IBM says a study it did of some 1,700 Chief Executive Officers worldwide found that many are embracing what Big Blue calls openness -characterized by a greater use of social media as a key enabler of collaboration and innovation.In the news: The SpaceX blast into history
Interesting question posed by the analysts at Ovum this week: Will the rush to utilize big data require bring about new IT jobs force organizations to retrain existing IT staff?More: DARPA does Big Data in a big way
IBM today said it has released an Apple iPad app that celebrates mathematics by recreating what was a 50-foot infographic displayed at the 1964 World's Fair in New York City.
IBM said it found surprising improvements in Internet security such as a reduction in application security vulnerabilities, exploit code and spam but it also noted that those improvements come with a price: Attackers have been forced to rethink their tactics.
Looking to avoid what would have been a costly and likely lengthy court battle IBM and the state of Texas's Department of Information Services have apparently agreed to disagree over a failed $863 million data center consolidation pact.
IBM says it has developed a silicon carbide tip for nanomanufacturing applications that it claims is a thousand times more wear-resistant than current tool bits and 100,000 times smaller than a pencil tip.IBM scientists say the the new tip can be used to fabricate all manner of bio sensors, for example...
Hard to imagine but it has been 58 years since IBM and Georgetown University teamed up to run what they said was at the time the first English-to-Russian language computer translation program.Perhaps even more interesting is that the individual phrases they that were plugged into punch cards and run...
IBM today issued its sixth annual look at what Big Blue thinks will be the five biggest technologies for the next five years. In past prediction packages the company has had some success in predicting the future with telemedicine and nanotechnology. This year IBM thinks very soon people...
It's clear by the increasing use of analytics software that companies are struggling to get their hands around the huge amounts of data it takes to run a successful business. But developing social, mobile, cloud computing and other applications are also driving the need for new technical...
IBM said today that is rolling out a solar-power array system designed to run high-voltage data centers.IBM has installed the first iteration of the system on the 6,000 square-feet of rooftop of its India Software Lab in Bangalore. The solar array is capable of providing a 50-kilowatt supply of electricity...
IBM is taking its Watson supercomputer on the road and its first stop will be Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan School of Management where some of the country's brightest upcoming business minds will take their shots at the smart Big Blue computer.
Hewlett-Packard could be close to spinning off its PC unit and spending $10 billion to buy software-maker Autonomy, according to a Bloomberg News report today.
IBM wants to see itself through the fisheye lens as it turns 100. The company today said a few well-known Hollywood directors have shot a series of three movies that highlight the company, its inventions and impact on society over the past 100 years.
As IBM's Watson computer digs in for its competition on Jeopardy!, this week, we are reminded that this is the first in a long series of classic man v. machine moments. Here we have a look at some of the famous real and not so real man v. machine action.
High gas prices alone will not fuel an electric car revolution, rather if the auto industry could address a variety of other concerns having to do with recharging, convenience and cost it would
As I wrap up the year and look at the top posts it's obvious that space and IT security news have been the hottest stories. NASA's new Sun-watching satellite was the top story but there was plenty of other NASA news in this transitional year for the agency. On the IT security front, there were...
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