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IBM announced on Wednesday that its net income in the third quarter of the year went up 20 percent, while the profit forecast for the entire year seems to be quite accurate. Big Blue will present the report on its full financial results for the quarter on October 16th, and this announcement made only a week earlier i... |
10 October 2008
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IBM announced on Tuesday upgrades to its Unix servers by means of faster processors and new management software, designed especially for those that use the company's hardware for server consolidation as well as for virtualization. Big Blue came up with a 5GHz Power6 processor for its Power 570 top-selling midran... |
9 October 2008
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ARM, Samsung, IBM and semiconductor manufacturer Chartered have recently announced that they will begin developing a comprehensive 32nm and 28nm System-on-a-Chip design platform based on high-k metal-gate technology. According to the multi-year collaboration between the four major companies, ARM will develop and lice... |
30 September 2008
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IBM announced that it is currently working on building a new supercomputer, which is said to be delivered to the University of Science and Technology of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah. The supercomputer is stated to become one of the world's most powerful systems. The new IBM-built system will be named Shahee... |
29 September 2008
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Scientists from Iowa State University are going to be part of a giant consortium involved in the development of the most powerful supercomputer in the world. The new device, which will be located at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, will be able to perform a su... |
19 September 2008
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IBM seems determined to be the first to reach the next-generation 22-nanometer chip technology. The general tendency in the industry is to get to smaller geometries, as chips become faster and provide more power efficiency. Intel is making at the moment the transition from 65nm to 45nm manufacturing process, while Ad... |
18 September 2008
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Fifty years ago, IBM started a project to build up a machine meant to replace the company's 704 supercomputer. The end result came under the name of 7030, also known as Stretch, and it was able to perform about half a million instructions per second and 100 billion computations a day. IBM's CEO at that time... |
15 September 2008
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The Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) specification is the child of Microsoft, EMC and IBM, and the three companies reveled that they aim to receive standardization from the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). At the heart of the initiative is the need to en... |
11 September 2008
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As we already noted in many of our previous posts, solid-state drives are expected to become the next standard in the storage market. This is exactly why several manufacturers are dedicating a considerable part of their R&D resources to improve the current flash-based SSD technology, making it more accessible to cons... |
1 September 2008
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IBM announced that it would invest $300 million in 13 restoration centers across the globe, which are meant to secure and preserve data in case of a disaster of any kind. The project is based on cloud computing, hence, business partner information will be preserved in designated spaces directly on the Internet. IBM a... |
21 August 2008
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Last week, "cloud computing" was in the spotlight, as three major companies announced a joint project to research large-scale computing. The industry giants Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Yahoo said that they would provide facilities, software and infrastructure resources to the new joint project. Following the announcem... |
4 August 2008
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It looks like the latest news from the storage market finally bring something else than just details on Solid State Drives. These days, the entire media has been ablaze with talks about the most recent announcements made by IBM and Sun Microsystems, which have once again brought tape storage drives into the spotlight... |
16 July 2008
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IBM is determined to go aggressive on the microprocessor market and it prepares a strong weapon for the action, a 45nm octo-core giant, called Power7. This little monster looks like a highly capable device, offering up to 256 GigaFlops of performance; it is rumored to be delivered on the market featuring a clock spee... |
14 July 2008
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According to the research and advisory firm Gartner, IBM has managed to take the lead in the server market. IBM's success marks the company's victory against competitor HP, which earlier this year was reported to have claimed the leadership precisely in the same segment of the market. These recent rankings ... |
7 July 2008
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The latest acquisition made by IBM, that of Platform Solutions (PSI), a vendor of mainframes and other computer hardware, ended a law issue between the two companies, but also raised antitrust concerns from an IT trade group. IBM filed a law suit against Platform Solutions in November 2006, accusing it of patent infr... |
3 July 2008
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Atul Mahotra joined the HP team two years ago, in May 2006, as VP (short for vice president) of the printing division. After just four months he was fired after he was accused of leaking private information from IBM, his previous employer, to his current employer. Mahotra was brought to justice and the San Jose court... |
3 July 2008
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The 31st Top500 supercomputer list was released today at Dresden, Germany, and it brings good news, both for some of the companies involved and for the environmentalists. The dominance is held by IBM, with 210 systems out of 500, as well as 5 of the top 10. The second company on the list is Hewlett-Packard, which has... |
