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  • IBM to buy tools company Telelogic

    IBM will spend US$745 million to buy software-development tools company Telelogic, Big Blue said on Monday.

  • IBM unveils energy efficiency plan

    Let the colour jokes begin: With its new energy efficiency initiatives, Big Blue wants to go green.

  • IBM to pay US$1.2 billion for SPSS

    IBM will pay US$1.2 billion in cash for SPSS, a company with technology that will bolster Big Blue's business analytics line-up.

  • IBM Australia hit $4bn in 2008

    Enterprise technology giant IBM must be thanking Australia a billion or more correctly four, after Big Blue's local office pulled in more than $4 billion in revenues for the first time in the 2008 calendar year.

  • Compuware: Big Blue stole our code

    Software company Compuware is charging IBM with using its intellectual property and engaging in illegal tying of its technologies and anti-competitive practices, according to a lawsuit this week.

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  • IBM to bring automation to DB2

    New features planned for IBM's DB2 database server software will automate common administrative tasks and take advantage of growing interest in low-cost server hardware, the company says.

  • Big Blue veteran heads to EMC

    EMC has hired an IBM veteran to be its chief technology officer, in what appears to be the latest step in the storage hardware specialist's quest to spread its computing-industry wings.

  • IBM retools Global Services

    Big Blue seeks higher, more profitable ground in the market for business computing services.

  • Can IBM be a Google for businesses?

    Firm quietly working on data storage software designed to help companies find business documents scattered across their networks.

  • IBM leads software comeback?

    Despite strong growth in software sales at IBM, only certain parts of the enterprise software market are set to rebound this year.

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  • IBM's big thinker

    Executive Irving Wladawsky-Berger helped steer Big Blue to the Internet, Linux and open-source computing. His newest mission: grid computing.

  • eLiza: Smart servers meet Star Trek

    IBM's continuing development of its Project eLiza initiative to create self-managing systems could make it a star-date to remember.

  • Start-up beats IBM for Linux software

    A revamped version of key disk drive management software in Linux will be based on a project from a start-up, spurring a retreat by IBM programmers working on competing software.

  • Power5 to quadruple server brawn

    Big Blue fires up a computer running IBM's forthcoming Power5 processor, a key milestone for the company's future plans to pressure Sun and Hewlett-Packard in the Unix server market.

  • IBM looks to arm more PDAs with Linux

    Big Blue is ushering in design standards for personal digital assistants based on its PowerPC 405LP chip and MontaVista's Linux.

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