Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people )'s--IBM is also telling users that it won't sift through customers' data to learn about them.
Big Blue is hooking up with DeCode (nasdaq: DCGN - news - people ) in a pioneering three-year deal to jointly sell an integrated computer system that combines DeCode's unique gene-mining software, which sleuths out genetic risk factors for diseases, with IBM's (nyse: IBM - news - people ) servers and database software.
Interestingly, two of the most vocal of critics of missile defense -- MIT's Professor Theodore Postol and IBM's Richard Garwin -- have been recently sighted recommending that AEGIS ships be adapted for sea-based missile defenses precisely to address this mission.
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Besides, whether she would accept a membership is completely irrelevant to the question of the appropriateness of the club's all-male policy and IBM's tacit support of it, and it doesn't get the club out of its bind anyway.
Outside the exhibit stands the company's achievement wall -- showing off IBM's humble beginnings as a punch card clock company and ending with Watson.
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The whole personal computer era can be seen as one giant triumph of dis-integration, as IBM's circuit-boards-to-boxes-to-software mainframe business gave way to the layered computer industry we see today: Intel making the electronics, Dell the boxes and Microsoft the software.
Huawei sells Cisco-type routers at a fraction of Cisco's price and gets a boost from IBM's marketing know-how.
Still, that's what everyone, including IBM's dog-whipped shareholders, imagined Gerstner had really meant by his no-vision statement.
IBM's (nyse: IBM - news - people) labs announced two major advances in computer technology today.
IBM's (nyse: IBM - news - people ) chip engineers at a plant in East Fishkill, N.
They essentially scaled down IBM 's (nyse: IBM - news - people ) software to work on the lower-end servers now ubiquitous in the corporate world.
"If you just talk about server consolidation and you don't talk about remaking a business, you're not seeing the whole picture, " says Irving Wladawsky-Berger, general manager of IBM's on-demand business.
Intel and IBM already have plenty of relevant manufacturing and materials know-how, with IBM's PowerPC processors competing with Intel's ubiquitous x86 processors to power high-end servers.
The deposition and testimony provided by Garry Norris - IBM's chief negotiator with Microsoft before and after the introduction of Windows 95 - has provided a cornucopia of fascinating evidence in the Microsoft trial.
You'd think that, by now, some form of artificial intelligence -- the iPhone's Siri or "Jeopardy's" Watson or perhaps some combination of IBM's Deep Blue and MIT's Kismet -- would have been able to meet the challenge.
The new systems design combines IBM's new zEnterprise mainframe server with new technology--the IBM zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension and the IBM zEnterprise Unified Resource Manager--that enable it to manage workloads running across System z, and select POWER7 and System x servers.
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Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) and IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) already have plenty of relevant manufacturing and materials know-how, with IBM's PowerPC processors competing with Intel's ubiquitous x86 processors to power high-end servers.
"China is very, very serious about becoming e-commerce-oriented in a few years, " says Cindy Cheung, general manager for IBM's Greater China e-business solutions group.
IBM's vice-president of systems research, there are several areas in which Blue Gene technology could be applied.
Sterling will reside in the software group under WebSphere, IBM's on-demand business software.
Imagistics, say analysts, already sells its faxes to 70% of the nation's largest 500 companies--including IBM, Verizon and Citigroup.
The group spent several days at IBM's executive-education centre in New York state.
We may look at a robot as being incredibly adultlike and smart: Machines such as IBM's chess-playing Deep Blue and "Jeopardy!"
IBM's chess-playing supercomputer Deep Blue and its predecessor took six years of fine-tuning before finally beating chess master Garry Kasparov in 1997.
Anchor tenants already secured by Li's group include Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Pacific Convergence Corp. (a joint venture between PCG and Intel) and Softbank.
The Institute is also an extension of IBM's long-term alliance with the energy and utilities industry as it moves forward through its most challenging transformation.
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If the two companies ever reach a deal, it would be IBM's largest-ever acquisition, and represent a departure from its recent strategy of focusing on deals to strengthen its software and services businesses, rather than hardware.
It's a stretch to gamble half the year's ad budget on a product that generates no revenue, while both IBM and Hewlett-Packard, Sun's biggest competitors, will each spend more than five times that amount to support products that do make money.
Last year consultant Sara Radicati published a negative report about IBM's Notes e-mail product.
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