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<p>Researchers at International Business Machines Corp. say they have built a simple electric circuit on a single, cylindrical molecule of carbon known as a "carbon nanotube," potentially a key step toward one day creating a faster successor to silicon-based chips.</p>

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China's Lenovo Group said on Friday it would welcome a U.S. investigation, if necessary, to quell concerns about a State Department order of more than 15,000 of its computers. "We have nothing to hide," said Jeff Carlisle, vice president of government relations for Lenovo, which bought IBM's personal computer division last May. But he said no investigation was warranted and voiced qualms about being put at an unfair competitive advantage. The computers in question -- 15,000 Lenovo ThinkCentre 51 desktop units and nearly 1,000 Lenovo ThinkCentre M51 minitower units, valued at more than $13 million -- were...

Big Blue researchers’ feat suggests the material could be a candidate to replace silicon in chips. IBM researchers have achieved a milestone by creating an integrated circuit out of a single carbon nanotube, a feat that makes the material a likely candidate to replace silicon as the main ingredient for making chips. Big Blue plans to detail the accomplishment in the journal Science on Friday. Long thought to be a good candidate for replacing silicon, carbon nanotube has posed great challenges for scientists who try to coax transistors out of the material and create an integrated circuit (IC). ICs are...

Here's the Order [PDF] by Magistrate Judge Brooke Wells from the hearing on December 20, 2005 on IBM's motion to compel a recalcitrant SCO to hand over what SCO claimed were privileged materials and on SCO's New Renewed Motion to Compel Discovery. We know the outcome, because Judge Wells announced her decisions on both motions at the hearing from the bench. But now we have it in writing. IBM won its motion, and the order includes the following priceless gem: 1. In the Novell to Santa Cruz transaction, Novell did not transfer to Santa Cruz the entirety of Novell's business;...

The Corporate Curtain 1/20/2006 By Robert H. Knight How companies are using views on homosexuality to punish their Christian employees. America's corporations are under increasing pressure not only to accommodate homosexuality but to celebrate it and to punish employees who object. Over the past two decades, hundreds of companies have adopted varying degrees of homosexual activism in their official policies. As a result, a growing number of Christians have been disciplined or fired for resisting the trend. Elizabeth Birch, former president of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the largest homosexual pressure group, said in 2004 that she was happily surprised...

HANNOVER, Germany--IBM is showing off to the CeBit crowd a prototype blade server based on the Cell processor. The company demonstrated the Cell blade server running visualization software to display real-time, 3D video footage of a beating heart. This allows a researcher to rotate the image of the heart and observe it from any angle, or filter out elements such as blood or certain tissue to give a transparent view into the center of the heart. The demonstration requires a huge amount of data processing, but a blade server using the nine-core Cell chip is well equipped to handle such...

IBM, Intel, Royal Philips, SAP Tapped For DHL RFID ProjectBy Laurie Sullivan TechWeb.comWed Mar 8, 7:31 PM ET DHL has tapped several companies to expand its radio frequency identification technology (RFID) projects within the supply chain. The logistics provider Wednesday said it's collaborating with IBM Corp., Intel Corp., Royal Philips Electronics N.V. and SAP AG. IBM's Sensor and Actuators business unit has been appointed to help develop specific "proof of concepts," along with Intel, Philips, and SAP, said Scott Burroughs, solutions executive with sensor and actuators solutions at IBM. "We're bringing intellectual capital and technology into the mix," he said....

IBM switching to Linux destops in Germany according to a Linux Forum 2006 presentation by their head of open source and Linux sales in Germany. Interesting news from LinuxForum 2006During a presentation on IBM's involvement with Open Source, Andreas Pleschek from IBM in Stuttgart, Germany, who heads open source and Linux technical sales across North East Europe for IBM made a very interesting statement... "Andreas Pleschek also told that IBM has cancelled their contract with Microsoft as of October this year. That means that IBM will not use Windows Vista for their desktops. Beginning from July, IBM employees will begin using IBM...

The SCO Group Inc. had a couple motions denied Friday in its ongoing case against International Business Machines Corp.       U.S. Magistrate Judge Brooke Wells ruled that Lindon-based SCO should not get more time for depositions of people at Intel, Oracle and The Open Group and denied a different motion to force IBM to provide more documentation in the case. She did give SCO 30 days to file a renewed motion but said it must "narrowly" define areas that have not been covered in documents IBM already has provided to SCO.       SCO has filed a...

Hold on to your hats! IBM has subpoenaed Microsoft! And Sun! At last, we're getting to the core of the matter. We're going to get to find out the whole story. I'd pay for this. No kidding. Feast your eyes on these and don't skip the topics for deposition: * Plaintiff IBM's Notice of Service of Subpoenas Duces Tecum - yes, plaintiff for the countercharge...oops, I meant counterclaims * Exhibit A - HP's (deposition set for March 15, 9 AM) * Exhibit B - Baystar's (deposition set for March 16, 9 AM) * Exhibit C - Microsoft's (deposition set for...

