IBM trash-talks all those other chipsters with its latest breakthrough, an optical transceiver chipset that can accomplish the technological equivalent of cramming a basketball through a garden hose. The trick here is moving data through fiber optic cables at 160GB per second; that's eight times faster than today's optical components can do.
IBM, Intel, Microsoft and other tech companies are increasingly betting that the health care industry will help them grow as their traditional markets mature.
The expansion threatens to bog down Microsoft's efforts to persuade businesses to buy the latest version of its market-leading Office suite that was developed along with its new Vista operating system. Google's software bundle, to be sold for a $50 annual fee per user, also poses a challenge to IBM and its Lotus suite.
IBM this week announced a breakthrough in microprocessor design that will greatly improve the performance of processors, particularly multicore processors. The breakthrough relates to the memory used in a Level 1, or L1 cache used in microprocessors. It's the first level of CPU instruction cache for storing the most recent instructions.
Operator | Firefox Add-ons | Mozilla Corporation

Operator lets you combine pieces of information on Web sites with applications in ways that are useful. For instance, Flickr + Google Maps, Upcoming.org + Google Calendar, Yahoo! Local + your address book, and many more possibilities and permutations. All of these scenarios are possible due to Microformats, an emerging standard for injecting semantics into HTML.
An IBM article about how to utilize the power of RSS through PHP.
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Want to rent server space from online retailing leader Amazon.com? You'll soon be able to, as the company has announced that it will offer virtual server computing power directly over the Internet. Amazon is not the first company to do this. Selling managed computing over the Internet has been a business model for some time, catering to small comp
FINEOS Corporation, an award-winning provider of software solutions for the insurance and banking industries, today announced it has joined IBM's Chiphopper program.
Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM has now agreed to buy three public companies this month alone. Interesting to see where IBM goes with all of this.
OpenSolaris isn't a true open-source project, but rather a "facade," because Sun Microsystems doesn't share control of it with outsiders, executives from rival IBM say
Some say that everyone who's going to buy a PC has bought a PC," Rosen said, excluding the market niche for $100 PCs in developing nations. "
"Medical facilities and doctors all have their own ways of communicating and distributing medical information much of it hard copy," Scott Handy, vice president of worldwide Linux and open source at IBM, told internetnews.com
To help meet the demand by New York-area employers looking for techies with skills related to mainframe, Linux, and open-standard technologies, IBM has expanded a partnership with Pace University, enhancing the curriculum it already helps develop at the school
IBM Thursday said it agreed to buy business software maker FileNet Corp. for $1.6 billion, a move that would boost its competitive edge against EMC Corp. in the market for corporate content management.
The IBM PC was born 25 years ago this week, but not all of its inventors were as lucky as Bill Gates







