Andy Abramson

Check out what Boingo is doing with the Apple iPhone. Now that’s smart coat-tail style marketing.

While I’ll never profess to be a numbers guy, looking over the press release about 8 x 8’s earnings today shows that last quarter they turned a profit. That was their first ever quarter since launch five years ago. On the surface they also seem to be reducing cost for customer acquisition and are also … Read more

The FCC’s decision to open up the 700 mhz spectrum to non carrier approved devices is great news for many companies in the VoIP business in my estimation. Given how 2.0 type communications could proliferate in the newly awarded spectrum this opens up all kinds of doors for everyone from applications developer, handset designers and … Read more

It looks like the folks at Kayote Networks are growing their business nicely. The company, has taken a very smart approach and added customers to their technology platform that is really a virtual softswitch.

Belgium based SipCat, a voice 2.0 company has started to blog, much like the folks at clients Junction Networks, PhoneGnome, iotum, Truphone and GrandCentral as well as our friends at Global Crossing and SightSpeed. Blogging as representatives of the company or as David Beckemeyer, Alec Saunders and SightSpeed’s CEO Peter Csathy do as individuals, but … Read more

Ok, I bit. I decided to take Om’s lead about ooma and despite my concerns that were only reinforced by a back channel thread led by some of the brightest minds in VoIP blogging that Om started, I was willing to give ooma a shot. That was until I got to the very last stage … Read more

Ok. I can buy into the idea of Packet8 (a public company) getting some of the SunRocket action. Now I just read that a new startup called Teleblend has “acquired” the rest of the SunRocket assets.

When you’re down and troubled and need a helping hand…..don’t look at Vonage for help. Its one thing when you’re known as a nice guy type of company to make statements that point out the reasons for the failures of others. But it’s another to kick the dead dog around. Alec points out how a … Read more

Kudo’s to Rich for breaking the story. Here’s the release today, five days later.

Jeff Pulver is putting money and ideas where his mouth is in his lead off post for Monday. Fueled by last week’s ooma announcement and fresh off a panel, Jeff is talking about disruption. Two summers back I coined the phrase “Me Too, Me Also, Me Different” when asked to present to AOL. Jeff is … Read more