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Disk storage vendors hit by sales drop
First-quarter sales slump 18 percent to .6 billion, with the pain spread among the likes of IBM, HP, and Dell. Total disk capacity at businesses, however, is up.
IBM & Sun Top Greenpeace IT Ratings, Toshiba Scrapes Bottom
The environmental group’s “Cool IT Challenge” scorecard puts IBM and Sun at the top of the heap for green commitments from the computer industry, but with just 29 points out of 100, it’s hardly a bragging right. And with only 2 points, Toshiba has no place to go but up.
IBM Suing To Keep M&A Chief Away From Dell
IBM says that if its former head of mergers and acquisitions, David Johnson, were to depart for Dell it would be a violation of his contract, and last week sued Johnson in federal court.
IBM suing to keep M&A chief away from Dell
IBM says David Johnson, an IBM employee for 27 years, is violating a non-compete clause in his contract by accepting a position at Dell.
How IBM Plans To Win Jeopardy!
wjousts writes “Technology Review is reporting on IBM’s plans to take on Trebek at his own game. The ‘Watson’ computer system uses natural-language processing techniques to break down questions into their structural components and then search its database for relevant answers. A televised matchup with Trebek is planned for next year. ‘David Ferrucci, the IBM computer scientist leading the effort, explains that the system breaks a question into pieces, searches its own databases for “related knowledge,” and then finally makes connections to assemble a result. Watson is not designed to search the Web, and IBM’s end goal is a system that it can sell to its corporate customers who need to make large quantities of information more accessible.’”
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How IBM Plans To Win Jeopardy!
wjousts writes “Technology Review is reporting on IBM’s plans to take on Trebek at his own game. The ‘Watson’ computer system uses natural-language processing techniques to break down questions into their structural components and then search its database for relevant answers. A televised matchup with Trebek is planned for next year. ‘David Ferrucci, the IBM computer scientist leading the effort, explains that the system breaks a question into pieces, searches its own databases for “related knowledge,” and then finally makes connections to assemble a result. Watson is not designed to search the Web, and IBM’s end goal is a system that it can sell to its corporate customers who need to make large quantities of information more accessible.’”
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How IBM Plans To Win Jeopardy!
wjousts writes “Technology Review is reporting on IBM’s plans to take on Trebek at his own game. The ‘Watson’ computer system uses natural-language processing techniques to break down questions into their structural components and then search its database for relevant answers. A televised matchup with Trebek is planned for next year. ‘David Ferrucci, the IBM computer scientist leading the effort, explains that the system breaks a question into pieces, searches its own databases for “related knowledge,” and then finally makes connections to assemble a result. Watson is not designed to search the Web, and IBM’s end goal is a system that it can sell to its corporate customers who need to make large quantities of information more accessible.’”
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Intel, IBM discuss 8-core ‘Nehalem’ server chip
In a Tuesday teleconference, Intel says it will ship a chip that contains up to eight processing cores, and IBM shows a server using eight such chips, yielding 64 cores.
IBM Wants Patent For Regex SSN Validation
theodp writes “What do you get when you combine IBM contributors with the Dojo Foundation? A patent for Real-Time Validation of Text Input Fields Using Regular Expression Evaluation During Text Entry, assuming the newly-disclosed Big Blue patent application passes muster with the USPTO. IBM explains that the invention of four IBMers addresses a ‘persistent problem that plagues Web form fields’ — e.g., ‘a social security number can be entered with or without dashes.’ A non-legalese description of IBM’s patent-pending invention can be found in The Official Dojo Documentation. While IBM has formed a Strategic Partnership With the Dojo Foundation which may protect one from a patent infringement lawsuit over validating phone numbers, concerns have been voiced over an exception clause in IBM’s open source pledge.”
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How big vendors are getting it wrong in the recession
M|cr0s0ft, IBM, SAP and Oracle (MISO) need to start listening to the market and not just pay lip service to hip technology trends.