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What are your favorite road warrior tips, tricks, and tools?

I've been working with Andy Abramson for a few years now with the Nokia Nseries Blogger Relations program and enjoy reading his VoIP Watch blog. Since last October Andy has been working primarily on the go as he has some renovations made to his home and since the tagline of...

Tags: Phone, Mobile, Road, Blog, Tool, Andy Abramson, Productivity, Blogging, Internet, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-07-28

Andy Abramson: give me these features and I'll be a happy road warrior

Prominent VoIP blogger, wine connisseur, entrepreneur, and publicist Andy Abramson is also a technology enthusiast when it comes to communication tools and technologies.Today he is out with a 15-attribute tech and amenities pointer for hotels who want to please the business traveler.  "What A Global Nomad Wants To Work In...

Tags: Predictions and Observations

Blog posts 2007-06-04

Nomad wish list for hotels

Andy Abramson posts a list of 15 things hotels can do to better serve digital nomads who stay with them on his Working Anywhere blog. Andy logs more miles than just about anyone I know and, like me and a few of my nomadic buddies, always has a variety of...

Tags: Productivity, Mobility

Blog posts 2007-06-04

Working Anywhere - dinner meeting in Paris

Andy Abramson tells a great story on his Working Anywhere blog about how he conducted a dinner meeting with a decided twist. The borders are evaporating and the walls are tumbling friends. I dont want to be a spoiler by saying too much about the meeting... click through to Andys...

Tags: Blogging, Andy Abramson

Blog posts 2006-12-23

Andy Abramson on Working Anywhere

In my work at Foldera, Ive had the great fortune to get to know and work with Andy Abramson. If you have any serious interest in VoIP and mobile technologies, you probably have his VoIP Watch blog in your aggregator. Andy has just announced a new project called Work Anywhere...

Tags: Andy Abramson, Foldera, Marc Orchant, Mobility, Productivity

Blog posts 2006-12-17

Yahoo! Voice a casualty of company re-org?

Andy Abramson reads some reasonably definitive tea leaves and concludes that Yahoo! is de-emphasizing the Yahoo! Voice component of Yahoo! Messenger. Yahoo! Phone In, which I show you above, is an example of a Yahoo! Voice service. The ultimate manifestation of that de-emphasis would be the removal of the...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., yahoo, trends, General

Blog posts 2006-12-06

VoIP helps turn long-distance romance into engagement

In the new issue of Southwest Airlines Spirit Magazine, fellow VoIP blogger Andy Abramson is quoted as saying he wouldn't have gotten engaged without his Internet phone.The quotes come in the context of an article in which Andy was interviewed about VoIP by writer Heather Millar.Although the full article is...

Tags: Andy Abramson

Blog posts 2005-08-04

Additional Resources

Turn your iPod touch into a VoIP phone with Truphone

I've talked about the Truphone VoIP solution here on this blog a couple of times in the past and have had it on my iPhone for several months. Now that my ZDNet Smartphones & Cell Phones blog focuses on phones you may be asking why I am posting about a...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Phone, Apple iPod, Apple iPod Touch, VoIP Phone, Fring, Digital Music, Telephony, Digital Media, Telecom & Utilities, VOIP, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-12-04

MobileTechRoundup show #142, Is the line blurring between feature phones and smartphones?

James and I started off MobileTechRoundup show #142 with our thoughts on the MWg Zinc II Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional device and then Kevin joined in to talk about Windows Mobile and the apparent lack of excitement for the platform. Usability is becoming quite the topic of conversation in the...

Tags: MobileTechRoundup, Phone, Mobile, Smart Phone, Podcasts, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-08-04

Rest in peace Russell Shaw; We'll miss you

Rest in peace Russell Shaw; We'll miss youThis is truly very sadThis is truly very sad. It is a great loss to his family and to our family here at ZDNet blogs. My heart goes out to Russell Shaw's family. We will all miss you Russell.Sincerely,George OuRE:...

