Search

1. HP has $2.7 billion to buy 3COM

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 11 November 2009

   ... networks to servers. So, there you have it, IBM, HP, Cisco, and Dell are sitting at the edge of the arena, armed to the teeth and ready for battle. HP had previously bagged EDS; Cisco had recently picked ...

2. Is Windows 7 too good for Apple to FUD?

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   Tuesday, 27 October 2009

   ... disparaging Microsoft they couldn’t seem to explain what made their stuff better. As a result HP and IBM became bigger beneficiaries of Sun’s Microsoft focus than Sun did. And look at Sun now. In addition, ...

3. The best IT vendor CEO of the decade is...

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Friday, 16 October 2009

   ... of managerial and technical expertise in India is accelerating and I'm betting in the next decade the title will go to a CEO based there. Cisco Systems' John Chambers and IBM's Sam Palmisano have done ...

4. IBM moves to eliminate patent trolls

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Friday, 09 October 2009

   IBM has voiced its support for the "swift passage" of patent reform legislation. According to Big Blue, the Patent Reform Act of 2009 will help bolster US competitiveness in the global economy and stimulate ...

5. Windows 6.5: Living in a Post iPhone World is a Bitch

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Tuesday, 06 October 2009

   ... there were basically three camps in the beginning Consumer represented by Atari and Commodore (interestingly enough initially the largest segment), Large Business represented by IBM the most powerful technology ...

6. IBM’s head is in the clouds

   (Software/Software Features)

   Monday, 05 October 2009

   It is all-too-easily forgotten that before Windows Vista arrived to draw the flak for being the world’s most denigrated piece of Software, Lotus - and latterly, IBM’s - Notes was the undisputed holder ...

7. Intel and Apple are at the crossroads

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Wednesday, 23 September 2009

   ... isn’t the same without Bill Gates at the helm, and years ago IBM's slide really started when Thomas Watson Jr - in that instance the son of the founder - retired.Apple almost lost its founder. ...

8. Microprocessor diversity threatens X86 hegemony

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 14 September 2009

   ... the above-mentioned market share data included non-X86 microprocessors manufactured by a number of companies, including IBM, Freescale Semiconductor, Marvell Technology, Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, ...

9. EMC keeps lead in falling storage market

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Friday, 04 September 2009

   ... storage at a more economically friendly price point. Vendor Q209 rev Q2 share Q208rev Q2 share YoY EMC $887 21.5% $1,101 21.8% -19.5% IBM ...

10. EU puts brakes on Oracle's Sun acquisition

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 03 September 2009

    ... bring together two major competitors in the market for databases. The database market is highly concentrated with the three main competitors of proprietary databases – Oracle, IBM and Microsoft – controlling ...

11. Dell’s mobile nightmare: The dumbest move yet?

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Tuesday, 18 August 2009

    ... Dell joined a number of other PC vendors, including HP and IBM, that tried and failed to gain traction in a market so brutally competitive it makes the conventional PC sector look tame in comparison.  ...

12. IBM 'kicks workers in teeth'

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Sunday, 16 August 2009

    The UK's largest union is warning IBM to brace itself for a backlash from thousands of employees against the company's plans to close the final salary pension schemes and to alter the terms of its early ...

13. War declared: Apple’s Cult Takes on Google’s Borg

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Tuesday, 11 August 2009

    ... while past conflicts, like Microsoft kicking IBM into the PC weeds a generation ago and Google more recently knocking Microsoft down a peg or two, typically involved relative newcomers picking off established, ...

14. Lenovo turns in a loss

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 05 August 2009

    ... North America, accounted for $1.3 billion of sales - 38 percent of Lenovo worldwide sales. Its shipments fell by 17 percent quarter on quarter, year on year. Lenovo bought IBM's Thinkpad business in 2005, ...

15. Etre reaches a 20 year milestone

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 05 August 2009

    ... At one of the early conferences, Lee Reiswig of IBM was pushing OS/2 as a better Windows than Windows. All you had to do was hang around the bar and you'd pick up all kinds of gossip and stories that never ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 22 July 2009

    ... 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 ...

17. IBM scientists get a step closer to nanoscale computing

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 14 June 2009

    IBM scientists have been able to measure the charge state of an atom using noncontact atomic force microscopy, opening up new possibilities in molecular electronics.Zurich, Switzerland - IBM scientists ...

