IBM bans Siri: Privacy risk, or corporate paranoia at its best?
IBM has banned Siri over concerns Apple and its partners could actively read uploaded queries. Corporate paranoia at its finest, or is IBM right to ban the intelligent assistant?
IBM has banned Siri over concerns Apple and its partners could actively read uploaded queries. Corporate paranoia at its finest, or is IBM right to ban the intelligent assistant?
The battle in the converged infrastructure world is beginning to take shape, writes Richard Fichera.
Having one of your biggest customers roast you in the media as "slow to react to a catastrophic systems failure" and "unwilling to apologise" for it is not a good look for IBM New Zealand.
How fast will IBM's promised new 20PF grid be? if you counted in tenths of pennies it could count Obama's trillion dollar deficit twenty times per second - but the real zinger in the announcement is that they have to have worked out some kind of solution to the storage bottleneck.
A couple of weeks ago Cringley used his PBS pulpit to announce that IBM planned to lay off 150,000 people in the United States. Since IBM Global Services doesn't employ that many people, the report was quickly discredited; whereupon Cringley tried to argue that, regardless of the number, something evil is going on.
Andrew Brockfield shies away from the term 'grudge match', but he concedes there's national pride involved as the race to build the world's fastest supercomputers continues to push the bar upwards at dizzying speed.
IBM is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its S/360, the first commercially successful mainframe. But another design deserves most of the laurels.
SCO's actions reveal the conflictsinherent in trying to meld a development model based on shared code with a business model based on maximizing revenue
IBM is shedding light on a program to create the world's fastest supercomputer, illuminating a dual-pronged strategy, an unusual new processor design and a leaning toward the Linux operating system.
The federal government contracts with IBM to upgrade its IBM RS/6000 SP supercomputer and double the computer's processor count from 3,328 to 6,656.