Intel boosts speech-enabled telephony

Voice controlled PDAs to ease mobile Internet use Intel has enhanced its Computer Telephony (CT) Application Development Environment (ADE) to help developers build speech-enabled telephony applications. It might not sound exciting yet, but read on. As the PDA/phone hybrid looks set to become the standard fayre for the mobile device fanatic, questions are being asked as to how much you can actually do on a device with such a small screen. ...more

Intel delays Pentium 4 processors

Dreams of a pre-Christmas Pentium 4 PC look likely to be shattered, as news filters through that Intel is running late with deliveries. PC manufacturers have complained to this news wire that Intel will renege on its promise to supply Pentium 4 processors by the 30th October. One research and development agent told us that only last week an Intel representative had promised availability by the above date. ...more

IDF Fall 2003: Intel introduces Compute Blade SBXL52

News on the enterprise front has been quieter this IDF (the Itanium 2 was launched at the last Spring IDF), with mobile processing hogging most of the limelight. There are a few things of note, however. For example, Intel has introduced its Enterprise Blade Server family, the first product of which is the Intel Server Compute Blade SBXL52. ...more

Nokia's 6340 allows true roaming

Nokia has announced its 6340 mobile phone that allows users to roam between GSM and TDMA networks. While tri-band GSM phones will work in the UK and elsewhere, you're still limited to GSM networks, limited though they are in, for instance, the US. The 6340 supports TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) networks, which are plentiful in the US as well as analogue networks. ...more

Digital art faces digital dark age

Although a growing number of artists use computers to create digital works of art, the ever changing nature of technology hardware means their digital visions could face obsolescence in just a few years. 'I often joke with my students that digital media will last forever - or for five years, whichever comes first,' said Richard Rinehart, digital media director at the Berkeley university's Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive. Digital art has broken into the mainstream with venerable institutions such as New York's Guggenheim Museum buying such works for permanent collections. ...more