Andy Abramson

You read the headline right. I’m looking forward to Spring VON 2008 in San Jose even though 2007 Fall VON in Boston hasn’t happened yet. After catching up with Jeff Pulver over the weekend and hearing his vision and direction for the granddaddy of VoIP conferences it was rewarding to hear the energy and enthusiasm … Read more

It was nice to see Singapore based blogger James Seng write a post about VoIP even if he basically says nothing is new. Om Malik riffs on the theme presenting both sides of the coin. He’s right in my opinion about the price game. I’ve said for many years now that its about the apps … Read more

Its easy to think about Mig33 as VoIP play but after catching up with pal Jim Hudak at DEMO yesterday here in San Diego, I’m realizing there’s a lot more going on with the Redpoint backed company that was firing on all cylinders last winter at O’Reilly’s eTel. One of their most recent moves has … Read more

This morning I woke up and read how a CNET reporter had nothing but a less than exemplary experience with Vonage and switched to Skype. Yesterday one of my agency team members was pulling her hair out over the frustrations of trying to separate from the New Jersey phone company when she moved, with the … Read more

I’m looking forward to seeing the consumer and small business customer markets reaction to the new Blackberry 8320 that offers VoIP and WiFi from T-Mobile. While it will provide much of what I’m getting now with Truphone on my Nokia E61i, my instincts tell me that the single source provider will appeal to the later … Read more

A few weeks ago I wrote that friends in the Valley were just laughing at the idea of a company giving away advertiser supported VoIP, where the conversations are listened in on by some type of technology. Now it seems Silicon Alley Insider Henry Blodgett has the same opinion as he riffs on a New … Read more

3COM, a rival of Cisco, is intimating they plan to become a player in the SMB VoIP space. This is becoming the number one market that everyone is going after. It is going to come down to a few things in my view. Quality of product. Professionalism of the install team and ability to deliver … Read more

I get asked a lot to test new products. I do my best to test the ones that fit into my lifestyle, or as I get around to them. Over the past few weeks I’ve tested the new Jawbone Bluetooth headset. I really wasn’t that impressed, it was difficult to change the pieces that fit … Read more

Speakeasy + Best Buy + Geek Squad On paper this troika is a very good thing. One of the biggest issues all VoIP companies have is servicing the small business market on the installation end. The synergy being established here makes sense on paper. But it comes down to the execution. This story shows that … Read more

Alec’s post this morning shows that he really is in tune with what 2.0 is all about. His realization that Facebook is a great test bed for marketing new services is in total alignment with my viewpoints on how to effectively use new forms of media. Old line market research companies that struggled to blend … Read more