VoIP client comes to millions more mobile devices
by Ian Williams, 09 Jan 2009
Skype has released a new beta of its software for Google's Android operating system, Java-enabled handsets and Intel-based mobile internet devices (MIDs). The VoIP firm said that the move follows a successful public testing of an earlier beta on a limited number of phones, and builds on feedback from the trial. The updated beta now makes Skype's software broadly available to millions of mobile users worldwide, including in the US for the first time. The Lite version lacks the ability to make video calls, but offers all other core Skype features, including contact presence, Skype-to-Skype calls and instant messages, as well as Skype-in and Skype-out. Calls and messages can be made over Wi-Fi or a mobile data connection. "Making the Skype experience available for download to Android-powered devices, as well as hundreds of other mobile phones from the world's leading manufacturers, is a major step forward for Skype," said chief operating officer Scott Durchslag.
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Friday, January 9, 2009
AMD launches ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4000 series
By Tim Smalley 9th January 2009
CES 2009: AMD has announced the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4000 series graphics cards for notebooks this morning at CES. They bring everything that was great about the Radeon HD 4000 series to notebooks in all shapes and sizes. The ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4800 series cards pack 800 stream processors like their desktop siblings and deliver up to one teraFLOPS of compute power. They also support CrossFireX technology, GDDR5 memory and DirectX 10.1 amongst other things as well. “We’re proud to highlight ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4870 as the first notebook GPU to support specially designed, ultra-high bandwidth GDDR5 graphics memory to unleash the full-throttle gaming experience normally reserved for the high-end desktop gaming rigs,” said Rick Bergman, senior vice president and general manager of AMD, Graphics Products Group. "Now, notebooks equipped with one or a pair of these speedy graphics processors can take on just about any PC game and run them smoothly at their maximum option settings."
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CES 2009: AMD has announced the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4000 series graphics cards for notebooks this morning at CES. They bring everything that was great about the Radeon HD 4000 series to notebooks in all shapes and sizes. The ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4800 series cards pack 800 stream processors like their desktop siblings and deliver up to one teraFLOPS of compute power. They also support CrossFireX technology, GDDR5 memory and DirectX 10.1 amongst other things as well. “We’re proud to highlight ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4870 as the first notebook GPU to support specially designed, ultra-high bandwidth GDDR5 graphics memory to unleash the full-throttle gaming experience normally reserved for the high-end desktop gaming rigs,” said Rick Bergman, senior vice president and general manager of AMD, Graphics Products Group. "Now, notebooks equipped with one or a pair of these speedy graphics processors can take on just about any PC game and run them smoothly at their maximum option settings."
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AT&T exec says he's open to free TV on phones
By Peter Svensson Jan. 9, 2009
The head of AT&T Inc.'s consumer business said Friday that he believes there may be room for phones in the company's lineup that can receive new digital broadcasts from local TV stations, if a business model can be worked out. TV stations in 22 U.S. cities announced this week at the International Consumer Electronics Show that they will start broadcasting signals this year in "mobile digital TV," a format designed to be received by devices like cell phones, MP3 players, GPS units and in-car entertainment systems. At least initially, these signals will likely be free to receive, just like regular over-the-air broadcasts financed by advertising. But the two largest wireless carriers, AT&T and Verizon Wireless, already sell phones that are compatible with MediaFLO, a rival mobile TV broadcasting system run by Qualcomm Inc. It provides 10 channels for $15 per month. "I don't think we're necessarily opposed to (mobile DTV) even though we have MediaFLO," said Ralph de la Vega, AT&T's president and chief executive of Mobility and Consumer Markets, in an interview.
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The head of AT&T Inc.'s consumer business said Friday that he believes there may be room for phones in the company's lineup that can receive new digital broadcasts from local TV stations, if a business model can be worked out. TV stations in 22 U.S. cities announced this week at the International Consumer Electronics Show that they will start broadcasting signals this year in "mobile digital TV," a format designed to be received by devices like cell phones, MP3 players, GPS units and in-car entertainment systems. At least initially, these signals will likely be free to receive, just like regular over-the-air broadcasts financed by advertising. But the two largest wireless carriers, AT&T and Verizon Wireless, already sell phones that are compatible with MediaFLO, a rival mobile TV broadcasting system run by Qualcomm Inc. It provides 10 channels for $15 per month. "I don't think we're necessarily opposed to (mobile DTV) even though we have MediaFLO," said Ralph de la Vega, AT&T's president and chief executive of Mobility and Consumer Markets, in an interview.
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