DoubleTwist takes on Apple with a remake of 1984 Ad
The 1984 Apple advertising is considered pretty historic for the company.
That ad was used to present the first Macintosh… The company which was designed to take on the domination of IBM.
Now, Apple is a pretty big player in the PC market and is known [...]
Mosaid Technologies files a lawsuit against IBM
Mosaid Technologies has filed a lawsuit against US based tech giant IBM.
Mosaid Technologies is claiming that IBM is infringing on six of their owned patents.
These patents are related to DRAM technologies. This lawsuit has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.
The company said [...]
IBM Watson supercomputer to take on Jeopardy
IBM has announced that their new supercomputer model codenamed Watson would be tested on the Jeopardy game show.
IBM Watson comes loaded with cutting-edge natural language processing technology which the company claims make it a lot smarter than a typical computer.
A company representative added: “Watson is a compelling example [...]
IBM rumored to be interested in acquiring Sun Microsystems!
International Business Machines is said to be in talks with Sun Microsystems over a possible acquisition deal.
Sources say that the deal could be worth at least $6.5 billion in cash.
This was reported in a news item by the Wall Street Journal.
The rumors of such [...]
Facebook now part of OpenID board
Social networking giant Facebook has announced that they are now joining the OpenID board.
OpenID is already supported by several other industry giants including MySpace, Yahoo, Microsoft, Google, and IBM.
Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s director of engineering spoke about this new development: “It is our hope that we can take the [...]
IBM announces new Sequoia supercomputer
IBM has announced that they are working on a newer faster supercomputer.
This would be faster than their current fastest supercomputer.
The new machine is expected to have the processing power of as many as 2 million typical laptops.
The company said that they are going to deliver this machine in 2011 [...]
Mark Papermaster to join Apple in May
Apple has announced that they have settled the issues with IBM over the appointment of former IBM executive Mark Papermaster in the company.
Apple has said that Papermaster would join the company on April 24. He would be working in the iPhone group at Apple.
IBM had filed a [...]
Cisco Systems to offer servers with virtualization software!
The New York Times has reported that Cisco would soon start offering servers with virtualization technology inbuilt.
This would put them in direct competition to companies like Hewlett Packard and IBM.
The reports in the media claim that Cisco would offer servers powered with technologies from VMWare.
Cisco has not [...]
IBM is the king of the patent world!
US based tech giant IBM has made a record by receiving 4,186 U.S. patents last year.
Samsung came second with 3,515 patents in 2008.
Canon, Microsoft, and Intel were the remaining three companies in the top five.
The figures have been revealed by the IFI Patent Intelligence. [...]
Toshiba showcases Cell technology powered television sets
Toshiba has finally announced their latest range of television sets.
These new generation of TV sets are powered by Cell technology which was developed by Toshiba, IBM and Sony.
The Cell technology is already powering the Sony PlayStation 3 gaming console and some computer products.
Toshiba said that these new products [...]
