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Story Url: http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=34033401 Send story to the . IBM Scientists Create World's Smallest Solid-state Light Emitter; Pioneering New Applications for Carbon Nanotubes 1 May 2003, 2:00pm ET - - - - - YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 1, 2003--IBM today announced it created the world's smallest solid-state light emitter. This research breakthrough - the first, electrically-controlled, single-molecule light emitter - demonstrates the rapidly improving understanding of molecular devices. The results also suggest that the unique attributes of carbon nanotubes may be applicable to optoelectronics, which is the basis for the high-speed communications industry. IBM's previous work on the electrical properties...

I've attempted to bold the most important things here. Very comprehensive... Lehman more optimistic than Citigroup. I hope someone finds this article to be of value. As of April 23, at least 251 people worldwide had died of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). That is far, far fewer than the number who die from the flu, accidental falls or car crashes each month in the United States. Yet, since SARS first came to public attention in March, the mysterious illness has disrupted global business and vacation travel plans, prompted downward revisions to economic forecasts, jeopardized the health of thousands of...

<p>Armonk, New York, March 31 (Bloomberg) -- A bomb was found outside an International Business Machines Corp. sales office in Bologna, Italy, earlier today, a company spokesman said.</p> <p>A security guard found a suspicious package at about 7 a.m. Italy time and immediately notified police, said Brian Doyle, a company spokesman. Police later removed and defused the bomb, according to Agence France-Presse. Doyle said he didn't know what other tenants are in the building where IBM's employees are located. The office later opened for business.</p>

Agency nears completion of financial enterprise architectureBy Matthew FrenchThe Defense Department next month will complete a $100 million project that few thought could be finished on time and within budget: the world's largest financial enterprise architecture. The financial management enterprise architecture project, an ambitious undertaking designed to consolidate and standardize all of DOD's financial reporting systems, is scheduled to be completed in April, just one year after the contract was awarded.The project is designed to help the department obtain a clean financial audit &#8212; something it has been unable to do. With DOD on the brink of war, this goal...

SCO sues Big Blue for $1 billion; HP, Sun reassure customers The SCO Group last week announced a $1 billion lawsuit against IBM Corp. for allegedly sharing SCO’s proprietary technology with the open source software (OSS) community. SCO also claims to have warned Big Blue in a letter that if IBM doesn’t address its concerns, SCO will revoke its Unix license within 100 days. The implications of this move are unclear for IBM’s AIX installed base, but some industry watchers concede it could at least temporarily prevent IBM from shipping AIX. “That’s exceedingly unlikely, however,” stresses Rob Enderle, a senior...

Data processing went to war with IBM's bachelor computer experts. by Dan Feltham From 1965 to 1973, approximately 250 American technicians employed by International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation left the comfort of their Stateside jobs to accept two-year assignments in Vietnam and Thailand. They volunteered their services for various reasons--adventure, money, career advancement, or belief in America's presence in Southeast Asia--to help our U.S. military install, operate and maintain an amazing amount of data-processing equipment used to supply, monitor and manage the American war effort. These employees represented IBM's Data Processing Division, Field Engineering Division, Office Products Division and the...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The music and technology industries, which have battled over consumers downloading music on the Internet, have negotiated a compromise to protect copyrighted works such as movies and songs without new government requirements, people familiar with the plan said Monday. The agreement, expected to be announced Tuesday in Washington, contends that U.S. laws do not need to be amended, for example, to permit consumers to make backup copies of compact discs they purchase or copy songs onto handheld devices. The technology industry also will announce its support for aggressive enforcement against digital pirates. Under the plan, future...

Patents a virtue for IBM By John G. SpoonerStaff Writer, CNET News.comJanuary 12, 2003, 9:00 PM PT IBM will announce on Monday that it was the top recipient of U.S. patents in 2002.Big Blue was awarded 3,288 patents during the past year, making it the top recipient among private sector companies for the 10th year in a row, according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Canon ranked second during in 2002 with 1,893 patents. IBM has generated just over 22,000 patents during the last 10 years, but those patents have changed with the times, IBM researchers said. Many of...

IBM ASIC Technology Helps Power New Cray X1 Supercomputer 2 Jan 2003, 09:07am ET - - - - - 800 IBM ASIC Chips Feature Total Gate Count of 7.5 Billion IBM today announced that it is the sole application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) technology provider for the new Cray (NASDAQ: CRAY) X1 supercomputer, which is now being shipped to customers. The Cray supercomputer contains 800 IBM ASIC chips, designed by Cray exclusively for the X1 and manufactured by IBM. The chips feature gate counts as high as 14.2 million, an average gate count of about 9.5 million, and a...

