Adobe Systems has won a Technical and Engineering Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for its Flash Video technology, in recognition of the software's pivotal role in bringing television content to the Internet. The award for Streaming Media Architectur...

Apple's new iPod shuffle, the world's smallest digital music player, will be available in Apple's retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers this Friday, November 3. Nearly half the size of the original, the new iPod shuffle is just half a cubic inch in volume, weighs just half an ou...

Microsoft has launched the Microsoft Math Partnership, a public-private initiative to enable educators and encourage Washington state businesses and state government to focus new attention and resources on improving middle- school math education. Brad Smith, Microsoft's senior vice pre...

Apple has announced the launch of iTunes Latino, a dedicated area within the US iTunes Store (www.itunes.com) featuring top Latin music, music videos, television shows, audiobooks and podcasts. iTunes Latino offers hundreds of thousands of Latin and international music tracks, includin...

Nortel Government Solutions, a U.S. company wholly owned by Nortel has been selected by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to operate and maintain the NRC's digital courtroom systems in Rockville, Maryland and Las Vegas, Nevada.

IBM has announced that it has entered into a Business Transformation Outsourcing (BTO) contract with Hanaro T&I to transform and manage its call center operations, streamlining Hanaro T&I's business operations and improving customer service. The service will be delivered out of IBM's f...

IBM has introduced a service product that helps businesses utilize virtualization technologies to simplify computing in the workplace. The new Virtual Infrastructure Access service product enables centralized computing at the server level and provides workers security-rich access to ap...

IBM board of directors declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $.30 per common share, payable December 9, 2006 to stockholders of record November 10, 2006. With the payment of the December 9 dividend, IBM will have paid 364 consecutive quarterly dividends, starting in 1916.

Microsoft has announced participation in the following upcoming events with the financial community. Interested parties can view a webcast of these events on Microsoft's Investor Relations website at http://www.microsoft.com/msft.

IBM and Marywood University have announced that the University is enhancing its ability to offer students an education that unites technical skills with business knowledge. Working in concert with the IBM Academic Initiative for System i, Marywood is developing an advanced new curricul...

Sun Microsystems has announced that Kim Jones, Vice President of Global Government, Education and Healthcare, Sun Microsystems, has been selected to be inducted into the Women in Technology International (WITI) Hall of Fame, an honor considered to be among the most prestigious for wome...

IBM has announced new technologies and consulting services that are designed to allow employees to automatically create customized, Web-based learning courses for their personal use, in real-time.

AEM Distribuzione Torino, an Italian electricity company owned by AEM Torino and quoted in the S&PMIB index, has signed a EUR 37 million three-year agreement with IBM, for more than 600,000 Enel metering counters in a comprehensive, integrated automated meter management (AMM) solution....

IBM and Lehman Brothers have announced that they are teaming up to create the China Investment Fund with an initial capitalization of $180 million to drive the financial and business transformation of Chinese enterprises through innovative business practices and technology.

QlikTech announced QlikView for Communities, a new deployment model that brings the power of QlikView analysis to the masses. QlikView for Communities allows organizations to extend simple yet powerful analysis to large communities of users outside their organization such as suppliers,...

Intel has announced its support for the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) newly announced ENERGY STAR computer specifications. Intel plans to deliver microprocessors and other system components that will help enable PC and laptop suppliers to deliver ENERGY STAR qualified systems...

IBM this week announced the opening of a subsidiary office in Ukraine and gave details of some key local customer engagements. According to IDC, the Ukrainian IT market worth around 2 billion dollars and is growing at an average of 17.4% per year. IBM's presence in the country dates ba...

At IBM's first-ever Information on Demand conference, the company demonstrated a host of emerging technologies from its research and development (R&D) laboratories, including one that brings business and IT people closer together by helping them 'speak' the same language.

Sun Microsystems, the creator of the Solaris operating system, in conjunction with the United Nations, announced its support of the UN's Global Youth Leadership Summit in New York City, which will bring together youth leaders from around the world to address challenges outlined by the ...

HP has extended its previously announced tender offer for all of the common stock of Mercury Interactive Corporation until midnight, New York City time, on November 1, 2006. The tender offer, which was previously set to expire at midnight, New York City time, on October 27, 2006, was e...

