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Michael Warren, a native of Port Jefferson, L.I., is suing International Business Machines Corp. for firing him because since 9/11 he's been called up too often by the Army Reserves. Today, Warren serves his country in a time of war as he wages a second David vs. Goliath war against one of the giants of corporate America. Warren's attorney Brendan Chao says IBM is in violation of Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act and the New York State Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief Act, laws that protect reservists from being fired for military service.

update China's Lenovo Group now has clearance from the U.S. government for its big PC deal with IBM. The Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States, a multiagency panel that evaluates acquisitions of American companies by foreign entities, unanimously approved Lenovo's plan to buy IBM's Personal Computing Division. It had been conducting a review of the deal's potential impact on national security. IBM, which announced the agreement to sell its PC business to Lenovo in December, plans to take an 18.9 percent stake in the postdeal Lenovo, which plans to reincorporate in the United States. The deal is expected...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - China's Lenovo Group Ltd. (0992) won clearance from a U.S. national security oversight committee to acquire IBM's (IBM) personal computer business, the companies said on Wednesday, overcoming resistance from some U.S. lawmakers An IBM executive said the high-level U.S. committee had given the deal its unanimous consent -- the final external approval needed -- putting the $1.25 billion PC sale on track to close in the second quarter as originally planned. "We were able to get unanimous agreement from the members of the committee," Stephen Ward, the general manager of IBM's Personal Systems Division, said in...

Russian was translated into English by an electronic "brain" today for the first time. Brief statements about politics, law, mathematics, chemistry, metallurgy, communications and military affairs were submitted in Russian by linguists of the Georgetown University Institute of Languages and Linguistics to the famous 701 computer of the International Business Machines Corporation. And the giant computer, within a few seconds, turned the sentences into easily readable English. A girl who didn't understand a word of the language of the Soviets punched out the Russian messages on IBM cards. The "brain" dashed off its English translations on an automatic printer at...

LAS VEGAS -- Executives from IBM's (Profile, Products, Articles) PC division and Lenovo Group were out in force this week at IBM's annual PartnerWorld conference looking to reassure the company's channel partners that there will be no disruptions when the Chinese company's landmark $1.75 billion acquisition of Big Blue's PC group is completed, probably later in the second quarter. Lenovo and the IBM PC group have close to 100 employees at PartnerWorld this year, five times the number that have attended in the past between the two, and assuaging channel concerns over the acquisition clearly is a priority for IBM....

International Business Machines Corp. and federal regulators have discussed restricting foreigners' access to two key buildings at a North Carolina facility in an effort to allay national-security concerns about the technology giant's planned sale of its personal-computer division, according to a person familiar with the talks. The proposed $1.25 billion sale, scheduled to close later this year, would transfer ownership of the world's third-largest PC maker to China's Lenovo Group Ltd., which is partially owned by the Chinese government. The sale is getting a rare extended look by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or Cfius, which...

The U.S. government is close to completing its investigation into Lenovo Group Ltd.'s $1.7 billion acquisition of IBM Corp.'s computer division, sources close to the matter said. The companies are negotiating with federal regulators to foreclose any national security concerns over their deal, which could be approved as early as this week, a source said. Under its deadline to review the deal, the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States, a multiagency panel that reviews acquisitions of U.S. businesses by foreign companies, must decide by mid-March whether to approve the transaction. Sources close to Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM and Beijing-based...

IBM is backing up its ardent advocacy of Linux with cold hard cash. Over the next three years, Big Blue will invest a total of $100 million USD to broaden the use of Linux technologies within its Workplace product family and assist customers in constructing end-to-end Linux-based solutions that fit a variety of devices.

NEW YORK, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Software company SCO Group Inc. (SCOX.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Thursday said it may be delisted from the Nasdaq SmallCap market as a result of its failure to file its year-end earnings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in a timely fashion. The company said it would request a hearing with Nasdaq to delay the delisting. As of Friday's opening, Nasdaq will add an "E" to the company's ticker symbol. The company said it has not filed its annual 10-K report with the SEC because it is examining matters related to stock issued...

IBM has signed a deal with New York City, specifically the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). The MTA is the nation's biggest transportation system, offering buses (under the New York City Transit Authority and the Long Island Bus system), subways (again, under the New York City Transit Authority), toll-collection and roadways into and out of Manhattan (under MTA Bridges and Tunnels), and commuter rail (under the Long Island Rail Road and Metro North Railroad systems). Overall, the MTA is responsible for the transportation of over 2.4 billion rides a year. The deal makes IBM responsible for the management of the computer...

