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1. Vendors have their head in the clouds

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... 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 ...

2. IBM: Malicious web links up by 508 percent

   (Security/Security Features)

   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 ...

3. IBM inks UK biometric passport deal

   (Security/Security Features)

   IBM has today finalised a seven-year deal to provide the core elements of the UK government's plans to upgrade to biometric passports. London, England - IBM has today finalised a seven-year deal to ...

4. 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 ...

5. 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 ...

6. 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 ...

7. Apple to demo the next iPhone OS on March 17

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... that next-gen iPhone will probably feature in-house custom system-on-a-chip solution developed by Semi PA engineers led by ex IBM engineer Mark Papermaster. The team is expected to utilize ARM's Cortex ...

8. IBM may allow 20% of its workforce to work from home

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

   In Bangalore, Dravida Seetharam, vice president of Government Programs at IBM told IT Examiner's Akanksha Prasad that in the next five to six months about 15% to 20% of its workforce could work from home. ...

9. Top 10 people in technology

   (Opinion/Opinion Features)

   ... 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 ...

10. 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 ...

11. IBM and Harvard search for organic solar power using cloud computing

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

      Researchers from IBM and Harvard will team up to create the World Community Grid (WCG) project. This project will be comprised of over 413,000 members in 200 countries, each of which will donate their ...

12. 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 ...

13. 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 ...

14. IBM leaves Redmond, pitches Microsoft-free desktops

    (Software/Software Features)

      IBM prepares a big rollout of its Lotus Symphony office suite and what better marketing to support the launch than an anti-Microsoft pitch? IBM said it has “joined forces” with big Linux distribution ...

15. Intel and Nvidia co-sponsors in parallel programming initiative

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... And no, that headline is no mistake: The initial group of sponsors includes a colorful mix of rivals and partners: AMD, Nvidia, Sun Microsystems as well as Intel, Hewlett-Packard and IBM, showing first ...

16. Second Life: Tamed for corporate consumption

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    IBM and Linden Lab, the creator of Second Life, are placing a stake in the ground today for corporate virtual worlds. The two companies have started a joint project to run Second Life technology behind ...

17. Blue Clouds: IBM to sell personal Internets

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    IBM's Blue Cloud private Internet products will be available in Spring, 2008.  But what exactly does one get with a private Internet?  The jury may still be out on that one. Armonk (NY) ...

18. IBM working with Second Life creator for "universal avatar"

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    IBM wants to create a new standard for virtual worlds, allowing users to create one profile for use in several different applications. San Francisco (CA) - IBM wants to create a new standard for virtual ...

19. British government suggests fingerprint-activated iPod’s to help reduce crime

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... One example could be introducing fingerprint activation of MP3 players." Biometrics is already used on many laptops, such as the IBM ThinkPad range for one example, to help secure data. The problem ...

20. The Apple iPhone: Hit or miss?

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... into account the accessories, is something that IBM actually predicted nearly a decade ago, but targeted at corporations. It was the concept of a small modular computer that could be accessorized to take ...

21. IBM expands into Second Life

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    IBM plans on holding town hall meetings in Second Life's virtual world. Sam Palmisano, Chairman and CEO of IBM, will virtually meet more than 7000 employees in the game this Tuesday. He even plans on ...

22. Hitachi pushes 250 GB hybrid laptop hard drives for next year

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Hitachi will be rolling out several high-capacity laptop drives next year and one will reach 250GB. The 2.5" hard drives will be based on perpendicular technology where the magnetic bits are aligned side-by-side, ...

23. Where Intel went wrong with layoffs - analyst opinion

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... right way is as HP's Mark Hurd and IBM's Louis Gerstner demonstrated very fast so that that the company can move on, the right time is almost never and only as a last resort. The dangers of layoffs We've ...

24. IBM to build content protection technology into processors

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... the processor "SecureBlue," the technology promises to provide much more robust content protection than software-based DRM systems available today. Yorktown Heights (NY) - IBM today announced a hardware-based ...

25. IBM and 3Com to offer "All-In-One" IP telephony suite

    (Networking/Networking Brief)

      IBM and 3Com, a provider of secure, converged voice and data networking solutions, announced plans to offer the 3Com VCX suite of IP telephony solutions on IBM's "all-in-one" System i business computing ...

