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IBM sees better profit despite tech sales slump
IBM is a rare example of a company that has kept boosting profit and jacking up its guidance even as the recession has sapped its sales. more
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IBM signs $200M outsourcing contract with telecom
IBM says it has won a $200 million contract to handle some technology chores for a company called Datacom Solutions as it rolls out telecommunications services in India. more
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IBM Researchers Develop Analytics Technology For Telecommunications Industry
ibm has announced two analytics-focused research projects that it says will help telecom service providers improve customer service and new-customer acquisitions. more
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Sybase And IBM Collaborate on Mobile Commerce Opportunities
mCommerce service provider, Sybase says that it has entered into a global agreement with ibm to target the mobile commerce opportunity with both hosted and on-premise solutions in developed and emerging markets. more
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Self-assembled DNA scaffolding builds tiny circuit boards
Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and ibm's Almaden Research Center have developed a new technique to orient and position self-assembled DNA shapes and patterns - or "DNA origami" - on surfaces that are compatible with today's semiconductor manufacturing equipment. These precisely positioned DNA nanostructures, each no more than one one-thousandth the width of a human hair, can serve as scaffolds or miniature circuit boards for the precise assembly of computer-chip components. more
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IBM to Invest $100 Million in Mobile Communication Research
ibm has announced it plans to shift US$100 million investment over the next five years into developing mobile services. The three focus areas for ibm's research investment are: mobile enterprise enablement, emerging market mobility and enterprise end-user mobile experiences. Analytics, security, privacy and user interface, and navigation will be concentrated on across the Research effort. more
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MTS India Partners with IBM for Data Centers
ibm has won a contract from MTS India, , the mobile telephony services brand of Sistema Shyam TeleServices (SSTL) to design and build two data centres - one each in Chennai and Gurgaon - for the company. The data centre solution being deployed by ibm provides the facility to scale power and cooling automatically depending on the load. ibm will also build a Network Operations Centre (NOC) to help the SSTL team monitor and manage applications and network in a 24/7 environment. more
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Obama's tax plans raises high-tech hackles
President Barack Obama's plan to impose U.S. taxes on corporate America's overseas profits threatens to open a big crater in the financial statements of technology companies. more
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RSA: IBM's Truskowski calls for securing the smarter planet
Bad economic times are when good companies have the opportunity to become great companies, IBM's Brian Truskowski told an audience at the RSA Conference. more
Rice-led project aims to boost performance on microprocessors
The USA's Rice University has been given a US$16 million fund to develop a new set of tools that can improve the performance of virtually any application running on any microprocessor. The funding came from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), as part of its Architecture Aware Compiler Environment Program more
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