Developed by Taiwanese venture Altech, the Starnet Dialer SD2000 lets users to make a conventional phone call, albeit via the Internet, without having to enter ID and other lengthy numbers first. The adapters will be distributed to subscribers free of charge. No word on the price yet. The company will set up a sales company with Toshiba and others in an effort to establish the KAM algorithm as a new industry standard for video compression. All Japanese and all interested in working for a foreign company.
Lotus is still ahead, however, in Europe and Asia, where it has an entrenched user base.
Toshiba supports MP3 with new DSPs Toshiba Corp is targeting vendors looking to build audio players with MP3 and other compression formats. Toshiba claim the chips are 4 times faster than its previous line and consume half the power. The company expects to have samples available in October. In an attempt to repeat their very successful market swamping strategy in Japan, Nintendo has joined Sony in dropping its game-system prices ahead of Sega's DreamCast launch on Sept. 9. We help thousands of musicians collaborate worldwide.