Only unofficially, of course
By Bill Ray Wednesday 16th April 2008
Fring, the VoIP client that integrates with various VoIP networks including the ubiquitous Skype, is now available for the iPhone - providing exactly the kind of application that Steve Jobs stated wouldn't be allowed. Fring started out as a mobile client for accessing Skype, though the application now connects to all sorts of networks including MSN, Google pTalk and AIM, thus providing an identity-aggregator for mobile use. It's been available for Series 60 and Windows Mobile for a while, though the company still has no understandable business model as such. Skype has claimed that creating a mobile client, for anything other than Windows Mobile, is too technically challenging and that they are still working on it; though in reality it's probably more of a problem getting Skype's protocols to work over the mobile networks. Fring cheats somewhat by using its own protocol, which was designed for mobile use, and then providing a gateway into Skype and its brethren.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Dell jumps on the Barcelona bandwagon
AMD sees a flicker of hope
By Sylvie Barak: Wednesday, 16 April 2008
AMD said Dell is now offering five quad-core Opteron server platforms. The long-awaited chip has also finally received VMware certification. Dell coming on board and shoving Barcelona into its offerings, is good news for AMD, bringing the overall number of OEM AMD quad-core systems to 13. Dell’s website says its Poweredge servers are now chock filled with Barcelona. It has bunged the quad-core Opterons into its Poweredge SC1435, 2970, M605 blade server and 6950 platforms, not to mention in the Poweredge T605 tower server. With VMware completing its qualification of quad-core Opterons, AMD wants to become more of a data centre player in virtualised environments. Ever the optimist, Randy Allen, AMD server and workstation vice president, noted that Dell’s new Barcelona offerings, in combination with VMware’s qualification, " are important milestones for business customers looking for an ideal platform for virtualisation”. Better late than never, admittedly.
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By Sylvie Barak: Wednesday, 16 April 2008
AMD said Dell is now offering five quad-core Opteron server platforms. The long-awaited chip has also finally received VMware certification. Dell coming on board and shoving Barcelona into its offerings, is good news for AMD, bringing the overall number of OEM AMD quad-core systems to 13. Dell’s website says its Poweredge servers are now chock filled with Barcelona. It has bunged the quad-core Opterons into its Poweredge SC1435, 2970, M605 blade server and 6950 platforms, not to mention in the Poweredge T605 tower server. With VMware completing its qualification of quad-core Opterons, AMD wants to become more of a data centre player in virtualised environments. Ever the optimist, Randy Allen, AMD server and workstation vice president, noted that Dell’s new Barcelona offerings, in combination with VMware’s qualification, " are important milestones for business customers looking for an ideal platform for virtualisation”. Better late than never, admittedly.
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G45 has HD decode problems
To HD or not HD
By Charlie Demerjian: Wednesday, 16 April 2008
INTEL'S UPCOMING G45 chipset has a novel problem, it is broken out of the gate. Unlike it's G965 and G35 predecessors, this one is hardware based, not drivers. Actually, the G965 has both, but the hardware bug was pretty minor, so minor that Intel never bothered to fix it, so scratch DX10 on that part. G35 is a driver problem, and that will maybe be fixed soon so the DRM infested, malware ridden, broken OS will work in all of its polished glory. The problem with G45 is in the video decoders. We saw early silicon at CeBIT, and they did not demo that aspect of the chipset. We have now learned that the shipping step, A2, has bugged HD video decode hardware, and that just won't work on the initial release chips. There will be another spin, think 2-3 months out, that fixes this.
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By Charlie Demerjian: Wednesday, 16 April 2008
INTEL'S UPCOMING G45 chipset has a novel problem, it is broken out of the gate. Unlike it's G965 and G35 predecessors, this one is hardware based, not drivers. Actually, the G965 has both, but the hardware bug was pretty minor, so minor that Intel never bothered to fix it, so scratch DX10 on that part. G35 is a driver problem, and that will maybe be fixed soon so the DRM infested, malware ridden, broken OS will work in all of its polished glory. The problem with G45 is in the video decoders. We saw early silicon at CeBIT, and they did not demo that aspect of the chipset. We have now learned that the shipping step, A2, has bugged HD video decode hardware, and that just won't work on the initial release chips. There will be another spin, think 2-3 months out, that fixes this.
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