From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V6 #52 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Wednesday, February 28 2001 Volume 06 : Number 052 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Dolby in the news. ["Keith Stansell" ] Re: Alloy: Dolby in the news. [Robin Thurlow ] Re: Alloy: more good news... ["Trevor James Blagg" Subject: Alloy: Dolby in the news. This news article was on the ZD Tech news section of my Excite start page this morning. Thought you might like to see it. - Keith - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wireless Web to add Dolby sounds Updated 7:51 AM ET February 27, 2001 by Ben Charny, ZDNet News Thomas Dolby Robertson's Beatnik audio engine, which is now used to enhance games, could end up in cell phones later this year. Beatnik, the music company founded by musician Thomas Dolby Robertson, stepped into the wireless fray Tuesday by signing deals with Texas Instruments and a major chip manufacturer. The Beatnik audio engine, which is already used by wired Web sites to add sound effects and enhance online games, will become part of possibly millions of cell phones starting as soon as 2001, Dolby said. TI plans to add a stripped-down version of the Beatnik software onto its signal processor, which is already in about half of all cell phones. ARM has agreed to incorporate the software into its microprocessor chipsets. The first cell phones equipped with the audio engine could debut by the end of 2001, Dolby said. Some possible uses include adding better effects for mobile gaming and allowing wireless Web sites to talk back to visitors to help guide them through a site. Beatnik has been on the wired Web for several years, and its work is evident in the online gaming communities. Its signature product is the library of sounds it sells to augment sites. Dolby said he's trying to push Beatnik into the wireless realm, a young market that is still working out its content kinks. Analysts are split on just what works for the mobile Web, with some suggesting business applications, others games and music. Dolby said he's aiming straight for the real market movers--the teenagers who are driving the handset market. "What's really driving the penetration of new handset devices is youth market," Dolby said. "Most of the activity they use the phone for is social activity, staying connected, staying communicating. Music is one of the top interests of that particular demographic." ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 12:50:56 -0500 From: Robin Thurlow Subject: Re: Alloy: Dolby in the news. Wow, excellent news!! Thanks Keith! and congratulations to Thomas for having this in the works. xxxx Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 18:55:42 -0000 From: "Trevor James Blagg" Subject: Re: Alloy: more good news... Thanks Robin, I'll write this reply before I'm too intoxicated to do anything! ........ Kisses Trevor... - ----- Original Message ----- From: Robin To: Alloy Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 6:16 AM Subject: Alloy: more good news... > > Happy Birthday Trevor!!!!! > > xxxxx > Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 00:14:21 -0500 From: "Compass Rose Consulting Int'l" Subject: Alloy: OT: Looking for some Win95 Help, Oh, Alloy Computer Geeks I am having a problem that keeps crashing my computer when I'm online, and, if any of the really computer-savvy Alloy'ed could contact me off the group to help with a Windows 95 OE problem, I'd be grateful. I'd probably be able to solve this on my own if Microsoft would hire some decent technical writers... Muchas gracias for any responses, Melissa - -- Melissa R. Jordan Director, Compass Rose Consulting International (http://www.askcrc.com) Owner/Artist, Compass Rose Studios (http://www.crstudios.com) ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V6 #52 **************************