By Tony Hallett, 11 September 2002 09:05
NEWS Digital certificate company VeriSign has teamed up with Intel so notebook PCs launched next year using the chip company's mobile processor architecture - currently code-named Banias - allow secure computing. John Weinschenk, VP business development at VeriSign's Enterprise Platforms Group, explained the reason for partnering with the hardware company. "Normally trust gets added into applications after the fact. Now we'll actually be embedding it into the device," he told reporters at this week's Intel Developer Forum. Banias chips are being designed from the ground up for mobile users and CPUs will sit alongside integrated wireless connectivity at the heart of laptops and should mean longer battery life as well as new types of device design. Analyst house IDC forecasts the mobile security software market will be worth $1bn by 2006. However, Intel and VeriSign, by co-ordinating the way their hardware and software works, are hoping to satisfy this demand with options such as secure remote access and a single sign-on option. The first Banias notebooks will go on sale from major PC companies in the first half of next year.
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