Andy Abramson

An interesting concept, only flawed by the initial boxy design and the need for more flair, but the idea and thoughts going into this remind me of the undersold Flybook of a few years ago.

Belkin and Boingo have beaten NetGear to the punch on a cool Boingo HotSpot bundle. At the 2006 CES Skype Press Conference with Netgear I posed the question to Netgear CEO Patrick Lo about the possibility of having a deal with Boingo and The Cloud, the two Skype Zone partners. I also posed the same … Read more

For weeks both Ken Camp and I have been gently prodding Peter Csathy about adding an easy to publish video blogging component to SightSpeed. Well, since SightSpeed is an agency client, I’m thrilled at Ken’s reaction and would rather he take the kudos. VoIPGirl makes her video debut and Luca has something to say as … Read more

Russell Shaw has a very good case study in this month’s VON Magazine about client, WebDialogs and their Unyte solution that rivals and in many ways does more than other web conferencing solutions. Give it a read.

Client MyNuMo, who along with iotum, are two of the first companies in the AOL AIM PhoneLine Developers Program got some pretty snappy press coverage, being named one of the companies to watch in the 2007 Trend Report over at TrendWatching.com which is based in the Netherlands. With MyNuMo users become producers of ringtones, ringback … Read more

Last week at GadgetFest in San Diego, GrandCentral walked away with the honors as the GadgetFest champ. This marks the second year in a row where an agency client, not from the San Diego area, but from the East Bay has won. PhoneGnome was the champ in 2005 along with SlingBox. While Ken Rutkowski and … Read more

UPDATED: Pal Jeff Bonforte got to me today to help set the record straight. Yahoo wants to and is able to Interop with all the 1.0 phone companies and the 2.6 billion devices they ring each day. Yahoo has no plans to shut down the Voice efforts. Jeff says Yahoo is heading towards what he … Read more

If you don’t read the Mercator Capital Newsletter you’re missing some of the best insight around. This month’s issue is chock full of news that you should be reading. One of the companies featured is BridgePort Networks a company we have been rather high on since they started.

Pal Shel Israel keeps us all reminded that Talk Is Cheap these days.

Longtime technology journalist Paul Kapustka will join GigaOm today, Andy Abramson’s VoIPWatch has learned. While Kapustka will continue to serve Vonosphere in some ongoing capacity, the former CMP Advanced IP Pipeline story breaker joins Om Malik’s GigaOm as Managing Editor. P.S. Did everyone catch Jeff in the International Herald Tribune?