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World's Biggest Tech Show Goes Green

Top IT companies will display environmental friendliness at CeBIT

Mar 3, 08 8:19 AM CST
(Newser) - Greener tech solutions are a focus of this year’s CeBIT technology trade fair, which opens tomorrow in Germany. Tech companies from around the world will showcase products like servers that use less electricity alongside their hot new gadgets, AP reports. The emphasis on green ideas sets the tone for... More »

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climate change • Microsoft • greenhouse gases • Germany • IBM • green technology • computer • CeBIT

MARKETS

Stocks Surge on IBM Buyback

Techs bolster confidence on 3rd straight day of gains

Feb 26, 08 3:40 PM CST
(Newser) - A $15 million buyback by IBM plus today's good retail news and higher commodity prices set off a third straight day of stock market gains. IBM sparked a tech rally, including big gains by Intel and Microsoft, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Dow gained 114.7 to close at... More »

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IBM to Buy Back $15B of Stock

Company raises its profit forecast

Feb 26, 08 3:04 PM CST
(Newser) - IBM will repurchase $15 billion of its own stock, it revealed today, leading the IT company to raise its profit forecast for the year to beat Wall Street predictions. The Armonk, NY-based computing giant will spend $12 billion on the buyback this year, the AP reports. The company told the... More »

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Wall Street • IBM • stock buyback • earnings forecast • analyst guidance • EPS • Sam Palmisano

Strong Overseas Growth Buoys IBM Sales

Despite a lagging US economy, there's hope for multinational tech firms overseas

Jan 18, 08 9:17 AM CST
(Newser) - IBM, already weathering the economic storm that’s bedeviled many other major US companies, said sales overseas, especially in Europe and developing nations, would help it overcome trying economic conditions at home in 2008, reports the Wall Street Journal. The computer services giant said it expects annual per share... More »

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IBM • corporate earnings • US economy • revenue

Economic Worries Propel Silicon Valley Deals

Oracle and Sun Microsystems may be only tip of the iceberg

Jan 17, 08 12:59 PM CST
(Newser) - Recent acquisitions by Sun Microsystems and Oracle could be the opening round of new Silicon Valley deal-making, the Wall Street Journal reports, as tech companies worried about a US economic slowdown seek to strengthen their positions. Smaller companies struggling to stay afloat are tempting targets; bigger fish also want to... More »

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Silicon Valley • mergers and acquisitions • IBM • Sun Microsystems • Oracle • acquisition • BEA Systems • MySQL

MARKETS

IBM Leads Stock Surge

Hopes for another rate cut also contributed to the rally

Jan 14, 08 3:45 PM CST
(Newser) - Stocks surged today, propelled by hopes for an interest rate cut and expectation-busting fourth-quarter results from IBM. "The Fed has a very hard job right now, but I think the market is saying it thinks they are up to the task," a trading exec told the Wall Street ... More »

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stock market • IBM • gold • interest rate cut

Corporations Share Green Tech Patents

IBM, Nokia, Sony and Pitney-Bowes join the new Eco-patent Commons

Jan 14, 08 2:31 PM CST
(Newser) - IBM tops the list of companies donating patents to a group that aims to help businesses produce greener products by sharing eco-friendly technology. Big Blue has promised 27 patents to the Eco-patent Commons; Nokia, Sony and mail equipment maker Pitney-Bowes will also donate, reports PC World. Shared patents will be... More »

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recycling • IBM • Nokia • Sony • green technology • patent • Eco patent Commons • Pitney Bowes

IBM Tops Q4 Expectations by $1B

Strong sales to developing markets
send Big Blue stock soaring

Jan 14, 08 10:20 AM CST
(Newser) - IBM shares soared after the company released preliminary quarterly earnings today that beat Wall Street’s predictions by $1 billion, reports Bloomberg. Shares popped 8% in early trading after the company said “strong operational performance in Asia, Europe, and emerging countries” helped it to a 24% bump in earnings... More »

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IBM • corporate earnings • computer services

