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I.B.M. is getting a little more distance from the Galleon insider-trading case that broke earlier this month.

Soon, you'll need more than two hands to count the number of Android phones on the market.

Moffat, once widely seen as a possible successor to IBM Chief Executive Sam Palmisano, was placed on a leave of absence on October 19 following his arrest in the largest-ever insider trading scheme involving a hedge fund.

Ridgefield resident Bob Moffat, the International Business Machines Corp. executive arrested in the Galleon insider-trading case, used to start meetings with trivia about "This Day in History." He'd ask if anyone knew what day it was, and then rattle off a few notable events.

Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. late Tuesday said it is "thoroughly reviewing" published reports fingering former chairman and CEO Hector Ruiz as the AMD executive who gave confidential company information to a defendant in the Galleon Group insider trading case.

A little over a week ago, Apple released the Mac mini server edition and a faster regular Mac mini, few were completely surprised.

EMC is the world's No. 1 maker of external disk storage -- storage that is sold separately from servers.

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With software being created by IBM researchers, developers will be able to adapt a web page for voice browsers - and for mobile browsers that fall short of a PC-like web experience - with easy-to-follow lines.

Most companies tend to reduce their spending during the economic slowdown. But US technology giant International Business Machines seems to regard the downturn as a critical time to invest.

S everal companies, recognizing the potential interest in electronic books, are attempting to get out ahead of the long-awaited Apple iTablet.

Bob Moffat , the International Business Machines Corp. executive arrested in the Galleon insider trading case, used to start meetings with trivia about a oeThis Day in History.a Hea d ask if anyone knew what day it was, and then rattle off a few notable events.

It's beginning to look a lot like the worst of the global recession is over for the technology sector.

This month marks the 30th anniversary of Seagate Technology, the worldwide leader in hard-disk drives and storage solutions.

The self-described technophile first became intrigued by Big Blue when an IBM recruiter visited his high school in Florida.

IBM and Canonical software have jointly developed a desktop solution that is billed as a viable alternative to Windows 7 for client computers.

The 4,000 laptops Memphis City Schools planned to buy for just under $5 million will now cost $4.2 million, thanks in part to a board member who from her seat on the dais typed in the IBM series number on the Internet last week and found better a price.

According to my notebook from 1979, 30 years ago today Dan Fylstra, head of Personal Software, our Bay Area publisher, told me that he had the first production VisiCalc packages in hand.

Last week, Raj Rajaratnam, the chief executive officer at Galleon Capital Management, one of the top ten hedge funds worldwide, was arrested on charges of an illegal insider trading scheme.

The use of Linux in systems requiring high levels of security has been a frequent topic of controversy.

IBM and Canonical, the commercial entity behind Ubuntu Linux, on Tuesday are launching a combined cloud and Linux desktop package designed for Netbooks and low-end PCs.

Two and a half years ago, I became a staunch Apple convert. For most of my life -- once the family Commodore 64 wore out its welcome -- I was a PC guy.

EMC Corp. said Thursday its profit fell 24 percent and sales dropped 5 percent in the latest quarter as corporations spent less on data storage.

EMC Corp. said Thursday its profit fell 24 percent and sales dropped 5 percent in the latest quarter as corporations spent less on data storage.

Recall how IBM and Canonical launched the Ubuntu IBM Client for Smart Work Linux desktop in Africa ? Wish you could get one in the States? Wish no longer, as the two companies are introducing an Ubuntu -based Linux-based desktop package for arrival in 2010.

Apple and Linux advocate IBM both tried hard to cramp Microsoft's style this week before the Windows 7 rollout even got under way.

Mobile & Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies project to gauge the effectiveness of mobile phone-based games for teaching English lessons to students in rural India.

October 21, 2009 - Rebit Inc., the company dedicated to relieving the burden of backup for PC users, today announced that Paul Guerin has been named chief executive officer of the company, effective immediately.

The package allows companies to use their existing PCs, lower-cost netbooks and thin clients.

No doubt about it, Macs and personal computers are great for entertainment. But of course, these gadgets can do so much more.

