Andy Abramson

Om has a post about Fonality getting $5 million in funding. They were on my panel last January at the Internet Telephony Expo in Los Angeles. It’s nice to see companies that aren’t in Silicon Valley raising cash.

Jeff warns of the pending double dip. Don’t be surprised if it’s more than the phone companies who start this approach. Why wouldn’t the wireless folks do the same. Are we entering an era where the onramps are toll roads and not freeways any more?

The more I see coming out about Video over the Internet, the more I think you will be hearing and seeing more of each other this year.

The day is coming. All get ready. Are you sensing a trend? Not only are other bloggers writing it, they’re all pointing to the signs of the VoIP to Mobile and Mobile to VoIP convergence occuring. This is a bandwagon I have been on for some time and really feel like eurovoip writes here that … Read more

In what must have been the most overlooked post in the VoIP world by those not at CES while the rest of us were, this Awath Heat Seeking Missive about the Skype Netgear announcement, Aswath “He’s Too Darn Smart” Rao has issued a warning about the new Netgear Skype WiFi phones before they are even … Read more

So after you become one of the biggest builders of cellular networks and the leading supplier of hardware and handsets in the world what do you do? You go out and disrupt the literal crap out of your customers. That’s what this post from Thomas Anglero at Telecom Tsunami has rightfully pointed out. There is … Read more

The VoIP Security Blog labels Yahoo’s Messenger VoIM, not real VoIP. So I guess Skype was that too before they added Skype In and Skype Out. Come on..VoIP is anything that carries Voice over the Internet. It doesn’t have to be SIP or Skype. It can be h.323, MEGACO or what ever flavor someone cooks … Read more

When I first started co-hosting the KenRadio World Technology Roundup back in the fall of 1998 with Ken Rutkowski, on what was then called TTALK.com, one of our most loyal listeners was Ken Cotton. An ‘uber geek’, Ken was already extolling the virtues of VoIP long before most others. I remember at some event in … Read more

Darn great post Jeff.

Om points to Earthling, a new clog (corporate blog–something I know a bit about as my agency recently began a project for Nokia, with similar goals, but with a different approach.) This is a page out of the Microsoft book, Earthlink style, of Robert Scoble’s approach for Microsoft. Do you realize, that behind Gates and … Read more