LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - IBM on Monday said it would start offering free word processing and other office software, joining a growing group of companies with free applications challenging a core Microsoft Corp product.
IBM said it would offer document, spreadsheet and presentation software in a group of tools called Lotus Symphony. Microsoft’s Office suite of […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - IBM has agreed to sell Sun Microsystems’s (SUNW.O: Quote, Profile, Research) Solaris Operating System software to IBM’s customers in a deal that pits the competing computer hardware makers against shared rival Hewlett-Packard.
Financial terms of the deal, originally announced on Thursday, were not disclosed. IBM will distribute the software with certain of […]
The company plans to demonstrate the system, called System S, at a conference of Wall Street technology managers Tuesday. The announcement, analysts say, is a significant step in the commercialization of the emerging technology of stream computing.
Early this month Google acquired PeakStream, a start-up in stream computing, and industry analysts say its software could help […]
Thunder crashes, lightning flashes, and a camera zooms in on a shadowy, futuristic-looking, gray-and-black office. The camera follows a female avatar in slacks and a button-down shirt as she jogs from one cubicle to the next, up a spiral staircase, and across a high gangplank as dramatic classical music plays in the background. This […]
The BroadWare deal, while small in dollars, highlights the rising demand for companies that make video surveillance gear. Driving that trend is the confluence of homeland security concerns in the U.S. and the spread of sophisticated security networks based on Internet technologies.
In 2006, for example, following the lead of London and other cities around the […]
Built in a 65 nm process, the new processor houses 790 million transistors and runs at a clock speed of 4.7 GHz. Compared to the Power5 chip, the new version offers more than double the clock speed, but also four times the cache (8 MB). The performance characteristics were enough to launch a new System […]
IBM Corp. is helping shepherd increasing numbers of local software companies onto the global stage as they move outside of the comfort zone of their home markets.
As well as software vendors looking to grow their revenue by developing an international business, increasingly customers are demanding that their technology providers can operate globally, according to Mark […]
Chicago (IL) – A bizarre rumor is making the rounds on the Internet – that IBM could be planning to fire more than 100,000 of its 350,000 employees. There isn’t a whole lot of substance to that rumor as of now, but sources told TG Daily that some of IBM’s operations may be in need […]
IBM laid off 1,315 U.S. workers from its global services division on Tuesday, a union group under the Communications Workers of America said Tuesday.
The world’s largest technology company also released an unknown number of contractors, and job cuts will continue, Alliance@IBM said on its Web site. An IBM spokesperson could not immediately be reached […]
The InfoPrint 6700 series provides SMBs with ribbons that can be used for printing reports, text and bar-code labels, as well as OCR (optical character recognition) printing and media handling. The InfoPrint 6700 M40 adds on to these features by allowing businesses to produce RFID tags for cases, pallets and other items, through which they […]