Two days before Microsoft launches its latest operating system, Windows 7, IBM is trying to poach a few customers by launching a cheaper, Linux-based alternative.

Unix code claimant SCO Group has jettisoned its controversial captain, Darl McBride, as part of the company's latest scheme to emerge from bankruptcy.

Robert Moffat, 53, of Ridgefield, senior vice president and group executive at International Business Machines Corp.'s Systems and Technology Group, was among six hedge fund managers and corporate executives arrested Friday.

IBM Corp. put a top executive on leave Monday after he was charged in an insider trading scandal for allegedly leaking secrets about IBM's earnings and financial dealings with corporate partners.

The IBM data centre responsible for Air New Zealand's computer failure is not best equipped to host mission-critical applications and may need to be replaced or retrofitted with extra generators to bring it up to best practice, sources say.

Google Inc says more than 2 million businesses now use its online office software, and the Web search leader is going global on Monday with an advertising campaign to lure customers away from Microsoft Corp and IBM products.

Microsoft and its C.E.O., Steven A. Ballmer, talk about "three screens and a cloud" - computers, phones and TVs, linked to common services.

U.S. stock market futures traded lower Friday as somewhat disappointing results from International Business Machines, Bank of America and General Electric offset Google's strong quarter.

Should we trash our Dell, HP, Lenovo and every other Windows computer made today, in favour of Apple's newest Intel chip computers? After all, now that the new Macs also runWindows XP, why bother with boxy-looking computers when you can have the best of both worlds in one slick designer computer like the iMac? Back to Technology The Journal walked ...

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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. Robert Moffat, a longtime IBM veteran executive whom has been labeled as its next chief executive officer, is among the six people arrested as part of an alleged insider trading case that includes billionaire Raj Rajaratnam.

Filed under: Insiders , Law , Google , Intel , International Business Machines , Sun Microsystems Raj Rajaratnam's life has just changed profoundly .

IBM disclosed the plans at a time when server sales among all vendors have taken a bruising during the economic downturn, and IBM is no exception.

Despite its valiant attempts at creating a carnival atmosphere, when Microsoft launches a new operating system, it seldom feels like a world changing event in the world of design.

One of the wealthiest men in America was among six financially influential people arrested by federal authorities Friday in a hedge fund insider trading case that prosecutors say reaped $20 million in illegal profits.

Under a $2 million initiative, IBM is donating 1,000 Young Explorer computer centers to preschool and early childhood programs in areas with populations of 40 percent or more Hispanic as part of the IBM KidSmart Early Learning program.

Google Inc and IBM rounded out a strong week of technology results, outstripping already high expectations and providing further evidence that a recovery is brewing.

Following the war, IBM dedicated the new science to making the best use of its own industrial supply chain.

The original laser printer was developed in 1969 at the Xerox Research centre by Gary Starkweather, and then in 1971 adapted Xerox copier technology adding a laser beam to come up with the Laser printer.

Larry Ellison ratcheted up his rhetoric against IBM Corp. on Wednesday, challenging Oracle Corp.'s longtime partner and rival to "make our day" in a battle over business software performance.

Michael Dell has given netbooks a big thumbs down, but he thinks Windows 7 can restore our faith in PCs.

GEEK IN TOWN, COMPUTER PRO INC. Address of business: Raul Caceres said he has 25 years of experience working with the full range of information technology systems: from IBM's giant mainframe computers to older personal computers owned by users with limited knowledge of technology.

It's been 20 years since a small team of IBMers released a product that eventually became the cornerstone of Lexmark International.

Dell Inc. Founder Michael Dell spent two years courting Perot Systems and talking to other services providers.

IBM's Hudson Valley sites are closely integrated into IBM Corp.'s global world network and remain vital parts of it, a top technology executive told a group of librarians today.

Air New Zealand is threatening to ditch IBM as its main information-technology provider after a massive failure caused its computer system to collapse, delaying up to 10,000 travelers, an internal e-mail leaked to the media said yesterday.

