By Douglas Cebik, on November 10th, 2006
EETimes Article:
SHANGHAI, China — One of China’s major wireline telecom companies, China Netcom, plans to fully implement a domestically developed codec in its fledgling IPTV network. Use of the codec, known as AVS (Audio Video Coding Standard), is a big break for its developers, which have had a hard time selling it to [...]
By Douglas Cebik, on November 10th, 2006
Chipmaker Texas Instruments unveils semiconductor technology that will lower the cost of producing multimedia phones, says Fortune’s Stephanie Mehta NEW YORK (Fortune) — Less than two years after announcing new semiconductor technology aimed at drastically reducing the cost of making very basic wireless phones, Texas Instruments says it now has developed a similar chip [...]