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- BuddyPress, an open source competitor to FaceBook
- At Today's WordPress Camp in San Francisco - covered in detail by ZD's Andrew Mager here - Founder Matt Mullenweg discussed impressive growth for WordPress.com and WordPress.org. Page views grew from 1.5 billion to 6.5 billion/month with 120-160 million unique visitors, including a third from heavyweight media...
- Tags: Facebook, Network, Open Source, Blog, Wordpress, BuddyPress, Andy, Blogging, Social Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-08-16
- First impressions of the Nokia E71, a QWERTY device for the business user
- Andy has been sending me Nokia Nseries devices to evaluate as part of the Nseries Blogger Relations program for almost 3 years now and today I was sent a device the branches out into an area that I am highly interested in and that I think relates even more directly...
- Tags: Device, Nokia Corp., Key, Nokia E71, Andy, Slip Case, Nokia Maps 2.0, Keyboards, Engineering, Hardware, Peripherals, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- Finally, Enterprise Service Buses becoming mass transit vehicles?
- In spite of the name, Enterprise service buses ESBs have typically have had more in common with limousines than mass transit vehicles. Now, reports are emerging that ESBs, long the subject of controversy and confusion, have shaken off their stigma as pseudo-proprietary systems that are only affordable to large enterprises...
- Tags: Security, SOA, Enterprise Service Buse, Andy, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Web 2.0, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-10-01
- VoIP security vulnerabilities demonstrated at Black Hat conference
- Several presentations at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas yesterday illustrated some of VoIP's security vulnerabilities.According to Forbes.com's Andy Greenberg, who was in attendance, the presentations documenented ways "in which cybercriminals can eavesdrop on VoIP calls, steal data from Internet telephony devices, intercept credit card numbers from...
- Tags: Security, Asterisk
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- Is security the SOA showstopper?
- A new report in InformationWeek by Andy Dornan calls SOA security "one treacherous journey."Vendors and committees have thrown a bewildering plethora of immature or incompatible security specs and solutions at usTreacherous indeed. SOA increasingly addresses services on both sides of the firewall, and therefore opens up the most critical business...
- Tags: Web Services, Standards Watch, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- 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: News
- Blog posts 2007-07-13
- Vonage's $3.99 a month offer to defectors would be huge sign of desperation
- Andy notes our fellow blogger Tom Keating's report that Vonage seems to be preparing a deal for defecting customers that would only charge them $3.99 a month to stick around for the following 12 months.When or if Vonage announces such a deal, they will portray it as a golden...
- Tags: Vonage
- Blog posts 2007-06-25
- Word of mouth marketing: It's all about love
- I do my food shopping at Stop & Shop a East Coast chain -- mainly because I can flip through the online weekly sales flyer. I click on the items that I want and they are added to my shopping list, which I then print. Now that you know, you may do your...
- Tags: Word of Mouth Marketing (WOMM), Web 2.0, E-communications, Customer Service, Blogs
- Blog posts 2007-06-05
- What makes a good road warrior hotel?
- I know Andy Abramson from working with him as part of the Nokia Nseries Blogger Relations program and love reading his VoIP Watch blog. Andy is a prolific blogger and also writes about his travels on his Working Anywhere blog. He just posted a very good blog entry that all...
- Tags: Ultra portable PC, Smartphone, On the road, Gadgets
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- Andy Oliver: New JBoss model not the same as Fedora
- In 2003 Red Hat discontinued its popular Red Hat Linux distribution, replacing it with Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL for commercial users and Fedora for more casual users. Now the company is planning a change for JBoss, the highly successful application server it acquired for $420 million last year. While...
- Tags: Linux, Commercial, Licenses, General, Community
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- Are VCs not sensitive enough to VoIP app marketing needs?
- Interesting thought piece from fellow VoIP blogger Andy Abramson about what he sees as a lack of sensitivity on the part of venture capitalists toward the specific resources needed to market of products and services they are evaluating for possible investments in.That concept seems to be especially sticking in Andys...
- Tags: Andy, Case Studies, General, trends
- Blog posts 2007-02-05
- New name for Apple's phone
- Andy has a thought-provoking post about just what is up with US carriers fear and loathing of WiFi thats worth a read if you are amongst those of us who use cell phones with data plans as modems or regularly use telco-provisioned WiFi.Ive had a devil of a time getting...
- Tags: Mobility, Hardware, Gadgetry, telephone
- Blog posts 2007-01-13
- 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: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Broadband Internet, Foldera, Andy Abramson, Andy
- Blog posts 2006-12-17
- VoIP's future: not just the phone call, but the applications
- Simplifying fellow blogger and friend Andys comments relating to assertions contained in a Computerworld article wrapped around some Gartner analyst perspectives: Andy believes that advanced Internet applications are necessary to push the IP Telephony space beyond 1.0 to a type of 2.0 world.True, there will always be users who...
- Tags: Andy, telephone
- Blog posts 2006-10-22
- RebTel, Jajah and others should know what they are up against
- Once again, Andy is right on target in his post about companies such as RebTel and Jajah that offer solutions that seem to sidestep traditional telephony calling infrastructures to offer attractive products and services.Andy indicates his reservations about the likelihood for success for such offerings "beyond simply user growth without...
- Tags: Andy
- Blog posts 2006-10-02
- Live from BarCampRDU
- 8:00am: I'm sitting in a room with about 150 guys and a couple women at the Red Hat campus in Raleigh, NC. So what would get me up so early in the morning on a Saturday? BarCampRDU. According to the web site, a Bar Camp is "an unconference where...
- Tags: Google Web, Google Web Toolkit
- Blog posts 2006-07-22
- The more profound transition at Intel
- The more profound transition at IntelAndy will still be aroundI have no doubt that Andy Grove will stick around Intel, and be available to advise Otellini. And I have no doubt Otellini will seek out his counsel. But Andy's now 69, and he has earned the chance to say, "I...
- Tags: Processors, Spellchecker, Otellini, Andy Grove, Intel Corp., Andy, Inhell
- Discussion threads 2005-05-19
- How the Mac was born, and other tales
- How the Mac was born, and other talesA brilliant quoteHey, there's this huge opportunity, things are shifting." And he kind of said, "No, they're not. Windows is going to be dominant for at least the next 10 years." I said something like, "Is it going to be the rest of...
- Tags: Desktops, vision, Apple Macintosh, Andy, Steve Jobs, Microsoft Windows, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-01-11
Additional Resources
- Gallery: Nokia N97 - your future netbook?
- Nokia rolled out its N97, a high-end smartphone with a 3.5 inch touch display, QWERTY keyboard and social location software to allow people to use Facebook, MySpace and other sites on the go. by Andy Smith
- Tags: Nokia Corp., Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Peripherals, Nokia N97, Nokia, Facebook, MySpace, smartphones, keyboards, Andy Smith
- Image galleries 2008-12-02
- Why Amazon needs Kindle 2.0
- Kindle-mania has arrived this holiday season -- but will it stay for good? In a recent article on Forbes.com, Andy Greenberg writes that Amazon's next e-reader won't be a game-changer, but it will keep killing the competition -- and that's why Amazon needn't upgrade its fabled gadget....
- Tags: Sony Corp., Apple iPod, Amazon.com Inc., Kindle-mania, Greenberg, Kindle, Digital Music, Digital Media, Wireless, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
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