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1. 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 ...

2. 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 ...

3. 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 ...

4. IBM to build massive 20 Petaflop supercomputer for NNSA

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Tuesday, 03 February 2009

   ... 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 ...

5. 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 ...

6. 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 ...

7. UPDATED: IBM announces MRI with 100 million times better resolution

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Tuesday, 13 January 2009

     In collaboration with the Center for Probing the Nanoscale at Stanford University, today IBM announced a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner with 100 million times better resolution than convention ...

8. BCP lithography, self-assembling nanotechnology to build IC circuits from the bottom up

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Friday, 26 September 2008

   Scientists at UC-Santa Barbara have engineered a new nano-construction process capable of assembling integrated circuits. Five companies helped fund the research, including giants Intel and IBM. A patent ...

9. Adobe joins Linux Foundation

   (Software/Software Features)

   Monday, 31 March 2008

   ... Randy Linnell in a press release. The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit organization devoted to creating awareness for and pledging support to the Linux platform.  Other members include IBM, Google ...

10. IBM releases Beta 4 of Symphony office suite

    (Software/Software Brief)

    Monday, 04 February 2008

    IBM has released the fourth beta of its OpenOffice.org-based office suite “Symphony”. The new version includes a faster spell checker, support for password-protected Excel files, additional ...

11. AMD is all in

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Monday, 10 September 2007

    ... Or they need to be bought out by another company like IBM or Samsung.  Without such a large windfall, I don't see any way AMD can compete with Intel's resources, capacity and technology for ...

12. IBM releases Lotus Notes and Domino 8

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 17 August 2007

    After two years of development and testing, IBM has decided its collaboration software is ready to go. August 17th marks the date Lotus Notes 8 and Domino 8 officially hit the market. With an eye on ...

13. IBM releases 4.7 GHz Power6 processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 21 May 2007

    IBM today announced what it claims to be the “fastest microprocessor ever built.” London (UK) – IBM today announced what it claims to be the “fastest microprocessor ever built.” ...

14. AMD's CTO: Intel is an old-school company

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 17 May 2007

    ... 23 years at IBM.   TG Daily: Let’s begin with a general view on the microprocessor industry. Where do you see AMD’s status today? Phil Hester: We are in a very competitive position. ...

15. UPDATE: AACS develops Blu-ray, HD DVD security patch for WinDVD

    (Security/Security Features)

    Tuesday, 10 April 2007

    ... had found a way to decrypt AACS protection, the digital rights management (DRM) platform used by HD DVD and Blu-ray.  Since then, the companies behind AACS, including IBM, Microsoft, and Intel, have ...

16. Will Apple's Leopard bite? - analyst opinion

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Thursday, 22 February 2007

    ... thing when Microsoft slapped IBM.  ...

17. Snort vulnerability opens door to remote code execution

    (Security/Security Features)

    Wednesday, 21 February 2007

    ... run programs. IBM’s Internet Security Systems (ISS) division, which claims credit for discovering the vulnerability, categorizes the security issue as a stack-based buffer overflow. According to ...

18. IBM abuses file format standardization process to limit choice - Microsoft

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 15 February 2007

    Microsoft has fired the next round in a behind-the-scenes battle to establish the next dominant file format for office applications. Microsoft claims that IBM doesn't play nice and tries to block ...

19. At last, Corel announces support for ODF, Open XML

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 29 November 2006

    ... to support the ODF formats in its products until today. Company representatives were quoted criticizing that the format was not adopted or being used by software developers or organizations. IBM was one ...

20. IBM releases new lower power PowerPC processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 04 October 2006

    IBM has introduced two single-core PowerPC processors that use up to 50% less power than previous models. The PowerPC 750CL is a 32-bit processor with speeds ranging from 400MHz to 1GHz. The 970GX is ...

21. Intel releases Woodcrest benchmark results, claims series of records

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 23 May 2006

    ... of Intel's Server Platforms Group. Specifically, Woodcrest servers built by Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens, Hewlett-Packard and IBM now have taken the lead in the SPECint_rate_base2000, SPECjbb2005, TPC-C and SPECWeb2005 ...

22. Lenovo seeking major Taiwan contract makers for desktop PCs

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Thursday, 03 November 2005

    ... yesterday began his trip to Taiwan to seek major contract makers for desktop PCs, according to the Chinese-language Commercial Times today. Late last year, Lenovo acquired IBM's PC unit, which had a three-year, ...

23. AMD launches dual-core MP Opterons; Intel responds with low-voltage Xeons

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 29 September 2005

    ... soon afterward with its 4P ProLiant DL 585 based on the Model 880, with other models following thereafter based on the 280. AMD statements have also mentioned IBM by way of praise and admiration, though ...

24. VMWare forms consortium with AMD, Intel, Dell, HP, others

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 08 August 2005

    ... Systems, BMC Software, Broadcom, Cisco, Computer Associates International, Dell, Emulex, HP, IBM, Intel, Mellanox, Novell, QLogic and Red Hat. Read the VMWare press release... (VMWare)  ...

25. IBM releases new G5 processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 07 July 2005

      As a parting shot to Apple, a piqued IBM today announced two new lines of its PowerPC 970 processor, better known as the G5. As a parting shot to Apple, a piqued IBM today announced two new lines ...

26. GMS releases credit-card size board

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 08 March 2004

    ... measures 2.8 inches by 1.9 inches, and comes with a choice of PowerPC processors from IBM. Read the complete story.  ...

27. IBM's new 64-bit PowerPC at MPF

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 13 August 2002

    ... IBM is using the Forum to announce its new 64-bit PowerPC. Intel and AMD will be showing their wares, too, among a bumper crop of CPU releases. There's expectation of 15 new processor announcements at ...

28. Nvidia is Jon Peddie 'Segment Leader'

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 05 February 2002

    ... press release, except for the bit in italics. In its place, the quote ends: "allowed it to grow and prosper." Jon Peddie names IBM as his industry leader of 2001. You can read this issue of Techwatch (in ...

29. PCs ship with 1.1GHz Athlons

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 28 August 2000

      Advanced Micro Devices says PCs running on its copper-wired 1.1GHz Athlon chip are now being sold internationally by 10 manufacturers including Compaq, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard and IBM. Advanced ...

30. Intel ships long-awaited i820 chipset

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 15 November 1999

    ... the i820 chipset, with prices starting at about $2,500 for configurations based on a 600-MHz Pentium III Coppermine chip, 128 MBytes of RDRAM and a 13.5-GByte hard drive. IBM is adding the i820 as an option ...

31. Intel releases 600MHz Pentium III

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 03 August 1999

    ... version of its Celeron MPU for sub-$1,000 PCs. Leading computer makers, including IBM, Compaq, Toshiba and Hewlett-Packard immediately announced new PCs, workstations and servers based on the new processors. ...

32. Intel unleashes Pentium III

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Saturday, 27 February 1999

    ... products for the Intel announcement were Compaq, Dell, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Micron, and NEC. More information on Intel's announcement is posted at http://www.intel.com/pressroom.  ...