Microsoft in a statement Monday clung to a firm stance on the proposed CISPA bill. The firm told The Hill that, despite having said it wanted to “honor the privacy” of users, it wanted the bill to continue forward. It would “look forward” to working with the Senate on the bill. The support may be […]
Facebook has bought 750 patents from IBM in order to be better protected against patent infringement lawsuits, BusinessWeek was told by a purported source close to the affair. The deal isn’t yet public, but the patents were said to cover software and networking technologies, among others. Its purchase was almost certainly triggered by Yahoo’s recent […]
Intel ended one of the longest waits for one of its processors today by launching and detailing the Xeon E5-2600. Its mid-range server and workstation chip is a superset of the much newer Sandy Bridge-E architecture and can carry a full eight cores (up from six) and handle a much larger 768GB memory ceiling. The […]
IBM has announced an agreement to acquire Worklight, a privately-held Israel-based app development studio, along with bringing Endpoint Manager for Mobile Devices out of beta. The new app will leverage its existing BigFix infrastructure to integrate security and management of mobile devices using the same controls that are already in use for desktops and notebooks. […]
HTC and IBM together said in an interview Friday that they were working together to get Android into the workplace. IBM’s business apps were running on HTC’s phones and tablets, HTC’s Global Enterprise and Services director David Jaeger told eWeek. On its side, HTC was making sure both that the devices took full advantage of […]
International Business Machines, better known by its IBM acronym, has turned 100 years old on Thursday. Back on June 16, 1911, the company was called Computing Tabulating Recording Co. and was a result of the merger of three companies that built scales, punch clocks for work and other machines. The original Endicott, New York-based plant […]
Watson wasn’t the only computer system that won this week when it competed successfully against two human champions on the Jeopardy! game show. The other computing system is called World Community Grid, a virtual supercomputer that helps scientists solve humanitarian challenges by tapping the unused computing power of personal computers around the world. Scientists who […]
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