{"id":547953,"date":"2006-02-08T19:52:13","date_gmt":"2006-02-08T19:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/547953-skype-forms-partnership-with-intel.html"},"modified":"2006-02-08T19:52:13","modified_gmt":"2006-02-08T19:52:13","slug":"skype-forms-partnership-with-intel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/547953-skype-forms-partnership-with-intel.html","title":{"rendered":"Skype forms partnership with Intel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The companies are working together to optimise Skype for Intel dual-core processor-based PCs, and are planning to further enhance voice and video over the Internet.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The first result of the companies&#8217; joint technical efforts is the availability of free, ten-way voice conference calling for up to ten people in Skype 2.0. <\/p>\n<p>The feature is available for home and business users with Intel Centrino Duo mobile technology-based laptop PCs, and desktop PCs based on Intel Pentium D processors, Pentium Extreme Edition processors and the recently introduced Intel Viiv technology.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The two companies plan ongoing, additional feature extensions and optimisation for Intel\u2019s dual-core processors. <\/p>\n<p>Later this year, Skype will release video calling optimised for Intel dual-core technology, boosting performance and bringing free, high-quality video calling to millions of users with Intel processors. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Beyond laptops and desktops, Intel and Skype share a common vision to enable Skype to function seamlessly across a wide variety of Intel-based computing platforms and network environments, including handheld computers, as well as WiFi and WiMAX wireless networks.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cWe want to make communicating over the Internet simple and accessible,\u201d says Henry Gomez, GM of Skype North America. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough our partnership with Intel we can ensure that Skype performs better than any other Internet calling application and drive widespread business and consumer adoption.\u201d<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cIntel views the PC as a tool for collaboration for home and business users,\u201d says Robert B. Crooke, vice-president and GM of Intel&#8217;s Business Client Group. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSkype is advancing this capability and today Intel dual-core processors allow you to host Skype conferences of up to ten participants with enhanced call quality on both laptop and desktop PCs.\u201d<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=37240\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skype, the global Internet communications company, and Intel are collaborating to further integrate Internet communication into the fabric of everyday PC usage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}