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Article | 9/09/2009 IBM tool eases JavaScript development
Countering rivals Microsoft and Adobe Systems, IBM is offering a free tool to simplify development of JavaScript-based Web applications, featuring use...
Article | 9/09/2009 U.S. buys weather supercomputer with twin backup
The U.S. has upgraded the supercomputer used to develop weather forecast models, a system so critical to meteorologists that the government has bought...
Article | 2/09/2009 IBM appeals to girls with microchipped butterflies
Tracking Monarch butterflies on their route from Toronto to the Mexican border might be just what a 12-year-old girl needs to spark daydreams about gr...
Article | 1/09/2009 IBM remote control lets users blog about favorite TV shows
Ever want to blog about that crazy episode of True Blood or how dark and twisty Meredith is on Grey's Anatomy ?
Article | 1/09/2009 IBM puts virtual desktops in the cloud
IBM is rolling out a subscription service that aims to make it easier for large companies to use desktop virtualization, a technology that has been sl...
Article | 28/08/2009 IBM zooms into molecule for power-efficient chip research
IBM has for the first time taken an image of a molecule's surface, which could lead to the construction of cheaper, more power-efficient chips, the co...
Article | 26/08/2009 IBM unveils faster midrange storage array
IBM today announced that its latest midrange storage array, the IBM System Storage DS5020 Express, will be available on Sept. 4.
Article | 24/08/2009 Hot Chips to spotlight eight-core server processors
Chip makers will describe plans to deliver server processors with eight CPU cores at the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University, though there is ...
Article | 19/08/2009 IBM middleware interprets data from RFID, other sensors
IBM on Tuesday introduced middleware that can gather data from a wide variety of networked sensors, analyze it, and feed it into other enterprise appl...
Article | 17/08/2009 IBM aims System z at specific workloads
IBM is trying to shore up flagging sales of its System z mainframe with a set of hardware, software and services combinations aimed at specific applic...
Article | 17/08/2009 IBM scientists build computer chips from DNA
Scientists at IBM are experimenting with using DNA molecules as a way to create tiny circuits that could form the basis of smaller, more powerful comp...
Article | 8/08/2009 IBM union: Layoffs could hit 16,000 by year's end
There's always a little bit of stealth to IBM's workforce reductions. Layoffs are usually scattered across the country and in numbers small enough to ...
Article | 5/08/2009 Yahoo deal puts IBM, Microsoft in enterprise search pickle
Yahoo's decision to use Microsoft's Bing search engine could cause a "strange bedfellows" competitive conflict between Microsoft and IBM in the enterp...
Article | 31/07/2009 IBM, HP use big discounts to woo Sun customers
IBM and HP are trying to lure server and storage customers away from Sun Microsystems by exploiting uncertainty caused by Oracle's pending acquisition...
Article | 29/07/2009 IBM set to launch 'Smart Analytics' systems
IBM preparing a new series of BI (business intelligence) products dubbed Smart Analytics Systems, the company was expected to announce Tuesday.