26. Research in Motion demos PGP email for Blackberry

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... on the company's email servers, which can be either Microsoft Exchange or IBM's Lotus Domino. Finally, the company must have a PGP Universal Server that distributes and stores the keys. When all components ...

27. IBM's WPAN chipset aims to replace high-def cables, Bluetooth

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Today in San Francisco, IBM unveiled a revolutionary new chipset that would replace the spaghetti of cables that connect today's multimedia equipment, with super-high-frequency wireless networks in the ...

28. Microsoft driver bug saps Core Duo power

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... throughout last year by Intel. For our second test, our engineers connected a USB 2.0 external combo drive (IBM DN-224E), and ran Mobilemark 2005 - Reader Benchmark on both systems again. The external ...

29. IBM reports marginal Q4: Pensions remain a drag, but software, services are strong

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    While some analysts were expecting a stellar fourth quarter for IBM, a look at the road the company has had to travel in 2005 would have others wondering, what planet were those analysts living on? There ...

30. Xbox 360 manufacturing cost estimated around $550

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... secure customer by customer. According to iSuppli, the most expensive hardware components of the Xbox 360 are IBM's 3.2 GHz "Xenon" processor with an estimated cost of about $106, which is about 20 percent ...

31. MediaTek pays $9 million for IBM IP rights

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Mediatek has secured more than 350 intellectual property (IP) rights, including patented and pending technologies, from IBM for a total cost of over NT$300 million (US$9 million), according to a ...

32. NTT DoCoMo, IBM, Intel team to secure mobile devices

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      With an eye towards making mobile devices and the commerce services that run over them more secure, NTT DoCoMo, Intel and IBM on Wednesday published a jointly developed security specification called ...

33. Tarantella inks IBM deal for secure remote desktop

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Server-based computing software vendor Tarantella has signed a deal with IBM that sees its secure remote access product for Linux shipping alongside IBM's eServer xSeries and BladeCenter systems. ...

34. SuSE, IBM gain higher security certification

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Raising the security bar one notch higher, SuSE Linux AG and IBM Corp. Raising the security bar one notch higher, SuSE Linux AG and IBM Corp. said Wednesday they have achieved a more rigorous ...

35. Interactive Media's 5 in 1 USB Card Reader

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... three separate slots that read 5 different media including Type I/II CompactFlash, SmartMedia, MultiMedia Card, IBM Micro Drive, and Secured Digital Card. All three of the Kanguru5 in 1 slots can be used ...

36. The CASSIOPEIA E-200 is a PDA

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... program launcher, and power status). Additional software applications from Compaq include IBM Embedded ViaVoice Mobility Suite, for voice command and control of Calendar, Contacts and Inbox; F-Secure FileCrypto ...

37. IBM aims servers, AIX 5L at Sun

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Intensifying efforts to win Sun Microsystems' market share, IBM will unveil two midrange servers and a new version of its high-end server operating system with support for the open-source Linux. ...

38. HP launches Intel-designed servers

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... and support CompactFlash Type I and II, IBM Microdrive, memory stick, secure digital, and SmartMedia. An optional screen will allow some editing. For more information, read pcworld.com.  ...

39. Tech giants work on "Secure PC" to protect copyrights

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Microsoft Corp, IBM and Intel Corp, among others, are working inexorably toward the development of technologies that could be built into PCs that would prevent the copying of files without copyright ...

40. IBM builds Linux supercomputer

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Champaign and IBM are putting together the world's fastest Linux supercomputer. After paying $150 million to ...

41. MP3 chipmaker Micronas abandons SDMI

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Leading MP3 chipmaker, Micronas Semiconductors Inc., is reportedly withdrawing its cooperation from the Secure Digital Music Initiative. According to The Register, the 4C group (Intel, IBM, Matsushita ...

42. AMD aims at corporate market

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      The year 2000 was the year that underdog chipmaker, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., finally beat Intel Corp. The technology created by IBM, Intel, Matsushita Electric and Toshiba, known as the Content ...

43. Fish-brain controls robot

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Scientists at Chicago's Northwestern University have connected the brain of a lamprey to a robot. IBM Corp. is getting ready to announce a system of encryption that will, reportedly, simultaneously ...

44. IBM introduces "world's most secure desktop"?

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      IBM says its new PC 300PL desktops are the most secure PCs on the planet. IBM says its new PC 300PL desktops are the most secure PCs on the planet. Sporting an embedded security processor on its ...