Intel PCs To Wake Up For Internet Calls
Posted on: Friday, 15 August 2008, 10:33 CDT
Intel Corp. announced on Thursday new technology that will enable computers to “wake up” from their power-saving sleep once they receive an incoming Internet call.
Until now the machines had to be in the normal, full-powered state to receive such a call, making them an energy-wasting alternative for a telephone -- a typical desktop PC usually consumes more than 60 watts of power, but consume only around 10 watts in the so-called S3 sleep state.
Intel’s new component lets computers automatically return to a normal state when an Internet call comes in, at which point the computer activates its microphone and loudspeaker to alert the user before connecting the call.
"This certainly helps the PC become a much better center of communications in the home," Trevor Healy, CEO of Mountain View, Calif.-based Jajah, told the Associated Press. The company will be the first Internet telephone firm to use the new feature.
Intel will begin shipping the first motherboards with the Remote Wake functionality next month, according to the company’s director of consumer product marketing, Joe Van De Water.
The components will likely be used by small computer manufacturers, since industry leaders such as Dell and Hewlett-Packard Co. typically use their own motherboard solutions, something Intel is working to change.
Intel’s four initial Remote Wake motherboard models will work in desktop computers with Ethernet Internet connections, since Wi-Fi doesn’t work in sleep mode. The computers will wake up only for calls from services to which the user has subscribed, making prank calls impossible, Van De Water said.
Jajah is working to establish itself as a link between the phone system and Web companies. The company signed a deal in April to become the phone service provider for Yahoo Inc.’s Messenger, and plans to offer the ability to wake up computers to other instant-messaging and Internet voice services, such as Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Live Messenger and Google Inc.’s Talk, Healy said.
Jajah says its will be able to wake up computers for calls directed at a user name and for those dialed with a number.
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Source: redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports
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