Andy Abramson

Skype calls ARE getting better

October 12, 2007

Andy asks Are Skype Calls Getting Better. He says that he's seeing better quality calls from Skype, and that more and more people are saying the same. I'll add my voice to the mix. Not only is the quality better, but it's consistently better. Moreover, quality in no-headset situations has reached the point where I [...]

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StreamCast complaint thrown out

January 25, 2007

One of the more lurid stories of the VoIP business has come to a close, as U.S. District Court Judge Florence-Marie Cooper hasÂ dismissed the $4.1 billion antitrust lawsuit filed by StreamCast Networks against VoIP service provider Skype, eBay and more than a dozen defendants.Â It certainly made for great reading with allegations of racketeering, antitrust [...]

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Shooting at an OPEN NET

September 25, 2006

#1 VoIP Blogger Andy Abramson is calling for the creation of an Open NET initiative.Â He’d like to see institutions, like corporations, universities, and public institutions open up their networks for public permitted access.Â He wants to see limited public access available outside the corporate firewall. Great idea! In practice, many corporations already do this, [...]

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Sightspeed Goes TV

July 10, 2006

Om Malik has the scoop on how Sightspeed is adding video place shifting (a la Slingbox) to the Sightspeed video telephony client.Â Using a Media Center PC, and software from Sightspeed, video is shifted to a remote Sightspeed client elsewhere.Â Presumably that doesn’t have to be live video, either, since the Media Center PC might [...]

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