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  • 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.

  • New chief for IBM Australia

    Glen Boreham will replace Philip Bullock as CEO following the latter's promotion to lead Big Blue's hardware business in Asia-Pacific, the company said today.

  • IBM spices up corporate search

    IBM will muscle into the corporate search software market with the delivery Thursday of a significant update to its database tools.

  • Big deals for Big Blue

    IBM Global Services continued its winning streak in Europe and the Middle East this week with a string of new contract signings potentially worth over US$10 billion.

  • Judge dismisses 50 IBM toxics lawsuits

    A judge in California has dismissed approximately 50 toxic chemical lawsuits filed by former IBM employees against the computer giant, following a round of court-ordered mediation.

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  • 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's anti-control freak

    Senior vice-president of IBM Linda Sanford explains why the handoff to an offshore partner should be embraced, not feared.

  • What's wrong with Java

    IBM's software chief Steve Mills says a more democratic standards process would benefit everyone -- even Sun.

  • IBM: Leadership woes hamper businesses

    A survey of 456 CEOs among IBM's top customers shows a shift from a cost cutting to revenue growth as the primary business objective. While most of the survey's findings are predictable, one finding is emblematic of the underlying problem inhibiting growth -- a lack of leadership.

  • The FUD war against Linux

    Open-source activist Bruce Perens uncovers the SCO-Microsoft connection behind a campaign to convince users that trade secrets of Unix have been copied into Linux.

Reviews (2)

  • iSeries rises to conflicting demands

    IBM's iSeries will never be IBM's most exciting range of servers, but it is destined for great things, according to one of its architects.

  • Apple-Intel: Winners and losers

    Apple's move to adopt Intel chips will inevitably result in new victors and casualities in the desktop battlefield. Here's a sample.

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