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• IBM to Regulate Employee Second Life Behavior

  Published: July 27, 2007, 6:02 pm

  Tags: Ibm

  and other virtual worlds. 'IBM appears to be the first corporation to create rules governing virtual worlds. The move has critics, who say that mandating behavior for the so-called "metaverse" is unlikely to reform impish avatars. They also question why IBM would add a layer of buttoned-down bureaucracy to this relatively rollicking corner of

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• IBM to Regulate Employee Second Life Behavior

  Published: July 27, 2007, 6:02 pm

  Tags: Ibm

  and other virtual worlds. 'IBM appears to be the first corporation to create rules governing virtual worlds. The move has critics, who say that mandating behavior for the so-called "metaverse" is unlikely to reform impish avatars. They also question why IBM would add a layer of buttoned-down bureaucracy to this relatively rollicking corner of

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• Busted?: Sony Getting Sued for PS3's Cell Processor

  Published: July 31, 2007, 9:15 am

  Tags: Busted, Cell, Console, Gadgets, Home Entertainment, Ibm, Parallel Processing Corporation, Ps3, Sony, Toshiba

  venture of Sony, Toshiba and IBM, Sony is taking the fall in a lawsuit by Parallel Processing Corporation. PPC filed a patent back in 1991 for "synchronised parallel processing with shared memory,"which they claim Sony has broken with the use of the Cell processor in PS3s. But the PPC is not only asking for money, but the "impounding and

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• Nanotech Regulation Nears

  Published: July 26, 2007, 9:35 am

  Tags: Future Trends, Fda, Fei, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Oversight, Regulations, Ibm, Mmm, Feic

  General Electric (GE) and IBM (IBM) begin to pour their investment dollars into projects. My feeling is that any initial regulations placed on nanotech will be relatively lightweight. Until, that is, some dangerous type of nanotech particles get dumped into our rivers and have an unexpected effect on an unsuspecting population. For more on

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• Analyst initiations 8-02-07: AAPL, AMD, IBM, INTC and SUNW

  Published: August 2, 2007, 6:16 am

  Tags: Aapl, Advanced Micro, Advancedmicro, Amd, Analyst, Apple, Cdc Corp, Cdccorp, China, Dell, Hewlette Packard, Hewlettepackard, Hpq, Ibm, Initiation, Intc, Intel, Iphone, Ipod, National Semi, Nationalsemi, Nsm, Nuva, Nuvasive, Pcz, Petro Canada, Rating, Sun, Sunw, Texas, Txn

  $35 target, and shares of IBM Corp (NYSE: IBM) with a Neutral rating and $125 target. BMO Capital started shares of NuVasive (NASDAQ: NUVA) with an Outperform rating and $33 target. Raymond James initiated shares of Petro-Canada (NYSE: PCZ) with an Outperform rating. Analyst summaries provided by TheFlyOnTheWall.com

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• Award of $200M Supercomputer to IBM Proving Controversial

  Published: August 6, 2007, 1:48 am

  Tags: Ibm

  supercomputer in 2011 to IBM. The machine is designed to perform scientific calculations at sustained speed of 1 petaflop. The award is already proving controversial however, with questions being raised about the correctness of the bidding procedure. Similar concerns have also been raised about the award of a smaller machine to Oak Ridge

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• World's Fastest: IBM to Build $200 Million Petaflop Supercomputer

  Published: August 6, 2007, 1:45 pm

  Tags: Ibm, Pcs, Supercomputers, World S Fastest

  leaked government documents, IBM is working on building a monstrous, $200 million petaflop supercomputer. Commissioned by the National Science Foundation, it would be the fastest computer in the world, the first to break the petaflop barrier. For you folks keeping track at home, a petaflop is a thousand trillion mathematical operations per

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• IBM launches RFID-based ePedigree drug tracking system

