast for the annual fall IT Expo, he and I exchanged a series of emails about this year’s event in Los Angeles which is shaping to be one of the best IT Expo’s ever in recent years. Rich, … Read more
Services like “Google Voice. Online apps. Netbooks. Apple’s tablet. Videoconferencing. E-book readers. Social networking for business. These are digital nomad-enabling trends” writes Australian an Australian blogger. I agree. These are what keeps people on the go connected and in touch.
With now almost three months of operating from various places in Europe and with more than almost sixty percent of my time load this year spent traveling or being in either the UK, or just being on the road at home, I’ve found that for both professional and personal reasons I’ve spent a lot of … Read more
Over the years Yahoo Messenger has been really at the forefront of desktop video, and overlooked by many. Even former client SightSpeed, and now Skype, all got the big kudos from the press, as has of late newcomer ooVoo. But all along the folks at Yahoo always just smiled and kept going along their merry … Read more
Time Magazine, known for their annual person of the year, has published a list of the top fifty web sites for 2009. It’s a very compelling and eclectic list of sites that is worth more than a passing glance. What has me excited though is one of my clients, who advisory board I sit on, … Read more
I must say, the number of CallVantage users out there who are not in the AT&T footprint but are happy with their provider amazes me at this point. Despite zero marketing the last few years the service that AT&T’s new masters from SBC killed (only to have another group now working on a replacement of … Read more
