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IBM lands server deal in Hong Kong
News The computer maker says it is helping the East Asian government begin delivering services to its citizens via the Internet.
IBM gives up e-wallet
News IBM has discontinued its electronic wallet product, which the computing giant had heavily touted during the early days of online shopping.
IBM's Jazz project invites outsiders to jam
News Big Blue to let customers peer into process of collaborative development project based on Jazz platform.
Tags: Software engineering/development, Business applications, Open source
IBM to buy Chinese e-mail company
News Big Blue has announced its intention to acquire Outblaze, a hosted e-mail and messaging business based in Hong Kong.
Tags: E-mail servers, Services, Acquisitions, IBM Corp., Hong Kong, messaging service, Tool, Messaging, messaging company, developing country
IBM uses liquid metal to boost solar-cell efficiency
News The company's tech increases the power of the sun's rays by a factor of 10, using liquid metal to transfer the resulting heat from solar cells.
Tags: Green IT, Innovation, IBM Corp., Nanotechnology, Photovoltaics, Cell, Semiconductor, solar cell, researcher, power generation
India's Tata, NEC S'pore come together
News India's software and IT services provider Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) will explore the possibility of reselling and providing technical support for Japanese computing giant NEC's biometric security systems in Asean.
HP to buy Peregrine for US$425 million
News Computing giant plans to meld the software maker's product line with its own OpenView suite of business-monitoring tools.
Tags: Storage management, Acquisitions
HP picks up multi-million 7-Eleven contract
News Hewlett-Packard said last Friday that it has won a US$55 million, five-year contract from retailer 7-Eleven to upgrade the technology at the convenience store chain in the US.
Tags: IT budgeting
IBM to up India headcount to 10,000?
News IBM plans to increase its staffing in India from 4,500 to 10,000 by 2005, according to financial firm Merrill Lynch.
IBM wooing smaller businesses to Linux
News At its DeveloperWorks Live conference, the computing giant unveils a Linux software bundle as part of its effort to court small and midsized businesses.
HP, Getronics take services to Europe
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Electronic Arts to buy DreamWorks, Microsoft venture
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IBM enhances support for open-source training
News Company announces extension of its academic programs aimed at generating skilled workers in open-source and IBM technologies.
Tags: Open source, Recruiting
Microsoft veteran launches tool start-up
News Charles Simonyi, who helped to develop the software giant's Word and Excel applications, opens Intentional Software to design software development tools.
Clients to advise Microsoft on software linking
News Council of IT execs will advise the company on how to make its products work better with other software.
