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1. Dell disappoints despite chip up-tick

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   Is its strategy right? Hardware giant Dell delivered its quarterly results showing a profit of $577 million on revenues of $12.9 billion - a drop in profit of 54 percent. But in the face of other major ...

2. Lab-on-a-chip provides instant disease diagnosis

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   Quick, portable device IBM scientists have developed a simple, quick 'lab-on-a-chip' that can test for a number of diseases using microscopic samples. The test is claimed to be faster and more portable ...

3. IBM simulates cat, maps human brain to improve chip tech

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   A cat can look at a queen Scientists at IBM said they'd made progress towards creating a computer system that will simulate and emulate the human brain for sensation, perception, action, interaction and ...

4. We didn't copy Windows 7 from Mac OS. Did we?

   (Software/Software Features)

   Thursday, 12 November 2009

   Unseemly row surfaces Microsoft has rebutted Microsoft statements that it based the look and feel of Windows 7 on the Apple Mac OS. Yesterday, a Microsoft manager said that what his company had tried ...

5. 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 ...

6. Twitter turns UI thinking on its head

   (Software/Software Features)

   Friday, 06 November 2009

   Cheep, cheep cheep, yeah Adobe, Apple. IBM, Microsoft, and other "platform companies" go to great lengths to assure that application developers adhere to stringent user interface guidelines so that their ...

7. New York sues Intel for antitrust behavior

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 04 November 2009

   ... made to firms like Dell, IBM, and Hewlett Packard violate antitrust laws. And it also alleges that vendors were threatened if they bought AMD chips rather than the microprocessors made by Intel. Cuomo’s ...

8. IBM censured after massive server screw up

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 04 November 2009

   The Texas secretary of state’s office has pulled electoral registration from an IBM facilities management deal following a server crash. The Texas secretary of state’s office has pulled electoral registration ...

9. Apple's small-minded strategy

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Wednesday, 04 November 2009

   ... network server to another. But it is not that hard or costly for consumers to change their minds about the latest faddish toy. Businesses will whine about vendor lock-in by Microsoft or IBM, when it suits ...

10. AMD discovers several Fusion mantras, disses Larrabee

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 03 November 2009

    ... Fusion family of products today. Bergman has a new mantra. He said: “Every year we’re going to have the best CPU in the industry. It’s our new mantra." He has a history in the industry that includes IBM, ...

11. Ex AMD CEO named in insider trading scandal

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 28 October 2009

    ... Intel, IBM and Google. If the SEC finds that AMD's internal procedures preventing insider trading are at fault, legal action against the company could be taken, say Wall Street insiders. Globalfoundries ...

12. 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, ...

13. Opinion: Ditching Windows has never felt so good

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Wednesday, 21 October 2009

    ... Luckily, I eventually stumbled upon a solution after many sleepless nights trawling the web on my dial-up shell account. OS/2 Warp. I immediately ordered a used copy of IBM's now-defunct OS from a Usenet ...

14. SSDs inch toward the desktop

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Wednesday, 21 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

15. SCO's Darl McBride gets eliminated

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 20 October 2009

    The man who spearheaded SCO's attack against IBM and the Linux operating system has been eliminated. The man who spearheaded SCO's attack against IBM and the Linux operating system has been eliminated. ...

16. Ubuntu, IBM wave tiny fists at Microsoft Windows 7

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 20 October 2009

    IBM hasn't given up on the grudge it has against Microsoft and so has teamed up with Canonical, the commercial wing of Ubuntu Linux, to create a Linux desktop package targeting low end PCs and netbooks. ...

17. Otellini: Intel ‘knew nothing’ about insider trading probe

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 19 October 2009

    ... Galleon Group hedge fund, IBM’s Robert Moffat - widely tipped to become CEO - Rajiv Goel, head of Intel’s venture capital division, and Anil Kumar, an advisor to AMD, were among senior directors arrested ...

18. Google draws global bead on Microsoft, IBM

    (Software/Software Features)

    Sunday, 18 October 2009

    Search giant Google will today introduce a mass marketing campaign across the world in a bid to draw customers away from Microsoft and IBM office apps into its own application web.Search giant Google ...

19. 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 ...

20. "We're through the recession," says Google

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 15 October 2009

    ... grew even faster than revenues, hitting $1,64 billion - up 27 percent on a year ago. * IBM has also been working to cut costs, largely through automation and outsourcing, and has also seen profits for ...

21. Sun and Fujitsu upgrade SPARC processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 13 October 2009

    ... technology and it can be even better with investment by increasing the rate of innovation," emphasized Ellison. "We will make it faster and more reliable, while reducing its power consumption. If IBM wants ...

