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(AP) -- IBM Corp. has placed a top executive on leave after he was charged in an insider trading scandal for allegedly leaking secrets about IBM's earnings and financial dealings with corporate partners. http://www.physorg.com/news175176672.html Technology Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:11:51 EST news175176672 (AP) -- IBM Corp. is a rare example of a company that has kept boosting profit and jacking up its guidance even as the recession has sapped its sales. http://www.physorg.com/news174847062.html Technology Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:50:01 EST news174847062 (AP) -- Larry Ellison ratcheted up his rhetoric against IBM Corp. on Wednesday, challenging Oracle Corp.'s longtime partner and rival to "make our day" in a battle over business software performance. http://www.physorg.com/news174804466.html Technology Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:10:01 EST news174804466 Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison opened fire on US technology veteran IBM and expressed optimism about the pending 7.4-billion-dollar-deal to buy Sun Microsystems. http://www.physorg.com/news174544290.html Technology Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:32:24 EST news174544290 (AP) -- After eight years of light antitrust scrutiny under a Republican White House, the technology and telecommunications industries are bracing for stepped up oversight by the Obama administration's Justice Department. http://www.physorg.com/news174282532.html Technology Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:13:44 EST news174282532 (AP) -- The Justice Department is looking into allegations that IBM Corp. has abused its dominant position in the market for mainframe computers, the data-crunching heavy lifters of the computing world that IBM introduced in the 1960s and which are now used to process some of the most sensitive data in banking, government and health care. http://www.physorg.com/news174197924.html Technology Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:30:02 EST news174197924 IBM today announced two analytics-focused research projects that will help telecom service providers and e-retailers improve customer service and new-customer acquisitions. http://www.physorg.com/news174055504.html Technology Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:10:04 EST news174055504 (AP) -- IBM Corp. is trying to stymie Google Inc.'s expansion into the business software market. http://www.physorg.com/news173681571.html Technology Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:53:26 EST news173681571 (PhysOrg.com) -- On this day in 1989, IBM Fellow Don Eigler became the first person in history to move and control an individual atom. Shortly thereafter, on November 11 of that year, Eigler and his team used a custom-built microscope to spell out the letters IBM with 35 xenon atoms. This unprecedented ability to manipulate individual atoms signaled a quantum leap forward in in nanoscience experimentation and heralded in the age of nanotechnology. http://www.physorg.com/news173344987.html Nanotechnology Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:23:35 EST news173344987 US computer giant IBM and South Africa's Canonical on Wednesday announced the launch of a Web-based service aimed at helping African businesses that cannot afford traditional personal computers. http://www.physorg.com/news172934013.html Technology Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:30:03 EST news172934013 IBM today announced an expanded set of social software tools and capabilities for enterprise collaboration that brings popular features like micro-blogging from the home into the business environment. http://www.physorg.com/news172855758.html Technology Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:00:05 EST news172855758 (AP) -- IBM Corp. is bulking up its most profitable division with a $1.2 billion acquisition of business software provider SPSS Inc., a deal that also reflects the power of wealthy technology companies to throw their money around despite the recession. http://www.physorg.com/news167990891.html Technology Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:08:55 EST news167990891 (AP) -- IBM Corp. has proved a rare animal in the recession. Like everyone else, its sales have been hurt. Profit margins, though, have only gotten better and better, and on Thursday IBM ramped up its full-year earnings forecast. http://www.physorg.com/news166981771.html Technology Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:55:27 EST news166981771 IBM today announced that a new service, Virtual Collaboration for Lotus Sametime, is now available. The service allows Lotus Sametime users to set up and use virtual meeting spaces securely behind-the-firewall with avatars. http://www.physorg.com/news165080077.html Technology Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:35:12 EST news165080077 In an effort to achieve energy-aware computing, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), and IBM today announced plans to build a first-of-a-kind water-cooled supercomputer that will directly repurpose excess heat for the university buildings. The innovative system, dubbed Aquasar, is expected to decrease the carbon footprint of the system by up to 85% and estimated to save up to 30 tons of CO2 per year, compared to a similar system using today`s cooling technologies. http://www.physorg.com/news164996567.html