Category: IBM

Software is only as good as the hardware you run it on and, this hardware is the absolute worst. PC World takes a crack at listing the 10 worst PCs of all time. Overpriced, underpowered and totally useless as soon as they came out of the box. It speaks volumes to the quality of modern PC hardware that the most recent pile of junk on the list is from 2003.Other notables include relics like the ...

John Backus made software back when no one called it software. As the project leader of the IBM team which created the venerable Fortran language, Backus helped define the "hacker ethic". Leading a small team to do great things quickly, and leverage their own mistakes in order to learn, Backus shattered the paradigm of 1950s corporate IBM and, developed a language that is only now beginning to ...

IBM has been out of the Consumer Electronic Show for ten years, and is now about to resurface again with an insurgence of new technologies to get their buzz going again. The last show they were at was in 1997, and now they have to prove again that they are heavy hitters in the industry. For the upcoming show, IBM is said to be planning to demonstrate how its technology, components, and top level ...

Big Blue has been eyeing a wireless software company called Vallent Corp., and is working to close a deal for early 2007. Vallent, a software company from Washington that develops network monitoring tools for wireless service providers, has developed software that is capable of monitoring traffic, identifying network bottlenecks, and protect against any service interruptions. Vallent's current ...

Pocket PC users are kind of screwed when it comes to mobility software. Although our devices are far more capable than modern phones, almost all online mobility software caters to the phone using contingent. Consider Gmail Mobile - although it's a nice pared-down interface for mobile phone users, on a Pocket PC it's horrendous to use, particularly if you don't happen to have a Windows Mobile ...

Ah, the flop. The tech industry has had more than its share, and it's never pretty. Miguel Carrasco has collected 10 of the biggest flops in computing history, a list which includes four OSes and six machines. A lot of the computers on the list are considered ahead of their time and still have big followings, like the Apple Newton and Steve Jobs' NeXT cube. I have a big soft spot for #3 on the ...

The Linux Standards Base (LSB) has just launched their attempt at building an MSDN type developer site for Linux and open-source developers. The site is starting out with a bunch of content from O'Reilly and Pearson Technology Group to get started, but hopes developers will swoop in and take over in the forums and adding new content to the site. Several major companies on the Linux front lines ...

Sony was hit hard with the battery recall mess that has been going on over the past few months. Now its time for the laptop makers to fight back, on a brand note. PC manufacturers believe that their brand images were tarnished due to the mass recall of Sony PC batteries. Apple, Dell, Hitachi, IBM, Lenovo, and Toshiba have all recalled batteries in fear those consumers machines may overheat and ...

IBM will have a tool out by the end of the year that will assist business analysts and non-programmers with writing a bit of simple AJAX code to make their websites pop a bit or be a little more interactive. The tool will be available in November as a trial version. They want the tool lower the barrier of entry for using AJAX in your web app, especially if you are not currently a programmer. The ...

IBM's application dubbed Sametime is a collaboration tool, which IBM hopes to use to push the limits of real-time collaboration technology, is out now in version 7.5. Microsoft is IBM largest collaboration competitor right now, whose real-time collaboration project is set to be out next year (SharePoint Server). IBM thinks that because they collaborate with open-source partners, they will innovate ...

AMD has put together one of the most rich and engaging Internet presentations I have ever seen. Built in Flash, this "virtual experience" as they call it is quite impressive. AMD's virtual trade show is a great idea and makes you want to explore. Microsoft, Oracle, Novell, IBM, and others are among the booths at this "event" where you can watch keynotes, presentations, and even a virtual parody ...

How's that? IBM uses that evil, illegal software (peering) everyone is getting sued over? Peering technology isn't exactly the same thing as p2p software, but it's the same idea. Apparently in this case it is being used for a legitimate business purpose? I wonder if IBM asked the RIAA's permission, probably not. The RIAA is shoving this doctrine that p2p is inherently evil in all ways, shapes, and ...

On this August 12, 2006 the IBM PC turns 25. I guess this makes the IBM PC an antique. Has it really been that long? It is pretty amazing how far the PC has come since IBM starting making them. Twelve engineers developed the first IBM PC called the IBM 5150, which had a mere 16K of memory onboard. Try running iTunes on that. The revolutionary breakthrough of the early PC was because IBM's PC was ...

For awhile now people have been coming up with novel uses for the Sudden Motion Sensor, the accelerometer that hides inside Apple laptops, but this is the first one I've seen for a non-Apple laptop: knockAge is a Linux program for IBM and ThinkPads that lets you control your system by physically knocking on the side of it. It lets you record unique sequences of knocks and then configure specific ...

Web 2.0 has its very own special look and feel to its design, and especially its logo designs. A smooth glassy look, with brighter colors are often the easiest ways at identifying these W2 companies. The design forum Yayhorray, has a smooth thread on right now, with members tag teaming logo redesigns of famous brands, conforming to the standard Web 2.0 style. They have done everything from Adobe ...