Andy Abramson

Either GIPS could lose one of their biggest customers if Intel sways Skype away. Then again this could just be Skype being like Dell or HP that love to play Intel versus AMD.

Level3 has been spending a lot of time the last 18 months working on understanding the desires of the consumer market. As a result they’ve been busy feeding their customers like Packet8, AOL and probably Skype with all kinds of market research. At the fall Internet Telephony show Level3’s Cynthia Carpenter, VP of Consumer Voice … Read more

Mark Evans has a note about SiPPhone being in play. I think he’s right. I’m hearing rumors about the venture being sold too. My guess though is either Yahoo, Google or don’t be surprised, even Microsoft could be the buyers. There is also the possibility that the sale could be to SingTel.

My late father who served in the US Marines in WWII and the Korean War taught me when I was young that there are two ways you carry a gun. One is holstered or ready to fire. The analogy to the FCC’s decision yesterday is they went from ready to fire, to being holstered. With … Read more

Skype continues to improve their PocketPC version. An evaluation version is now out. MSMobiles has the details. The key here is VoiceMail. I just hope this version will work with BlueTooth headsets.

Seems my comment to Chris Rhodes about my impending wedding makes for good copy. Pals (and fellow Blog Panel members @ Fall Von) Jeff Pulver and Om Malik made mention of it yesterday. That’s what the Blogosphere and LinkLove is all about. Thanks Guys!

Hat Tip to PhoneGnome inventor David Beckemeyer on this story on CMPnetAsia that has one of Forrester’s analysts talking about VoIP not really being all that it could be.

An IDC report indicates that the VoIP business segment will grow and that features are a key driver. This has to be good for companies like CallTower, Covad, XO a few of the better business VoIP providers in the hosted IP-PBX market.

A great article about other Voice on the Net usage was in today’s Wall Street Journal. Chris Rhodes did a sensational job with the story and I was thrilled to see my romance with Helene seems to be newsworthy. In the story there were some great examples of other uses of Voice on the Internet … Read more

A Coors Field home-run club member writes “i found the google talk developer page interesting, http://www.google.com/talk/developer.html. They talk of not only SIPPhone but also Eartlink VLing… I guess they figure if they can get IM traffic going through their servers then they can make it searchable and serve ads. Also interesting that is is only … Read more