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1. SSDs inch toward the desktop

   (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

   ... offers its Adamo XPS notebook with a 256GB SSD; Teradata delivers a data warehouse appliance packed with SSD storage, and IBM has begun to use SSDs in its storage area network systems. There's been a steady ...

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

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   ... 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 ...

3. IBM develops dense, fast, 32 nanometer DRAM

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   IBM Microelectronics said that it has successfully created what it claims is the smallest, densest and fastest on chip DRAM device.IBM Microelectronics said that it has successfully created what it claims ...

4. Oracle and Sun showcase 'world's fastest' database machine

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... room for expansion. "There is no single point of failure. It is completely fault tolerant and keeps running, even if multiple components malfunction. IBM has nothing like  Exadata V2. They mirror ...

5. Microprocessor diversity threatens X86 hegemony

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... 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, ...

6. Oracle discloses Sun plans

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... than twice as many hardware specialists than Sun does now." IBM and HP have been actively targeting Sparc and Solaris customers in the wake of the Oracle buyout. Sun registered the biggest decline in ...

7. EMC keeps lead in falling storage market

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... 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 ...

8. Windows 7 may be fab but it's pure marketing bamboozle

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... IBM used to upgrade mainframe memory a besuited man would come into the site and do some frantic fiddling about. Actually, he wasn't adding memory to the machine, he was just turning a switch to enable ...

9. Server sales continue to plummet

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... will stabilize in the second half of this year. Overall, IBM rules the server roost with 34.5 percent share, HP has 28.5 percent share, Dell and Sun are number three and four with 12.4 percent and 10 ...

10. University accuses IBM of stealing its technology

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      An American university is claiming that IBM misappropriated technology it invented. An American university is claiming that IBM misappropriated technology it invented. The action, which started ...

11. Oracle-Sun deal gets further scrutiny

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... will end soon and not delay the closing of the deal this summer." Java is licensed by many vendors, some of which, like IBM compete with Oracle in specific marketplaces. The new US administration's antitrust ...

12. IBM and Cray claim victory in battle for supercomputer supremacy

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    IBM has managed to retain the No. 1 spot on the Top500 list of supercomputers with its 1.105 petaflop/s Roadrunner system. The Roadrunner, which is currently housed at the DOE's Los Alamos National Laboratory ...

13. IBM teams with Swedes in 'space weather' study

    (Space/Space Features)

    IBM, Uppsala University and the Swedish Institute of Space Physics are working on a new project to analyze massive volumes of information in real time to better understand 'space weather'. Berlin, Germany ...

14. Wozniak astounded by Microsoft's Bing

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... along with the consumer-oriented Ioxtreme. In addition, Fusion-IO is currently collaborating with IBM on "Quicksilver," a project designed to achieve over a million IOPS via the use of multiple Iodrives ...

15. Worldwide server revenues slump by 25 percent

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ...  Q109/Q108 growth HP $2,913 29.3% $3,946 30% -26.2% IBM $2,904 29.3% $3,624 27.6% -19.9% Dell $1,093 11% $1,590 12.1% -31.2% Sun $1,018 10.3% $1,367 ...

16. Big Blue claims 8x SSD performance hike

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    IBM says it has managed to improve system performance by up to 800 per cent through the introduction of Solid State Drives (SSDs) and new software. Somers, (NY) - IBM says it has managed to improve ...

17. Mozilla’s Fennec gets Firefox 3.5 core

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... said that Mozilla moves into this field by allowing companies access to Mozilla developer teams and browser documentation. For example, the organization helped IBM develop an “IBM-specific version” of ...

18. IBM designs supercomputer to play Jeopardy!

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    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 ...

19. AMD optimistic although future is murky

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... Global Foundries would present itself to the rest of the industry in the same light, for example as IBM Semiconductor does, or TSMC does, but that's far from clear from the comments the AMD execs made. ...

20. Battle of the Brains crowns world champions

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... the 2009 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPM) World Champions in the Stockholm Concert Hall where the Nobel Prizes are presented every year. Sponsored by IBM, the competition took ...

21. Globalfoundries at 32 nm in H1 2010

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... nm designs in the second half of that year.   Following news that IBM’s technology alliance is marching toward 28 nm chips, we hear that AMD’s former fabs will be able to accept 32 nm designs in late ...

22. The next iPhone looms on the horizon

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... Apple's PA Semi-acquired engineering talent (led by IBM's Mark Papermaster) should design this SoC based on the latest ARM CPU and Imagination's PowerVR SGX543 multi-core GPU. At the same time, Samsung ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    ... 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 ...

24. Intel to pull x86 cross-licensing agreement with AMD in 60 days

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... agreement for all x86-developed technologies. Dating back to 1976 when AMD was chosen to be a second-source supplier of computer chips for IBM, the two companies have been free to utilize all extensions ...

25. Researchers tap supercomputers to find interesting language trends

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... the report. They also claim such fundamental words as squeeze, guts, stick, throw and dirty are all heading for "history's dustbin," along with a host of others. IBM was able to use their ThamesBlue ...

