Attunity Announces 2008 Annual General Meeting Nov 27, 2008
Attunity provides software directly and indirectly through a number of strategic and OEM agreements with partners such as Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, HP and SAP/Business Objects. Headquartered in Boston, Attunity serves its customers via offices in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific and through a network of local partners. (PR Newswire)
BPM modeling tools to boost business analyst abilities Nov 26, 2008
" IC-BPMS: Who's on first? Vollmer said BPM is a broad area that should be viewed from several perspectives. In his opinion, there are document-centric, people-centric and integration centric versions of BPM. He positions Software AG, IBM, Tibco Software, Vitria Technology, Oracle , SAP, and Cordys Software as leaders in the latest Forrester Research evaluating the integration-centric business process management suite (IC-BPMS). In a second tier are Microsoft, Sterling Commerce, and Sun... (Search Webservices)
Nuance Dances With Wolves Nov 26, 2008
So does IBM (NYSE: IBM), and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) is easing into a similar slot ... The company has been the global distributor of IBM's ViaVoice product for several years, and the fact that Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) ships Windows Vista with built-in voice recognition is clearly not stopping Nuance's growth. (MSNBC -- Business)
Samsung shows 8 Gbit DRAM at ISSCC Nov 26, 2008
Intel will dominate the session on microprocessors with four of eight papers, none from rivals such as Advanced Micro Devices, IBM or Sparc partners Fujitsu and Sun Microsystems ... So, what will happen to AMD, Freescale, IBM Micro, SMIC and others. (EETimes)
UMC validates high-k process at 45 nm Nov 26, 2008
Rivals IBM Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices process technology have delivered immersion lithography at 45nm but will not have high-k metal gates available until the 32nm node ... So, what will happen to AMD, Freescale, IBM Micro, SMIC and others. (EETimes)
BlackBerry app ensures you stay within the iLanes Nov 25, 2008
This white paper outlines how the Preliminary Data Assessment Appliance (PDAA) from IBM can help address the challenges of integrating data from different operational applications across the enterprise to an SAP platform. Complimentary with registration. (ITWorld Canada)
IBM unveils list of innovations Nov 25, 2008
These innovations feature on computing giant IBM's third annual 'IBM Next Five in Five' list, which was unveiled today. "These innovations have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years. I cannot comment on when these innovations will be available to the masses, but the details are being worked on," IBM India Research Laboratory Director Guruduth Banavar revealed ... The five selected innovations are based on market and societal trends, on-going projects... (India Times)
When the law chases the Internet Nov 25, 2008
And yet cybercrime is now considered a greater worry than physical crime among US businesses, according to a new IBM survey. Nearly 9 out of 10 companies experienced a computer security incident in 2005, the FBI has found, with viruses, computer theft, and other such crimes costing US firms more than $67 billion a year. (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
HP unit sheds stepchild status to take on Cisco Nov 25, 2008
Laptops, compact servers and software were strong, as HP continued to pressure rivals like Dell and IBM. ... 9 billion purchase of Electronic Data Systems, a computer services giant that HP is using to challenge IBM, the leader in that business. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Search site aims to rival Google Nov 25, 2008
The other founder Tom Patterson worked for IBM and others on search and storage technologies. By declaring its aim of taking on Google, Cuil joins a long list of others that have tried and largely failed to dent the search giant's market share. (Yahoo News -- Internet and WWW)
IBM Offers Office Productivity for a Song Nov 25, 2008
With the release of IBM Lotus Notes 8, IBM took a shot at Microsoft with integrated Word Processor, Spreadsheet and Presentation software. Now, that package of software, known as IBM Lotus Symphony, is available as a stand-alone suite that's available for anyone to download for free ... That's the big distinction that IBM Lotus is trying to make with Symphony. (IntranetJournal)
Data Center Automation: Coming Sooner Than You Think Nov 25, 2008
