The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), founded in 1911, manufactures and markets computer hardware and software, and offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. IBM has 12 research laboratories worldwide and, as of 2013, has held the record for most patents generated by a company for 20 consecutive years.
Two very different companies — Apple and Microsoft — posted financial results this week. Apple is clearly the iPhone company, selling 35.2 million iPhones in the quarter ending 28 June, a… Read more »
As the startup today said it received $120 million in funding, AppDynamics hopes to eventually branch out from only doing monitoring and analytics and plans to develop ways to remediate errors… Read more »
Insurance is notorious for being among the sleepiest and most conservative of industries, but it is also one of the products most frequently sold online. Not only is technology poised… Read more »
Some 60 companies and organizations took part in planning meeting for the city’s payphone Wi-Fi project in May. We won’t know if Google is really serious about running the 10,000-hotspot network… Read more »
The week in cloud: Amazon pushes AWS Marketplace as a destination for IT buyers; Apple and IBM bury past differences to bolster iPhones/iPads in the enterprise. Read more »
On this week’s Structure Show, Dan Lyons has lots to say about how Hollywood writers research and portray Silicon Valley, and what Fake Steve Jobs would think of the new Apple-IBM… Read more »
Microsoft is sharpening its focus on some emerging markets where Windows Phone is gaining steam. But Apple and IBM this week announced a partnership aimed at the mobile enterprise, which is… Read more »
During the second quarter of 2014 we saw the rise of Docker as well as a few providers pushing harder to the cloud, the government finally beginning to make significant movement… Read more »