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Wired (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
1944: Harvard and IBM dedicate the Mark I computer. Also known as the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, or ASCC, the pioneering computer was notable for producing reliable results and its ability to run 24/7. Harvard electrical engineer Howard Aiken first dreamt up a large-scale calculator in 1937. He knew he needed a corporate partner and first courted Monroe Calculator Company, which...
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (MARKET WIRE) The Hungarian Electricity Transmission System Operator Inc. (MAVIR ZRt) has selected IBM (NYSE: IBM) to provide the information technology (IT) infrastructure to upgrade its operations and improve its asset management system. The agreement, worth more than Hungarian Forint (HUF) 1.7 billion (approximately USD$10 million), aims to support the safe and uninterrupted operation...
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Adam Gartenberg's Blog (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
I always like reading about the impact that our software can have on a business. Case in point: Princess Cruises, which has seen some pretty impressive results from their deployment of InfoSphere Warehouse and DB2, reducing processing times from 10 hours to 10 minutes and reducing physical storage capacity by 70%. ...
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Top Tech News (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Years ago, the Linux open-source operating system seemed ready to offer a nonproprietary alternative to Microsoft Windows. But "Linux on the desktop" never took off. Despite the technical merits of the distributions, Linux remained hard to configure and rough around the edges. And what did a user get if she conquered the hurdles? An operating system that looked like Windows, only worse. Keynoting at...
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The Blade (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
At a press conference yesterday at LinuxWorld, IBM announced that it has partnered with Red Hat, Novell, and Canonical to offer “Microsoft-free” personal computers. IBM’s main goal is to offer Lotus Notes and Lotus Symphony software as an alternative to Microsoft office. So why is IBM making this move now? Well it seems that Big Blue sees an opening in that the company feels there may be some disillusionment...
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InformationWeek - All Stories (Free subscription) | 55 minutes ago
Though nothing is final, Lenovo's participation in the project could vastly increase its reach and pose a significant threat to Microsoft's dominance of the desktop PC market.
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Between the Lines (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
At the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, IBM executive Bob Suter talks about what a desktop will mean in the future, saying it will focus more on mobile devices like iPhones and collaborations across platforms. He then calls for better graphics designers in the open-source world to make them easier to use.
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SOA in Action Blog (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
JM: Hello, this is Joe McKendrick contributor to ebizQ and the SOA in Action website. I’m pleased to be joined today by Dr. Raj Nagaratnam, IBM distinguished engineer and chief architect, Identity and SOA Security. SOA security is a hot...
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IPBiz (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
There's a lot of buzz about IBM's US Patent No. 7,407,089 titled System and method for determining packaging preference with first claim: A method of determining a customer's packaging preference in a conventional point-of-sale retail location, wherein the point-of-sale retail location includes a person who performs the packaging of items purchased in the point-of-sale retail location for the customer,...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Global leaders to deliver technology supporting a broad portfolio of
connected vehicle services
ATLANTA, Aug. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- HUGHES Telematics today announced it
has entered two agreements that enhance its already robust portfolio of
global technology relationships. IBM and Oracle both will provide essential
technological ingredients necessary to deliver HUGHES Telematics' consumer
solution to...
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London software testing news UK (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
From Zdnet IBM has released its first certified open-source software for Linux-based supercomputers, marking the tenth anniversary of its involvement with Linux. Released at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco on Tuesday, the IBM HPC Open Software Stack is intended to ease the deployment of supercomputing clusters — in particular hybrid clusters that combine different processor [...]
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InformationWeek - All Stories (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Company executives call on the open source community to do more to make Linux popular as a desktop OS for consumers and businesses.
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Top Tech News (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
IBM recently opened its "greenest" data center in North America at its Boulder, Colo., site. The 115,000 square-foot, energy-efficient facility includes 70,000 square feet of raised floor space and is part of a $350-million investment by the corporation in Boulder to help meet customer demand worldwide for green data centers, while helping IBM and its clients reduce energy costs. The new data center...
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israelonblog | 02/04/2008
IBM and the Israeli government signed last week an additional agreement for industrial cooperation. The new agreement follows the highly successful 1996 agreement. By the end of 2007 IBM had realized and implemented buy-back purchases worth $1.1 billion over the obligations it was committed in its supplier development program.