The "big four," according to O'Donnell are HP (with Opsware), IBM (NYSE: IBM), BMC (with BladeLogic) and CA (NYSE: CA). But behind them are plenty of other would-be market participants. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
IBM working on Web-based collaboration platform Nov 25, 2008
IBM's Project Blue Spruce platform lets users create a shared environment with just a browser and a server ... For instance, IBM's has created an application for Reuters' traders to meet online, hear managers' directives for the day, and look over news and stock activity around the world, says David Boloker, IBM CTO of emerging Internet technologies ... In another example demonstrated at the IBM/Lotus Development Center, a real-estate collaboration application drew together Google maps, a... (InfoWorld)
IBM Unveils Cloud Certification, Consulting Plans Nov 25, 2008
Only six weeks after a mixed offering of to partners and affiliated independent software vendors (ISVs), IBM is aiming to move even more of its business into the cloud ... Announced a year ago, Blue Cloud is a designed to enable IBM's (NYSE: IBM) enterprise customers to experiment with the cloud computing model ... IBM today also unveiled a certification program covering the resiliency of cloud-based applications or services delivered by its partners and ISVs. (Datamation)
Software as a service in EDA: Part 1 Nov 25, 2008
With heavyweights like Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft and Sun all in the cloud computing market, EDA companies can once again look at deployment models and business models and see if the leap can be made to offer hosted services to the mainstream. After all, with IC CAD tools and RTL tools running ASPs of many thousands of dollars and the concept of fractional licenses (buying months or weeks of an emulation license rather than a year or two at a time) well established, it seems appropriate that... (EETimes)
Cisco, IBM join subscription patent service Nov 25, 2008
So far it has bought $40 million in patent rights and signed up Cisco Systems and IBM as members. The startup aims to buy as much as $100 million in patents each year in a broad range of electronics and software fields. (EETimes)
Internet Freedom and Security Are Necessarily At Odds Nov 24, 2008
eWEEK EDITORIAL CALENDAR. For a list of what eWEEK is covering this year, go to our. (eWeek)
iPhone OS 2.2 update doesn't fix key business flaws Nov 24, 2008
The Research in Motion BlackBerry Storm (look for our soon) is the most threatening contender, since enterprises already adore RIM's BlackBerry line, which is very secure and supports all three main e-mail systems: Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Notes, and Novell GroupWise. The iPhone natively supports Exchange, IBM now has a Lotus Notes client for the iPhone, and Novell will add iPhone support to its GroupWise 8 product in early 2009. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
University of Oklahoma Deploys InfiniBand Network From QLogic Nov 24, 2008
QLogic products are also powering solutions from leading companies such as Cisco, Dell, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, NetApp and Sun Microsystems. QLogic is a member of the S&P 500 Index. (Primezone Releases)
IBM plans to develop super brainy computer Nov 23, 2008
IBM is pairing up with leading US universities to build a computer that emulates human brain capabilities ... IBM said the team hopes to break the conventional programmable machine paradigm ... The end goal: ubiquitously deployed computers imbued with a new intelligence that can integrate information from a variety of sensors and sources, deal with ambiguity, respond in a context-dependent way, learn over time and carry out pattern recognition to solve difficult problems based on perception,... (VNUNet.com)
Is the U.S. Losing Its Economic Edge? Not a Chance Nov 23, 2008
No. Look at a company like IBM (NYSE:IBM). You might think the success of IBM was all about its technology ... But IBM's great revolution was as much in sales and marketing as it was in the invention of the IBM 360. (Fox News)
IBM to build brain-like computers Nov 22, 2008
IBM has announced it will lead a US government-funded collaboration to make electronic circuits that mimic brains ... "The mind has an amazing ability to integrate ambiguous information across the senses, and it can effortlessly create the categories of time, space, object, and interrelationship from the sensory data," says Dharmendra Modha, the IBM scientist who is heading the collaboration ... IBM will join five US universities in an ambitious effort to integrate what is known from real... (BBC News)
