INTEL HELD RESEARCH@INTEL DAY at the Computer Museum in MountainView, California last week. They presented a TLS replacement technology that could make it easier to deploy very large numbers of secure connections across the internet.
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IN WHAT IS SURE to be the news event of the year in gaming, ZeniMax Media has completed its acquisition of iD Software. This is a historic merging of two giants of the industry; with titles such as Doom, Quake, Oblivion, Fallout 3 and Wolfenstein under its umbrella, ZeniMax can legitimately say that is home to the most innovative and immersive games ever conceived. In fact, ZeniMax is a Zelda or a Super Mario away from having a monopoly in the legendary games business.
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SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE solved disconnecting and low data rate problems with L2, the DSL low power mode. By using artificial noise during initial connections, they have stabilized the modem to prevent crashing and restarts at lower data speeds.
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IDENTITY MANAGEMENT and role-based access management have traditionally required several separate software tools, but now, IBM is blurring that line. They’ve just announced the release of the latest version of Tivoli Identity Manager, which includes an integrated role management system and embedded provisioning system. The question is: Is this really an improvement?
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GATEWAY JUST ANNOUNCED a new computer that straddles the netbook/notebook line, the LT Series. More importantly than the specs, it looks like the HP monopoly on AMD Yukon-class CPUs is up.
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INTEL LOVES NOKIA and Nokia loves Intel, you know that because they announced it in a joint conference call. There was little of substance, vague future prognostications, and two real bits to chew on.
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A LOT OF people don’t understand the train that is heading at Nvidia this fall, most pundits think that the red locomotive only has Cypress trees on it. They would be wrong, there are not one but at least four cards coming in October, possibly a bit before.
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ONE OF THE companies that most westerners have never heard of, J&W, had one o the best laptop lineups at Computex. The upcoming 8xx series is one to watch closely.
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WHEN WE FIRST started talking about TSMC 40nm delays a year ago, people laughed, but the ramifications of those, and subsequent slips, are becoming clear. The lack of availability of ATI’s RV740/HD4770 chip is tied to this, but not in the obvious way.
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WORD HAS REACHED us that one of the last good generalist computer sites, ExtremeTech, is going away. According to our sources, ET will be shut down in a week or two.
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THE CASE OF JAMIE THOMAS-RASSET came to a close today as the jury returned a verdict that she had willingly and knowingly downloaded 24 different songs from KaZaA, violating the copyright of the companies represented by the RIAA.
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THE MORNING WAS SLOW at RIAA vs Thomas, and both jurors and spectators were assaulted multiple times by Richard Marx ballads before the plaintiffs finally rested. Three days and innumerable legal opinions later, the RIAA’s final arguments were made by a succession of copyright lawyers listening to Sarah MacGlachlan and sagely nodding their heads at dusty pieces of paper from the US copyright office.
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INTEL JUST TRANSITIONED their product naming schemes from annoying to downright stupid. The new branding schemes make no sense and will only add confusion to a line that is already almost impenetrable.
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IT’S A RARE TREAT for a member of the public to be able to walk into a regular, everyday federal courtroom and watch veteran attorneys make mistakes that would have Johnnie Cochran rolling over in his grave.
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IN THE CAPITOL RECORDS vs Thomas-Rasset media sharing trial, one thing became clear, the RIAA lawyers are down at least 100 IQ points on the defense. It shows too.
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