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India diary, day 11: I heart Bangalore
Comment Wednesday 14 February - Bangalore In February silicon.com's Steve Ranger visited the Indian tech hotspots of Bangalore, Mumbai, Pune and Hyderabad to explore the exploding Indian offshore tech and BPO industry. [14 Mar 2007]
India diary, day 3: Inside the outsourcing campus
Comment Wednesday 7 February - Hyderabad In February silicon.com's Steve Ranger visited the Indian tech hotspots of Bangalore, Mumbai, Pune and Hyderabad to explore the exploding Indian offshore tech and BPO industry. [06 Mar 2007]
SCO vs Big Blue: Judge rejects copyright claims
News A US judge has thrown out hundreds of claims made by SCO Group in its Linux lawsuit against IBM, finding that SCO failed to specify many of Big Blue's alleged misdeeds. The company launched its initial suit against IBM in 2003, claiming Big Blue's... [03 Jul 2006]
IBM blade upgrade coming soon
News The blade server upgrade is key to Big Blue's attempt to stay ahead in the strategically important and fast-growing market. Blades are clearly a priority for Big Blue: in an interview earlier this month, Susan Whitney, IBM's top Intel server... [31 Jan 2006]
Bookie reveals $100,000 cost of denial-of-service extortion attacks
News Our online bookie said the attacks against Blue Square and Capital Sports earlier this week will continue in the run-up to England's big games in the Euro 2004 football tournament, which starts this weekend. [11 Jun 2004]
IBM sued for $5.1m copyright breach
News According to the company, Synomos worked with computer giant IBM from June 2001 to February 2002 to create a standard for writing corporate privacy policies based on XML (Extensible Markup Language), a protocol for exchanging data among computing... [10 Jun 2004]
Big Blue seeks to pooh-pooh SCO suit
News The request appears in an amended counterclaim Big Blue filed on Tuesday in its legal battle with SCO, whose main claims allege IBM violated contract provisions by distributing Linux products that illegally incorporate Unix code that SCO controls. [31 Mar 2004]
HP sharpens thinner blades push
News Big Blue took the blade market lead from HP in the third quarter. And HP plans to ship Opteron-based blades in the third quarter, executives said in February. Hewlett-Packard will today announce a new, thinner blade server that will enable... [08 Mar 2004]
Metadata reveals SCO switched legal target
News But the hidden text indicates that SCO spent considerable time building a case against the bank and that it also considered extending allegations filed against IBM to Big Blue's high-profile customers - in this case, Bank of America. [05 Mar 2004]
Judge green-lights $5bn SCO lawsuit
News A judge has accepted the SCO Group's changes to a lawsuit against IBM that now seeks $5bn in damages for Big Blue's alleged moving of Unix intellectual property into Linux. SCO seeks $1bn in damages for unfair competition and $1bn for each of four... [01 Mar 2004]
SCO chief suffers another denial of service - on his phone
News SCO's claims are being articulated in a law suit against IBM in which it alleges Big Blue illegally placed proprietary Unix code into the open source system. The assault on the SCO's website was instigated by the authors of the MyDoom.A virus... [04 Feb 2004]
Re:Viewing 2003: Outsourcing... and India
News BT was the first to run into problems in February with the Communication Workers Union threatening strike action over plans to shift hundreds of directory enquiry jobs to India Possibly the success story of the year was the blossoming of India as a... [23 Dec 2003]
Roll up for the free Christmas PC giveaway
News Despite reports touting Big Blue as being behind the giveaway, the scheme has been set up and run by UK marketing firm Metronomy and an IBM spokesman told silicon.com that their involvement was purely in supplying the advertising company with the... [15 Dec 2003]
Sun goes back to its high-performance roots
News Big Blue, like third-place Sun, has been elevating and consolidating its technical-computing push. Sun's V880Z server, introduced in February, is aimed at that market. There's a big, reinvigorated push by the government in high-end computing... [28 Apr 2003]
Novell gives free software to SMEs
News IBM, for example, has recently launched several programmes intended to gain support among software developers who could bring Big Blue's diverse products to the attention of small and medium-sized businesses. [11 Apr 2003]