Spear-Phishing And Pharming Nov 22, 2008
"It sneaked around for awhile, then the thieves took the formula for a new drug and [then they] asked for ransom," says Josh Corman, principal security strategist at IBM (nyse: - - ). "They got paid, too. The reason this code got through is that virus protection only protects you from malicious code that affects everybody. The only company that ever saw this piece of code--or which will ever see this piece of code--was this pharmaceutical company.". (Forbes -- Technology)
IBM expansion may bring jobs Nov 22, 2008
The expansion of the IBM Westford campus will include a global executive meeting center where executives will come to hear about IBM programs and products ... IBM is expanding its Westford campus on a global scale ... The second building at Westford Technology Park is going to hold the executive meeting center for Massachusetts, the product management team and other departments, said Bob McDonald, vice president of Lotus customer support at IBM.. (Westford Eagle, MA)
Report slams Google Apps' enterprise prospects, Google says: just you wait Nov 22, 2008
Current offerings from companies like Microsoft and IBM give both businesses are certainly more feature-packed than Google Apps. The key, says Burton, will be for businesses to view both options as supplementary to each other. (Yahoo News -- Internet Portals & Search Engines)
Fresh clashes shake Lebanese city Nov 22, 2008
IBM to build brain-like computers. Worm removed from woman's brain. (Yahoo News -- Lebanon)
Solar storm disrupts spacecraft Nov 22, 2008
IBM to build brain-like computers. Light-wave implant hope for deaf. (Yahoo News -- International Space Station)
IBM set to buy Transistive; keeps mum on price Nov 22, 2008
LONDON IBM Corp. has said it plans to acquire Transitive Corp. (Los Gatos, Calif ... As a result, the technology will enable customers to consolidate their Linux-based applications onto the IBM systems that make the most sense for their business needs ... Transitive technology is currently included as part of the IBM PowerVM software designed to help customers consolidate their x86 Linux workloads onto IBM Systems. (EETimes)
Clinical thinking Nov 22, 2008
He expects the industry's "need to have" products to weather the economic storm well, with the big players (now including IBM and Cisco) looking for value-priced acquisitions. 20 November, 2008 09:15:00. (CIO Australia)
Modern data center fueled by power efficiency Nov 21, 2008
Enterprise-sized companies, including IBM and The Coca-Cola Co., have taken the lead in making sure their IT operations are as "green" as possible. But what about the of the future. (SearchCIO.com)
IBM wins funding for 'brainy' computer Nov 21, 2008
IBM wins funding for 'brainy' computer - International Herald Tribune. IBM wins funding for 'brainy' computer ... Confronted with a nonstop flood of new data, computers will have to learn to pick out crucial facts more quickly, said Mark Dean, an IBM vice president. (International Herald Tribune -- Technology)
Nokia, IBM Bring Lotus Notes To S60 Handsets Nov 21, 2008
Nokia and IBM are bringing Lotus Notes Support to the nearly 80 million S60 3rd Edition smartphones ... In September, the phone manufacturing giant dropped its own enterprise software and instead focused on working with corporate e-mail partners like IBM and ... For IBM, the move is a natural expansion of its overall strategy to enable customers to have access to their information wherever they need it. (InformationWeek)
IBM tries to bring brain's power to computers Nov 21, 2008
IBM tries to bring brain's processing power to computers. IBM Research wants to put brain-related senses like perception and interaction into hardware and software so computers process data quicker while consuming less power ... IBM Research on Thursday is expected to uncover work it is doing to bring the brain's processing power to computers, in an effort to make it easier for PCs to process vast amounts of data in real time. (InfoWorld)
Chancellor urged to help UK firms Nov 21, 2008
" The CBI has recently downgraded its economic forecast and now expects the UK to go into recession in 2009. Emerging stronger But Mr Lambert does not expect the crisis to last much beyond next year. "The challenge is to get through the eye of the storm and out of it in a strong position to capitalise on the recovery, which we think will be in 2010," he said. Indeed, with further interest rate cuts expected and with an anticipated revival of the credit markets, the situation should start to... (BBC News)
