Archives: A Bold Shakeup for Dell Nov 20, 2009
He acquired software, storage, and technology services companies to try to compete with more diversified and bigger rivals Hewlett-Packard () and IBM (). The company faltered nonetheless. (BusinessWeek)
A computer that 'thinks' like brain Nov 20, 2009
Researchers from IBM Corp are reporting that they've simulated a cat's cerebral cortex, the thinking part of the brain, using a massive supercomputer ... Dharmendra Modha, manager of cognitive computing for IBM Research and senior author of the paper, called it a "truly unprecedented scale of simulation" ... Researchers from IBM Corp are reporting that they've simulated a cat's cerebral cortex, the thinking part of the brain, using a massive supercomputer. (India Times, India)
Goldman Sach's Shareholders Seethe Nov 20, 2009
The PC maker saw its quarterly profit drop 54% "raising questions about the personal-computer maker's strategy of focusing on profitability at the expense of market share," writes the WSJ. Dell's results are thrown into greater relief when you consider that Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Cisco, Intel and Microsoft all have reported positive results in recent weeks. Talking of a certain Redmond, WA behemoth, Microsoft is delighted to report that its new operating system, - so well in fact that Microsoft... (Slate)
Search site aims to rival Google Nov 20, 2009
The other founder Tom Patterson worked for IBM and others on search and storage technologies. By declaring its aim of taking on Google, Cuil joins a long list of others that have tried and largely failed to dent the search giant's market share. (Yahoo News -- Internet and WWW)
Report slams Google Apps' enterprise prospects, Google says: just you wait Nov 20, 2009
Current offerings from companies like Microsoft and IBM give both businesses are certainly more feature-packed than Google Apps. The key, says Burton, will be for businesses to view both options as supplementary to each other. (Yahoo News -- Internet Portals & Search Engines)
Read today's letters to the editor Nov 20, 2009
Boeing outsources aircraft manufacturing, IBM seeks replacement engineers from India, GM builds plants in Mexico, United Airlines outsources aircraft maintenance to Mexico. The tax revenue required to support a strong America is gone. (The News-Press -- Opinion)
IBM eyes Raipur, Bhopal for expansion Nov 19, 2009
JAIPUR: IT solutions provider IBM is planning to expand its footprints in tier II and tier III cities with a bouquet of hardware, software and services offerings primarily targeted at mid-market clients. IBM Growth markets vice president Harish Krishnamurthy told ET that the company is soon going to set up its hubs in potential cities like Raipur, Bhopal, Bhubhaneshwar, Vizag and Nagpur ... At present, IBM has a direct presence in 22 cities across the country. (India Times)
Analysts Expect Strong Earnings from NetApp, Brocade Nov 19, 2009
They said that EMC (NYSE: EMC) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) are not interested in buying Brocade and that HP (NYSE: HPQ) and Dell would have trouble digesting the storage and network switch maker because of Brocade's OEM sales model. " I n our opinion, the stars are all aligned for Brocade at this time and there has never been such an opportunity for Brocade to build a strong company with a large presence in the storage and data networking space," Roy and Hebbar wrote. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Medicine gobbles up research money Nov 19, 2009
I listened to presentations by the presidential science adviser, representatives from six national laboratories, a congresswoman, a senator, a government program director and representatives from IBM and General Electric. Although I enjoyed the attention, I couldn t help noticing the contrast between this conference, which launched the research centers for the National Nanotechnology Initiative, and a medical conference that I had written about just a few months earlier. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Salesforce Chatter Brings Social Networking To Business Nov 19, 2009
King pointed out that IBM beat Salesforce to the social-networking party with LotusLive, introduced in January. Before launching the service, IBM deployed LotusLive internally to every employee around the globe for VoIP telephony and avatar-driven virtual meetings ... IBM's work may represent the largest beta test ever of social networking in the enterprise and the jury is still out. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
