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Truphone Extends Reach With IM, Twitter & Skype Integration

January 6, 2009
Michael Graves
mobile, VoIP

Truphone issued a couple of press releases today. The first release announces full interoperability of IM with MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger and GoogleTalk in its iPod Touch and iPhone applications. They have also integrated Twitter into the TruFriends view of the Truphone application.

In the case of GoogleTalk users can also make and receive voice calls using the Truphone application. Similar voice capability is in the work for users of MSN Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger.

David Pogue On VoIP & VoWifi (amongst other things)

January 5, 2009
Michael Graves
mobile, Telco, VoIP

New York Times Gadget Guru David Pogue gives a presentation including VoIP, VoWifi, Skype, T-Mobile, voice mail, cell carriers Apple, the iPhone and Google. He's funny, too!

Major Malady Afflicting iPhones?

July 13, 2008
Michael Graves
Telco

Tom Cross over at TMC has a cute post about his dead iPhone. This is curious as my boss went down to the local iStore to buy a number of iPhones for his family. He found that while several worked…

Now That The HD Disk War Is Over….

May 5, 2008
Michael Graves
HDTV, Video

It certainly appears that HD-DVD lost. But it also appears that Blu-Ray did not win. Yes, this was a classic lose-lose situation. For all it’s back room dealing Sony may blow this in the end.

Blu-Ray sales peaked for a few weeks in January but have since slumped. Consumers just may not see value in the price of the players or the media. Ars Technica has the details.

Wait, the price of Blu-Ray players has actually been on the rise since Toshiba conceded the battle! Even I, who still has a first generation Toshiba HD-XA1 HD-DVD player, won’t be buying a Blu-Ray player any time soon. They’re just too expensive.

BluRay vs Apple TV vs HD Cable vs SD DVD

February 14, 2008
Michael Graves
VoIP

iLounge has a very interesting post comparing these various home entertainment delivery mechanisms. It considers resolution, bit rates, availability and pricing. I'm not certain that I agree with some of their assumptions. They seem to think that Apple TV with…

HD Downloads From iTunes

January 20, 2008
Michael Graves
HDTV, Video

It’s Sunday afternoon here in jolly (but exhausted) old England. I just caught a post by George Ou at ZDNET called “Don’t believe the low bit-rate ‘HD’ lie.” It’s right on the money about the reality of downloading HD content as proposed by Apples new iTunes service.

There’s more to HD than spatial resolution. Just as a cheap digital camera might take pictures with a lot of pixels and nonetheless turn out lousy images. Bit rate matters, even given consideration for various compression schemes.