Jeopardy IBM: Human vs. Machine Results
By: Peter Chubb | Posted: January 14, 2011Filed under: Computers
Most American’s at some time or another have seen an episode or two of the game show Jeopardy, but I bet you have not seen many that featured a Human vs. Machine? Well this is just what IBM set up…
IBM To Buy BigFix
By: Gary Johnson | Posted: July 1, 2010Filed under: Alternative News
IBM announced to the world today that they plan to takeover system management software vendor BigFix. The takeover is expected to be completed by the third quarter, and the terms of the deal have not been revealed so far.
IBM Layoffs 2010: Cutbacks Expected “Any day now”
By: Jamie Pert | Posted: March 2, 2010Filed under: Alternative News
If you are an IBM employee you may not like this article, as according to HuffingtonPost IBM will soon laying off a lot of employees.
IBM profits are up even as recession sapped its sales
By: Jamie Pert | Posted: October 16, 2009Filed under: Alternative News
IBM have recently revealed details regarding their profits over the third quarter, and despite the recession impacting sales they are still reporting a profit.
IBM and Linux to make fastest stock exchange software
By: Alan Ng | Posted: September 7, 2009Filed under: Computers, Software
Are you a keen follower of the stock exchanges? If you are, you might be interested to know that it is actually the Linux operating system that runs a lot of the exchanges.
Sun-Oracle News: IBM could of made a mistake
By: Peter Chubb | Posted: April 23, 2009Filed under: Computers
The tech industry is still in shock following the news of Oracle’s (NASDAQ:ORCL) proposed $7.4bn acquisition of Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:JAVA), which would lead to the company being called Sun-Oracle. This looks to be a huge mistake by IBM (NYSE:IBM), as…
IBM Layoffs: Latest 2009 job cuts
By: Peter Chubb | Posted: March 26, 2009Filed under: Alternative News
IBM (NYSE:IBM) has announced its latest round of job cuts for 2009, and it amounts to 4 percent of its U.S. workforce. The amount of jobs going will be 5,000; this is on top of similar cuts in recent months.
IBM Lotus launches LotusLive: Download Today
By: Peter Chubb | Posted: January 19, 2009Filed under: Computers, Software
Lotus is to launch LotusLive; this is an online version of their popular collaboration suite of applications. This new suite will be announced later today at the Lotusphere conference in Orlando. IBM joins a long list of collaboration vendors to…
IBM’s Mark Papermaster replacing Apple’s Tony Fadell
By: Peter Chubb | Posted: November 4, 2008Filed under: Alternative News
Tony Fadell who was one of the people, who helped bring the iPod to life, is leaving Apple after seven years with the company. Fadell helped turn Apple’s fortunes, as there is no denying that the iPod has been one…
IBM invests $300 million to build 13 delivery centers
By: Daniel Chubb | Posted: August 20, 2008Filed under: Alternative News
IBM today announced it is investing US$300 million to construct 13 Business Resilience service delivery centers in 10 countries in 2008, increasing its ability to address surging demand from businesses and governments from around the world seeking to keep their…
IBM and partners build smallest SRAM memory cell
By: Daniel Chubb | Posted: August 18, 2008Filed under: Alternative News
IBM and its joint development partners — AMD, Freescale, STMicroelectronics, Toshiba and the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) — today announced the first working static random access memory (SRAM) for the 22 nanometer (nm) technology node, the world’s…
IBM warns Linux Desktop Developers not to copy Windows
By: Peter Chubb | Posted: August 7, 2008Filed under: Computers, Software
IBM bosses have sent a warning to Linux Desktop Developers; they have told the open source community to make Linux like a desktop OS for consumers and businesses. What they mean by this is “Not to Copy Windows.” Bob Sutor,…
IBM says Windows free computing by 2009
By: Peter Chubb | Posted: August 6, 2008Filed under: Computers, Desktops, Software
IBM have said that they want Windows free computing, this is something that they are working on with three major Linux distributors, Canonical/Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat. They aim to achieve a Vole-free personal computing world by 2009 however; this…
IBM Research Develops Software Technology to Aid Human Memory
By: Peter Chubb | Posted: July 29, 2008Filed under: Computers, Software
To help people remember key facts, today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) unveiled a software technology created in its Research Labs that uses the images, sounds, and text recorded on everyday mobile devices to help people recall names, faces, conversations and other…
Proposed acquisition by IBM of ILOG
By: Daniel Chubb | Posted: July 28, 2008Filed under: Alternative News
IBM and ILOG today announced they have signed an agreement regarding a proposed acquisition by IBM of ILOG to be implemented by way of concurrent cash public tender offers in both France and the United States. Through this proposed transaction,…
