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Tiny Toon: IBM Makes a Movie Out of Atoms
BIg Blue's researchers have set a Guinness record with their new cartoon -- every pixel's an atom.
Google and IBM Post Strong Earnings as the Tech Sector Heats Up
Technology titans Google and IBM delivered surprisingly strong earnings results Tuesday, in a positive sign for the tech sector following several quarters of...
Today in TIME Tech History: Piston-less Power (1959), IBM’s Decline (1992), TiVo (1998) and More
Let’s hop in the TIME Wayback Machine to see which notable tech-related stories were published on December 28 between 1923 and today.
Intel, IBM Earnings Spook Wall Street, Stoke Tech Sector Fears
Technology bellwethers Intel and IBM delivered lackluster earnings reports Tuesday, sending shares of each company down more than 3% in after-hours trading. The...
25 Years of IBM’s OS/2: The Birth, Death and Afterlife of a Legendary Operating System
How the next-generation operating system that was supposed to change everything didn't -- and then refused to die.
IBM to Help Research and Develop ‘Exascale’ Supercomputing Telescope
What has millions of antennas, is hypothetically 10,000 times faster than today's radio devices, will produce upwards of 100 times as much data per year as the...
IBM’s Watson Computer Heads to Wall Street for Post-Jeopardy Gig
One year after IBM’s Watson defeated two of the greatest champions in Jeopardy history, the supercomputer is taking a “job” on Wall Street helping banking giant...
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Google got a late Christmas present from IBM last week when it purchased 217 patents from the company in areas such as data caching, video conferencing, instant...
Buffett’s Firm Buys About $10.7B in IBM Shares
OMAHA, Neb. — Investor Warren Buffett says his company bought about $10.7 billion of IBM stock this year, giving it a stake of more than 5 percent stake in the...
IBM Simulates Part of a Human Brain, All of a Cat's
Cat lovers allergic to cats (but not robo-kitties), your day of bliss may be closer: IBM just pulled together all the supercomputing parts and pieces to...
Virginia Rometty
In 2002, Virginia Rometty, then IBM's head of business consulting, championed the risky acquisition of PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting. Rometty led PWC's...
IBM Aims to Build Artificial Human Brain Within 10 Years
WATSON, it seems, was only the beginning. Not content with building a computer that can win Jeopardy without breaking an electronic sweat, IBM has announced...
Google Snatches Over 1,000 IBM Patents
Watch out, IBM, it looks like Google's just snapped up 1,000 patents belonging to you, which certainly sounds dramatic, except for the part where IBM let them...
So Long Petaflops Supercomputer: IBM and NCSA Sink 'Blue Waters'
Remember IBM? You know, the company that built a computer that clobbered a couple of all-time Jeopardy champs earlier this year? I know, IBM's not exactly Apple...
How Big is IBM's Biggest Storage Array in History?
Everyone know what a petabyte is? No, not a petting zoo for ancient computer chips, or copies of the once influential 1980s computer mag. We're talking about one...
Ten Ways to Celebrate the IBM PC's 30th Anniversary
Thirty years ago today, IBM announced its first PC, the 5150. It wasn't the best PC of its era, or even the most interesting—but it was surely the most important...
IBM Salutes Apple by Declaring the PC Era Over
Of all the companies to turn on the PC, you'd think ol' Big Blue would be last. But no, it looks like one of the engineers who helped design IBM's very first...
Why Google and IBM Are Ahead of the Competition
A huge population of red ants has bedeviled Texas farmers for years. By some estimates the insects cost state businesses close to $1 billion a year due to crop...
