Andy Abramson The Comunicano Daily The past week has been a blur. Coming off the holiday weekend which because I'm in Australia and a day ahead meant a six day weekend and that really piled things up. Conference calls using a combination of Calliflower, Voxeet, UberConference, GoToMeeting, WebEx and Skype. … Read more
Just about two weeks ago I was attending the ITU Telecom World where I joined Dean Bubley's panel and then moderating the TADS Summit in Bangkok, Thailand. Bangkok is an interesting place and my mobile experience, not only with a SIM but seeing how mobile centric that part of the world is, even more than … Read more
Jajah is being shut down. Jajah was acquired about five years back for the inflated sum of a reported $207 million dollars by Telefonica. The purcahse was intented to give Telefonica a deeper involvment in VoIP and then enabled them to take over the operations of Yahoo Voice when Yahoo basically started to ween itself away from … Read more
I'm in Melbourne, Australia for the week. Working from here, in a nice one bedroom hotel apartment in the Fitzroy section of town. Fitzroy can best be described as the Mission in San Francisco meets Venice Beach in Los Angeles. Very hip, trendy, not far from the cool kids and loaded with coffee shops and … Read more
The Comunicano Daily As the Holiday Weekend is about to begin that means travel so the item below about Carry On Bag Mania which I was quoted in, again demonstrates how being quick to provide commentary secured the lead quote in the story. This is a wake up call … Read more
The Comunicano Daily for Monday November 25 2013 Hello from Sydney Australia. Here's a story with a happy ending. I left my iPad in a cab here in Sydney and realized this as I was having my first sip of a stunning Alsatian Riesling at the Wine Library last … Read more
I recently put mysefl on a silly diet. The kind of diet that my friends of long standing will cause their heads’ to whip around and ask, “okay, what did you do to the real Andy.” You see, for long term health reasons I’ve decided to go very, very carb light and as much as … Read more
The Comunicano Daily Recently I was asked by one of the writers at ProfNet to help explain Google's New Helpout service demonstrating that knowledge leadership and a stead presence online leads to media seeking you out as an expert. Replying quickly with key points it led to … Read more
The Comunicano Daily-Special Sunday Edition Hello from Bangkok in Thailand where I'll be representing the USA and Comunicano at this year's ITU Telecom World Congress where along with the master Disruptor, Dean Bubley, I'll be on a panel on the subject of Telcos and OTT (over the top) communications. Now that's … Read more
Bangkok may be one of the last places you would think is where the future of telecommunications would be happening, as it's not exactly where one thinks of as a tech hot bed. But the 2013 ITU Telecom World is there, and that's where the newly minted TADS Summit will also be held. While the … Read more