Oracle's $10M Database Server Challenge On the eve of Oracle OpenWorld, the Sun bosses try to convince the audience that they and the EC have nothing to worry about.

It is a rare criticism of elite American university students that they do not think big enough.

IN government, as in business, crisis can fuel creativity. These days, the pressure to rethink things is particularly intense for state and local governments, which have far less leeway than Washington to borrow in bad times.

Earlier this week, Apple flounced out of the US Chamber of Commerce after the chamber came out against a Congressional climate change bill, and Greenpeace is quite pleased.

The solution uses a Palm webOS app on the phone called CL USB Sync that works with CompanionLink for webOS USB software on the PC.

The Justice Department is looking into allegations that IBM Corp. has abused its dominant position in the market for mainframe computers, the data-crunching heavy lifters of the computing world that IBM introduced in the 1960s and which are now used to process some of the most sensitive data in banking, government and health care.

We take it on faith today that Intel produces most of the world's popular processors.

The Federal Aviation Administration tried unsuccessfully to deploy the new computer system at a regional air traffic control center in Salt Lake City, Utah, the first of 20 regional facilities where the computers need to go into operation before the end of 2010, when FAA's contract with IBM to maintain the present computer system expires.

IBM's mainframe business has over the years been somewhat of a steamroller, rarely slowing dow n to take a look at the little things in its way it may have crushed.

Hummer business for about $150 million on Friday, a source familiar with the deal said, China's biggest brand grab since Lenovo bought IBM's PC unit in 2005.

After eight years of light antitrust scrutiny under a Republican White House, the technology and telecommunications industries are bracing for stepped up oversight by the Obama administration's Justice Department.

The Department of Justice has begun an antitrust investigation of whether IBM abused its monopoly in mainframe computers by unfairly denying access to competitors, according to an industry trade group that lodged a complaint with the government.

Cisco Systems has found a way to accelerate its push into the server market. The company is simply turning many of the millions of routers it has already sold into servers.

A massive Dell Inc. computer assembly plant once seen as a job generator worthy of the promise of more than $300 million in state and local inducements will go dark in four months, a victim of new corporate calculations and changing customer tastes.

The U.S. Justice Department is investigating allegations that International Business Machines abused its dominance of the mainframe business to squeeze rivals, Computer and Communications Industry Association Chairman Ed Black said on Wednesday.

A new computer system key to modernization of the nation's air traffic control system has run into problems, raising doubts about whether it can be operational 15 months from now when current computers must be replaced, union officials said Wednesday.

IEEE and IBM today announced a publishing agreement to disseminate some of the leading technical articles and papers in computer hardware, software and information systems to a wider audience of researchers and interested readers around the world.

International Business Machines Corporation has acquired SPSS, Inc. Both the companies are based in the US.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced plans for a new supercomputer that will use the Fermi chips, accelerating Nvidia's initiative to use graphics processors as multicore general-purpose CPUs.

Brocade, which sells routers and switches as well as software to help companies manage data networks, has shopped itself around to potential buyers for a few weeks, the sources told Reuters on Monday.

The new IBM LotusLive iNotes cloud service allows overburdened IT departments to take advantage of IBM's leadership in enterprise collaboration for a range of on- or off-premise messaging capabilities, including mail that works with Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange or operates as a standalone solution to reduce overall IT costs and complexity.

Whether recessions are good or not depends on whom you are talking to. I got that feeling in the past few days as news poured in of various high-priced corporate buyouts in the information technology industry.

Topic: Review Ticker Need a PC? Lenovo still holds up the IBM heritage in their notebook and PC line.

IBM aims its US$3 a month LotusLive iNotes will at on-premise e-mail and SaaS market dominated by Google and Microsoft... IBM has launched LotusLive iNotes , an on-demand e-mail, calendaring and contact management system meant to compete with the likes of Gmail and Microsoft Exchange, the company said Friday.

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IBM Corp. is trying to stymie Google Inc.'s expansion into the business software market.

Xerox Corp. said Monday it will buy Affiliated Computer Services Inc. for about $6.4 billion in cash and stock, joining the expensive race among technology companies to broaden their offerings.