In IBM Corp.'s vision of the not-too-distant future, server farms will protect themselves from malicious hackers, heal themselves when something breaks, upgrade themselves as needed, and in all other ways conduct their affairs without any need for human intervention or oversight.
Oracle and Akamai Technologies planned to announce their first technology collaboration on Monday, a jointly developed markup language dubbed Edge Side Includes (ESI) that is intended to speed delivery of dynamic Web pages.
More than two-thirds of tech industry professionals over the age of 45 say age discrimination is a "significant problem" in the industry, according to a survey by IT industry jobs Web site techies.com Inc.
IBM Corp. and Sony Electronics Inc. said Monday that they have completed the initial phase of a five-to-seven-year, US$20 million project that will put AOL Time Warner Inc. news division CNN's video archive online. First announced in April 1999, the project is the first implementation of a media-asset management system Sony and IBM jointly designed and are marketing to the media industry.
Software and business systems provider Sybase Inc. announced financial results Thursday for the first quarter of the current fiscal year -- a period highlighted by falling licensing revenues as companies, willing to test the company's products, were hesitant to sign orders.
Amidst a dreary earnings season, IBM stood out by meeting analyst estimates in posting earnings per share of 98US cents, the consensus figure of analysts polled by First Call/ Thomson Financial.
One day before IBM Corp.'s highly anticipated first-quarter 2001 earnings report, a group of IBM employees held a press conference to call attention to a controversial resolution regarding pension benefits scheduled for a vote at next week's shareholder meeting.
Amidst a dreary earnings season, IBM Corp. stood out by meeting analyst estimates in posting earnings per share of US$0.98, the consensus figure of analysts polled by First Call/ Thomson Financial.
IBM Corp. announced Friday a new line of chips intended to support Internet appliances -- Internet-connected, low-power consumer devices that are more portable and flexible than traditional PCs. The move continues the push IBM and other developers are making into the beyond-the-PC space known as "pervasive computing."