18 June 2008
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IBM announced that the company is on its way to launch an expanded series of data centers featuring a modular design which would enable them to get their energy consumption down to 50% in comparison to existing data centers. The move goes in line with the Project Big Green the company launched last year following the... |
11 June 2008
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Don't you just love it when the web offers you bits and pieces of information about a product that hasn't yet been officially released? That information might just make you reconsider a future acquisition. And that happens because the yet-to-be-released product might look more promising than what you initia... |
9 June 2008
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IBM, a leading manufacturer of computer hardware and systems, has recently announced that it delivered the first working prototype of its water-cooled 3D chips. The new 3D chips are designed to operate with multiple layers of circuits and components stacked on top of each other. This design is said to be better than ... |
6 June 2008
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IBM has just introduced a new blade server offering for high-performance computing, powered by Cell processors. The new offering is especially targeted at financial services, digital media creation, and medical imaging, as the updated Cell processor comes with better support for floating point operations.According to... |
14 May 2008
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Rambus has inked two new and important licensing deals with IBM and Spansion on the DRAM market. The memory specialist has just announced that it licensed IBM its multi-protocol serial/deserializer (SerDes) cell technology that offers improved performance in networking, server and general ASIC applications.According... |
25 April 2008
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The extremely popular social networking website Facebook met a huge growth since it was first launched on February 4, 2004. The user influx and the increased amount of horsepower required to run a Web 2.0 site led to significant infrastructure upgrades that extended the number of Facebook servers.The social networki... |
25 April 2008
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IBM has pulled out of its sleeve a new series of Web 2.0-ready servers in the iDataPlex family. The new computers are especially tailored to suit the demands of Web 2.0 sites, and can face the heavy traffic usually associated with popular social networking sites. According to the company, the iDataPlex architecture c... |
24 April 2008
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IBM announced today the acquisition of Diligent Technologies, this being the third buy Big Blue make in the storage fields. Through this move, IBM plans on adding data de-duplication technology developed by Diligent Technologies to its own storage portfolio. In the last few months IBM has made two more grabs in the a... |
18 April 2008
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It is not often that we read news concerning both Apple and IBM. The last time we mentioned the two together was when Duke University folks and the University of Waterloo conducted this study to see which of the two companies' logos had a stronger impact on people. Recently, IBM launched an internal pilot progra... |
17 April 2008
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Japanese conglomerate Hitachi has announced that it dropped its plans of exiting from the hard-disk drive business, and is now gearing up to make a comeback by cutting down on production costs. The news was broken by Hitachi's storage division head during yesterday's conference.Hitachi's decision is so... |
17 April 2008
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IBM's upcoming High-K Metal Gate micro-technology will bring faster and more energy-efficient chips built on the 32-nanometer processing node. The miraculous technology will replace the existing polysilicon gate and the silicon-dioxide gate dielectric with more efficient, hafnium-infused metal gates and dielectr... |
15 April 2008
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US-based conglomerate IBM plans to unveil a revolutionary encoding technology, that would make it possible to stream HD media at up to 3Mbps speeds across the web. The new technology has been developed in collaboration with the software firm Broadcast International.According to a joint statement prepared by the two p... |
14 April 2008
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IBM is currently working on a new breed of memory chips, that is alleged to deliver extended reliability at cheaper costs than the existing DDRAM offerings. According to the company, the new type of memory is an interesting mixture of the technologies used in solid-state storage media and hard-disk drives.Shortly put... |
11 April 2008
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IBM has unveiled a new Power6-based version of its highest-end Unix server in the Power 595 family. The new systems feature no less than 32 dual-core 5GHz Power6 chips and are cooled with a water-based solution.The server line was unveiled during the company's customer event in San Francisco and promises to deli... |
9 April 2008
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Japanese manufacturer Toshiba has begun sampling units of its SpursEngine chip, a high-performance co-processor inspired from IBM's Cell processor, that powers Sony's PlayStation 3 games console. The new chip is designed to take care of intensive applications for graphics design and image manipulation. The ... |
8 April 2008
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Supercomputer specialist IBM has unveiled its latest supercomputer creation, touted to be five times more powerful and 60 percent more energy-efficient than its predecessors. The company's achievement is quite impressive, since the supercomputing world is usually getting its performance boosts from pumping up mo... |
8 April 2008
