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1. SOI could chop $800 billion from US power bills

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... When comparing IBM's 45nm bulk silicon high performance and 45nm SOI technologies, the SOI implementation resulted in a 25 percent circuit area reduction, 66 percent reduction in static power leakage and ...

2. Social Security Administration: Claims move from months to minutes

   (Software/Software Features)

   On Friday, IBM, MedVirginia and the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) announced an electronic medical records exchange system to be used in speeding up the process of granting disability benefits ...

3. AMD to make x86 cross-license public, if Intel drops secrecy hold on anti-trust evidence

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... dates back to a requirement IBM had in the earliest days of the original IBM PC manufacturing, namely that IBM not receive products from a single-source vendor (8088/86 producing Intel at that time). IBM ...

4. Timeline: How AMD changed over the past 39 years

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   ... second-source microprocessor supplier of 8086 and 8088 chips for IBM. AMD creates the 80286 clone called Am286, based upon Intel's design and microcode. 1985: ATI (later acquired by AMD) develops its ...

5. Analyst opinion: Dell’s and Gateway’s gaming strategies compared

   (Opinion/Opinion Features)

   ... and Gateway were close rivals, neither was really considered much of a threat to IBM or HP, and, at least at that time, it looked like it was going to be a tight race.   Now, well over a decade ...

6. IBM demonstrates Ajax mashup tool for the rest of us

   (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

     At Ajax World, IBM is demonstrating a tool that it will soon put up on its hosted alpha services site that would enable developers to build Ajax mashups. At Ajax World, IBM is demonstrating a tool ...

7. Microsoft to offer "bridge" to ODF in Office 2007

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... ODF "focuses on more limited requirements" and fills "key gaps such as spreadsheet formulas, macro support and support for accessibility options." Of course, the supporters of ODF, mainly Adobe, IBM, Intel ...

8. IBM demonstrates OpenDocument capability in next Lotus Notes

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   At a highly anticipated national users' group conference in Karlsruhe, Germany, IBM this morning demonstrated for the first time OpenDocument functionality in its next version of Lotus Notes, code-named ...

9. AMD's Speedy CMOS Transistors

   (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

   ... getting smaller and faster at such a rate that you'd think the manufacturers were in a frenzy to produce Xmas elves (sorry, just trying to get into the holiday spirit here). Both IBM and AMD had processor ...