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Kyte today have officially announced the full availability of their Mobile Producer application, a C++ based S60 application to help produce and distribute live streaming and pre-recorded mobile video and pictures. It sits alongside their Kyte Mobile java application which allows people to view media on the Kyte.tv service. It’s a free download, just point your phone’s browser to http://m.kyte.tv/get and choose the Mobile Producer.

Nokia continues to increase their portfolio of internet services with the upcoming acquisition of Oz Communications (via MoCoNews and others). The Canadian firm specialises in providing both IM and email alongside a basic social network to operators including Verizon and Sprint. The obvious home for this platform is inside Ovi; the deal should be completed by the end of the year so we may see where Oz ends up in early 2009.

Nokia have opened up their Nokia Pilots program, which will allow members to get involved in the development and testing of new products and services. More details on the program can be found here, while you can join the program via Nokia’s Beta Labs.

AMD today announced the introduction of the ATI Radeon HD 4550 and ATI Radeon HD 4350 graphics cards, the latest additions to the award-winning ATI Radeon HD 4000 series graphics line up. These feature-rich graphics cards deliver exceptional gaming and HD multimedia performance at value prices. Both cards are based on the same technology found in the celebrated ATI Radeon HD 4800 series, including support for the latest DirectX 10.1 games and superior HD multimedia capabilities.

Delivering mainstream-class performance at a value price, the ATI Radeon HD 4550 graphics card plays demanding game titles previously unplayable by cards in this price segment, and for less than USD $59 for a 512MB memory configuration. An even more incredible value, the ATI Radeon HD 4350 graphics card is the ideal introduction to the ATI Radeon HD 4000 series, priced for less than USD $39 for a 256 MB memory configuration, giving gamers and multimedia enthusiasts more features than products available from the competition today.

Digia have today announced the immediate shipping of @Web, their Webkit based UIQ 3 browser. This application, which has been in fairly open beta testing for the last few months, brings full S60, iPhone & Google Android style browsing to the UIQ 3 platform.

AMD said Monday it is set to roll out its next-generation “Shanghai” chip–minus the mistakes of the last generation. The No. 2 processor maker wants to make one thing crystal clear: Shanghai is not Barcelona. The latter chip was rolled out in September 2007 to great fanfare only to be delayed a whopping eight months (or more, depending how the delay is calculated) due to production glitches and bugs. The chip was also hampered by speed (core clock frequency) limitations. This gave Intel an opportunity to regain ground it had lost to AMD in the server chip market.

Shanghai will be followed by a 45-nanometer desktop processor code-named Deneb, which is due to launch in the fourth quarter of this year or first quarter of 2009, AMD said. In the fourth quarter of 2009, AMD will add a six-core processor. “We'll take what we've learned from our 45-nanometer process and Shanghai core and bring out an Istanbul six-core product,” Patla said. Like Shanghai, this will be targeted at servers with up to eight processor sockets.

AMD said Monday it is set to roll out its next-generation “Shanghai” chip–minus the mistakes of the last generation. The No. 2 processor maker wants to make one thing crystal clear: Shanghai is not Barcelona. The latter chip was rolled out in September 2007 to great fanfare only to be delayed a whopping eight months (or more, depending how the delay is calculated) due to production glitches and bugs. The chip was also hampered by speed (core clock frequency) limitations. This gave Intel an opportunity to regain ground it had lost to AMD in the server chip market.

Shanghai will be followed by a 45-nanometer desktop processor code-named Deneb, which is due to launch in the fourth quarter of this year or first quarter of 2009, AMD said. In the fourth quarter of 2009, AMD will add a six-core processor. “We'll take what we've learned from our 45-nanometer process and Shanghai core and bring out an Istanbul six-core product,” Patla said. Like Shanghai, this will be targeted at servers with up to eight processor sockets.

More ‘normob’ encounters in the last few days have left me speechless. If some of what I’ve encountered is typical then arguments about how to introduce smartphones to the average person in the High Street are, quite simply wasted. Or maybe I’m just a technology snob. Either way, I’m a geek and proud of it. You probably are too. Read on and comments welcome…

Mail for Exchange, Nokia’s Microsoft Exchange client for S60 powered Nokia phones, has been upgraded to version 2.7. Updates include support for Exchange Server 2007 Autodiscover (enter your email address and server settings are automatically provisioned), updated mapping of data fields in Contacts and a number of bug fixes. As was recently announced the new version can also now be installed on any Nokia S60 3rd Edition phone.