Andy Abramson

Like with any offspring, you take pride when the child starts to take its first baby steps. That’s the way I’m feeling today after reading Ken Camps’ very warm hearted approach post about the new Covad Blogger Relations Program. If the tune sounds familiar its because the program is my company’s third client in the … Read more

Minute Stealers…..

Alec Saunders dusts off his math books, comes up with some stats and basically tells the carriers, especially the mobile operators that presence and apps like his own TalkNow that works on the RIM Blackberry so well, that the greater the presence data, the more completed calls and in turn more minutes. It reminds me … Read more

Leave it to pal Mr. Blog to come up with a cool “status” symbol for PhoneGnome users. Could that be the next Jim Courtney’s New Presence story?

I’ve been hot on eTel ever since uber-brainiac Surj Patel (he’s an MIT Media Labber) was on the phone with me last summer talking about his vision. Alec and David are both hot on it and for good reason. The event is about starting things up.. While the other shows are where the big boys … Read more

Make a point of checking out Jeff Pulver’s new Network2 promo..It even looks good on EVDO rev A!

WiFi NetNews has a nice summary of the state of WiFi on the rails. In my view railway based WiFi is a great way to preserve the environment. As someone who regularly has taken the train from San Diego to Santa Barbara or L.A. or into SF from Sacramento having an EvDO connection has been … Read more

“Oh yeah….” those of you who ever watched WWF will remember Randy “Macho Man” Savage and his famous “Oh Yeah” line that he would use just as he started an interview. Well, that’s kind of what I’m expecting at the Mashup Mania event that O’Reilly’s crew has put together next week at the eTel conference … Read more

When I read VoIPLowDown’s post about the top fifty VoIP gadgets I had a flash back to the “Joe the beer man” who for many years was a seller in the Spectrum in Philadelphia. Joe would walk the aisles selling beer, and at crucial times would put his tray of beers down and lead the … Read more

Jim Courtney of Skype Journal has taken the plunge and is working his way through the concept of “the New Presence” and has focused his initial efforts around client iotum’s Talk Now application which I must admit is pretty neat. Since getting my new Blackberry 8700 (I’m on T-Mobile so the 8800 is a while … Read more