22. Larry Ellison endorses SPARC, criticizes IBM's Power architecture

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 11 October 2009

    Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has criticized IBM's Power architecture. According to Ellison, Oracle and Sun recently routed Big Blue in an OLTP (online transaction processing) speed test. Oracle Open ...

23. Sun: Oracle is "committed" to SPARC architecture

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 11 October 2009

    ... did "not compete" with Oracle's database. "MySQL competes with Microsoft SQL Server. It doesn't compete with Oracle or DB2," said McNealy. See Also Larry Ellison endorses SPARC, criticizes IBM's ...

24. 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 ...

25. Passwords: Methods for a Modern Bane

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Friday, 09 October 2009

    My first password was to an IBM System 38 MRP application in 1978. It was four characters long. I chose my first name. I could have picked my last name, I suppose, but the system administrator had already ...

26. Vendors have their head in the clouds

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 08 October 2009

    ... called "Placing Bets on Cloud Computing's Evolution" - with a panel including Deborah Majid, director of strategic alliances at IBM Software; Daniel Arthursson, CEO of Xcerion; Paul Ostergaard, CEO of ...

27. Just like old times - IBM faces antitrust probe

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 07 October 2009

    The US Justice Department is investigating claims that IBM is up to its old anti-competitive tricks in the mainframe industry. The US Justice Department is investigating claims that IBM is up to its ...

28. 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 ...

29. SAP's Leo Apotheker dismisses Oracle's bid for power

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 06 October 2009

    ... continue to buy companies - its biggest recent acquisition was Business Objects, but it looks to acquire in specific and targeted areas, he said. SAP is in a smaller niche than IBM. We are a smaller niche ...

30. 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 ...

31. Nvidia and "Starting the Next Age of Personal Computing"

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Opinion)

    Thursday, 01 October 2009

    Column I’m at the Nvidia GPU Technology conference and it suddenly hit me that we are at the forefront of another massive change in the computer industry.   Column I’m at the Nvidia GPU Technology ...

32. Intel sues Silicon Valley partner

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 01 October 2009

    ... and partners including HP, Lucent, IBM, Cisco, LSI Logic, McAfree, Palmchip,  Rambus, Net Optics, Philips, Hitachi, Agilent and many other companies, it claims on its web site. It is also clearly ...

33. Oracle fined over "Sun + Oracle is Faster" equation

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 29 September 2009

    ... Wall Street Journal and The Economist claiming that 'Sun + Oracle is Faster' compared to a published TPC-C performance result from IBM. The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) has reprimanded ...

34. 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. ...

35. IBM develops dense, fast, 32 nanometer DRAM

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 18 September 2009

    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 ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 15 September 2009

    ... 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 ...

37. IBM SOCs it to 'em with high performance chip

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 15 September 2009

    ... performance of IBM's fastest current embedded core. IBM says it's the highest performing processor available in the industry. What's it going to be used for? Big Blue says it will be used for 4G networks ...

38. 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, ...

39. Oracle discloses Sun plans

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 10 September 2009

    ... 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 ...

40. Open source group buys up Microsoft patents

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 07 September 2009

    ... IBM, Red Hat and Sony, told the Wall Street Journal that it plans to acquire 22 patents that Microsoft sold to Allied Security Trust (AST) earlier this year. AST aims to protect companies from patent ...

41. 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 ...

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

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 04 September 2009

    ... 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 ...

43. 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 ...

44. Server sales continue to plummet

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 01 September 2009

    ... 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 ...

45. IBM scientists peer inside a molecule

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Friday, 28 August 2009

    IBM scientists have imaged the 'anatomy' of a molecule with greater resolution than ever before. Zurich, Switzerland - IBM scientists have imaged the 'anatomy' of a molecule with greater resolution ...

46. IBM: Malicious web links up by 508 percent

    (Security/Security Features)

    Wednesday, 26 August 2009

    A report published by IBM's X-Force says there has been a staggering 508 percent increase in the number of malicious Web links. X-Force Director Kris Lamb told TG Daily that web client, server, and ...

47. IBM uncloaks eight core Power7 processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 26 August 2009

    Hot Chips Big Blue has officially uncloaked its nascent Power7 processor. According to William Starke of IBM, the 8-core chip is expected to feature 1.2B transistors and will be capable of achieving ...

48. SCO: 'Linux is a knock-off of our Unix'

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 25 August 2009

    ... a pound of flesh from IBM, claiming that its license for using Unix code in its AIX operating system used on the RS/6000 range expired in 2003 and that Big Blue illegally gave away the source code for ...

49. Mainframe still refuses to die

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 20 August 2009

    ... despite decades of pundits saying it was dead. In a survey of  IT executives and managers at companies using the IBM System z mainframe in a variety of industries in the United States, Europe and ...