In a move that will help expand the enterprise mobile capabilities it offers to clients, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Worklight, a privately held Israeli-based provider of mobile software for smartphones and tablets. Financial terms were not disclosed. With this acquisition, IBM's mobile offerings will span mobile application development, integration, security and management. Worklight will become an important piece of IBM's mobility strategy, offering Continue Reading

  Punctuating 30 years of nanotechnology research, scientists from IBM Research have successfully demonstrated the ability to store information in as few as 12 magnetic atoms. This is significantly less than today’s disk drives, which use about one million atoms to store a single bit of information. The ability to manipulate matter by its most basic components – atom by atom – could lead to the vital understanding necessary to build smaller, faster and more energy-efficient devices. Continue Reading

  I remember way back in 2007 when I worked for IBM Pakistan as an intern for the WebSphere team, integrating Urdu language, I was astounded by the company's structure, its policies and vision and nonetheless it has given me something that is intangible; a sense of growing and moving ahead in the technology field. Today end’s the era of IBM’s greatest CEO, Sam Palmisano who has turned IBM from a profit losing company to a middleware and enterprise software and solutions giant. Although Continue Reading

   IBM on Monday, Nov. 16 announced it has created the world's largest business computing "cloud" capable of holding  an amount of digital data on a par with 250 billion iTunes songs. @ SAN FRANCISCO   The US technology titan's Internet-based in-house system is called Blue Insight and is designed to enable IBM's 200,000  employees to swiftly find answers or patterns in mountains of information.   "This new model of cloud computing will provide our employees Continue Reading

The ambitious project to provide every citizen with a unique ID card would receive an initial funding of Rs 100 crore. The project would address security concerns and top IT firms like Infosys, Wipro, and TCS would get orders worth crores. It would be a giant leap in e-governance.   It appears that both Yahoo and Microsoft are ducking it out to help power the technology for India’s Unique Identification project.   Earlier this year, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates expressed a strong interest Continue Reading

    Big Blue as we know it , is at it again, it may not be a company that creates excitement amongst the tech industry in terms of it’s products but when it comes to competition especially in the enterprise market, IBM can eat a whole pie of users with the other fishes like like Microsoft and Google eating nibbles. IBM LotusLive iNotes, an on-demand email, calendaring and contact management system meant to for the enterprise users, it now faces competition from likes of Google Apps Continue Reading

  Traff-O-Data was the first company that Bill an Paul Allen found in 1975 to sell software for  measuring traffic data. But soon after the first MIPS ALTAIR 8800 came along the vision of these two, especially of Bill Gates changed like anything, leading to the formation of a global enterprise and himself being the richest man for about 13 years. So here is my tribute to one of my ideal’s, who you have to agree has changed our lives phenomenally. The Early Years Born on Oct. 28, Continue Reading

Hi AllWell the Official first week of IBM has ended today...Phew!!!Well to start of with I am working in IBM Pakistan as a Software internee, and developing portal applications usings IBM's trusted and the world's number one portal server...IBM Webspherewww.ibm.com/websphereI am basically working to develop multilingual applications, such as URDU which can work on portals and hence display national/relative language pages to the end user.Well there is pretty more to come...so do check in again...Take Continue Reading