Nokia smartphones get IBM's Lotus Notes Nov 21, 2008
HELSINKI - Nokia smartphones will be able to access IBM Lotus Notes corporate email starting from next month, the two firms said on Thursday, as the world's top handset maker battles Blackberry-maker RIM.. Nokia said thanks to the new software more than 80 million users of its smartphones can access IBM's Lotus email ... "This is not a mature market. We are all going to grow the market," said Kevin Cavanaugh, vice president of IBM Lotus Software. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Amazon Web Services Launches CloudFront Nov 20, 2008
Mixed Source Virtualization Until recently, the burden of interoperability has rested on the shoulders of the IT professional. With the collaboration between Microsoft and Novell, however, this is no longer the case. (eWeek)
Zenoss adds VMware monitoring to systems management suite Nov 20, 2008
Nevertheless, Zenoss and its open source competitors focus on the big four: Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Tivoli, BMC Software and CA Unicenter rather than one another, he said ... Nevertheless, Zenoss and its open source competitors focus on the big four: Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Tivoli, BMC Software and CA Unicenter rather than one another, he said. (Search Enterprise Linux)
* Google and the worldwide web of privacy laws Nov 20, 2008
In an interview in Zurich, Mattos, a Brazilian who was educated in Germany and spent 15 years at IBM before joining Google last year, said Street View would be added in Switzerland and Germany at some point. But he declined to say when that might be. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Why Dell has its head in the clouds Nov 20, 2008
But as Dell builds out the software stack to compete against the likes of IBM and HP, can it help customers optimize for cloud computing in ways the competition can't. Schuckenbrock's argument is that traditional outsourcers will have a difficult time taking large revenue streams with long-term contracts and converting to modular services that you can turn on when you want, and turn off when you want. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Aussie computer recycling plant saves 20000 tonnes of e-waste Nov 20, 2008
Sims Group general manager Peter Netchaef said 95 percent of materials received by the plant will come from corporations such as IBM, Cisco, Apple and Hewlett Packard ... He expects the industry's "need to have" products to weather the economic storm well, with the big players (now including IBM and Cisco) looking for value-priced acquisitions. (CIO Australia)
CA's Debuts 'Mainframe 2.0' for Big Iron Nov 20, 2008
0, an initiative to simplify its tools for managing IBM's mainframe z/OS operating system ... "IBM's revenue from mainframe sales as reported for Q3 was up 25 percent year over year and we were up 32 percent in Q2 year over year, and we're the only platform running a double digit growth in the industry," Karl Freund, IBM's (NYSE: IBM) vice president of marketing and strategy for System z, told InternetNews. (Datamation)
Virtual Memory Management Nov 20, 2008
Currently, IBM's approach to virtual memory doesn't support the use of the over commitment. But according to Bob Kovacs, a Virtual Server Architect from IBM, that capability is coming in the spring ... Currently, IBM's virtualization sets up fixed amounts of memory for each OS, and the hypervisor keeps a table of where the physical memory is actually located, and it translates memory requests from the virtual machine to the physical environment as needed. (Datamation)
Microsoft Feared Mac vs. Vista In '05 Nov 20, 2008
the original IBM style guides (that MS prety much stuck to until Vista) were clear that an option shouldn't appear and disappear as it's confusing ... Back in the 1970s, when the VM OS was taking over the IBM mainframe world, IBM responded by adopting VM and supporting it ... This radically improved the usefulness of IBM's mainframes to their customers, and helped them consolidate their stranglehold on the mainframe market. (Slashdot)
Sapiens Announces Q3 2008 Results With Net Income for the First Time After Several Years of Net Losses Nov 19, 2008
