Novell guns for identity

Novell deepened its commitment to identity computing at its BrainShare conference in Salt Lake City this week launching new initiatives. Its Application Services Foundation and Identity Services Foundation set out a modular architecture for running software and identity services across the enterprise. The idea is to enable enterprises to manage identity and assets through entire life cycles. ...more

Dell to offer AMD desktops and notebooks - analyst

Dell Computer is widely tipped to announce an expanded alliance with chip maker AMD. According to rumours circulating, Dell plans to buy in up to two million AMD powered machines. The powerful Bank of America Securities analyst Sumit Dhanda is reporting that Dell plans to build 1 to 1. ...more

Sony marks Aibo's 2nd birthday

The plucky little robot dog/cat hybrid has come a long way since its initial launch and, to celebrate this fact, Sony is selling new versions of the Aibo in three fetching colours. While technologically the new Aibo's are the same as the current ERS-210 model, the different colour casings will make the robots collectable. The company is only accepting orders between 11 May and 31 July 2001, so you had better be quick to get your mitts on the new white, purple or green livery. ...more

Sony to launch world's first solid-state laptop

Sony will introduce the first laptop to use solid-state flash memory instead of a traditional hard drive next month, according to the Korea Times. The compact notebook will use the 32GB solid-state drive (SSD) that weighs half as much as an HDD, but reads data three times faster and writes 1.5 times faster. ...more

iTunes to win 'exclusive' Beatles rights - report

Apple is close to winning exclusive online rights to The Beatles music, according to a Fortune report. The report claims that the details of the deal have yet to be finalised, but Apple's iTunes Store will be the sole source of Beatles downloads for a limited period, to the undoubted chagrin of other music store operators. 'Other music stores, such as Microsoft's and [Real's] Rhapsody, have courted the Beatles over the years to no avail, but it appears Apple is close to getting first dibs on the band's hits,' the report says. ...more