Andy Abramson A dear friend came up from San Diego for some wine related business yesterday and was all excited about tasting a bottle of Washington State wine made by Charles Smith and his K Vintners project. Smith, who is as as outgoing as Randall Grahm, is a true wine personality on every level. Much like the … Read more
Last Wednesday, I broke the news that Sonus and Genband are getting hitched. Today the announcement came out to make it official. Why does this feel so much like the Nokia-Siemens deal to me? Why is this feeling like some jobs are going to be lost? Why most of all does this feel like customers … Read more
If there's a region or two in the Northern Rhone that is under appreciated it's either Crozes-Hermitage or St. Joseph. Both are capable of producing incredibly age worthy reds from Syrah, and mind blowing whites from Marsanne and Roussanne, but the reds are overshadowed by the likes of Cornas, Cote-Rotie and Hermitage, while the whites … Read more
Sooner or later its going to happen. Just like we saw pricing wars in voice years ago, SMS has remained a very lucrative market for mobile operators. But with the arrival of companies like mBlox, Mach, Syniverse we saw the first wave of non telco sellers of SMS and MMS services. And then we saw … Read more
MAY 19 – ISSUE #87 Google I/O, which provided a month’s worth of news in a few days with all the new and updated efforts from the Mountain View giant is over. ZD Net and Axios both have concise wrap ups for those who are interested. The really impactful news … Read more
Rumor has it that Sonus and Genband, two long time legacy VoIP players are getting hitched. While this has been talked about before, it seems to be gaining steam once again. At the end of the day Genband has lots of legacy pieces and parts, and their KANDY WebRTC platform has been not much of … Read more
By Andy Abramson Yesterday, the Santa Barbara Vintners Road Trip stormed Los Angeles for a trade tasting that was a chance to meet, taste and talk about the wines they are producing and selling this year. Usual suspects Margerum, Qupe, Hitching Post/Hartley – Ostini, Andrew Murray, Brander, Foxen and Ampelos were all there, as was … Read more
MAY 15 – ISSUE #83 Could Y Combinator’s Sam Altman be in the running for Governor of California? As a state which has seen actors ascend to the top spot at least twice, don’t rule it out….Telco operation 8×8 adds more Reguslocations around the world…Lyft plays let’s make a deal…Those stories … Read more
Last night the "Weekend Flight Club" gathered for some home made Indian food and wine. The evening started off with two really tasty Rose wines, as May for me, is when you start to dig into Rose and enjoy them for as long as you can. Up first was the stunning 2016 Domaine du Mourchon … Read more
TechCrunch broke the news on what I'm going to name, "ALEXA CALLING" a new feature from Amazon for the Echo line of digital assistants. Now a few hours later the service is up and running. Clearly, it's a first generation service, and in many ways it's nothing new, just Novel. Right now the service is … Read more