Sapiens operates through its subsidiaries in North America, the United Kingdom, EMEA and Asia Pacific, and has partnerships with market leaders such as IBM and EDS. Sapiens' clients include AXA, ING, Liverpool Victoria, Menora Mivtachim, Norwich Union, Occidental Fire & Casualty, OneBeacon, Principal Financial Group, Santam and Texas Farm Bureau among others. For more information, please visit. (PR Newswire)
Symantec CEO Thompson Retiring Nov 19, 2008
Thompson said he plans to spend more time with his family, which he said has been shortchanged by his 40-year career in high tech, nearly 30 of them spent at IBM. He said he doesn't see himself becoming CEO of another public company or assuming a political role, although he doesn't want to spend all his time "sitting on the beach" either. "I put all of my energy into whatever job I was involved in, and this is my time to give to (my family)," he said. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)
Summer traffic up for Google, down for Microsoft Nov 19, 2008
A noncompete agreement signed with IBM could put a serious crimp in Apple's succession plan for its iPhone and iPod team. About Digital Media. (Yahoo News -- Internet and WWW)
IBM to buy Transitive Corp. Nov 19, 2008
IBM (NYSE: IBM) says Transitive works in the field of virtualization, technology that breaks the traditional bonds of software and hardware ... will boost IBM s own virtualization efforts, Big Blue says ... IBM, which has headquarters in Armonk, N.Y., employs 11,000 people in the Triangle. (Raleigh Triangle Business Journal, NC)
Clustered Storage Without the Price Tag Nov 19, 2008
" The fact that IBRIX is software only and certified by Dell, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and HP (NYSE: HPQ) on the server side, and by EMC (NYSE: EMC), Sun (NASDAQ: JAVA), Hitachi, HP and Dell EqualLogic on the storage side, is in large part what made IBRIX so attractive to Dhir and to a number of other customers. "Regardless of whether a customer has a few terabytes or a large number of terabytes or even petabytes, what IBRIX provides the customer is the ability to use the hardware or architecture of... (EnterpriseStorageForum)
HP sees stronger-than-expected 2009 Nov 19, 2008
HP's outlook helped bolster the Nasdaq and other tech shares including Dell Inc, IBM and Apple ... "But those with a broader portfolio -- like Hewlett-Packard and IBM -- will be able to weather the storm better than the likes of Dell.". (EETimes)
Photo finish: IBM inches out Cray in supercomputer race Nov 18, 2008
IBM's Roadrunner big winner in latest Top500 contest, along with Intel, AMD and HP ... is a , running 12,960 IBM PowerXCell 8i Cell Broadband Engine processors and 6,948 dual-core processors ... IBM has been quick to note that while the two machines are so close in performance, Roadrunner uses about half the power that Jaguar does. (Computerworld)
Consumers are digital savvy: Survey Nov 18, 2008
The second global online survey, conducted by IBM, found that people are willing to get personal with advertisers by sharing information about themselves if it results in targeted incentives that match their lifestyle ... "With the rise of Web 2.0, millions of people can instantly create, publish and consume content. In order to survive, advertisers must understand how to reach their target audiences across multiple devices," said Dick Anderson, General Manager, IBM Media and Entertainment. (India Times)
The Tech Lab Nov 18, 2008
Next came the first computers, IBM, the home PC, Microsoft Windows, the internet, Apple Macs, broadband, Google, the iPod, wi-fi, Second Life. If you blinked during the last 10 years then the world changed around you while your eyes were closed. (BBC News -- Technology)
iPod Shuffle shuffles past Jackson songs Nov 17, 2008
Q: I have an old IBM ThinkPad laptop PC that I haven't used for several years. When I turn it on, it asks for a log-on password that I can't recall. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)
When the law chases the Internet Nov 17, 2008
And yet cybercrime is now considered a greater worry than physical crime among US businesses, according to a new IBM survey. Nearly 9 out of 10 companies experienced a computer security incident in 2005, the FBI has found, with viruses, computer theft, and other such crimes costing US firms more than $67 billion a year. (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
Cloud Computing, the next wave in application use Nov 17, 2008
However, other big players such as IBM, Amazon and Google are also competing for a space in the cloud. At any rate, Cloud Computing is the next tier of computing where new opportunities present themselves. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Nanowires Ideal For Electronics Manufacturing, Findings Suggest Nov 17, 2008
