Andy Abramson

Counterpath’s FMC comes to Slovenia. This is not really news, because I heard about this at MWC, but nonetheless shows that FMC is still alive and growing.

Have you looked at the price of Cisco’s Personal Telepresence that was announced today? $33,900 USD per seat That’s 22 years worth of SightSpeed For Business for a ten (10) seat pack. Granted SightSpeed is my agency’s client, but let’s get real and think about value and the budget. For every $33,900 a company can … Read more

Pal Aswath Rao has made his move into the Enterprise 2.0 space and submitted EnThinnai for the LaunchPad competition. The “autonomous communications” platform has been a passion and work of love by our very intelligent pal for a few years now, and if for no reason beyond sheer friendship, I want to see this get … Read more

Ribbit, which has proven it can do what Adobe can’t accomplish despite a never ending stream of product people running the voice business there, have formally unveiled there next level of efforts, as we reported last week.

I really like this post from Rich Tehrani. Rather than add more, just read it and draw your own conclusions.

For many in the wireless and mobile world, the name Jeff Belk is rather familiar. In San Diego circles he’s the recently retired Senior VP of Strategy and before that Sr. VP of Marketing at Qualcomm. He’s also a close personal friend. Today he debuted on Unstrung and shares some insights from a real wireless … Read more

Following up on my post of the other day, it seems now IDG’s Network World is on the same track and feels there won’t be another VON this year. According to this press release it looks like a cool $1.7 million was recovered from PulverMedia by TICC when they seized the assets as a secured … Read more

Pal Pat Phalen has launched TwitterPhone, a service that delivers dictated text messages via their mobile to be sent out to everyone on their Twitter social network. This makes access to the network of Twiters voice and phone capable. I’d say this is rather ingenious.

Om breaks a story about the death of XOHM, the rebirth of Clearwire and a lot of interesting partners.

This story by Om is rather interesting on the possibility of a global telco led initiative to compete with Skype. My take is that it would have a better chance of succeeding if the cable companies were involved, and not on the sidelines. Here in the USA they control more of the access than the … Read more