Andy Abramson

Skype Should Share the Wealth

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Martin has an interesting idea for skype. SHARE the wealth. Since I have always looked at Skype as an arbitrage play, both on minutes and on cash hoarding of unused minutes, I don’t see this happening too soon. Not until the First National Bank of Skype is set up, ala eBay and PayPal.

Infonetics Declares VON Show Best In Class

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Much like the Motor Trend “Car of the Year” award, this is more for industry bragging rights, so congrats to Jeff, Carl, Scott, Jonathan, Jason and the whole PulverMedia crew for winning the award and besting Supercomm. I have to agree. Everything at VON events makes it an easy recommendation for me. From a very … Read more

Disruption Ready To Happen

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With a high quality audio codec and a softphone all of a sudden voice at no cost (i.e. Skype, Yahoo Messenger) becomes a very interesting proposition. Imagine the idea of this Junxion Box with Skype or Yahoo Messenger as the way to talk back to the mother ship. With unlimited data for 80 dollars a … Read more

GIPS Not As Hot As They Are Trying To Appear?

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Erik has a very keen insiders view of the software market given his founding activity with XTEN and his relationships are very solid. Given all that he knows, Erik is in an ideal position to make the comment he has about the reality of what may be GIPS business model and the looming competition.

Gizmo Adds More Features

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GizmoProject, something I like, and appreciate while it’s still in Beta, has added some features. The selective announcements and music are great ideas and provide some differentiation from Skype. I won’t be surprised if Yahoo adds some of these before Skype gets around to it. Om has some comments about the Mac aspects of Gizmo. … Read more

Getting It Almost Right

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Hat tip to Russell Shaw on his attempt at analysis of the Keynote VoIP Study, that was reported on widely this past Monday. Shaw has analyzed the analysis and come up with some conclusions, but as I discussed with the Keynote team last week, there remains two huge and fatal holes to the study. On … Read more

Comments Welcome Once Again

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With the update of TypePad and the TypeKey technology comments are again welcome, however I am choosing to moderate them, rather than let them run wild until I see how this works out. Thanks for your patience.

Bell South Talking To Vonage?

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A loyal reader tipped me to Internet Telephony’s Rich Tehrani having the jump on the possible buy of Vonage by BellSouth. The price of $3.5 billion seems almost excessive and for 800,000 customer or so, no real in house technology, a team that would largely go bye bye after acquisition, I don’t see the value. … Read more