Tags: Vertical industries, Blogging, VOIP, Russell, Shaw

Discussion threads 2008-03-16

Cisco to Combine Google's Android, UC and Enterprise 2.0

Cisco to Combine Google's Android, UC and Enterprise 2.0But why not through WebEx???Andy Abramson commented on this blog (thanks for the link love, Andy!) and had an astute comment and pointed out that Cisco's moves are outside its WebEx franchise. He attributes that to WebEx egocentric attitude. You can read...

Tags: Combine Google, Cisco Systems Inc., Enterprise 2.0

Discussion threads 2008-02-11

Vonage makes two smart customer service moves-oops, sorry, that's Vonage UK

Vonage UK has made two announcements this week that seems to indicate someone over there is on the ball with regard to customer service. First, Dan Connor announces in his independently owned and run Vonage Forum's Digest that: Vonage UK and inQ...

Tags: Customer, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Customer Service, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Product Marketing, Russell Shaw, Skype Technologies S.A., Software, Vonage Holdings Corp., Vonage UK

Blog posts 2007-11-28

First impressions of the Nokia N81 8GB; music now ROCKS on a smartphone!

It has been a few months since a device was sent for evaluation through the Nokia Nseries Blogger Relations program and I was looking forward to checking out one of the new Nseries devices, a Nokia N82, N81, N95-3, N95 8GB, or N810 Internet Tablet. On Thursday I arrived home...

Tags: Device, Nokia Corp., Keypad, Smart Phone, Video, Music, S60, Corporate Communications, Smart Phones, Games, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2007-11-17

Video conferencing solutions urged to adapt to mobile-centric world

My friend and colleague Andy Abramson sounds some insightful and original riffs off a piece by Steve Adubato that appeared in the Newark, N.J. Star-Ledger this weekend. The premise of the piece is that video conference platforms such as Cisco's Telepresence (shown at...

Tags: Mobile, Video Conferencing, Video-conferencing, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-10-14

Andy gets married

I am so much more than pleased to report that my fellow VoIP blogger Andy Abramson got married yesterday.When the event was over, Dr. Helene Malabed was transformed into Dr. Helene Malabed-Abramson. That'd be Mrs. Abramson on first meeting (unless the meeting has a medical purpose, whereupon propriety would dictate...

Tags: Helene Malabed-Abramson, News, Russell Shaw, VoIP

Blog posts 2007-07-13

First Look: TalkPlus Mobile S60 client

There are some very good Voice 2.0 services available to help you be more productive and efficient in your work and one company that I chatted with back at CES in January is TalkPlus. I tried out their TalkPlus Mobile service late last fall and in the winter, primarily using...

Tags: Voice 2.0, Symbian, Smartphone, S60, Nokia, Mobile software, mobile services

Blog posts 2007-06-25

My hunch: Vonage's silence could mean looming private equity deal. And then....

Fellow blogger Andy Abramson notes that Vonage- they of the new press release every day- has been awful quiet on that front for at least the last two weeks.Andy thinks, as do I, that this could mean something big is up. After all, why put out flotsam that some...

Tags: Vonage, SprintNextel

Blog posts 2007-06-22

Gizmo Project log-in delays?

Fellow blogger Andy Abramson writes that some of his Gizmo Project log-in attempts have been taking a rather long time as of late.He mentions thatJason Droege, who is President of Gizmo Project creator SipPhone, attributes this to growing pains and the increase in users they are seeing.Andy sees these...

Tags: Gizmo Project

Blog posts 2007-06-15

Skype over BlackBerry IM session from Boston's Fenway Park

Note: Since this post is about BlackBerry as well as Skype, I've decided to replicate this from my VoIP blog. Skype Journal’s Jim Courtney writes that last night, he accomplished successful Skype IM connections over his BlackBerry.Jim was in Boston’s Fenway Park, and he was conversing with his buddy and mine...

Tags: BlackBerry Software

Blog posts 2007-06-14

Skype IM over BlackBerry? Success with IM+ for Skype!

Skype Journal's Jim Courtney writes that last night, he accomplished successful Skype IM connections over his BlackBerry.Jim was in Boston's Fenway Park, and he was conversing with his buddy and mine Alec Saunders. Alec's in Ottawa.Jim used  IM+ for Skype Software, which costs $25. Of course add SkypeOut calls to...

Tags: BlackBerry, Skype

Blog posts 2007-06-14