18. Big Blue gets on track in China

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 10 June 2009

    IBM has opened a new Global Rail Innovation Center in China aimed at bringing together industry leaders, researchers and universities to develop next-generation rail systems. Armonk, NY - IBM has opened ...

19. Live Blog: IBM CEO Sam Palmisano on Building a Smarter Planet Initiative

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 09 June 2009

    At 11:00 a.m. EDT Sam Palmisano, Chairman, President and CEO of IBM along with Dr. Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International, columnist and CNN host will host "The Business Partner Leadership ...

20. Computers ain’t anything like cars

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Tuesday, 19 May 2009

    ... bet IBM said the same thing a generation ago. Likewise Microsoft a decade back. Even mighty GM saw itself as invulnerable for much of its history. Let’s clarify something else: Just because something’s ...

21. IBM designs supercomputer to play Jeopardy!

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 27 April 2009

    IBM has announced the development of an "advanced computing system" that will compete with human contestants on Jeopardy! The system, codenamed "Watson," is capable of quickly responding to sophisticated ...

22. Bartlett flees Freescale, joins Globalfoundries

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 26 April 2009

    ... reporting directly to company CEO Doug Grose, says the company. One of Bartlett's key tasks will be to oversee collaborative R&D activities with the IBM Alliance for low-power semiconductors. Globalfoundries ...

23. Effective notebook cooling: Near-field radiation therapy

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 15 April 2009

    Researchers from Lehigh University, IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center and at the Ioffe Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia said they have found a way to cool notebook chips much more efficiently than ...

24. IBM in talks to buy Sun Microsystems for $6.5 billion

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 18 March 2009

    IBM has Sun Microsystems is in its sights. As a result, Sun is profiting greatly on the news with stock prices up 66% in early trading. It's being reported that IBM may have to pay considerably more than ...

25. NEC achieves world record in x86-based JVM performance

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 18 March 2009

    ... NEC, NEC Express 5800/A1160 (16 chips, 96 cores, 96 threads), 2,150,260 SPECjbb2005 bops, 134,391 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM - IBM, IBM Power 595 (16 chips, 32cores, 64 threads), 1,530,343 SPECjbb2005 bops, ...

26. Is innovation enough for Cisco’s new servers to succeed?

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Monday, 16 March 2009

    ... it has no credibility in providing and maintaining entire servers. Customers may evaluate Cisco’s offerings, but market leader HP and other rivals such as Dell, IBM and Sun have a solid customer base and ...

27. Cisco expands into building blade servers

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 16 March 2009

    ... like Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Sun and IBM. Chicago (IL) – Cisco is expected to unveil to unveil project California later today. It is believed to be a blade server unit combining the networking technology ...

28. UPDATED: The 100 oldest registered dot com, org, net, edu domains

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 05 March 2009

    ... sri.com 01/17/86 100494 009 hp.com 03/03/86 191 010 bellcore.com 03/05/86 n/a 011 ibm.com 03/19/86 411 012 sun.com 03/19/86 484 013 intel.com 03/25/86 1018 014 ti.com 03/25/86 11757 015 att.com 04/25/86 ...

29. AMD divorces itself, loses the house

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 02 March 2009

    ... of AMD’s board since August of 2003. AMD said that Claflin has 33 years of experience in senior positions with IBM, Digital Equipment and most recently as CEO and member of the board of directors of 3Com. ...

30. Lenovo’s Thinkpads are now officially tough, sorta

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 24 February 2009

    ... but are not especially compact and easy on the eyes. Lenovo (and IBM before) has put distinct focus on the durable design of Thinkpads and now said that the military “baked, battered, blistered and ...

31. Cell phone battles in Barcelona

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Tuesday, 17 February 2009

    ... share during the 80s) and the original Atari didn't make it, and Apple almost went under about a decade ago. There were two platform companies, IBM and Microsoft, but Microsoft took the vastly larger IBM ...

32. Sun Microsystems: The MySQL saga

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 09 February 2009

    ... products meant to compete with software from Oracle, Microsoft, IBM and others. Sun's future is dependent on its ability to dominate the open source market with their one-two combo: MySQL and its Solaris ...

33. IBM keeps choke-hold on Apple's Papermaster, until October 24

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 28 January 2009

    IBM will keep a very close eye on Mark Papermaster, its ex-top executive and Apple's new chief of iPod and iPhone hardware development. New court filing reveal that the two signed a declaration which ...

