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IBM: Job cuts mean savings of US$1 billion in 2006
News IBM expects its restructuring to result in up to US$500 million in savings this year and double that figure in 2006.
Tags: Layoffs
HP to shutter Calif. plant
News Aiming to consolidate some server manufacturing in Houston, Hewlett-Packard plans to close a California plant that makes servers and storage products, CNET News.com has learned.
HP works to reverse its PC slide
News The computing giant, facing an eroding slice of the PC market, says it intends to reverse the downward trend in the coming fiscal year.
HP opens R&D lab in China
News Beijing site--one of five such HP labs worldwide--will handle projects jointly with the Ministry of Education.
Tags: Open source, International governments
Deloitte Consulting stays put
News The group will not separate from its parent firm, making the combined company stand out from other large audit firms that have clipped their consulting wings.
Open-source leader: SCO suits a boon to Linux
News The OSDL's Stuart Cohen says the litigation is "one of the best things that ever happened to the operating system".
Tags: Open source
Fiorina moves on to speaking engagements
News Former HP chief has signed up to become a pay-for-hire speaker on topics such as leadership, competitiveness and workplace diversity.
Storage giant EMC shuffles top executives
News In an effort to stay at the top of the high-end storage game, EMC has promoted president Joe Tucci to chief executive while making former CEO Mike Ruetggers chairman of the board.
CSC wins outsourcing contract for U.S. Army
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IBM to inject US$100 million into biotech boom
News IBM said yesterday that it will invest US$100 million to develop products to help scientists research mass quantities of data related to the behavior of genes and proteins.
IBM to pump US$5 billion into chipmaking operations
News Computing giant IBM on Tuesday announced a US$5 billion investment plan to build a new chipmaking facility and to expand existing plants to support its growing semiconductor business.
IBM takes high road with new servers
News Big Blue plans to unveil xSeries machines based on its Summit chipset technology and on top-of-the-line Intel microprocessors.
New IBM servers up stakes in Sun battle
News IBM plans to unveil a new family of servers based on its Summit chipset technology and on high-end Intel microprocessors.
IBM takes high road with new servers
News Big Blue plans to unveil xSeries machines based on its Summit chipset technology and on top-of-the-line Intel microprocessors.
Start-up follows Sun's abandoned path
News Irish company Antefacto says it can ensure Web sites less than five minutes of down time a year with a product that fills the void Sun Microsystems left when it dropped StaqWare software.
