The eighth annual BrandZ list of the world's most valued brands puts Microsoft in seventh place in 2013, down two places from last year, while Apple remains the number one most valued brand. More...
IBM have used their advanced scientific devices to create the smallest movie ever. They manipulate individual atoms and photograph them frame-by-frame to create a short and sweet two minute film. More...
IBM has released a list of five innovations it predicts will happen in five years. This year, they are all based on extending human senses, including a PC that's able to smell odors. More...
IBM has released a new infographic that shows, according to its data, online shopping for Black Friday 2012 increased by 20.7 percent compared to sales in 2011, thanks in part to mobile devices. More...
Windows, MS-DOS, OS/2... and Xenix? Once upon a time, Microsoft was selling the world's most popular version of Unix, and rumor has it that they even used it to develop DOS and Windows. More...
Cray has announced its XC30 supercomputer, offering an impressive 100 petaflops of computing power to academics and researchers who might need it. No prizes for making a "that speed cray" joke. More...
Vaporware; the products that just keep getting delayed, and then disappears; the tech industry's full of it, and this week's Trivia Tuesday is delving into the anticlimactic world of vaporware. More...
The Asian giant is about to land in the USA, where the company will deploy its first manufacturing facility. The operation will help Lenovo better serve the local market and grow faster. More...
This week's Trivia Tuesday takes a look at operating systems; what they are, how they work, and their history, from their unlikely origins at General Motors to the source code of Windows. More...
In this article we test the theory if more research and development spending leads to increased intellectual property, and the number of patents might not be a good guide to a company's innovation. More...
IBM now holds the claim of building the world's fastest supercomputer. The Sequoia, installed in the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, achieved 16.32 petaflops. More...
Scared that Apple could be storing confidential communications, IBM has decided to ban its employees from using Apple's Siri on its corporate networks. But is there really anything to be afraid of? More...
25 years ago today, IBM and Microsoft announced OS/2, the PC operating system that was designed to replace DOS but failed to do so, thanks mostly to Microsoft's efforts to improve Windows. More...
A new list of the top 100 global brands in 2011 ranked Microsoft at number three, behind IBM at number two but ahead of Google at number four and Apple at number eight. More...
The year's not yet over, but IBM is looking towards the next five, with five predictions for developments and innovations in technology that it believes will have changed the world by the end of 2016. More...
Microsoft has been passed by IBM in terms of market value, making Microsoft the third biggest tech company in the world, behind both IBM and the biggest market value company in the world, Apple. More...
Earlier this month the original IBM PC model 5150 celebrated its 30th anniversary. We didn't want to let the occasion go by without paying our respects to the legacy that the 5150 brought. More...
IBM, which created the Jeopardy playing super computer Watson, is working on a computer chip designed to emulate how the human brain processes information. More...
One of the original designers of the IBM PC says that the PC is no longer at the head of the computing industry, going the way of the typewriter and CRT monitors. More...
Microsoft's operating system business launched 30 years ago today with MS-DOS ... kind of. As The Register reports, on July 27, 1981 Microsoft bought the full rights to QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System), the... More...
Nintendo has already revealed that its next generation console, the Wii U, will have an AMD graphics processor inside. But will all three next generation consoles also have a GPU made by AMD? PC hardware... More...
The National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom has been told to halt all purchases of Microsoft software as the Cabinet Office prepares to negotiate a new pan-government deal with the company.
According to The... More...
IBM continues to use their technology to take over the world. First Watson became a Jeopardy champion and later the company started pushing their solution to assist doctors in the medical world. Now it appears... More...
On June 16, 1911 a company called Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (C-T-R) officially opened for business in New York City. In 1924 it changed its name to something most of you recognize: International Business Machines, otherwise known... More...
IBM researchers have created a new type of high speed Graphene circuit that has the potential to transform several of the everyday electronics that many people have around their homes. The ultra-thin material supposedly has... More...
Watson’s goal to take over the world is continuing. IBM’s supercomputer first took out top Jeopardy contestants earlier this year. Now, according to USA Today, Watson is preparing to be used in the medical field... More...
Microsoft is still the biggest company for PC operating systems, at least according to the amount of revenue it generates. A new study from Gartner Research reports that Microsoft had $23.848 billion in revenue from... More...
