Sony launches worldwide video over IP service

Sony is to launch what it claims is the world's first IP-based video call service. Based on its own technology and that of GlowPoint, the company says it can offer video calls to anywhere in the world. Sony says that the IVE (Instant Video Everywhere ) service is as simple to use as making a phone call. ...more

Motorola claims display breakthrough

Motorola has unveiled a new video technology, which, it claims, will enable the manufacturing of large, flat panel displays with superior quality, longer lifetimes and lower costs than current offerings. The company's research arm has demonstrated a 5in colour working prototype based on its proprietary Carbon Nanotube (CNT) technology. Carbon nanotubes are extremely thin (one nanometer in diameter, about 10,000 times smaller than that of a human hair), hollow cylinders made of carbon atoms. ...more

The highest quality TV (signal) yet seen on a PC

Graphics card manufacturer 3dfx has released details of its new Voodoo TV FM product. Apparently, the Voodoo TV FM will introduce solid-state "tuner on a chip" technology to the PC, turning the humble grey box into a multi-tasking appliance. The Voodoo TV FM is the first of 3dfx's new range and will retail at ?99. ...more

Intel develops mobile phone chip

The company associated primarily with PC chips is to announce a new chip that contains the circuitry of a PC and a mobile phone. In an attempt to diversify, the new Intel processors feature logic circuits, flash memory and analogue communication circuits on a single piece of silicon, produced by a single manufacturing process. Normally, these types of circuits are produced separately, but now the process has been unified. ...more

Skype hits 100 million downloads

VoIP company Skype has announced that it has over 100 million subscribers to its free Internet telephony service. The company claims that no other company has generated that number of downloads in just two and a half years. While no-one doubts that 100 million people around the world have signed up for the Skype service, no figures are given on how many of those are active users. ...more