Cisco Offers Enterprise Digital Media System

Cisco Systems introduced a new product set to enable enterprises to more easily use business-quality, dynamic video and audio. The Cisco Digital Media System allows users to create, manage and deliver live and on-demand digital media in various formats to multiple wired or wireless connected devices. It was developed in Cisco's Emerging Markets Technology Group, an internal venture team that focuses on innovation in adjacent markets beyond Cisco's traditional networking audience.The Cisco Digital Media System comprises three product lines:Cisco...

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Intel and DIRECTV Show STB Design

Intel and DIRECTV previewed an upcoming digital set-top box with integrated digital media adapter (DMA) functionality verified to work with Intel Viiv technology. The unit will provide the ability to record and view 200 hours of standard definition content or 50 hours of MPEG 4 high-definition programming. DIRECTV's new set-top box, the DIRECTV Plus HD DVR, marks the first time a major service provider has endorsed an integrated DMA deployment in...

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Intel's Tera-Flop Chips and Future "Mega Data Centers" with Million-Plus Servers

The coming decade will see the arrival of a new wave of online software services hosted by "mega data centers" with more than a million servers, predicted Intel Senior Fellow and Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner, speaking at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco. This new power will allow people to access personal data, media and applications from any high-performance device to play photo-realistic games, share real-time video...

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Jazz Semiconductor to be Acquired by Buy-out Firm

Jazz Semiconductor, an independent wafer foundry primarily focused on specialty CMOS process technologies, has entered into a merger agreement with Acquicor Technology Inc., a publicly traded firm focused on acquiring businesses with technologies that can be positioned advantageously in the market. The all-cash deal is valued at $260 million.Jazz Semiconductor was initially formed upon the contribution to Jazz of Newport Fab, LLC by Conexant Systems Inc., together with a $52 million cash investment in Jazz by The Carlyle Group for a controlling...

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JAJAH Promises Free Global Calls from Mobile Phones

JAJAH, a venture-backed VoIP start-up based in Mountain View, California, is unveiling a Mobile Suite that will allow consumers to make free long-distance and global calls directly from their mobile phones. JAJAH establishes phone-to-phone connections through the Internet for cheap calls. The process is simple: callers type in their own number (landline or mobile) at http://www.jajah.com/ , and insert their desired destination number. JAJAH then...

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SIRIUS Introduces Stiletto 100 Portable Satellite Radio

SIRIUS Satellite Radio announced the availability of Stiletto 100, the company's first live portable radio, featuring WiFi, Yahoo! music purchasing software, and the ability to save music for playback later. The Stiletto 100 allows users to store up to 100 hours of SIRIUS content in three ways:Automatically recording hours of 100% commercial-free music from listeners' favorite SIRIUS Satellite Radio channels; Scheduling recordings, of up to 6-hours...

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Nokia N95 Combines GPS with HSDPA

Nokia introduced its N95 , an all-in-one multimedia computer with a 2-way slide concept, integrated GPS functionality, a 5 megapixel camera and support for High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) mobile networks.The 2-way slide concept makes it easier to switch between different modes, going from reading maps to watching a video with a simple slide. A numeric keypad slides out from one end of the device while dedicated media keys slide out from...

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WiMAX Forum PlugFest Tests Mobile Interoperability

The WiMAX Forum's first public mobile WiMAX Forum PlugFest brought together 21 members of the equipment development and operator communities. The showcase, which hosted by Bechtel Telecommunications at its Training, Demonstration, and Research (TDR) Laboratory in Frederick, Maryland, kicked off on September 24, 2006 and will conclude on October 1.Participating companies include: Accton Technologies, Adaptix, Airspan, Alcatel, Altair Semiconductor,...

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Chelsio's 3rd Gen Adapter ASIC Integrates NIC, iSCSI, RDMA and TOE

Chelsio Communications introduced its third generation Ethernet protocol acceleration engine, integrating NIC, iSCSI, RDMA and TOE with wire virtualization functionality to enable convergence of storage, clustering, and networking applications onto a single unified fabric. The Terminator 3 (T3) ASIC runs full wire-rate 10Gbps at less than 5% CPU utilization. It combines NIC, iSCSI Target and Initiator, industry standard iWARP RDMA, and TOE functionalities with integrated dual 1 GbpE / 10GbpE ports and both native PCI-Express and PCI-X 2.0 / 1.0...

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