Andy Abramson

Skype Future By Skype Journal

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Phil Wolff has casted an eye in the direction of a crystal ball and makes some 37 different predictions about Skype. The one I’m most interested in is regards the new leader. With CES coming up, and the company whisperers saying that they were down to the last two candidates prior to Thanksgiving, and now … Read more

VoIP Tops Best Way To Cut Costs Lists

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eWeek has a story that talks about how unified communications and VoIP are money saving efforts for business. That’s good news for clients like Junction Networks and Thomas Howe from the get go and for just about any company going after parts of any corporation’s budget.

The Pogies Are Announced

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The New York Times’ David Pogue released his list of the top 2007 techie products he likes. One of them which I’ve been using is the T-Mobile Hotspot@Home service that lets me connect my Blackberry to a WiFi network and then make and receive calls for free over my T-Mobile account regardless of where I … Read more

We Need More Bandwidth

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The editorial in today’s Boston Globe is a rallying cry for the need for increased capacity in order to fuel growth of Next Generation Internet applications and services, including VoIP and Video. It also means that many of the applications the mobile world wants to have that can make them more money will need it … Read more

Is VoIP In The Air?

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Rich posts about in flight WiFi and the potential banning of VoIP on the planes. First I’m old enough to remember the GTE Airphone and actually used it a lot in the90’s, especially when they had their $1000 a year all you could talk plan. Back then I was flying about every three weeks cross … Read more

When Will We See Adobe’s Pacific for VoIP?

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I keep hearing rumors over twitter and elsewhere about Adobe having a project called Pacifica. It’s supposed to be a Flash based platform which will have a SIP stack embedded inside. That means handsets with faster user interfaces, more compact and powerful processors may not be as necessary as some. It also is a great … Read more

We Need More Power

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LooseWire’s Jeremy Wagstaff reminded me of an ever present peeve that I have when I travel. Trying to find an open power outlet. This is really evident when I fly on SouthWest out of San Diego or Oakland where there isn’t an airline club to be seen. Its enough for me to sometimes even fly … Read more