IBM reports progress in creating brain-like computer Nov 19, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) -- International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) on Wednesday announced that its researchers have made significant progress toward creating a computer system that simulates the way the brain works. Reporting their results at a supercomputing conference being held in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon, IBM researchers said they have achieved a simulation with 1 billion neurons and 10 billion synapses using a supercomputer that has 147,456 processors. (Xinhuanet, China)
Cray claims fastest supercomputer crown Nov 19, 2009
That dropped previous No. 1 Los Alamos National Laboratory s IBM Roadrunner system in New Mexico to No. 2 with a speed of 1 ... Roadrunner, IBM, Los Alamos National Laboratory (1 ... JUGENE, IBM, Forschungszentrum Juelich (825. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
> Business Profile: AccelOps software looks at whole data center Nov 19, 2009
Vicki Thompson CEO Imin Lee says AccelOps is targeting data center customers that don;t want to pay for the solutions that big players like Hewlett-Packard and IBM provide for Fortune 500 businesses. Related News. (San Jose Business Journal, CA)
12th annual Top Forty Under 40 award recipients announced Nov 19, 2009
David Allen, University of Memphis; Sheri Bancroft, Hutchison School; Mary Beard, FedEx Corp.; Betsy Brasher, First Tennessee Bank; Jamie Carter, Crittenden Regional Hospital; Chirag Chauhan, The Barnett Group; Wei Chen, Sunshine Enterprise, Inc.; Nathan Cook, Christ Community Health Services; Eric Criswell, Davis Patrikios Criswell, Inc.; Shawn Danko, Big Foot Lodge; Jana Davis Lamanna, Black McLaren Jones Ryland & Griffee PC; Jay Dennis, IBM; Michael Erhardt, Paragon National Bank; Lane... (Memphis Business Journal, TN)
Tiny chip could diagnose disease Nov 19, 2009
Now, scientists at IBM's research labs in Zurich have developed a cheap lab-on-a-chip that has the potential to diagnose dozens of diseases ... Those channels can be designed with incredible precision on a silicon chip - something with which IBM has significant experience. (BBC News -- Technology)
Supreme Court: When Do Ideas Deserve Patents? Nov 19, 2009
Tech powers IBM, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo. and financial firms like American Express and Goldman Sachs control hundreds of such business-method patents for everything from search-engine optimization to risk assessment. (Time.com)
Cat Brain-Based Computer: Scientists Perform Cat-Scale Cortical Simulations and Map the Human Brain Nov 19, 2009
18, 2009) IBM has announced significant progress toward creating a computer system that simulates and emulates the brain's abilities for sensation, perception, action, interaction and cognition, while rivaling the brain's low power and energy consumption and compact size ... The cognitive computing team, led by IBM Research, has achieved significant advances in large-scale cortical simulation and a new algorithm that synthesizes neurological data -- two major milestones that indicate the... (Science Daily)
Click to read:The Dumb Things You Do With Your Money Nov 19, 2009
financial planner Laura Tarbox says she sees this all the time: Some clients keep concentrated stock holdings because they inherited them and Mom just loved IBM, or because they work for the company and feel that selling would be disloyal. Then theres the couple who came to her asking for help investing $12 million. (CBS News)
IBM Making Computers to Rival Human Brain Nov 19, 2009
According to IBM, "BlueMatter, a new algorithm created by IBM researchers in collaboration with Stanford University, exploits the Blue Gene supercomputing architecture in order to noninvasively measure and map the connections between all cortical and sub-cortical locations within the human brain using magnetic resonance diffusion weighted imaging." This image was rotated 90 degrees clockwise to comply with CBSNews ... According to IBM, "BlueMatter, a new algorithm created by IBM researchers in... (CBS News)
IBM computer simulates cats cerebral cortex Nov 19, 2009
IBM computer simulates cats cerebral cortex - Science- msnbc ... IBM computer simulates cats cerebral cortex ... But this week researchers from IBM Corp. are reporting that they've simulated a cat's cerebral cortex, the thinking part of the brain, using a massive supercomputer. (MSNBC -- Environment)
IBM Launches Cloud Computing Service Nov 19, 2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) - IBM launched a new cloud computing service on Monday, aiming to take on companies such as Amazon ... IBM, the world's biggest technology services company, has lagged behind younger companies in rolling out cloud services. (Datamation)
