AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

The Wall Street Journal
With EDS Buy, Computer Giant Bulks Up Services
Soon after Mark Hurd became Hewlett-Packard Co.’s chief executive in 2005, he concluded the computer-maker must beef up its technology services if it wanted to catch up to rival International Business Machines Corp.
Mr. Hurd this week took a big step toward that goal, announcing a [...]

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Reuters
After an initial phase of using the private Second Life areas internally, IBM will let its own customers access the privately hosted regions.
“We’re doing this internally, and we’re building the right kind of enterprise-grade solution,” Parris said.
Second Life is increasingly used by corporations and other organizations instead of conference calls and meetings, but adoption has [...]

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Venture Beat
It’s weird for me to go to a Web 2.0 conference to write about hardware. But you have to follow the news. IBM is announcing today that it has created an Internet server that is ideal for Web 2.0 companies.
Big Blue says the iDataPlex has been designed based on the feedback of hundreds of [...]

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BusinessWeek
The Web retailer is offering its vast computing power to corporations—and big names are starting to sign up
Jeff Bezos made a fortune building Amazon.com (AMZN) into one of the top players in online retailing. Now he’s looking for new ways to cash in on the company’s capabilities. One of the most intriguing, he thinks, is [...]

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Variety
Duo plan pan-European digital platform
ProSiebenSat1 and IBM are joining forces to set up the first pan-European digital platform as part of a E200 million ($315 million) agreement that allows the IT giant to take over part of the broadcaster’s production unit, ProSiebenSat1 Produktion.
IBM and the U.K.’s Red Bee Media had sought to take over PSP, [...]

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Venture Beat
Plenty of people are skeptical that enterprises will embrace virtual worlds as a venue for doing serious business. IBM, on the other hand, is a total believer that 3-D worlds such as Second Life augur the future of online commerce.
IBM is announcing a partnership with Second Life producer Linden Lab today to create an [...]

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All Things Digital
Make the right impression. Your avatar’s appearance should be reasonable and fitting for the activities in which you engage (especially if conducting IBM business). If you are engaged in a virtual world primarily for IBM business purposes, we strongly encourage you to identify your avatar as affiliated with IBM. If you are engaged [...]

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IBM Sales, Profit Give Tech a Healthier Look - The Wall Street Journal
Surprising Strength Fuels Market Rally; SAP Also Is Upbeat
International Business Machines Corp. surprised investors by preannouncing stronger-than-expected sales and earnings in the fourth quarter, leading to speculation that the U.S. economic slowdown may not be hurting technology companies as much as expected.
The battered [...]

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IBM’s Next Project: the Illudium Q-36 Electro-Optic Space Modulator - All Things Digital
It’s still 10 to 12 years away from market, but when it arrives IBM’s new silicon photonics technology could transform even the lowliest Dell laptop into a portable Blue Gene.
The so-called Mach-Zehnder electro-optic modulator transmits data between between multiple cores on a chip [...]

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