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HP close to buying EDS for $12bn

News Thanks to IBM's Global Services arm, Big Blue can offer back-end hardware such as servers along with long term service contracts. The potential acquisition was the first big move by then-CEO Carly Fiorina.

Tags: hurd, compaq, eds, hp

[13 May 2008]

Businesses may be forced to pay for e-crime police

Businesses may be forced to pay for e-crime police

News The Confederation of British Industry (CBI), the British Retail Consortium (BRC), the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), blue chip UK Plc IT user group the Corporate IT Forum (Tif) and tech industry body Intellect are all backing silicon.com's...

Tags: e-crime, cyber crime, dedicated, campaign

[17 Mar 2008]

TDWI Podcast: Big Blue touts Dynamic, Balanced Warehousing

whitepaper 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 president of business intelligence solutions...

Tags: knowledge and data management, appliance, warehouse, warehousing

[18 Feb 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Trying to explain

Comment My big problem has been that they are a bit like policemen - never around when you need one. Now the big problem is finding the good stuff, or at least the stuff that is at the right level and readily digestible.

Tags: video, www, wi fi, talk

[14 Jan 2008]

The Forrester Wave: Application Server Platforms, Q3 2007

whitepaper First, Pegasystems, a vendor focused on the business process management market, was a Strong Performer in two of the scenarios, approaching Big Blue in its scores. Forrester evaluated the major application server platform suites and vendors across...

Tags: application servers

[08 Jan 2008]

Top 10 software stories of the year

News With the arrival of Microsoft's long awaited Windows Vista operating system and Apple's Leopard, 2007 was a big year for launches. Leopard users get 'blue screen of death' And, ironically, with several big OS launches in 2007, the issue of naked...

Tags: oracle, leopard, microsoft, vista

[14 Dec 2007]

On-demand printing with HP Color LaserJet 9500 printer score big in service and savings for Toronto Blue Jays

whitepaper Faced with issues plaguing the outsourcing of season ticket printing and fulfillment, the IT team for the Toronto Blue Jays implemented an on-demand, in-house printing solution. With software developed by the Blue Jays IT staff and HP Color...

Tags: roi - tco, printing, ticket, money

[12 Dec 2007]

Stories of the month - November 2007

News Apple has had a mixed time too - despite its long-awaited iPhone hitting the UK's shelves - the Mac maker also launched its Leopard OS last month but some users found their machines struck down by the 'blue screen of death'.

Tags: hmrc, tesco, wi-fi, iphone

[29 Nov 2007]

Cheat Sheet: Encryption

Cheat Sheet Well, one big reason is data breach notifications. Some argue just as antivirus and firewalls are now commonplace, so encryption will be to - and used by everyone from blue chip companies to SMEs and consumers.

Tags: encryption, cheat sheet, age, authority

[28 Nov 2007]

Cheat Sheet: Supercomputing

Cheat Sheet Blue Gene/L is the most powerful supercomputer in existence but the criminals behind the Storm Worm have created a botnet containing millions of PCs with a combined computing power greater than that of Blue Gene/L's.

Tags: supercomputing, blue gene, petaflop, ibm

[20 Nov 2007]

Beep beep! Move over for IBM's super Roadrunner

News IBM once again dominated the competition in semi-annual rankings of supercomputers - but the big news is what's coming next year. The top machine, the Blue Gene/L supercomputer - located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - is capable of...

Tags: petaflop, intel, supercomputer, ibm

[13 Nov 2007]

Minority Report: Apple's blues

Comment But blue is a state synonymous with the flaky image of certain older versions of Windows. Instead, the OS' 'blue screen of death' has left Apple with damage to its image and credibility, argues Seb Janacek.

Tags: os, leopard, mac, apple

[05 Nov 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 02.11.07

Round-Up The Blue Screen of Death. Complaints soon began to hit Apple's support web forums and phone lines as users reported that having installed the new OS their Macs subsequently hung on restart with a plain blue screen.

Tags: chip and bin, round-up, $100 laptop, bbc

[02 Nov 2007]

Councils sign £400m shared services deal with IBM

News Two southwestern local authorities have signed a £400m deal to create a shared services joint venture with IBM. The 10-year venture between Somerset County Council and Taunton Deane Borough Council is called Southwest One and will provide shared...

Tags: taunton, somerset, ibm, shared services

[02 Oct 2007]

IBM working on spinning magnetic memory

News Big Blue also makes chips and licenses intellectual property. IBM has linked with Japan's TDK to develop so-called spin torque transfer RAM or STT-RAM. In STT-RAM, an electric current is applied to a magnet to change the direction of the magnetic...

Tags: magnetic, ram, memory, ibm

[20 Aug 2007]

Photos: IBM lifts the lid on web 2.0 tech

Photo IBM has been showing off some of the tech at its research and development labs at Hursley near Winchester.silicon.com went along to take a look at, among other things, a mash-up wiki, IBM's version of Second Life and a web 2.0 retail application.

Tags: r&d, web 2.0, ibm

[07 Aug 2007]

Q&A: William Gibson, science fiction novelist

Comment All of the big changes that emergent technologies bring us are, for the most part, completely unanticipated by the people that introduce those technologies. There's a blue plaque in London that says, in effect, 'Broadcast television was invented...

Tags: william gibson, mobile, technology, cyberspace

[06 Aug 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 03.08.07

Round-Up IBM has 5,000 employees in Second Life and Big Blue is using the environment for business collaboration. Or perhaps it's the role it plays in being an effective foil to Firefox, the next big hope for web browsers.

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[03 Aug 2007]

Photos: Five unusual data centres

Photo Big Blue unveiled a data centre which it claims uses up to 15 per cent less power than a traditional offering by using dedicated cold aisles. Data centres are big business, and as well as the usual anonymous buildings on the edge of town silicon...

Tags: green it, fuel cell, data centre

[25 Jul 2007]

IBM splashes $745m for dev tools maker

News Big Blue's offer is a 21 per cent premium over the closing price on 31 May, which, according to Telelogic, was the last day before market speculation started over a possible acquisition. Acquisitions have become a vital part of Big Blue's revenue...

Tags: telelogic , ibm

[11 Jun 2007]

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