When the law chases the Internet Nov 19, 2009
And yet cybercrime is now considered a greater worry than physical crime among US businesses, according to a new IBM survey. Nearly 9 out of 10 companies experienced a computer security incident in 2005, the FBI has found, with viruses, computer theft, and other such crimes costing US firms more than $67 billion a year. (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
China's phone firmshelp Africa go mobile Nov 18, 2009
In contrast, Huawei's main Chinese competitor in Africa, ZTE, consistently prices 30%-40% below European competitors and, consequently, its products are perceived as being of inferior quality," wrote the authors of an April 2009 study entitled, "Huawei Technologies: A Chinese Trail Blazer in Africa". [1] Among other things, US-based IBM "helped Huawei learn the importance of turning R&D into cash and of approaching product development from both technical and business angles to ensure investment... (Asia Times Online)
U.S. supercomputer is fastest Nov 18, 2009
That dropped previous No. 1 Los Alamos National Laboratory's IBM Roadrunner system in New Mexico to No. 2 with a speed of 1. 04 petaflops. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)
IBM biochip allows fast diagnosis of many diseases Nov 18, 2009
MUNICH, Germany In its Zurich research laboratory, IBM has built a point-of-care diagnostic test device based on a silicon chip ... The device uses capillary forces to ingest the sample material which could be a patient's blood or a serum, explained IBM researcher Luc Gervais in an interview with EE Times ... In comparison with available biochips, IBM claims its achievement needs much less sample liquid only 7 picoliter , and it provides its results in less than a minute. (EETimes)
IBM takes step toward thinking machines Nov 18, 2009
IBM takes a (feline) step toward thinking machines. Article:IBM takes a (feline) step toward thinking machines:/n/a/2009/11/17/financial/f210247S61 ... DTL Article:IBM takes a (feline) step toward thinking machines:/n/a/2009/11/17/financial/f210247S61. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)
IBM Offers Symphony on Keepod USB Devices Nov 18, 2009
IBM announced Tuesday that its free Lotus Symphony office productivity suite is now available on Keepods -- thin USB devices made by the Italian company NSEC. ... IBM does not formally track Symphony installs but estimates about 10 million people are using the software, said product manager Jeanette Barlow ... IBM expects interest in Symphony to jump significantly next year, when a new version based on the OpenOffice 3 codebase is released, according to Barlow. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Bank Simpanan starting Net banking Nov 18, 2009
Adinan was speaking to reporters after a signing ceremony here yesterday between BSN and technology providers Cyber Village Sdn Bhd and IBM Malaysia ... With them are IBM Malaysia managing director Ou Shian Waei (left) and Norazian Ahmad Tajuddin. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Business)
Report slams Google Apps' enterprise prospects, Google says: just you wait Nov 18, 2009
Current offerings from companies like Microsoft and IBM give both businesses are certainly more feature-packed than Google Apps. The key, says Burton, will be for businesses to view both options as supplementary to each other. (Yahoo News -- Internet Portals & Search Engines)
Search site aims to rival Google Nov 18, 2009
The other founder Tom Patterson worked for IBM and others on search and storage technologies. By declaring its aim of taking on Google, Cuil joins a long list of others that have tried and largely failed to dent the search giant's market share. (Yahoo News -- Internet and WWW)
Hardware market poised for double digit growth Nov 18, 2009
Top hardware vendors such as IBM, HP and Acer have already started seeing a revival in their sales, and experts forecast the hardware market to rebound by next year ... Indeed, vendors such as IBM and HP are beginning to see their sales rise ... I do expect the India systems (hardware) market to be robust, Indian institutions are stronger than ever and companies continue to invest in both domestic and abroad, said, Elly Keinan, general manager, system and technology group, IBM Growth markets.... (India Times)
Top Supercomputer Nearly Doubles in Speed Nov 18, 2009
