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Sunday, April 23rd, 2006
IBM co-sponsors non-profit to help reduce IT energy consumption
ServerWatch reports on the launch of The Green Grid, a nonprofit organization co-funded by AMD, HP, Sun Microsystems, and IBM:
The Green Grid (TGG), endorsed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the non-profit Alliance to Save Energy, is designed to help IT departments wrestle with the problem of heat, cooling energy consumption, and costs […]
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Saturday, April 22nd, 2006
IBM’s new Intel-based server line
The Register reports on the spring changes to IBM’s line of Intel chip powered servers, formerly known as the xSeries:
IBM has done some spring cleaning with its x86 servers. It has rolled out a new brand for the servers, officially given Itanium the boot and welcomed Opteron to its core product line.
The xSeries monicker […]
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Friday, April 21st, 2006
Court Denies Microsoft Subpoena for IBM Data
AP reports that a U.S. court in New York quashed a Microsoft subpoena for IBM documents related to the Microsoft’s European antitrust case.
Judge Colleen McMahon said Microsoft’s subpoena amounted to a “blatant end run” on the European Commission’s authority.
The judge said that the Brussels-based regulator strongly opposed Microsoft’s request, and that enforcing such a subpoena […]
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Thursday, April 20th, 2006
IBM weighs in on Oracle’s Linux plans
CNet reports that, in contrast to Oracle’s apparent desire to add a Linux distribution to its portfolio, IBM prefers to have at least two independent Linux distributors serving corporate customers. From the article:
“Our view is that one of the great things about Linux is that you don’t have to own it to have the freedom […]
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Wednesday, April 19th, 2006
Lead designer for next version of Notes joins the blogosphere
Mary Beth Raven, the lead user experience designer for “Hannover”, the next release of Lotus Notes, now has a public blog on developerWorks:
Welcome to my “design blog”! Good user interaction design is really all about re-design– re-design based on user feedback. Thus, my primary purpose in this blog is to post questions to the millions […]
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Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
IBM highlighted in Business Week “most innovative company” rankings
This week’s Business Week profiles the world’s 25 most innovative companies, ranked through a global survey of senior executives. Although IBM has slipped in the rankings (to #10 from #7 last year), the company is prominently featured in the accompanying cover story. From the article:
Few companies have embraced the open innovation model as widely as […]
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Monday, April 17th, 2006
Lenovo sticks with ThinkPad look and feel
Financial Times reports that Lenovo, the Chinese company which purchased IBM’s PC division last year and has recently rebranded the ThinkPad line of notebooks, has indicated that its efforts to update the ThinkPad look and feel had not been well received by customers, and were likely to be abandoned. From the article:
[Lenovo] launched a titanium-clad […]
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Saturday, April 15th, 2006
IBM uses OpenLaszlo technology in new advertising campaign and tools
IBM’s has recently launched a new advertising campaign centered around innovation. The campaign’s use of OpenLaszlo, a Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform developed by Laszlo Systems, highlights IBM’s increased embrace of RIA technologies. Here are some other examples of IBM’s use of OpenLaszlo:
IDEforLaszlo is an Eclipse-based development environment for creating, editing, debugging, and testing […]
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Friday, April 14th, 2006
Sam Palmisano on innovation: Fundamental change is “not natural”
In a recent Business Week interview, Sam Palmisano talks about the results of IBM’s global CEO survey and offers his personal take on why CEO’s feel they have to personally lead their companies’ innovation efforts:
Go back even 10 years ago. Was it natural for IBM to go collaborate around the future of innovation or the […]
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Thursday, April 13th, 2006
New face for IBM Eye!
Greetings everyone! My name is Dmitry Nekrasovski, and I will be taking over IBM Eye from Sim’ Hampel. As Jon mentioned in the previous post, Sim’ has had to cut back on his blogging due to other commitments, so over the past few days I have been talking to him and Jon about coming on […]