Andy Abramson

A must read story about where money is in VoIP can be found in Mobile Business from the UK.

While I’m awaiting my Medion UMPC that is supposed to be here this week or next, it seems the Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg got to play with a pre-release model of the Samsung Q1 Ultra. His comments both in the video and in his column makes one realize that this is not a device … Read more

If you want to cut down on hardware bloat the new Alcatel mobile phone may be one answer. Featuring a USB web cam, the new phone can likely be used, once tested, with Skype and SightSpeed. This is perfect as laptops become smaller and don’t all have the built in web cams like MacBooks do.

When you look closely at the stats around Fiber to the Home/Premise/Curb and the markets the RBOCs are going after, you have to realize that the roll out map isn’t where there’s a lack of broadband. It’s going right after the customer who already has it. The cable market’s existing customer base. That’s because the … Read more

Both GigaOm and Voxilla have stories about the deluge of new hardware from all the major players presently in Beta that will work with Microsoft’s Office Communications Server. You will note that like almost all the VoIP players which have commercial services up and running, that Microsoft has put its weight behind SIP, not gone … Read more

Skype is announcing a new retail distribution channel partnership with Wal-Mart, in which a number of Skype Certified devices (webcams, handsets and headsets) and the first pre-paid cards for Skype ($20 Skype Credit and a three-month subscription to the Unlimited Calling plan for $8.85) will be sold in more than 1,800 stores in the U.S. … Read more

I remember when the crap around LesWeb3 hit last year. I was in Paris with my fiance Helene, and we were having coffee at the Columbus Coffee House with VPOD.tv founder Rodrigo Sepulveda Schulz and he explained all the commotion around Loic (who was also invited to join us for breakfast.) After hearing the facts … Read more

I keep hearing rumors that Yahoo’s crew is hard at work at delivering a Jajah killer service based on a lot of the architecture that was acquired in the purchase of Dialpad. Given how slow Yahoo has been at updating Messenger on the Mac, and how little really has been added beyond more integration on … Read more

Vonage is making news and noise about the patent workaround. In my view it is really 2Little2Late. I espouse that simply because Vonage’s troubles are far greater than patent woes. First, the last quarter their chrun was up, and new activations down. At the same time the cable MSO’s continue to report record signups for … Read more

One of the little known secrets for years was that Microsoft was one of Level3’s VoIP customers. I remember talking back in 2005 to Level3 execs (many now departed) about MSFT being a VoIP customer. They were amazed as all MSFT did was run voice over their data network for XBOX Live, without telling Level3. … Read more