IBM Launches Social Mapping Biz Tool

'Atlas' analyzes individuals' business statistics, relationships

Dec 29, 07 7:39 PM CST
(Newser) - IBM has released a software tool named 'Atlas' that aims to track and analyze statistical relationships among individuals in a corporate setting, MIT Technology Review reports. Employees are given the opportunity to partake in business-adapted online practices—blogging, social grouping, bookmarking, organizing projects—and Atlas creates a "social graph"... More »

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social networking • IBM • business • corporate • blogging • statistics

Breakthrough Speeds Up, Shrinks Chips

Huge supercomputers may be reduced to
the size of laptops

Dec 6, 07 4:11 PM CST
(Newser) - IBM scientists have reached a “significant milestone” in chip technology, using optical signals to speed up and shrink the largest multicore processors. The breakthrough controls light pulses with a device called a wave-guide, a wire-like structure on the chip that communicates among processors; hybrid electronic-optic chips could reduce refrigerator-sized... More »

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IBM • computer chip • microprocessors • optics

Sun Rises
on Dell

Deal to install Solaris OS on Dell servers should help Sun Microsystems grow

Nov 15, 07 11:09 AM CST
(Newser) - Computer seller Dell, looking to regain momentum by responding to business customer demand to offer broader, simpler technology solutions, will install the Solaris operating systems on its servers, giving a boost to longtime rival Sun Microsystem’s efforts to grow its software business, reports the New York Times.  “... More »

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Dell • IBM • Sun Microsystems • operating system • Solaris OS

IBM to Buy Canada's Cognos for $5B

Company's software products model business decisions

Nov 12, 07 12:19 PM CST
(Newser) - IBM will buy Cognos for $5 billion, the latest in a rash of “business intelligence” software acquisitions. The move could help IBM keep up with SAP AG and Oracle, each of which recently teamed with similar companies, the AP reports. The purchase price is a 9% premium over Cognos’... More »

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IBM • Oracle • software • acquisition • business intelligence • Cognos • SAP AG

IBM Scrapes Silicon Scraps

Water-based abrasion technique avoids chemicals; recycles silicon for solar panels

Oct 30, 07 10:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - IBM has developed an eco-friendly way of recycling silicon for eco-friendly solar panels. Semiconductor chipmakers often sell used silicon too thin for computing to solar panel manufacturers. Until now, they’ve used abrasive chemicals or a spray of glass beads to erase circuits from the chips. IBM plans to share... More »

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recycling • IBM • solar energy • Texas Instruments • silicon • semiconductor chip

Making Money:
Patent Pending

IBM wants to patent an idea about its patents, which is, well, patently contrary

Oct 24, 07 6:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - Big Blue is seeing green in a recent patent filing. IBM, which holds more patents than any company in the world and reaps more than $1 billion in royalties annually, says it wants to make it easier for small companies to license its ideas on a “floating privilege basis.... More »

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technology • IBM • business • patent trolls • patent

World's Fastest Computer on the Fast Track

New machine will be three times as powerful as current champ

Sep 26, 07 1:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - IBM is set to begin work on a computer capable of a quadrillion calculations per second, more power than a mile-high tower of laptops. McClatchy Newspapers reports the system will use 884,736 processors—six times the current best—to analyze problems on a dizzying scale. “We're on a... More »

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Japan • IBM • computer • supercomputer

IBM Challenges Microsoft Office With Free Software

Free software does many of the same things as expensive suite

Sep 18, 07 6:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - IBM is issuing a new challenge to the supremacy of Microsoft's Office software, releasing a suite of free programs, called Symphony, that can perform many of the functions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Microsoft just released Office 7.0, and one analyst speculates many users will switch to Symphony rather... More »

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Microsoft • IBM • software • Open Office • Microsoft Office • computer

Computers Master Checkers

The best outcome human players can hope for against program is a draw

Jul 19, 07 6:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - After 18 years of number-crunching, a checkers-playing computer program has conquered the game. Checkers is the most complicated game computers have mastered, Scientific American reports, beating Connect Four by a factor of a million. "I was a bit obsessed," says the lead researcher. "My wife would say... More »

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games • IBM • university • checkers • computer

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