26. IBM delivers rural broadband over power lines

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    ... high speed Internet access to the smallest corners of the United States through government subsidies from the Rural Development Program and the Department of Agriculture. IBM has been collaborating ...

27. Cell phone battles in Barcelona

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    ... 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 ...

28. IBM to build massive 20 Petaflop supercomputer for NNSA

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... processors, Sequoia will be built on future IBM BlueGene technology.When completed, the supercomputer will have 1.6 Petabytes of memory, 96 racks, 98,304 compute nodes, and 1.6 million cores. IBM promises ...

29. IBM X-Force report: Corporations are own worst security threat

    (Security/Security Features)

      Today, IBM announced the results of its 2008 X-Force Trend and Risk report, which found corporations put their own customers at risk for "cybercriminal activities" by failing to properly defend their ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... 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 ...

31. Toshiba, IBM and AMD develop smallest, most stable FinFET SRAM to date

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

      Yesterday, Toshiba, IBM and AMD announced that via a joint effort they have developed a SRAM cell just 0.128 μm2. The cell is more than 50% smaller than the previous record holder, a nonplanar-FET ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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, ...

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

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... 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 ...

34. Google to shut down Lively

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... 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.  ...

35. Top 500 supercomputer list out today, seven AMD systems in top 10, only one Intel

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... Intel processors, including 222 systems with 45nm processors (32 of which were low-voltage models). Rank Machine Cores Performance TFlops Power KWh Processor 1 IBM BladeCenter QS22/LS21 129,600 ...

36. Scientists create strained silicon model, could increase performance

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Research engineers and physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a method to measure how varying degrees of strain affect electronic structures in silicon, which in turn affect ...

37. Microsoft market cap drops below $200 billion

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    ...  -37% 12.0   IBM -36% 113.3   HP -34% 86.3   Oracle -27% 88.5  ...

38. Google extends life of business email archive for up to 10 years

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... retention for one year and research for any particular message from the archive for a fee of $25 per user per year. The service can be plugged into Microsoft's Exchange and IBM's Lotus Domino email systems ...

39. 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 ...

40. Apple to build iPhone processors with ARM, Imagination and Samsung technologies?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... a cut-throat market dominated by Intel, AMD and IBM on its own, but P.A. Semi was able to challenge the trio on power efficiency: Its 2 GHz dual-core processor consumed 4-5 times less power than other ...

41. IDF Fall 2008: Intel reveals more Nehalem details, announces 6-core server CPU

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... performance records, including an 8-socket 48-core IBM System x3950 M2 server, which became the first platform to break the 1 million tpmC barrier on the TPC-C benchmark, Intel said. Intel also demonstrated ...

42. A 1-2-3-4 plan for AMD to beat Intel

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... problem with IBM in the enterprise in the early 90s and Microsoft, who was at an even greater disadvantage, prevailed. So, how do you beat a dominant competitor? Rule 1: Change the battlefield The entrenched ...

43. Best and worst moments of Bill Gates

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... formerly of IBM, talks about creating the Control-Alt-Delete combination for troubleshooting.  Also on stage was Mr. Microsoft himself Bill Gates.  Bradley joked that Windows made his key combination ...

44. Bill Gates Milestones: Part 2 (1980-1990)

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Gates insisted to push the product until customers would accept it. In the process, Gates outmaneuvered both IBM and Steve Jobs in an OS/2 move famously known as "the head-fake." Feature - In our second ...

45. Playstation 3 processor powers the world’s first Petaflop supercomputer

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... Security Administration (NNSA). It is the NNSA’s third IBM-built supercomputer, adding to two IBM-built supercomputers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: The original BlueGene/L (#2), completed ...

46. Roadrunner: 130,536 cores break the Petaflop barrier

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      IBM is prepared to deliver the Roadrunner supercomputer to the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). The system was development over the past 18 months and is ...

47. Global server revenue hits dotcom bubble levels

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    ... of software. Windows-based servers comprised $5.1 billion or 39.2% of all server revenue in Q1. Unix servers came in at 30.6%, Linux at 13.7% and IBM z/OS servers at 8.4%.  ...

48. AMD turns TSMC into a CPU manufacturing giant

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... drum ever since IBM came up with the technology, and many Intel-centric analysts have been nagging AMD why to keep the more expensive SOI manufacturing technology in place. And yet, even Intel used SOI ...

49. Apple may be stylish, but it’s definitely not green

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... climate efforts. Apple's results fall far behind other tech companies:  IBM is at the top with 77 points, followed by Canon (74), Toshiba (70), Sony (68), Hewlett-Packard (68), Motorola (66), Hitachi ...

50. Google remains most powerful brand in the world

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... came in third at $70.9 billion, and Coca-Cola was fourth at $58.2 billion.  Rounding out the top five was China Mobile with a value of $57.2 billion. The rest of the top 10 were, in order, IBM, Apple, ...