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Is going green still a priority in credit crisis?
News IBM is sponsoring an energy-efficiency zone at Storage Expo this year. Mick Walker, an IBM green-efficiency consultant, believes the pressure to drive down costs is making companies look again at green... [15 Oct 2008]
IBM offers training incentives for business partners
News IBM, which expects to unveil better-than-expected quarterly figures, has announced it will spend some of its cash on incentives to encourage some of its largest partners to invest more in training and other areas. [13 Oct 2008]
IBM reports positive profits outlook
News IBM on Wednesday announced positive preliminary profits for the third quarter of 2008. IBM said profits per share were at $2.05 for the quarter, up 22 per cent from the same period last year. Chuck... [09 Oct 2008]
UK tech Skills Academy needs YOU
News Employers that have already collaborated with e-skills UK for the IT academy include Accenture, the BBC, BT, Carphone Warehouse, C&W, HP, IBM, the Metropolitan Police, Sainsbury's and Vodafone. The government has given... [08 Oct 2008]
Why green tech is more influential than ever
News IBM's chief engineer Don Grice who made number 15 on the list, for example, was chosen for the hybrid blade-based architecture he has developed for the Roadrunner supercomputer. The latest Agenda Setters list includes... [08 Oct 2008]
AMD to split off manufacturing arm
News In a statement, IBM welcomed the job creation in New York, a state where IBM itself has considerable investment. AMD is to split off its manufacturing operations through a finance deal with a firm from... [08 Oct 2008]
SAP sales drop as credit crunch looms large
News Among the large technology shares that fell on Monday were Microsoft, which dropped 5.9 per cent, IBM, which fell 4.4 per cent, and Cisco Systems, which dropped 4.9 per cent. German software maker SAP warned its sales... [07 Oct 2008]
IBM follows Microsoft into the cloud
News IBM on Monday launched a major cloud computing initiative, in an effort it hopes will challenge the early lead of cloud pioneers such as Amazon and Google. Like Amazon, Google and others, IBM has... [06 Oct 2008]
Is tech hiring on freeze?
News An IBM representative said: "We haven't announced any freeze. As of right now, nothing has changed at IBM. Intel's workforce is down thousands from where it was a couple years ago. HP has already said it... [06 Oct 2008]
Online retail hasn't killed the high street
News An IBM survey of 4,300 US and 1,142 UK shoppers found three-quarters browse online and then go out and purchase in the store. Researchers at IBM forecast nearly 40 per cent of retail sales will be... [02 Oct 2008]
Take Note: Lotus shows up on iPhone 3G
News IBM has released a way to get Lotus Notes email on your iPhone that stops short of full support but gets the job done. IBM's iNotes Ultralite will be formally released Tuesday for Notes administrators... [30 Sep 2008]
Cisco's collaboration launch squares up to Microsoft, IBM
News Cisco is busy this week introducing its latest wave of collaboration products to compete with Microsoft, IBM and Oracle. It also interoperates with collaboration suites from competitors such as Microsoft and... [25 Sep 2008]
Dublin gets its own Oyster card-a-like
News US services giant IBM will deliver the infrastructure for the ITS. Dublin is to get its own equivalent of London's Oyster card that will allow public transport travel on a single 'wave and pay' smart card. [24 Sep 2008]
IBM warns ISO to shape up
News IBM has issued a warning to international standards body ISO in the wake of its approval of Microsoft's OOXML. Unless the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and other bodies are open and accountable,... [24 Sep 2008]
Cisco invests in business IM
News This means it allows people using tools such as Microsoft Office Communications Server, IBM Sametime, AOL AIM, and Google to send messages to each and get presence information about one another. Cisco Systems is... [22 Sep 2008]