IBM laying storage-brick foundations By Stephen ShanklandStaff Writer, CNET News.comDecember 17, 2002, 4:00 AM PT SAN JOSE, Calif.--IBM researchers are working on a new storage system prototype that packs hard-drive modules into a dense, Rubik's Cube-like structure. The company's Collective Intelligent Bricks project builds variously sized three-dimensional stacks out of the eight-inch modules, each filled with 12 hard drives and six network connections to keep data coursing through the collection. IBM envisions a day when hundreds of these storage "bricks" are stacked together, eventually with computing bricks in the same assemblage. By the first quarter of 2003, IBM hopes to...

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 16 (Reuters) - In a high-tech horse race to shrink circuits on semiconductors, International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) will announce on Monday that it is in the final phases to create a next-generation 90-nanometer chip for Xilinx Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) The new 90nm technology, which measures less than one one-thousandth of a human hair, can cut the size of chips by 50 to 80 percent, said IBM Microelectronics of East Fishkill, New York. Chips serve as the brains of electronic devices ranging from cars to PCs to networking equipment. However, Intel Corp. (NASDAQ:INTC) says it has bragging rights...

A WORKING TRANSISTOR which IBM claims is 10 times smaller than any in production will be demonstrated later today at an electronics conference in San Francisco.IBM said the transistor is six nanometers long and claims that demonstrates there's still life in the devices at this molecular level.IBM said that further work will be needed to achieve both higher performance and the management of power density and heat dissipation. A nanometer is one billionth of a meter, and IBM said that the Consortium of International Semiconductor Companies has projected that transistors need to be smaller than nine nano by 2016 to...

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 9 (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp. will announce on Monday the smallest ever working silicon transistor to serve as the nerve center in electronics ranging from televisions to PCs and cars.For the past 30 years the industry has been shrinking microprocessors -- the brains of computers -- and other chip components to put more function into smaller and smaller cell phones and other computing devices.Transistors, basically the on-off switches that regulate the flow of electronic signals used for computing and other processes, are key parts of the chip.Reducing the size of the on-off switch in the...

<p>Tech giants AT&T, IBM and Intel, along with two investment firms, will form a company to provide high-speed wireless Internet access across the United States, one of the biggest and most ambitious ventures of its kind to address the burgeoning Wi-Fi market.</p>

IBM will announce a new low-end server Wednesday, its first Power processor-based system that can run the Linux operating system without needing IBM's AIX as well. IBM's pSeries machines already are available with Linux but have also required AIX, IBM's version of Unix. Now, as expected, Big Blue has modified Linux sufficiently that its p630 servers will start up without AIX. The p630 is the lowest-end product to use IBM's 64-bit Power4 processor, and Big Blue is positioning the product as a lower-cost Linux alternative to Hewlett-Packard's Itanium-based offerings. Itanium, like Power4 and Sun Microsystems' UltraSparc, is a 64-bit processor...

THE first supercomputers to approach and even surpass the processing power of the human brain are to be built by IBM, under a £184 million contract announced by the US Government yesterday. ASCI Purple and Blue Gene/L will be the fastest and most powerful machines built, with a combined capacity equal to the 500 best of today’s computers. ASCI Purple, which will be built first and used to simulate nuclear tests, will be able to complete 100 thousand billion calculations per second — a speed known as 100 teraflops that some scientists say is comparable to the human brain. Blue...

<p>Computer company says new electronic switch can run three times as fast as current technology.</p> <p>EAST FISHKILL, N.Y. (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp. said Monday that it had built a transistor, or an electronic switch, that can run at speeds of 350 billion cycles per second -- three times as fast as current technology.</p>

Throughout the antitrust trial Microsoft executives have seen it as vitally important that they avoid the legal threat turning Microsoft into IBM. Big Blue itself faced a major antitrust action in the 80s, and although it eventually emerged relatively intact (apparently), it did so with a large gaggle of lawyers attached to it for ever more, and with a deep paranoia/paralysis engendered by fear of antitrust. That of course is a matter of opinion, and although I personally do not believe it is entirely true, Microsoft and numbers of analysts believe that it is. IBM won the battle but lost...

IBM today announced a new low-power, low-cost, highly integrated embedded PowerPC processor for wireless local area network (LAN) access points and other networking applications. The new chip, the PowerPC 405EP, was designed by IBM using the company's ASIC methodology to combine the PowerPC 405 processor core and other key functions into a single system-on-chip design. The chip is designed to support CPU speeds of 133, 200 and 266MHz and consumes only one Watt of power at 200MHz. In addition to wireless LAN access points, the features of the PowerPC 405EP make it ideal for other edge-of-network applications such as DSL...

“No business could survive in a free market by not cutting those relatively high-paying but now silly jobs created by many tech companies before the Silicon Valley dot-com bombs went off in 2000. However I have to wonder why it has taken two years and these CEOs still haven’t gotten rid of all that dead wood in their companies. Two years on the profit/loss rollercoaster and the CEOs are still pointing fingers at their rank and file workers as the problem? Nothing is more disheartening to hear than some clueless tech CEO spin on a cable news channel’s financial segment...