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.
The machinations in cloud have reached a fever pitch with public cloud giant Amazon pushing into the enterprise and enterprise IT giants attacking public cloud. Should make for some good conversation… Read more »
IBM announced the three winners of its Watson Mobile Developer Challenge on Tuesday, but the company will likely many, many more developers on on the platform if Watson is going to… Read more »
Wasteful government spending in IT, like government spending in most areas, has resisted significant reform across generations of both people and technology. And so taxpayers should probably not hold their breath… Read more »
Last week, Mary Meeker revealed the newest in her annual Internet Trends reports, this one for 2014. The big news? Mobile and tablets. Mobile — Mobile phones are now in the hands… Read more »
Gigaom has written a lot about artificial intelligence over the years. Here are three timelines tracking the rise of deep learning and other learning systems, IBM Watson and AI discussions at… Read more »
The week in cloud: Microsoft Azure makes big strides in cloud and AWS gets more aggressive in the enterprise with new portal for VMware admins. Read more »
HP CEO Meg Whitman and her counterpart at IBM Ginni Rometty both took over huge companies at the crossroads but under drastically different circumstances. So who has it worse? Read more »
Gartner’s closely watched Magic Quadrant for cloud Infrastructure as a Service shows AWS in its usual top slot, but Microsoft makes a strong showing. Read more »
It’s been many years in the making and it may take a couple more before it’s widely available, but Microsoft’s research into real-time voice translation looks set to pay off. Read more »
Yet another blow for U.S. technology companies selling into China: the government there is reviewing whether Chinese banks should stop using IBM(s ibm) servers due to security fears, Bloomberg reports. Looks… Read more »