As Watson utterly destroyed Jeopardy’s two reigning human champions at their own game, the tech world applauded IBM’s creation, but the applause was tempered by an almost palpable sense of anxiety. It’s that looking-over-the-precipice feeling... More...
"Elementary, my dear Watson."
IBM's supercomputer, named Watson in honor of IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, bested star Jeopardy contestants Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings and it wasn't even close. Watson ended the day with... More...
After tackling the world's Chess Grandmaster's, IBM has set its sights on a new and arguably more complicated game: Jeopardy.
Chess moves and strategy are computable through algorithms and mathematics, but IBM's Watson is looking... More...
The European Union aren’t shy when it comes to technology issues, they are the one who asked Microsoft for the web browser ballot screen.
More recently, they have been diving into technology again and on Friday... More...
IBM's Vice President of Open Source, Bob Sutor, has made a blog post regarding the company's stance on web browsers. The company will be shifting to Mozilla Firefox as their browser of choice. This move... More...
For a long time now, Google seemed to be a leader in corporate webmail services. IBM is now aiming to cut their advantage short, by launching its own cloud-based platform, named LotusLive. It will be... More...
According to CNET News, IBM has had a little break through; scientists working for the enterprise computing giant have imaged the chemical structure of an individual molecule, increasing the possibility for creating electronic building blocks... More...
Earlier Neowin had reported that IBM was interested in purchasing Sun Microsystems for $7 billion in a plan to help move into the software market. The original plan to purchase the company for $10 -... More...
The U.S. Department of Energy has commissioned IBM to build a new supercomputer that is able to run at up to 20 petaflops, or about 20,000 trillion calculations per second. According to Reuters this is... More...
Hewlett Packard's former vice president Atul Malhotra, has pleaded guilty to stealing trade secrets from IBM, and passing them over to his new employers. Atul Malhotra, a vice president of imaging and printing services at... More...
Toshiba Corp said on Tuesday it would join a group led by International Business Machines Corp to develop system chips using 32-nanometre circuitry, as chip makers increasingly team up to cut development costs. The alliance... More...
In its latest survey of the server market, Gartner found that IBM led all other vendors in terms of revenue in the second quarter of 2007, while HP shipped more servers than any other OEM.... More...
IBM and Sun Microsystems are looking to bring supercomputing into the "petaflop" era. The two IT giants will detail the specifics behind their new supercomputer systems to the audience attending the 2007 International Supercomputer Conference... More...
Amazon.com Incorporated has paid IBM an undisclosed amount of money to settle all outstanding patent lawsuits between the two companies which also agreed to a long-term patent cross-licensing deal, giving Amazon access to IBM's patents... More...
IBM and Cisco will announce today at the Spring 2007 VoiceCon conference in Orlando, Florida, a joint effort to create an industrywide unified communications and collaboration platform. The expectation is that a single open platform,... More...
Alongside Intel's news of 45nm process technology, IBM today announced its own 45nm technological advancements that apply to products manufactured in its East Fishkill, NY plant starting in 2008. Working with AMD and its other... More...
IBM and financial house Lehman Brothers have created a $180 million China Investment Fund with the goal of providing business insight for the country's public and private companies. The investment plan, begun with $90... More...
IBM and Advanced Micro Devices are expected to announce an alliance, August 1st at a New York event featuring Hector Ruiz, AMD's chief executive, and Susan Whitney, head of IBM's x86 server group, that will... More...
IBM and Advanced Micro Devices are stressing out their chips. The companies, allies in developing semiconductor manufacturingtechnology, will present two papers at a chip conference this weekoutlining how they have reduced power... More...
To help nudge Linux and open source software further into the enterprise, a vice president at Hewlett-Packard Co yesterday called on rivals IBM Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc to invalidate their open-source software licenses in... More...
A lobby group backed by Nokia , Oracle and IBM has asked an EU court for permission to join the European Commission in its antitrust battle with Microsoft, it said on Wednesday. The five-firm European... More...
Researchers at IBM and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. have improved a chip-making technology called strained silicon, boosting semiconductor performance at a time when such gains are increasingly hard to come by, the companies said on... More...