IBM has announced Johnny's Selected Seeds is using IBM content discovery software to dynamically manage online customer search, navigation and website content, resulting in thousands of additional online orders while exceeding the previous fiscal year's online sales in only six months.

Sun Microsystems announced that Reuters, the world's largest international news and financial information source has selected Sun's virtual desktop solution to improve business agility and flexibility, enhance security and reduce management and administration costs for its new center i...

HP has announced that it is offering PayPal as a payment option at the HP Home & Home Office Store, making it easier than ever to purchase HP's latest consumer technology products. PayPal allows customers to pay for items using their credit cards, bank accounts and stored balances, wit...

IBM and ANTs software, have announced that they have been selected by Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems to provide software for the detail design and integration phase of the U.S. Navy's DDG 1000 Zumwalt Class Destroyer Program.

IBM and Dassault Systemes have announced that Doosan Infracore, a Korean machining company, has successfully rolled out its PLM enterprise solution, leveraging the strengths of CATIA and ENOVIA VPLM. The company estimates that cost savings will amount to 2.3 Billion South Korean Won pe...

ABM Industries, a building services company, has signed a 7-year, over US$100 million strategic outsourcing agreement with IBM. IBM will provide a broad range of services, including managing ABM's IT infrastructure and the development of innovative new services to better serve ABM's em...

Researchers at IBM's India Research Laboratory has announced that they have developed a Web-based, interactive language technology to help people who speak English as a second language improve their speaking skills.

IBM, the global information technology services leader, has announced that it has been chosen to receive the prestigious VARBusiness Tech Innovator of the Year Award. IBM received the award based on its Express Managed Services Portfolio for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).

Adobe Systems has introduced the public beta of Adobe Soundbooth software, a new innovative and intuitive audio software product for creating and editing audio and fixing common audio flaws using visually-oriented tools. Unveiled to customers for the first time this week at the MAX 200...

At the BroadGroup Power and Cooling Summit, IBM researchers presented an innovative approach for improving the cooling of computer chips, an increasingly urgent need given the large amount of heat released by today's more powerful processors and the additional energy required for remov...

A technology deal between IBM and Pioneer Europe, has just made it safer and easier for a driver in just about any car to control a GPS-enabled navigation system hands free, using their voice to find ATM machines, banks, gas stations, stores, restaurants and directions to just about an...

IBM has unveiled the newest Express Advantage offerings, which include hardware, software, services and financing offerings specifically developed for mid-sized businesses. The Express Advantage initiative combines these offerings with IBM Business Partner resources available via Partn...

Springer Carrier, dealing in air conditioning, heating and cooling equipment for commercial, residential and transportation applications, has announced it has reduced the number of duplicate IT systems by 40 percent and the number of suppliers by 50 percent, as a result of a major proc...

FileNet, an IBM Company and a provider of Enterprise Content and Business Process Management solutions, and Imagine Solutions, a FileNet software and services provider, have announced that Wells Fargo Services has successfully deployed the initial phase of FileNet's Records Manager and...

IBM's Fraud and Abuse Management System, which provides detection capabilities to help health care payers identify questionable claims and develop cases for investigation, is being enhanced to provide even more efficient and cost-effective ways to tackle health care insurance claim fra...

IBM has announced the worldwide availability of the Coginord Mapping Suite software system. Mapping Suite provides a complete, personalized business communication solution that encompasses document design, print management, and multi-channel document delivery. With the use of Mapping S...

The Ministry of Finance (MOF) and IBM reaffirmed each other's commitment to the Treasury & Budget Management Information System (TABMIS) project at an executive briefing to government users on 17 October 2006. Teams from both organizations reported on the progress of the 'Treasury and ...

IBM has announced that it has filed two patent infringement lawsuits against Amazon.com for unspecified damages. The lawsuits come after nearly four years of attempts by IBM to resolve its concerns with Amazon.com over infringement of IBM's patents.

IBM, in conjunction with Harvard University's Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS), have announced the implementation of CrimsonGridBGL, the largest IBM System Blue Gene Solution in United States academia. The system would currently rank among the top 50 fastest supercom...

At the ninth annual business and technology conference, Citrix iForum Global 2006, Citrix Systems and IBM, have unveiled plans for a new offering code-named 'Project Kent,' an end-to-end turnkey solution that provides dispersed workers the ability to connect to applications, data and p...