Andy Abramson

I received a new Jawbone Bluetooth headset yesterday. Here are my observations. 1) Cool design 2) Hard to set up. Changing the ear buds are a pain 3) The ear loops are also a challenge and flimsy. One that I configured snapped. 4) I got it to pair with the Mac but I could not … Read more

IBM has moved big time into the collaboration space this week. First they grabbed client WebDialogs, then they cut a deal with Siemens. These two moves are putting them head to head with Microsoft. Now, the next step. They end up working with Google and use the Google hosted applications package as their mass front … Read more

In the last sixty days two of my agency clients, first GrandCentral and now WebDialogs have been bought by giants. I couldn’t be happier for Lou Guercia and his team at WebDialogs. I first met Lou at the Skype Developer’s Conference in Las Vegas in early summer of 2006. A few months later we started … Read more

The last time I stayed at the Renaissance Hollywood I had a solid and very positive broadband experience. Not today. The speeds were awful. The packet loss and jitter were off the charts in a bad way. Imagine 14 percent packet loss and what’s more over 300 ms jitter. That’s not good at all.

Ironically, I started on this post on Saturday, but being my wife’s birthday weekend, I left this sit. It seems Om was thinking along the same line and penned his piece which I hear has a lot of the hedge fund types and Wall Street sharpies questioning eBay the same way in their minds. When … Read more

As GrandCentral’s agency on asymmetrical communications we’ve shared moments of joy, and felt the trials and tribulations one experiences with a high flying, highly successful service, sometimes forgetting, or almost not realizing, the service is really still in Beta because it works so well. This is partially due to one of the great qualities about … Read more

As the time goes by more and more people are privately and publicly questioning what I have labeled “the Great Skype Out” event last week.

“On Thursday, 16th August 2007, the Skype peer-to-peer network became unstable and suffered a critical disruption. The disruption was triggered by a massive restart of our users’ computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they re-booted after receiving a routine set of patches through Windows Update.” “The high number of restarts affected … Read more

In my view these stats about UK business VoIP adoption only mean one thing. Future growth. I say that because BT is taking a lot of steps to make VoIP more a reality throughout the UK by enabling out of market numbers which will be a boon to call centers and small business that wants … Read more