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Article | 9/12/2011 IBM buys e-commerce analytics vendor Demandtec for $440 million
IBM is buying analytics vendor DemandTec for US$440 million in a bid to build out its line of e-commerce software, the companies announced Thursday. T...
Article | 7/12/2011 IBM launches enterprise social collaboration apps for tablets
Responding to increased use of tablets within workplaces, IBM will release on Wednesday several mobile applications designed to let employees use IBM ...
Article | 6/12/2011 IBM buys Cúram Software for social service program delivery
IBM is strengthening its hand in public-sector IT, announcing on Monday the purchase of Cúram Software, which makes applications for use by government...
Article | 29/11/2011 RISC, Itanium lose out to x86 in Q3 server market, Gartner says
The worldwide server market grew by unit shipments and revenue in the third quarter this year, but the downward spiral of RISC and Itanium servers con...
Article | 19/11/2011 Site tracks 'love,' 'hate' of SAP, Oracle and other software vendors
Enterprise software vendors have been rushing to build or buy "sentiment analysis" technologies that can analyze the tone of what people are saying ab...
Article | 16/11/2011 W3C releases draft online privacy standards
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released the first draft of two standards intended to protect the privacy of Web users and allow them to opt o...
Article | 15/11/2011 Server makers adopt AMD's new 16-core chips
Server vendors on Monday came out in support of Advanced Micro Devices' latest Opteron 6200 server chips, which advance chip technology to new highs w...
Article | 15/11/2011 Top500 list passes another milestone: 10 petaflops
Japan's K Computer has retained its pole position on the Top500 list of fastest supercomputers and become the first machine on the list to achieve per...
Article | 14/11/2011 IBM to build e-commerce research labs for Chinese retailer
IBM has reached a deal with Chinese electronics retailer Suning Appliance to build research centers in China and the U.S. meant to develop e-commerce ...
Article | 8/11/2011 Former IBM CEO John Opel dies
John Opel, who served as IBM CEO from 1981 to 1985, passed away at the age of 86 last week, IBM confirmed Monday.
Article | 4/11/2011 IBM open sources messaging client for embedded devices
In a move to bring network connectivity to a wider range of devices, sensors and appliances, IBM has donated the source code of its machine-to-machine...
Article | 3/11/2011 VMware out, Twitter in at Java oversight committee
VMware is no longer a member of the Java Community Process SE/EE Executive Committee, but Twitter has joined, according to election results finalized ...
Article | 2/11/2011 Sybase IQ 15.4 features 'Big Data' theme, support for Hadoop, MapReduce
Sybase is hoping its IQ analytic database can make its mark in the burgeoning "Big Data" market with an array of new features, including native integr...
Article | 1/11/2011 IBM's Watson edges Harvard students in 'Jeopardy' quiz
IBM's Watson supercomputer eked out a victory in a "Jeopardy" quiz-show battle with a trio of Harvard Business School students on Monday, pulling out ...
Article | 28/10/2011 IBM anoints Q1 Labs technology as centerpiece of security portfolio
IBM intends to make the security information and event management (SIEM) technology gained through the acquisition of Q1 Labs, which was officially cl...