Andy Abramson

Talqer is trying their best to stay ahead of Google, even if Google doesn’t share every detail to folks in the press. Talqer is doing their part to be better than Google Talk.

Skype will be easier to use and less tethered with the roll out of Motorola Talk & Tunes Wireless Internet Calling Kit. It works via Bluetooth or a USB adapter to do the translation over to BlueTooth. No word though if it works on a Mac.

The Mac Observer has Apple entering into the VoIP arena with the iPhone. It would be very smart for Apple to jump into VoIP. If any company can take the concept of Fixed Mobile Convergence and tie it to Mobile VoIP on a consumer level, it’s Apple.

Virgin Mobile and NTL have agreed to merge. This is on the heels of NTL snapping up TeleWest Cable and Broadband a few weeks back. This brings Fixed Mobile closer to reality in the UK.

Vonage has posted an open position for Director of Investor Relations. This is a position that normally is only for public companies and would be a sign that they plan the public offering to happen. On a related note, a long time industry Field Level VIP related reader tells me that two of Vonage’s sales … Read more

It’s clear that the mobile carriers are doing their best to keep as many minutes on their networks by hook or by crook. Dean Bubley, one of the better and free thinking mobile analysts has spent a lot of time covering the mobile/fixed mobile convergence space and weighs in with an opinion. His closing point … Read more

Jim Courtney has a good wrap up of Day One at VON Canada. Despite it being a smaller footprint in show size and number of attendees, what’s clear to me is that the VoIP world lives beyond the borders of the USA and the one constant in all of the VoIP action is Jeff Pulver … Read more

Ryan Single of WiredNews has an account on the Z-Fone software. It is very revealing and provides SIP based callers a way to keep things more secret, even wth Gizmo that already has it’s own secret code!

If you want to know what’s happening in D.C. with the David Isenberg Freedom to Connect Event you can listen to the stream here.

VON Canada is underway. Reports are that all things are going as planned. Client Alec Saunders delivered the Monday Industry Insight. His company, iotum also announced a key development around the Relevance Engine technology for Asterisk users. Already the blogosphere is noting the importance of it with comments from the more technically inclined VoIP bloggers. … Read more