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Magnetic tape prototype makes data leap
Techguide IBM and Fuji Photo devise system that holds 15 times more data than most popular types of magnetic tape.
Laser-chip sale burns path for JDS merger
News In a widely anticipated move, fiber-optic technology maker JDS Uniphase on Tuesday said Nortel Networks has agreed to buy its laser-chip subsidiary, clearing the path for its merger with rival SDL.
Nasdaq-listed S1 Corp to establish data center here
News Nasdaq-listed S1 Corporation, an Internet financial solutions provider, will be setting up a data and hosting center in Singapore in June to take advantage of the Internet explosion in Asia.
IBM atomic probe gets newly sensitive touch
News Vendor's atomic force microscope can distinguish charged gold atoms from neutral ones. Big Blue hopes that will help with nanocomputing and solar energy research.
Tags: Nanotechnology, IBM Corp., Nanotechnology, Electronics, Atom, solar cell, researcher, Holy Grail, Zurich
IBM supercomputer to aid osteoporosis treatment
News Using a Blue Gene Supercomputer, IBM and ETH Zurich labs say they have come up a new way to diagnose the widespread bone disease.
Tags: Supercomputing, IBM Corp., performance, supercomputer, ETH Zurich, researcher, patient, blog, desktop, physician
IBM, ETH Zurich to build joint nanotech research lab
News The Swiss university and chipmaker's joint US$90 million investment marks a major move forward for industry and academic collaboration.
Tags: Nanotechnology, IBM Corp., Nanotechnology, Small And Medium Enterprise, Geothermal Energy, Environment, intellectual property, Switzerland, ETH Zurich, researcher
IBM makes the world its lab
News Convincing countries and companies around the world of need to innovate during the economic downturn, has resulted in new cutting-edge partnerships for Big Blue.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, IBM Corp., University, Chip, Samuel J. Palmisano, intellectual property, Switzerland, China Telecom, China, strategy
IBM's 35 atoms and the rise of nanotech
News Don Eigler moved a single atom two decades ago. Since then, he and IBM have taken new steps in pursuing a dream of compact, power-efficient computing.
Tags: Processors, IBM Corp., Nanotechnology, Electronics, Carbon Nanotube, Manufacturing, Atom, vision, knowledge, circuitry
Sun CTO to form cloud security forum
News Wayne Horkan, Sun Microsystems' U.K. chief technology officer, plans to form a public and private sector organization to address cloud security issues.
Tags: Cloud computing, Network security, Security, Web Service, Sun Microsystems Inc., Cloud computing, Amazon Web Services, Amazon.com Inc., compliance, data protection
IBM offers banking security on a USB stick
News IBM Research has developed a USB device that protects online bank transactions by creating a protected channel directly to the bank's server.
Tags: Banking, Security, IBM Corp., Device, USB, Server, banking security, software, financial, bank
IBM to cool layered chips with water
News Scientists from the IBM Zurich Research Lab and the Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin are working on a microchip that uses micropipes of water to cool itself.
Tags: Processors, Innovation, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Chip, 3D, server rack, bond, supercomputer, researcher
IBM makes molecular switch
News The company has made two separate nanotech breakthroughs that could lead to switches made up of single molecules, and storage on single atoms.
Tags: Nanotechnology
Microsoft sails through document standard vote
News Office Open XML, the default file format in Office 2007, was certified Thursday as a standard at Ecma International.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Open source
IBM lands IT services deals in Europe
News IBM on Friday announced two information technology services contracts, which, combined, are worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Is this the world's largest inkjet?
News Going against the trend of gadget miniaturization, two Swiss researchers have developed what could be the world's largest portable inkjet printer.