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The United States Environmental Protection Agency has cleared IBM from the one-week interdiction of seeking new contract opportunities with the US Federal Government. Although the suspension lift means that the company can get back into business, the EPA investigating is still ongoing.The decision of lifting the ban ... |
8 April 2008
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Computer manufacturer Asustek has just filled a lawsuit against the US-based conglomerate IBM over an alleged patent infringement regarding its intellectual property. Asustek's legal action comes as a response to a previous lawsuit filled by IBM against the Taiwanese vendor on the same grounds.The system vendor ... |
7 April 2008
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IBM's environmental concerns have put data centers to an unconventional and extremely odd use. One of the recently unveiled data centers in Uitikon, Switzerland, is used to heat a nearby swimming pool. The data center has been announced yesterday and is the result of IBM's joint collaboration with GIB-Servi... |
3 April 2008
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US-based conglomerate IBM has been reportedly suspended from striking new agreements with the United States federal government for an indefinite period of time. According to a post on the General Services Administration's website, the company is now blacklisted by the Environmental Protection Agency as of March ... |
1 April 2008
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IBM has decided to invest in the startup that commercializes PostgreSQL database, EnterpriseDB. This comes at about four weeks after the lock up of the open source MySQL database system by Sun Microsystems. This way, IBM joins Charles River Ventures, Fidelity Ventures, and Valhalla Partners in investing in Enterprise... |
26 March 2008
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Here's a good one. No really, pay attention to this: guys over at Duke University and the University of Waterloo conduct this study, right? What they find is that merely thinking about Apple makes a person more creative. Subjects who were shown the IBM logo for a fraction of a second were rendered stupid. Check ... |
26 March 2008
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IBM has managed to achieve a new kind of processor switch based on optical technology, that could lead to faster data rates in the near future. Aimed at replacing copper nanowires with photons, the latest achievement in optoelecronics opens the gate to a new era in computing.The brand-new optical switch is still in i... |
17 March 2008
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IBM and Hitachi have jointly announced their first-ever partnership for researching the next chip technology for 32-nanometer semiconductors. According to the company officials, IBM and Hitachi will use brand new technologies that would allow them to improve the measurements in the transistor variations.The two compa... |
10 March 2008
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The brand-new PlayStation 3 from Sony is surely one of the best recipes for having fun. If the average user would enjoy setting off into a difficult mission with Solid Snake in the Metal Gear series or smashing some alien creatures in the Alien versus Predator, some true tech geeks would put gaming consoles to new an... |
29 February 2008
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IBM described a new technological breakthrough in data transfer that is alleged to be world's first optically-connected circuit board during the Optical Fiber Communication Conference in San Diego. The company engineers have detailed upon the process and said that the 300-Gbits/sec optical interconnect has been... |
28 February 2008
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Mainframe computer manufacturer Platform Solutions has just introduced a new and bigger mainframe machine powered by Intel's Itanium processors. The statement comes right after its competitor, IBM, announced the System Z10 series of mainframe computers.Platform Solutions (PSI) is a hardware vendor specialized in... |
28 February 2008
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AMD and IBM engineers have jointly announced a new advancement in the microprocessor design: they succeeded in creating a 45-nanometer processor using full Extreme Ultra-Violet (EUV) lithography on its square silicon surface. Their achievement may be regarded as a new milestone in chip design and open the gates for ... |
27 February 2008
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IBM's mainframe computer has just been officially launched and the company is currently planning on implementing the latest open-source software as well as multi-threading or hybrid processor technologies. IBM's new mainframe, the System z10 is the company's first to be built around a quad-core chip es... |
27 February 2008
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IBM Corporation researchers announced on Friday that they successfully managed to manipulate individual cobalt atoms. This achievement may be regard as a technological breakthrough that will pave the way to atomic memory, where the bit-cells will hold just a few atoms.The nowadays process involves heavy use of atoms.... |
25 February 2008
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Canonical will resell IBM DB2 Express-C 9.5 as software, through the Ubuntu Partner Repository. The software will be used as a virtual appliance running on VMware.Canonical is also offering an annual support contract for IBM DB2 Express-C through shop.canonical.com. This is the first time when Ubuntu users will be ab... |
22 February 2008
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IBM scientists are currently researcher on linking DNA molecules with conductive carbon nanotubes. The procedure is extremely complicated because of the small scale the engineers are forced to work at. Once the carbon nanotubes are interconnected, the DNA can be shed off, leaving just an orderly grid of nanotubes. Th... |
20 February 2008
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I am always really glad to see, when I hear about the development of a game, that it only wants to educate the youth and goes beyond what the market really wants: blood, violence and nudity. Unfortunately, this kind of games (the learning ones) are bound to live a short life and few really manage to reach their targe... |
18 February 2008
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