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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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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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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INTEL LEFT THE most impressive parts of their Computex messaging for last, the so called ultra-mobility segment. This category encompasses handheld widgets, micro-laptops, phones and other gadgets.
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IT ALWAYS SEEMS to be the case that the quality of a slide deck is inversely proportional to the amount of interest it generates, and if my email is any indication, there are a lot of people interested in the Nvidia mobile 40nm deck. So, agonizingly boring as it is, we will share the notes we took on the presentation.
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INTEL TALKED MOSTLY about mobile solutions at Computex, but desktop and consumer electronics were far from neglected. New were two i7 CPUs, talk of Lynnfield, Pinetrail, and even flash based accelerators.
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ONE OF THE rumors floating around Computex involves a pretty little Asus ‘Smartbook’ based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and it’s mid-show disappearance. The story, as we are told, is that one day it was there, the next it was not, and almost no one would say why.
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INTEL HAD TWO keynotes at Computex, with both Sean Maloney and Mooly Eden talking mostly about mobility. The main product launched was Montevina Plus, and there is a lot to like there.
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THE PROGRAM FOR Hot Chips 21 was just released, and it is, umm, hot. The show will have speakers from Chuck Moore to Jen-Hsun Huang, and will cover chips from Atom to Power 7.
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PROBABLY THE SINGLE most important thing to come from Computex is not a product, but the promise of a new standard. The best idea of the show award goes to Intel for kick starting the idea of a standard PC in monitor form factor.
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TYAN IS SHIFTING gears, hard, both on the product side of things and how they sell them. The new products are a line called Yellow River (YR), and they will never be sold retail.
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WHEN YOU THINK about the best motherboard, what usually pops to mind is big, expensive, and flashy, usually from a big company too. Albatron once again thinks way outside the box, and wins the best motherboard of Computex for something that does not even have a name yet.
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AMI JUST MADE port 80 cards a thing of the past by introducing their new AMIDebug Rx device. Now you can debug your BIOS over USB.
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