New Tech & Services
New Tech & Services

InterVideo Delivers MPEG-4 Solution for 3G

InterVideo, Inc., a pioneer in advancing DVD and MPEG-multimedia software technology, announced today that its Mobile Player and Mobile Studio will support major cellular phone operating systems (OSs) on Texas Instruments Incorporated’s (TI’s) OMAP(TM) processors, including Symbian OS(TM), Windows Mobile(TM), and Linux(R). InterVideo will demonstrate its technology on both TI processor lines on handsets at the TI booth during the 3G World Congress and Exhibition, which is being held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, November 16-17, 2004.

QUALCOMM Expands Product Portfolio With New WCDMA 3G Solutions

QUALCOMM Incorporated, pioneer and world leader of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital wireless technology, today announced the Mobile Station Modem(TM) (MSM(TM)) MSM6255(TM) chipset and system software to enable cost-effective WCDMA (UMTS) and GSM/GPRS/EDGE solutions. QUALCOMM has extended the success of the commercially available MSM6250(TM) chipset to deliver the MSM6255 chipset, a highly integrated multimedia solution for WCDMA and GSM/GPRS/EDGE networks worldwide.

Habbo Hotel Coming to Japan Mobile

Habbo Hotel Coming to Japan MobileFrom the Tokyo Game Show, in which long-time Tokyo mobile entrepreneur Neeraj Jhanji, builder of the first (and probably only) IM i-mode client for AOL, provides WWJ subscribers with an exclusisve look at his Until Now Very Quiet Plans (indeed, a working demo) to create a mobile version of the globally überpopular Habbo Hotel community service… er… site… or whatever it is. OK — it’s a networking community for digierati burnt out on traditional RPG shooters. In any event, Habbo’s mobile potential is huge (we think) and Neeraj is likely one of the few who can make it happen.

Dai Nippon Printing Uses ARM Technology to Develop Java Card OS

Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. (DNP), one of the world’s largest printing companies, and ARM (Nasdaq: ARMHY; LSE: ARM), today announced that DNP has developed a evaluation version of a Java Card(TM) OS based on the ARM(R) SecurCore(TM) SC200(TM) processor. Embedded with a multi-tasking kernel, DNP’s Java Card OS can run real-time multiple applications, on a priority basis, with maximum security. The Java Card OS can be developed as an embedded security device for server, multimedia mobile phones, and the sample product will be delivered in the fourth quarter of 2005.

Samsung Unveils New Smart Chip

Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest maker of computer memory chips, said Tuesday that it has developed the world’s highest-capacity smart cards with wide-ranging applications for high-end mobile phones. The company said it had introduced the three memory cards with smart-card functions at an industry trade fair, Cartes Paris 2004, with the aim of becoming the world’s biggest smart-card vendor.

TruVideo, Beijing DG Telecom in Mobile Video Partnership

Beijing DG Telecom, a mobile applications and infrastructure provider, has announced an agreement with TruVideo, a Berkeley, California, based company specializing in mobile video solutions, to provide mobile video applications for the greater Chinese mobile market. Freeverse Partners, a Tokyo based company specializing in assisting foreign companies in Asian mobile business development and strategy, facilitated the partnership.