Google, IBM sponsor parallel computing courses at universities

"IT companies are becoming more active in making sure that there will be enough engineers that will be able to handle emerging technologies such as parallel computing. Following examples such as the one set by...

IBM Tries To One-Up MIcrosoft With Free Office Productivity Software

Athens, GA (Sept 18, 2007) - The war between IBM. Microsoft and Google for control of the user desktop is escalating. Last week, Microsoft made a bold move in reducing the academic pricing of the full version of Microsoft Office to US$60 for students. It could be that this...

IBM stores data on an atom

Some days we might take our whole library or movie collection in our mobile phone, or even in a ring? This can be possible with the latest developments and experiments of the Blue giant."IBM has demonstrated how...

SCO's Linux battle: Game over?

"A district court on Friday confirmed that Novell holds Unix and UnixWare copyrights that are at the focus of SCO's ongoing multi-billion dollar lawsuit against IBM. It is a far reaching ruling that enables Novell to force SCO to withdraw its suit against IBM and claim...

Business resiliency

Whether nurturing existing customers or pursuing new ones, your organization faces ever-escalating customer demands and expectations. Can you depend on your IT infrastructure to provide highly available and continuous business operations and service?Virtualization can help...

How Many Ships Fly Old Glory? You may be suprised.

gCaptain.com tells us:There are 33,222 large ships in service worldwide, how many do you think are U.S. Flagged?It is common knowledge that our large merchant marine and shipyard capacity provided the supplies our...

Heritage Hell: The Watson International Murders

Philadelphia's murder wave crested yet again on February 12th when self described real estate investor Vincent Julius Dortch shot and killed 3 men in the Philly waterfront offices of a website development and marketing firm called Zigzag Net. The murder victims were board...

IBM, Google Working Together

"IBM Wednesday said it was linking nearly 4,000 Google Gadgets to its WebSphere portal in a move that lets users create mash-ups between enterprise and Web-based services while maintaining it all under corporate security and management controls. IBM Portlet for Google Gadget...

SCO Vs. Blogger

"For three and a half years, a blogger named Pamela Jones has led a relentless online crusade against software maker SCO Group, posting thousands of articles bashing the company for suing IBM over the Linux...

New open-source software by IBM could let people minimize their digital footp...

"Think about the last time you bought a DVD, booked a flight, rented a car, or signed up for a service or newsletter on the Internet. At some point, you had to fill out a form that asked for a lot of personal information. While it's a hassle unto itself, filling out forms can...

IBM, Intel make major chip breakthrough

"In duelling announcements, Intel Corp. and International Business Machines Corp. separately say they have solved a puzzle perplexing the semiconductor industry about how to reduce energy loss in microchip...

Breakthrough spurs microchip arms race

"Intel has long planned to begin making chips with 45-nanometer circuits later this year, and it said last week it has successfully produced working processors on that scale, putting it on track to meet its...

Intel and IBM give Moore's Law a boost

"Intel and IBM have separately made claims of breakthroughs in transistor design that should lead to improved design in sub-micron process technology by reducing the amount of electrical leakage, and extend Moore’s Law into the next decade According to Moore’s Law, the...

IBM, AMD and Intel Fight for Supremacy in 45nm Chip Technology

"Intel claims major advancement in the 45nm technology for processors, but IBM and Intel’s rival AMD had already claimed the same thing last December. The 45 nanometer (45 nm) process is the next milestone (to...

Linux Foundation Formed With Backing From HP, IBM, Intel

"The new group, which will employ Linux inventor Linus Torvalds, is being formed from the merger of Open Source Development Labs and the Free Standards Group.Two groups committed to the business adoption of Linux...

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