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Photos: Inside Big Blue's big green datacentre
Photo This is one half of IBM's Green Innovations Datacentre in Southbury, Connecticut, where Big Blue's internal IT staff pushes the green envelope. Called Cool Blue, the system circulates... [22 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.09.09
Round-Up Big Blue has taken a different approach to staff development by combining a training exercise with a video game. Microsoft, eh? It seems like there's any excuse for a party these days. It emerged this... [11 Sep 2009]
Big Blue wants tech to get water management flowing
News Big Blue's Maximo "asset management" software is used by many water utilities to keep track and maintain their equipment of pumps, plants and filtration equipment. The hard truth is that most of the... [08 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.08.09
Round-Up Given the chance they would probably have taken screengrabs of the blue rectangles on their smartphones, uploaded them to the web, blogged about them then spent a few minutes re-tweeting the blog URL on Twitter while... [28 Aug 2009]
Is constant Facebooking, Twittering, IMing taking its toll on attention spans?
News One showed the two rectangles alone, the other showed the two red rectangles surrounded by two, four or six blue rectangles. They were told to ignore the blue rectangles, and the low multitaskers had no... [26 Aug 2009]
Facebook, Twitter coming to budget mobiles in emerging markets
News Microsoft said Blue Label Telecoms in South Africa will be the first to use OneApp and will use it to offer phones that ship with a dozen mobile applications, including a mobile wallet program as well as the... [25 Aug 2009]
The top 10 alternatives to Google search
Photo So is it time to give the big G the heave-ho? Rather than returning a page full of the "infamous 10 blue links", Kosmix presents a web page that mimics that layout of a magazine article, offering facts,... [16 Jun 2009]
Sun stamps cloud of rejection on IBM deal
News IBM reportedly made a formal bid of $9.40 per share, or less, for Sun, which in turn rejected the offer and terminated Big Blue's right to exclusive merger talks, the Journal reported. Sun Microsystems... [06 Apr 2009]
Five ways Gen Y will change the way you work
News For example, US electronics retailer Best Buy has a social network for employees called Blue Shirt Nation, with 70,000 people at the electronic water cooler every day who are coming up with great ideas that are being... [26 Mar 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.02.09
Round-Up So while you might hope that anonymous electronic Valentine's card you've just received has come from that gorgeous creature on the fifth floor, there's a big risk it might have come from some nerdy hacker who doesn't... [13 Feb 2009]
Big Blue's skies are covered in Amazon's cloud
News Big Blue expects to have its software available in an EC2 beta in the coming month and will later announce its pricing. IBM announced Wednesday it plans to deliver its software via Amazon Web Services,... [12 Feb 2009]
Legal Eye: Are IBM's patent woes justified?
Comment IBM is in legal hot water relating to its bevy of patents. Lawyer Richard Taylor gets to the bottom of the controversy. Last year saw IBM continue its global lead in patent filing, ahead of the crowd with more than 4,000 patents filed in... [11 Feb 2009]
TDWI Podcast: Big Blue touts Dynamic, Balanced Warehousing
White Paper Talk to Big Blue, and they'll tell you the Balanced Warehouse is the hub of their dynamic warehousing strategy. Tune into this TDWI Radio News interview, with Eric Kavanagh, to hear Karen Parrish, vice... [22 Jan 2009]
Photos: Future safety tech on display
Photo In this mocked-up police command and control room scenario, the big screen on the left shows the view of the golf course from the vehicle. It shows a suspected criminal (with a red trail) being followed around the Ryder... [15 Jan 2009]
So who's running Apple now?
News In addition to his work at Compaq, Cook also spent 12 years at IBM, where he ran manufacturing and operations for a large chunk of Big Blue's PC business. Steve Jobs' medical leave puts the spotlight... [15 Jan 2009]