Semiconductor designers from International Business Machines, Sony and Toshiba will reveal on Monday the inner workings of a “supercomputer on a chip” they claim could revolutionise communications, multimedia and consumer electronics. The Cell microprocessor has been under development by the three companies since 2001 in a laboratory in Austin, Texas. Its unveiling at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco has been eagerly awaited and products containing Cell including Sony's PlayStation 3 games console are expected as early as next year. Advance reports suggest the chip is significantly more powerful and versatile than the next generation of micro-processors...

IBM goes silent on Linux desktop effort Big Blue mum about progress of the company's move to open source clients By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service January 25, 2005 More than a year after IBM's (Profile, Products, Articles) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Sam Palmisano challenged his company to move to the Linux desktop by the end of 2005, IBM has significantly toned down its rhetoric on the subject of open-source clients. "We don't have anything we want to say that's definitive," said Nancy Kaplan, an IBM spokeswoman, as she declined to comment on specifics of the roll-out. "There are...

Pols attack IBM-Lenovo deal Three key lawmakers are pressing federal regulators to expand their probe into Lenovo Group Ltd.'s $1.7 billion acquisition of IBM Corp.'s PC division. In a letter Tuesday, Jan. 25, to Treasury Secretary John Snow, House International Relations Committee Chairman Henry J. Hyde, R-Ill., House Small Business Committee Chairman Donald Manzullo, R-Ill., and House Armed Services Committee Chairman Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., requested an agency briefing on the merger and urged him to withhold approval until they can confer. Hyde's panel poses a particular threat to the deal because it oversees export control issues. "Given the relationship between...

Sun Microsystems (Profile, Products, Articles) on Tuesday launched its OpenSolaris program, which provides access to the Solaris operating system via an open source format, and also announced the release of 1,670 patents to the open source community. The initial piece of Solaris being made available now is DTrace performance analysis technology. Other Solaris source code, such as file system and security technologies, will be offered in the second quarter of this year. Sun Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy, a surprise participant on Tuesday’s conference call pertaining to the announcements, declared Sun as likely the largest donor of code anywhere on...

IBM's Lenovo Deal Faces U.S. Security Probe Tue Jan 25, 2:59 PM ET Business - NewsFactor Elizabeth Millard, http://business.newsfactor.comIBM's (NYSE: IBM - news) deal to sell off its PC unit to China-based Lenovo may hit a snag, as U.S. federal agencies decide whether the arrangement endangers national security.     • What Went Wrong with IBM PCs? • Lenovo To Buy IBM's PC Biz in $1.75 Billion Deal • Report: IBM To Spin Off PC Unit • IBM Builds World Community Grid • IBM Rolls Out Low-Cost Blade Servers Newsletter Subscription As part of the US$1.75 billion deal, Lenovo announced...

What goes around, comes around, they say. And we now have the hilarious opportunity to watch SCO tell the court how burdensome it would be for SCO to have to produce to IBM every product Caldera distributed for the past 6 years. These are the same folks who whined until they got not only every released version of AIX and Dynix going back to the '80s but every *unreleased* one also, in their own discovery demands.Here, for your enjoyment, are SCO's objections to IBM's discovery efforts related to IBM's patent counterclaims: Objections to International Business Machine Corporation's Rule 30(b)(6) Notice...

SCO has gained access to two billion lines of code in its wrangle with IBM. This may be a costly battle to have won "Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least, but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes without coming to a total disagreement as to all the premises." Chapter 1, Bleak House, Charles Dickens. Last week, SCO won a point against IBM in...

IBM-Lenovo (Chinese front) deal faces US security challenge SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 23 (Reuters) - IBM's proposed $1.25 billion sale of its personal computer business to Lenovo Group of China may be held up by U.S. regulators over national security concerns, Bloomberg reported on Sunday. The report, citing unnamed sources "familiar with the matter" said members of the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States, or CFIUS, are concerned that Lenovo employees might be used to conduct industrial espionage.

Cell Architecture Explained: Introduction Introduction Designed for the PlayStation 3, Sony, Toshiba and IBM's new "Cell processor" promises seemingly obscene computing capabilities for what will rapidly become a very low price. In these articles I look at what the Cell architecture is, then I go on to look at the profound implications this new chip has, not for the games market, but for the entire computer industry. Has the PC finally met it's match? To date the details disclosed by the STI group (Sony, Toshiba, IBM) have been very vague to say the least. Except that is for the patent...

A federal magistrate has handed a partial victory to Utah's SCO Group, ordering computer giant IBM to turn over more of its Linux operating system-related program codes. U.S. Magistrate Brooke Wells' ruling, released just minutes after Salt Lake City's federal courthouse closed Wednesday, came in the Lindon software company's contractual suit stemming from Big Blue's alleged distribution of Linux applications purportedly tainted with SCO's proprietary Unix code. In a lawsuit tentatively set for trial next fall, SCO is seeking damages ranging from $5 billion to $50 billion from IBM. The Utah company also is in Linux-related litigation with Novell, Linux...