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  • IBM introduces Power6 chip

    IBM on Monday introduced its Power6 microprocessors and a new generation of Unix-based servers to run on the chip.

  • 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 loses tapes with employee data

    IBM, one of the leading companies providing services to help manage and protect data, has apparently lost computer tapes containing personal information about its employees.

  • IBM unveils energy efficiency plan

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

  • IBM to wed game chip with mainframes

    Marrying technology from opposite poles of the computer industry, IBM and a multiplayer online game company are working to integrate the Cell game console processor with Big Blue's mainframe computers.

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    Playing favourites

    Many CIOs talk of the "'closeness" of their relationship with their key strategic vendors. Every so often though we get an insight into which IT departments are truly valued by the big boys.

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  • 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 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.

  • Who owns ILM?

    StorageTek may own the trademark for the term "information lifecycle management" but the company's competitors, such as EMC, are reaping the rewards of its hard work.

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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.

  • IBM scraps another product line

    Hot on the heels of news that IBM had scratched the TransNote portable PC from its ThinkPad range, IBM Australia has announced plans to discontinue WorkPad, its line of Palm OS handhelds.

  • 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.

  • 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 reveals supertiny transistor

    IBM has developed what it says is the world's tiniest working transistor.

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