Andy Abramson

Check out the very long post that provides far flung insight into what’s happening in Mobile around the World in the Carnival of the Mobilists # 64.

Ted Wallingford has a very riveting post about two of the VoIP industry’s publicly traded companies, Vonage and Covad. The key point here is innovation and Ted picked up on that from the get go. Vonage has not innovated since their founding, and that was due to Jeff Pulver for the most part who had … Read more

I’m so happy that Phil Wolff and Jim Courtney survived the end of year drama that almost crippled one of the blogosphere’s most important assets. Skype Journal. With Stuart off starting a new venture and another former partner off in another direction there was a lot of concern by the blog pals that Skype Journal … Read more

Om wants to know the signs of being an uber-geek. I’ll be upfront an admit that I have all the same symptoms as Om around the Abramson abode. The biggest challenge is how to part with some of the stuff. You not only have to throw it away, you need to zap all the data. … Read more

Congrats are in order for all 100 companies on the just announced Pulver 100 for 2007. I know that Jeff and his team spent a great deal of time considering the potential candidates before making the final selections. With VON only a week away the announcement marks the start of VON Blur for those of … Read more

Are AT&T and Yahoo breaking up? Or are they going into a digital version of the seven year itch? The news media is a abuzz with stories about how the two companies are trying to figure out how to keep working with one another. AT&T, which once wanted to be their own portal has for … Read more

The Verizon lawsuit against Vonage resulted in an initial $58 million dollar award in Verizon’s favor. I suspect this matter is not going to be hung up here..but some heavy doses of Advil are needed at Vonage today. First off their stock took a hit, and while not down for the count, Verizon sure has … Read more

It was bound to happen. Skype looks like it is turning blue. ArsTechnica points out that Skype will be treading into the pay for play space for third party chatters like those in the phone sex business. Gee. If you combine Skype Prime with eBay’s Auction technology those darlings could auction off their time to … Read more

I have to admit my bias, as SightSpeed is a client, but once again, the sharp and talented folks at PC Magazine have awarded SightSpeed 6.0 an Editor’s Choice, their highest ranking. This comes on the heals of a very similarly positive review in PC World. Based on my chat with Ted Wallingford and PhoneBoy … Read more

This is about conferencing. Not the web based virtual kind, and not the video kind, but about the forerunner. The kind of conferencing that everything digital tries to replicate, but can not ever duplicate. At the same time this post is about the use of all the tools we need to confer with others, in … Read more