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DMB-receiving cellphone unveiled
LG Electronics unveiled the world’s first terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcast-receiving (DMB) mobile phone, and demonstrated its functions.
The phone adopts the DMB-receiving System-on-Chip (SoC) that the company developed last month. The chip enables the user to watch terrestrial broadcasts and at the same time talk on the phone.
LG has brought the usual home TV antenna function aimed at receiving VHF broadband DMB into the small phone.
The handset also adopts DSP (Digital Signal Processor)-based SoC, mobile phone-fit low power consumption and design technologies for making the device small.
“The terrestrial DMB phone, the first of its kind worldwide, adopts our own-developed handset design technologies and terrestrial broadcast-receiving chip, thus giving it competitive superiority in size, performance, and convenience in use,” Woo Paik, CTO of the company.
AMD releases new Opterons
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) managed to reduce the maximum thermal output of its newly released 90 nanometer Opteron server processors by 25 percent compared to the previous generation, the company says.
The 90nm version of the Opteron and Athlon 64 processors will consume 67 watts of power under maximum operating conditions, AMD said during a presentation to financial analysts at a conference. The 130nm Opterons consume 89 watts of power under maximum operating conditions.
AMD released the 90nm Athlon 64 desktop processors with little fanfare earlier this year, and chose to implement the same strategy for the 90nm Opteron chips.
The company released new 90nm Opterons in three categories.
Opteron 146 is designed for one-way servers and workstations, Opteron 246 and 248 are designed for two-way servers and Opteron 846 is used in four-way servers.
The x46 chips run at 2.0GHz, while the x48 chip runs at
2.2GHz.
Global channel conferences
Intel has announced the kick-off of the winter Intel Channel Conference (ICC) for resellers and system integrators. Officials say that the conference is a comprehensive series of training, networking opportunities and third-party vendor showcases. Currently, the conference is taking place in eight cities of the country.
“The channel is a key driving force for Intel’s continued business growth and in return, we are continuing to make strong investments to develop and build upon its success,” said Humayun Akhlaq, Channel Marketing Manager.
Targeted at owners, managers and technical personnel from Intel dealers premier providers, the conferences provide necessary information on the current state of the industry as well as roadmaps, strategies, and technologies for desktop, server, mobile and networking markets.
Yahoo plans desktop search
Yahoo plans to release the beta version of a desktop search application in January, as the giant web portal looks to catch Google Inc. and pass Microsoft Corporation in the search market.
Yahoo has licensed the technology from X1 Technologies Inc. which targets primarily professionals with desktop search software it sells for $74.95.
Yahoo Desktop Search will be X1’s first consumer-focused product. Yahoo and X1 are working together in building the Yahoo offering, said Josh Jacobs, president of X1.
Google introduced a beta version of its hard-drive search engine in October, placing pressure on its rivals Yahoo and Microsoft.
The latter company released a beta version of its homegrown search engine, MSN Search, last month, but the tool does not include desktop search.
Yahoo, on the other hand, is expected to focus its search tool on the desktop and on a subscriber’s personal information stored on the Yahoo portal, such as email, photos and calendar.
AOL browsing software
America Online Inc. is creating its own software for browsing the web and playing movies and songs.
AOL got its start as a dial-up internet service provider, connecting millions of first-time users with software that had to be installed on computers and often made some serious modifications to the operating system.
The browser’s core will be Microsoft Corporation’s market-dominant Internet Explorer. Though AOL financed an organization behind a competing browser called Firefox, the company stuck with IE so users won’t have to make “a leap of faith.”
AOL engineers are working to add such features as tabbed browsing, letting users open new web pages without cluttering the screen with new windows. Unlike tabbed browsing in the Opera and Firefox browsers, AOL’s will display a mini-version of the web page, or thumbnail, as users scroll over a tab. The browser will also have tools to thwart e-mail scams known as phishing and to index and search files on the user’s computer. — Sci-tech World Report
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