Electronics Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:23:27 EST news164996567 US computer giant IBM has named Chieko Asakawa as the first blind engineer -- as well as the first Japanese female -- to receive the company's highest technical honour. http://www.physorg.com/news163410284.html Technology Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:45:17 EST news163410284 US computer giant IBM on Friday announced it had set up its first "innovation center" in Vietnam and forged partnerships with leading Vietnamese universities. http://www.physorg.com/news162232102.html Technology Fri, 22 May 2009 17:28:47 EST news162232102 (AP) -- IBM Corp. is again backing its forecast for profit of $9.20 per share this year. http://www.physorg.com/news161504518.html Technology Thu, 14 May 2009 07:22:21 EST news161504518 For nearly two years, IBM scientists have been working on a highly advanced Question Answering (QA) system, codenamed "Watson." The scientists believe that the computing system will be able to understand complex questions and answer with enough precision and speed to compete on Jeopardy! http://www.physorg.com/news160065537.html Technology Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:39:41 EST news160065537 IBM, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Infineon Technologies, Samsung Electronics, and STMicroelectronics have defined and are jointly developing a 28-nanometer, high-k metal gate (HKMG), low-power bulk complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process technology. http://www.physorg.com/news159467422.html Technology Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:31:06 EST news159467422 (AP) -- IBM Corp.'s first-quarter results slipped as all its major business units suffered declines, but the company backed its bullish outlook for 2009 on Monday, reflecting its belief that a broad mix of services and software will help it weather the recession. http://www.physorg.com/news159463926.html Technology Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:32:44 EST news159463926 Representatives of Sun Microsystems met earlier this week with advisers for IBM in an effort to restart buyout talks that stalled earlier this month, but no deal was reached. http://www.physorg.com/news159191691.html Technology Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:55:19 EST news159191691 IBM has cut the price of its takeover bid for Sun Microsystems Inc. to nine to 10 dollars a share from 10 to 11 dollars a share, The Wall Street Journal online reported on Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news157914459.html Technology Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:08:12 EST news157914459 Computer giant IBM plans to cut a "large number" of US employees in its business services unit and transfer their duties to India, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news157209401.html Technology Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:24:46 EST news157209401 (AP) -- If IBM Corp. scoops up Sun Microsystems Inc. for at least $6.5 billion in cash, as the companies are discussing, IBM would be making an opportunistic grab for a deep well of technology that Sun has nearly buried itself developing. http://www.physorg.com/news156594974.html Technology Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:31:20 EST news156594974 (AP) -- IBM Corp. wants to get really deep into water. http://www.physorg.com/news156162822.html Technology Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:34:45 EST news156162822 (PhysOrg.com) -- IBM Research scientists today announced a landmark study in the field of nanoelectronics; the development and demonstration of novel techniques to measure the distribution of energy and heat in powered carbon nanotube devices. http://www.physorg.com/news155237369.html Nanotechnology Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:30:46 EST news155237369 (PhysOrg.com) -- When most people think of quantum communication, they think in terms of private communication channels - the ability to send messages without a third-party deciphering them. Indeed, quantum cryptography represents a method of sending information that cannot be eavesdropped upon. Without the proper key for decoding the intercepted message, all an interloper would receive is gibberish. To make quantum cryptography work, Graeme Smith tells PhysOrg.com, `We try to understand the protocols and use specially designed channels to send messages and also to shed light on the general theory of privacy in quantum mechanics.` http://www.physorg.com/news151590458.html Physics Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:28:18 EST news151590458 (PhysOrg.com) -- IBM Research scientists, in collaboration with the Center for Probing the Nanoscale at Stanford University, have demonstrated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with volume resolution 100 million times finer than conventional MRI. http://www.physorg.com/news151073713.html Nanotechnology Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:55:13 EST news151073713 At Macworld, IBM today announced the availability of Lotus Notes 8.5 collaboration software with social computing features for all Mac OS X Leopard-powered computers. In addition, IBM's free Lotus Symphony document, spreadsheet and presentation software will be available later this month for the Mac. http://www.physorg.com/news150567484.html Technology Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:18:04 EST news150567484