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Minority Report: 12 months that changed Apple
Comment A momentous event for the company and worth juxtaposing with the infamous 1984 Macintosh commercial, which pitted a lithe Apple against a totalitarian Big Blue. Worse yet, a small number of upgrading... [21 Dec 2007]
Big Blue to help decode the Big Bang?
News IBM and European astronomy organisation Astron are collaborating on designing a microprocessor that will help antennas collect weak radio signals from deep space, in an attempt to learn what happened at the time of the... [06 Dec 2006]
My first computer: The ZX Spectrum
News It was 1978, and no one really knew how big the market for home computers would be. But you can guess what happened - the MK14 sold out at once. So if your blue on black character walked... [11 Jan 2005]
Why IBM won't regret exiting PCs
Comment Though some have predicted doom for IBM after selling off its PC business to Lenovo, Charles Cooper says Big Blue CEO Sam Palmisano knew exactly what he was doing - and in the coming years will be glad... [13 Dec 2004]
Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Sam Palmisano
Comment Big Blue now leads the pack in servers and databases (over Oracle, even) and the services business continues to go great guns. Big Blue's undertaken a slew of... [02 Sep 2004]
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... [11 Jun 2004]
Leader: Linux comes a long way - but let's be realistic
Leader Sun's UK MD cheekily offered to help IBM following Big Blue's leaked memo last week that is is planning to move its desktop environment completely over to Linux. What has happened with... [22 Jan 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: Microsoft's 3G plans, IBM's web services plans, and Napster's survival plans
Comment Big Blue is also expected to announce WebSphere-based industry specific integration plans and WebSphere Business Connection, which provides business-to-business integration capabilities for web services... [17 Jun 2002]
Digital blunderitis and some monkey business
Comment But no, penitent Ben persisted and patiently explained what had happened with the help of comments like "scroll down a bit, yes, there, the bit where I call you an arse" and "Sorry about that". A gathered throng of... [12 Apr 2002]
Technologies That Time Forgot: The ZX Spectrum
News It was 1978, and no one really knew how big the market for home computers would be. But you can guess what happened - the MK14 sold out at once. So if your blue on black character walked... [14 Jan 2002]
Technologies That Time Forgot: Push
News But in May it announced a deal with IBM to integrate its push technology with Big Blue's CRM products. It was a case of too much hype, little demand and bottlenecks, big bottlenecks.... [17 Dec 2001]
Has Microsoft won its freedom...
Comment The last straw the anti-Microsoft brigade have to clutch at is the now infamous 'IBM parallel' - i.e.what happened to Big Blue when it had similar monopoly ructions back in the 80s.... [29 Jun 2001]
Transatlantic Cable : The world's most expensive greetings card
Comment The latest deal that fits into this category only happened a few days ago, when the portal site and broadband Net connection company, Excite@Home, bought out the online greetings company Blue Mountain... [27 Oct 1999]
