Andy Abramson

Martin Geddes in a post over on Skype Journal explains why Vonage is a bad deal for investors.

It’s got to only be a matter of time before the hackers, crackers and snoops all go to work on cracking the Skype algorithim, assuming no one has yet done it. Of all places, the Village Voice, New York City’s counter cultural journalistic icon issues the challenge. They point out that because Skype is in … Read more

If these phones from Switzerland come to fruition and get released they may be some of the cooler devices to let you roam between GSM and WiFi networks seamlessly and make VoIP calls when you’re in areas where WiFi is stronger than the cell signal.

iotum is also an agency client, and it’s rewarding when leading global publications start to take notice about stories we all have watched percolate first in the blogosphere. Yesterday I found that the Financial Times’ Paul Taylor has taken notice of iotum and their Demo performance as has Network World’s Dave Kearns who relates their … Read more

I tend not to blog first about my agency’s clients like Popular Telephony and prefer to draw attention to other bloggers. Ken Camp has started his reflective look at the new Peerio Biz platform as has Tom Keating. So too did Keating’s sidekick, Greg Galitzine, the Editor of Internet Telephony Magazine. There are a few … Read more

Jeff Pulver is moving more and more into being a next generation media conglomerate. Besides some of the best conference and trade shows around, he’s adding rich content to the PulverMedia universe with video and audio podcasts. Check them out.

Looks like the UK version of the FCC, Ofcom want their carriers to add emergency services reachablity to VoIP players offerings.

Om has a long post about Open Source Telecom up today. Basically it’s about more disruption in the space and how the big guys are going to be sweating big time if they don’t wake up. My guess. They don’t wake up until its too late. Why? The old guard has to preserve their perks.

Now you can pay for Skype services like VoiceMail, in and out in more currencies.

Maybe it’s because I know Michael Robertson and he’s a neighbor. Or maybe it’s because I know SipPhone Prexy Jason Droege since his days with Scour.net, but within 24 hours of pointing out that Gizmo Forward wasn’t working to call internationally, the problem got fixed. It had more to do with one of the carriers … Read more