Six systems use IBM's Cell B/E processor, used in the PlayStation 3, and two use the six-core "Istanbul" Opteron processors ... IBM's Power processor is in 52 systems, down from 55 last June ... HP (NYSE: HPQ) leads in the number of systems, with 210 of the Top 500 bearing the HP logo, while IBM has 186 systems. (SmallBusinessComputing)
Computer Security Challenged By Web 2.0 'Endpoint' Growth Nov 18, 2009
Running data centers for other companies isn't glamorous, but the business has attracted the likes of IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Google and Amazon. com. (Investors Business Daily)
Retired military officers cash in as well-paid consultants Nov 18, 2009
" The website for his consultancy, R.J. Natter & Associates, says clients have included , , IBM and North America. "The reality is that you know that the people in the room are not stupid," he says, when asked how he juggles potential conflicts of interests while mentoring. "And secondly, you very seldom get into specific systems of ships or tanks or things like that. " Natter was a mentor last year on a Marine exercise designed to explore how to build bases using ships at sea. In 2006, a BAE... (USA Today -- News)
Oak Ridge 'Jaguar' Supercomputer Is World's Fastest Nov 18, 2009
Computer Engineer Mark Dean was recently inducted into the National Inventor's Hall of Fame for his work with IBM. He's the man behind the first. . (Science Daily)
Making a computer that can actually think like a brain Nov 18, 2009
But this week researchers from IBM Corp. are reporting that they've simulated a cat's cerebral cortex, the thinking part of the brain, using a massive supercomputer ... The computer was shown images of corporate logos, including IBM's, and scientists watched as different parts of the simulated brain worked together to figure out what the image was ... Dharmendra Modha, manager of cognitive computing for IBM Research and senior author of the paper, called it a "truly unprecedented scale of... (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Northrop Grumman Information Systems Sector Honors Its Top Suppliers for 2009 Nov 18, 2009
IBM Corporation, Chantilly, Va. Integral Systems, Inc., Columbia, Md. (Primezone Releases)
Taming the Beast Nov 18, 2009
That is probably why the game experience itself has become so bad with fans getting drunk and obscene because what is going on on the fieldcan bea bit like a board meeting at IBM. I would like to blame it all on Obama and the Democrats, but I believe I am correct in saying that most team owners are Republicans. Filed under. (The American Conservative)
HP Snaps Up 3Com, Tech Mergers Heat Up Nov 17, 2009
The deal is the latest sign that technology giants from IBM to Oracle Corp are increasingly encroaching in each other's markets as they seek to become one-stop shops for computing, networking and data storage. Cisco itself this year pushed into the server market, of which HP is a major player. (Datamation)
Google Sites Gets Dozens of Templates Nov 17, 2009
"Luke Leonhard, Web Services Manager for adds, 'With our old IBM Lotus Quickr solution, it took seven clicks and three page refreshes for employees to publish new information internally. Google Sites makes it just two clicks.'". Google Sites templates will appeal to companies and users who want to get up-and-running quickly and cheaply, and who value ease-of-use more than an overload of enterprise features that often get in the way. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Building Lotus Support in Your Company Nov 17, 2009
This series of articles on intranet solutions with IBM Lotus Notes/Domino and its companion products is intended to help readers understand the fundamental methodology and capabilities of the product and how to utilize it to deliver a feature-rich, secure, and functional corporate intranet solution. It will include implementation strategies, case studies, industry-tested tips and tricks, and, with your input, true value to the administrator or developer who wants to utilize IBM Lotus... (IntranetJournal)
When the law chases the Internet Nov 17, 2009
And yet cybercrime is now considered a greater worry than physical crime among US businesses, according to a new IBM survey. Nearly 9 out of 10 companies experienced a computer security incident in 2005, the FBI has found, with viruses, computer theft, and other such crimes costing US firms more than $67 billion a year. (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
The Sixth Annual Gibbs Golden Turkey Awards Nov 17, 2009
The runner-up in this category is IBM and the UK Rural Payments Agency (RPA). According to the RPA, IBM managed to lose two backup tapes containing detailed personal data such as bank details, addresses and passwords on 100,000 farmers in England in May ... IBM and the RPA are nominated for gross negligence. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)