17, 2008) Researchers from IBM and Purdue University have discovered that tiny structures called silicon nanowires might be ideal for manufacturing in future computers and consumer electronics because they form the same way every time ... The work is based at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., and at Purdue's Birck Nanotechnology Center in the university's Discovery Park ... The paper was written by Purdue doctoral student Bong Joong Kim, Stach and IBM materials... (Science Daily)
Search site aims to rival Google Nov 17, 2008
The other founder Tom Patterson worked for IBM and others on search and storage technologies. By declaring its aim of taking on Google, Cuil joins a long list of others that have tried and largely failed to dent the search giant's market share. (Yahoo News -- Internet and WWW)
QLogic Introduces New Class of QDR InfiniBand Switches Based on the QLogic TrueScale Switch ASIC Platform Nov 17, 2008
This new breed of InfiniBand switches with QDR speeds and intelligent features can give customers quicker times-to-solutions,'' said Herbert Schultz, director of marketing for IBM Deep Computing ... QLogic products are also powering solutions from leading companies such as Cisco, Dell, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, NetApp and Sun Microsystems. (Primezone Releases)
IBM has competitive edge to weather storm Nov 17, 2008
IBMs diverse portfolio of information technology (IT) solutions, services and steady base of recurring revenue is expected to provide the company with the competitive edge to weather the current global financial crisis ... The question that businesses should be asking themselves is how they will be positioned when things recover, he told StarBiz at IBMs 10th Asia Pacific Insights Forum 2008 in Shanghai recently ... He said IBM had achieved seven consecutive quarters of double-digit revenue... (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Business)
CA Officially Moves into the SAAS World Nov 17, 2008
"CA pushed the 'On Demand' message when IBM invented it about eight years ago," analyst Robin Bloor, a partner at Hurwitz & Associates and founder of Bloor Research, told me. "They've also had an extremely flexible approach to negotiating contracts, so pulling down software from a defined group of products when needed has always been possible for CA. This time they are mainly talking about virtualization and cloud computing (which is a form of application virtualization). They are just now... (eWeek)
Power grab: Internet data centers eating up electricity Nov 17, 2008
While the problem is hard to see, there are a number of big technology companies, such as IBM, Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard and Dell, working to make it more visible and to find conservation solutions. The companies are among the founders of an energy conservation consortium called the Green Grid. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Apple exec fights for new job, sues IBM Nov 16, 2008
Former IBM VP countersues to lift work stoppage order ... Mark Papermaster, a 26-year veteran of IBM, filed a countersuit Thursday, less than a week after Judge Kenneth Karas Karas' temporary injunction on Nov. 7 was in response to a lawsuit IBM filed in late October, when the computer company charged Papermaster with violating a 2006 non-competition deal by accepting a position at Apple to head its and development ... In the countersuit, Papermaster again argued that Apple and IBM are not... (Computerworld)
Computers Of The World, Unite! Nov 16, 2008
D., is a vice president of open source and standards at IBM.. . (Forbes -- Technology)
More dirt in Vista Capable lawsuit Nov 16, 2008
I have an IBM shipped w/ Vista and the Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset that, over a year after I bought it, still says the drivers are incompatible ... Downloading the new driver from Intel says it's incompatible and I need an OEM upgrade; IBM doesn't have one on their website and wants $85 for a support call. (CNET News)
Comment: Sun needs new focus to survive storm Nov 16, 2008
Neither has it found ways to adequately differentiate its commodity x86/Linux offerings from those of its bigger competitors, IBM and Hewlett-Packard. Sun deserves credit for an excellent job bringing to market the aggressive multicore processors from startup Afara Websystems. (EETimes)
