Andy Abramson

Jon Arnold is hosting a webinar today on the  topic of VoIP Peering. This is a very important area that impacts the future of VoIP.

The settlement with the record labels may mean that the founders of Kazaa and Skype are now able to come to the USA.

Maybe it’s just my Internet provider having a DNS issue, but since yesterday afternoon I have not been able to reach http://news.google.com or http://blogsearch.google.com. According to a reader in the Santa Barbara area, he’s experiencing the same problem, and has isolated the issue to Cox. This may explain why I haven’t been able to get … Read more

Finally, a judge who must be paying attention to Jeff Pulver and the rest of the bloggers on the subject of Net Neutrality and what consolidation really mean as to how it impacts competition.

Thanks to blogging pal Tom Keating at TMCNet, client SightSpeed is getting some early play on tonight’s release (9 PM PDT) of SightSpeed 5.0 which Om Malik broke the news on over a week ago. TechCrunch’s Neil Kjeldsen and PhoneBoy also jump in on the act as well with insight and viewpoints. I personally love … Read more

I was tipped off last night that Gizmo Project is doing a white label deal with SixApart that will allow users of Live Journal to contact their “friends” via IM and Voice using Gizmo.. Good stuff. This move takes VoIP and Presence to another level blending it in with blogging. In my estimation, it’s all … Read more

Well if they hadn’t already done up the music downloading, file sharing world, and then the telco world, now Niklas and Janus are up to rip apart the TV business. Om has a post that links to a Business Week article. These are exciting times….remember all the chatter about client SightSpeed last week? Well they … Read more

Tom has the jump on what looks to be a real dual mode phone that will also be coming out using Windows Mobile 5.0. I’ve also seen some notes floating around that there is a Swiss company due out with something similar.  The problem remains carrier’s allowing (or not) allowing access to the HLR to … Read more

Om waxes on about the hard times the MVNO’s are having. Well it’s their own doing mostly. Right now there are something like 13 or so MVNOs either live or about to launch, and for the most part they all offer the same thing. Phone service and some customized content. Helio is trying to offer … Read more

I’ll take two….(yeah and send Om the bill)