FOSS for OS/2: Keeping the flame alive Thursday February 16, 2006 (06:00 PM GMT) By: Bruce Byfield After a decade of neglect and increasingly reluctant support from IBM, the manufacturer, the OS/2 community persists. Where users of GNU/Linux or FreeBSD have turned to free and open source software (FOSS) for political and philosophical freedom and software quality, the surviving OS/2 community has been turning to FOSS as a means of defending members' right to use the operating system of their choice. The result is a small but surprisingly diverse collection of projects that, to a GNU/Linux user, is a mixture...

Some folks just dote on mystery. SCO must be one of them. It now turns out that, according to IBM's latest Motion to Limit SCO's Claims Relating to Allegedly Misused Material [PDF] and the Memorandum in Support [PDF], while SCO did list 294 items on its final list of allegedly misused material by the December 22, 2005 deadline, it failed to provide "basic specificity" on 201 of them. So IBM would like the court to limit SCO to the 93 items it actually provided particularized information for. Here's IBM's attached Exhibits [PDF]. Exhibit A is Todd Shaughnessy's Declaration from May...

When Big Blue, as IBM was once called, decides it's time to start shedding pensions, the stampede is definitely on. A couple of weeks ago this company, which was once famous for taking good care of its employees in return for a Stepford-like obedience, announced it was freezing its pension program. Until now perhaps no more than one large corporation in ten had abandoned the pension system, but since big business tends to rush pell-mell together with whatever is the fashionable idea of the hour, the IBM announcement is a harbinger of the disappearance of almost all retirement pensions in...

See this thread first. IBM's developed a chip and it runs at twice the clip 4 or 5 Megahertz ...but that's not the "wurtz" it seems Steve Jobs just missed the ship!

IBM today announced free software and educational resources to help developers in Russia build and deploy innovative applications based on open standards and open source. Tapping into the booming software development market in Russia, IBM is giving software developers, architects and students free access to software and hundreds of new tools and technical and educational resources that will enable them to more easily build open standards-based applications. With a few clicks of a mouse, developers can download free versions of IBM middleware, IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition and IBM DB2 Universal Database Express-C, as well as access trial code,...

<p>IBM today announced free software and educational resources to help developers in Russia build and deploy innovative applications based on open standards and open source.</p> <p>IBM provided ebizQ with the following details.</p> <p>Tapping into the booming software development market in Russia, IBM is giving software developers, architects and students free access to software and hundreds of new tools and technical and educational resources that will enable them to more easily build open standards-based applications.</p>

In the never-ending quest to sell more product, corporate advertising Solons scrutinize mountains of demographic data to slice and dice market segments into assorted variables – measurable characteristics like age, income, gender, location and other factors that help to pinpoint likely future customers. There's nothing particularly wrong with this, and in fact, it usually makes a lot of sense. That's why tires, transmission and Super Bowl tickets are advertised in the sports sections of newspapers – preponderantly read by men. White sales, ads for drapes and rug clearances are generally in the women's pages. Starting in the late 1960s, when...

International Business Machines ended 2005 on a high note as improved profit margins and better-than-expected bookings in its core services unit helped make up for revenues lost through the sale of the company's personal computer division.IBM recorded net income of $3.2bn in the fourth quarter, or $1.99 a share, up from a restated $2.8bn, or $1.67 a share, a year earlier. The year-ago figures were restated to account for the cost of stock options expensing.Revenues fell to $24.4bn from $27.7bn, following the sale of IBM's PC division to Lenovo, the Chinese computer maker. Excluding the impact of the divested PC...

We Support Our Troops!  For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces "And the test of good technology is that once you use it, you can't go back. "   quote by Intel CEO Paul Otellini We Support Our Troops!!! Apple added Intel processors to an existing Mac desktop and an entirely new laptop, updated Mac OS X and iLife, and introduced an FM tuner/remote control for the iPod.  The new Intel-based iMac will feature Intel's new Centrino Duo processor. On the mobile side, the PowerBook is being retired in favor of...

Macinteltosh is small beer compared with the PS3 WHILE THE PRESS brouhaha happily follows Apple about and co-conspirator Intel looks on, smugly hoping its tie-up with the much-loved computer maker will bring it some added kudos in its assault on the consumer electronics market, IBM, the giant ousted from the party, is getting on with business. Big Blue may have been dumped by Apple but its compensation is plentiful. Its Power chips form the heart of upcoming console offerings from Sony and Nintendo as well as the XBox from Microsoft. And let's face it, the press might like Apple and...