CES 2013 – Day 2 Highlights

Day 2 at CES was just as exciting and exhausting, filled with too many products, innovations and ideas to mention. Here are a few highlights. Sharp IGZO smartphone display Sharp demonstrated IGZO, underlying display technology present in Sharp smartphones and to-be-commercial monitor offerings. Bringing improved performance, lower power consumption, and 10 point touch interface technology, what I found most...

CES 2013 – Day 1 Highlights

I’m on my second annual visit to CES in Las Vegas. While it’s nearly impossible to see everything, there are products, technologies and companies I wanted to seek out, and along with others I came across while cruising the show floor. Here are a few of the highlights from my first day. Ubuntu Phone OS On my list to seek out, Canonical Ltd was a high priority visit. The Ubuntu phone demo didn’t...

MacBook Air refresh coming soon? Will MacBook Air dominate? With Mac OS X Lion?

Speculation around the MacBook Air refresh is at a fevered pitch. It seems the speculation around every move by Apple has become a constant. I’m waiting on the expected MacBook Airs as part of a company computer refresh. I’m guessing the specs around the new MacBook Air will receive a respectable bump up with the move to Intel’s new Sandy Bridge CPU. Performance improvements are anticipated to be...

SSAATY Podcast #57 – Tom Noonan

It's that time again and we really have a "big show" for you with episode 57 of the SSAATY Podcast. Industry veteran and luminary Tom Noonan joins Alan and me. Unless you are new to security, you know that Tom was the co-founder of Internet Security Systems (ISS) which was sold and is now part of IBM. Through ISS, Tom helped make intrusion detection, vulnerability management, unified threat management,...

PC manufacture pushes chip makers for open source drivers

Ever order a new model of a computer or server only to find that Linux doesn’t yet have a driver to support the chipsets? This can even happen when there isn’t a new model or a substantial engineering change. A simple rev of a network chip or graphics processor can send your Google browser search bar a’ humming, looking for any news of a driver update. Sometimes it’s no problem. Or you may...