  Published: August 9, 2007, 11:28 pm

  Tags: California, Epedigree, Health, Ibm, Launch, Medical, Medicine, Rfid, Sensor

  under: WirelessIBM's own anti-counterfeiting technology that was unveiled last year for use in the drug industry is finally launching. The electronic pedigree system (ePedigree for short) aims to "help drug companies create electronic certificates of authenticity for medications -- down to the individual bottle -- as they move from

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• SCO Is Done: Court Rules Novell Owns UNIX And UnixWare Copyrights

  Published: August 11, 2007, 2:55 am

  Tags: Technology, Court, Groklaw, Ibm, Lawsuit, Misc, Novell, Sco, Technology, Unix

  SCO’s claims against IBM and Sequent”. That’s the ball game. There are a couple of loose ends, but the big picture is, SCO lost. Oh, and it owes Novell a lot of money from the Microsoft and Sun licenses. ---Related Articles at The Wrong Advices:Cutting edge technology... from the 70'siPhone Hacked For Australia But With

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• Cisco Systems (CSCO) looks like a buy

  Published: August 13, 2007, 8:47 am

  Tags: Alu, Cisco Systems, Ciscosystems, Csco, Flag, Fundamental Analysis, Fundamentalanalysis, Ibm, Intc, Jnpr, Momentum, Msft, Technical Analysis, Technicalanalysis

  companies, including IBM (NYSE: IBM), Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). Competitors include Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU), Juniper Networks (NASDAQ: JNPR) and Nortel Networks (NYSE: NT). The firm pleased the Street last week, when it announced fiscal Q4 EPS of 36 cents and revenues of $9.43 billion. Analysts had been

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• IBM & Sun Agreement Puts Pressure on HP

  Published: August 16, 2007, 7:16 pm

  Tags: Ibm

  eldavojohn writes "IBM has turned to long time rival Sun in an effort to bring Solaris to its mainframes. Sun may be taking this chance to drop out of the server market while at the same time capture Solaris subscriptions via IBM sales. Either way, this certainly pressures HP in the server department."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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• IBM's next gen flash storage to feature spinning electrons

  Published: August 21, 2007, 12:52 am

  Tags: Flash, Ibm, Intel, Spin Torque Transfer, Spintorquetransfer, Stt Ram, Tdk

  don't usually think of IBM in the context of flash memory innovation, but all those processors Big Blue cranks out require some kind of cache , and the company's new joint venture with TDK is designed to create the next-gen of flash, using a technology called "spin torque transfer" that will allow scaling beyond 65nm. STT-RAM, as it's

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• links for 2007-08-23

  Published: August 23, 2007, 12:23 am

  Tags: Ibm

  Is Declining "A new IBM (IBM) survey of consumer digital media and entertainment habits shows that personal Internet time now rivals TV time." (tags: Media TV Stats culture) 20% of homes now have a DVR - Lost Remote TV Blog (tags: DVR Tivo TV Stats) Twitter Facts: Virtual travel agent on Twitter

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• Could TV be taking a back seat to the Web?

  Published: August 26, 2007, 7:01 am

  Tags: Dvr, Ibm, Survey, Televison, Web, Youtube

  the survey was conducted by IBM there may be a bit of favoritism towards the Superinternethighway. Not that I'm pointing fingers or anything, but the survey was conducted by IBM. Did I say that the survey was conducted by computer company IBM? Just wanted to make sure. What the survey found was that more people are spending time on the

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• $1.4 million IBM server falls off forklift, finger pointing ensues

  Published: August 29, 2007, 8:36 am

  Tags: Accident, Expensive, Forklift, Ibm, Incident, Mishap, Mistake, Server, T R Systems, T R Systems, Weird

  excess of $1.4 million from IBM for Big Blue's shoddy packaging. Not surprisingly, IBM has stated that it will "defend itself vigorously" in the case, but there's no word on whether the traditional shipping cartons will be replaced with armored iterations in the future. Read Permalink Email this CommentsOffice Depot Featured Gadget:

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