Recession brings on Gen X angst at work Nov 17, 2009
But then we saw that start to crumble for our folks," she says, recalling friends whose fathers and mothers got laid off from companies such as IBM or had to relocate.Now worried about their own foreclosures, debt and unemployment, her generation is left to do the soul-searching their parents did."Is there still time to become something different. Must we just accept where we are. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Jaguar beats Roadrunner to top list of fastest supercomputers Nov 17, 2009
The IBM computer is owned by the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and was the first machine to push through the petaflop barrier ... The IBM BlueGene/P supercomputer at the Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ) in Germany is the fastest machine outside the US and is able to run at more than 800 teraflops. (BBC News -- Americas)
CardioComm Solutions, Inc. Signs Software Development Agreement and Adds New Director Nov 17, 2009
Mr. Smith began his career as a systems engineer at IBM Canada and recently completed three years with Microsoft in Europe where he was first responsible for the KPMG partnership and was finally Finance Industry Marketing Manager for Microsoft EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). He left Microsoft in May 2001 to take the position of COO with ICT, a start-up company dealing in banking opportunities in financial services. (CCNMatthews Press Releases)
How to Sell New Innovations Nov 17, 2009
However, in the advertising we refer to it as The World's First Contoured Heating Pad", but we draw a line through the word pad and pring POUCH - skewed, above the 'lined-out' pad. We hope to soon have the term "Heating Pouch" on the tips of every tongue... but in the meantime we opt for the well-known anchor. July 9, 2008 at 10:07am by Great article! The Lumineyes procedure sounds very promising! Consumers spend millions of dollars each year for colored contacts. I think this will definitely be... (FastCompany)
Solar Power With Style Nov 17, 2009
Using a mobile device. Go to for our mobile version. (FastCompany)
Sematech appoints former IBM executive to CEO post Nov 17, 2009
Armbrust, who served most recently as vice president of 300-mm semiconductor operation at IBM Corp., will succeed Michael Polcari, who has been appointed Sematech's chairman of the board. Armbrust, 47, was responsible for IBM's 300-mm wafer fab in East Fishkill, New York ... Previously Armbrust held a variety of positions at IBM related to process development, manufacturing, and engagement. (EETimes)
Sematech names ex-IBM exec CEO Nov 17, 2009
Armbrust spent 35 years at IBM (NYSE: IBM), most recently as vice president of 300 millimeter semiconductor operations for the company s systems technology group in East Fishkill. He replaces Michael Polcari, who is now Sematech s chairman of the board. (Albany Business Review, NY)
Inventor and Author Brian Fried Launches Nationally Broadcasted Live Radio Show "Got Invention Radio" on November 19, 2009 for Inventors and Entrepreneurs on wsRadio.com Nov 17, 2009
"People have so many great ideas and inventions but they're not sure what their next steps are or how to bring their product to market. That will be the focus of Got Invention Radio, stated Fried. It was through writing the book "You Big Ideas" and founding the Inventors and Entrepreneurs Club in Suffolk County, NY, that Brian first realized the lack of resources available to inventors to get the answers to their many questions. He continued, Got Invention Radio is going to be a great... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
CSC piggybacks on Lockheed census job in Baltimore Nov 17, 2009
IBM and Pearson Government Solutions will also share the work. Under terms of the contract awarded to CSC, the Falls Church, Va. (Baltimore Business Journal, MD)
Recession intensifies Gen X discontent Nov 17, 2009
But then we saw that start to crumble for our folks, she says, recalling friends whose fathers and mothers got laid off from companies like IBM or had to relocate. Now worried about their own foreclosures, debt and unemployment, her generation is left to do the soul-searching their parents did. (Courier-Journal -- Business)
HP, IBM and 3PAR Unveil New Data Storage Wares Nov 17, 2009