34. Apple's A-bomb against Palm: A 358 page iPhone patent

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Tuesday, 27 January 2009

    ... 15 years at Apple where his ranking allowed him access to many secrets, Apple obviously suspects he might have used them to build an iPhone killer. Ironically enough, it is for the same reason that IBM ...

35. Papermaster cleared, becomes Apple's new iPod/iPhone guru

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 27 January 2009

      An employment dispute between Apple and IBM has been resolved. Apple announced today that Mark Papermaster will join Apple on April 24 to lead the firm’s iPod and iPhone hardware engineering teams. ...

36. Intel closing plants, shifting thousands of workers

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 22 January 2009

    ... this move to "align its manufacturing capacity with market conditions," which are seen declining in nearly every semiconductor sector. The notable exceptions this quarter are IBM and Apple (see Apple analysis ...

37. Windows 7 vs. the World: Change is in the Wind

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Wednesday, 21 January 2009

    ... that were designed to be as inefficient as possible so the typewriter keys didn't become entangled. This is a problem we stopped having when the IBM Selectric was introduced in 1961. For over 45 years ...

38. Where are the WOW! products?

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Sunday, 18 January 2009

    ... - it‘s all the same. It seems like the only truly revolutionary ideas we even see any more come from infomercials. Why don't we have corporate monsters like Intel, Google, IBM and Samsung, who ...

39. More than half of Fortune 100 companies use Lotus Notes

    (Software/Software Brief)

    Thursday, 15 January 2009

    Armonk (NY) - IBM announced today that it has 145 million Lotus Notes licenses, up five million. These include "many industry leaders exchanging Microsoft licenses for Lotus collaboration software." In ...

40. IBM again top US patent holder, vows to go after lesser claims

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Wednesday, 14 January 2009

      In 2008, the top ten companies who were issued patents by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) was released today when IBM announced they have shattered not only their previous record, but also ...

41. Top 10 people in technology

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Sunday, 28 December 2008

    ... giant HP back into the wind, overtake Dell in PC shipments and recently IBM in server volume, grow the services division organically and through a $14 billion acquisition of EDS, a company that holds numerous ...

42. Apple acquires 3.6% of Imagination to secure graphics tech for future iPhones

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 18 December 2008

    ... and Samsung. According to industry sources, the deal will allow Apple to create processors for the next iPhone in-house, tapping the PA Semi team of engineers led by IBM's Mark Papermaster. This SoC is ...

43. Next up for Intel’s 32 nm chips: Prepare for production

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 09 December 2008

    ... in 2010 in a best-case scenario, but consumer processors are now scheduled for 2011. Some readers may be surprised by this plan, especially since it seemed that AMD, thanks to its partnership with IBM, ...

44. Former Yahoo executive to run Microsoft Internet business

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 04 December 2008

    ... at IBM’s Almaden Research Center, worked at Carnegie Mellon University as a research associate and at Fudan University in China as a faculty member. Microsoft may not have acquired Yahoo, but was certainly ...

45. Microsoft’s Zune phone rumor back again, this time with Tegra

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 24 November 2008

    ... IBM executive with experience in designing Power processors, Mark Papermaster, to take over devices engineering. IBM has blocked the move, fearing that Papermaster will lead Apple's internal chipset design ...

46. Google to shut down Lively

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 24 November 2008

    ... With that being said, larger companies such as IBM are planning to continue investing in this type o technology, betting that at some point it will lead to a profitable Internet model.  ...

47. Almost iPod chief countersues IBM

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 14 November 2008

      Mark Papermaster, the ex-IBM executive recruited by Apple to succeed iPod creator Tony Fadell and lead the company’s devices engineering unit, has filed a countersuit against his former employer ...

48. Oracle remains best performing tech stock in declining economy

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 12 November 2008

    ...  IBM -39% 107.1 Oracle -30% 84.9  ...

49. IBM to deliver broadband to rural America - over power lines

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Wednesday, 12 November 2008

    ... underserved areas. IBM is working with electric cooperatives across the eastern U.S. to deliver broadband over power lines to rural America. The implications are significant and could bridge a growing ...

50. Papermaster may seek compensation from IBM over Apple job

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 11 November 2008

      IBM is determined to move forward with legal proceedings in an effort to block one of his former top executives from getting a key position at Apple. Since a court blocked Mark Papermaster's new ...