HP (NYSE: HPQ), IBM (NYSE: IBM) and 3PAR (NYSE: PAR) all have new data storage offerings this week, and a common thread among the three is their readiness for server virtualization environments ... IBM announced new mirroring and space reclamation features for its XIV storage systems, and 3PAR added new provisioning features to its InServ Storage Servers ... IBM XIV Mirrors, Optimizes and Recovers. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Analysts Expect Strong Earnings from NetApp, Brocade Nov 17, 2009
They said that EMC (NYSE: EMC) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) are not interested in buying Brocade and that HP (NYSE: HPQ) and Dell would have trouble digesting the storage and network switch maker because of Brocade's OEM sales model. " I n our opinion, the stars are all aligned for Brocade at this time and there has never been such an opportunity for Brocade to build a strong company with a large presence in the storage and data networking space," Roy and Hebbar wrote. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Recession Intensifies GenX Discontent At Work Nov 16, 2009
"Many of my friends had hoped to have jobs like their parents -- places they would stay forever that would take care of them like they did their parents. But then we saw that start to crumble for our folks," she says, recalling friends whose fathers and mothers got laid off from companies such as IBM or had to relocate. Now worried about their own foreclosures, debt and unemployment, her generation is left to do the soul-searching their parents did. (Click2Houston, TX)
Search site aims to rival Google Nov 16, 2009
The other founder Tom Patterson worked for IBM and others on search and storage technologies. By declaring its aim of taking on Google, Cuil joins a long list of others that have tried and largely failed to dent the search giant's market share. (Yahoo News -- Internet and WWW)
Report slams Google Apps' enterprise prospects, Google says: just you wait Nov 16, 2009
Current offerings from companies like Microsoft and IBM give both businesses are certainly more feature-packed than Google Apps. The key, says Burton, will be for businesses to view both options as supplementary to each other. (Yahoo News -- Internet Portals & Search Engines)
Click to read:In China, Obama Meets America's Lender Nov 16, 2009
We "Gave" them computer technology (IBM) but they continue to act like 'We' owe them. We don't although they do hold a portion of our national debt. (CBS News)
Apache Tomcat Server vs. Oracle Web... Nov 16, 2009
The only major alternative in the J2EE application server market is IBM Websphere. Future Without J2EE Applications. (Suite101.com)
Stocks Dismiss Deficit, Sentiment Data Nov 15, 2009
Gains in IBM (IBM), 3M (MMM) and Chevron (CVX) bolstered the blue-chip index. Meanwhile, the Nasdaq and NYSE composite slipped 0. (Investors Business Daily)
Multinational Corporations And The Developing World Nov 15, 2009
Virtually many of the world largest companies such as Coca cola, Shell, IBM, Guinness Breweries, General motors to mention a few have managed to spread their tentacles in most parts of the world. In terms of turnover, some of them exceed the national incomes of many smaller countries like our country, but I must hasten to add that there are also thousands of very small specialists multinationals which are a mere fractions of the above mentioned ones, that are also operating significantly in the... (Ghana Web, Ghana)
How a search-engine startup became a global powerhouse Nov 15, 2009
For instance, the revered former head of IBM, Lou Gerstner, once froze out Fortune magazine for far longer than a mere two months over an article he disliked, a story Auletta must know. For all its pluses, Googled does not always read crisply. (Boston Globe)
2 charged with cooking books for Madoff Nov 14, 2009
Two former employees for Bernard Madoff programmed an old IBM computer to generate false records that concealed the crooked financier's massive Ponzi scheme and were given hush money when they threatened to stop lying, federal prosecutors said Friday. Get Quote. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)
2 accused of aiding Madoff scam Nov 14, 2009
Two former employees for Bernard Madoff programmed an old IBM computer to generate false records that concealed the crooked financier's massive Ponzi scheme and were given hush money when they threatened to stop lying, federal prosecutors said Friday ... Computer programmers accused of aiding Madoff scam Articles (11-13) 12:40 PST New York (AP) -- Two former employees for Bernard Madoff programmed an old IBM computer to generate false records that concealed the crooked financier's massive Ponzi... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)
