IBM - Salon.com http://dir.salon.com/topics/ibm/?source=rss&aim=ibm en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:04:00 PDT Globalization gives Wall Street a boost Andrew Leonard Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/04/18/overseas_earnings_report/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/04/18/overseas_earnings_report/index.html?source=rss What do Google, IBM, Caterpillar and Intel all have in common? Besides making boatloads of money last quarter? Subtracting the "IBM" from the ThinkPad Andrew Leonard Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/11/02/no_more_ibm_thinkpads/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/11/02/no_more_ibm_thinkpads/index.html?source=rss Lenovo wants its brand to stand alone. But one Boeing jet is still worth a million pairs of Chinese sneakers. So who is beating whom? The condition of the working class in Second Life Andrew Leonard Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/09/18/virtual_labor_economics/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/09/18/virtual_labor_economics/index.html?source=rss Paging Marx and Engels: Please pick up the virtual white courtesy telephone IBM squeezes computers to atomic scale By Farhad Manjoo Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/machinist/blog/2007/08/31/ibm/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/machinist/blog/2007/08/31/ibm/index.html?source=rss Ready to carry 30,000 movies on a device the size of an iPod? A woman gets the top computer science prize for the first time Lynn Harris Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2007/02/21/frances_allen/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2007/02/21/frances_allen/index.html?source=rss Frances E. Allen receives highest honor in male-dominated field. IBM and the India-China axis Andrew Leonard Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/11/15/ibm/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/11/15/ibm/index.html?source=rss Cheap workers aren't the only reason for global information technology empire building SCO, open source and the world By Sam Williams Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/12/22/the_year_in_linux/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/12/22/the_year_in_linux/index.html?source=rss While a small Utah company launches a frontal assault on free software, the rest of the globe is saying: Gimme some of that! Fear, uncertainty and Linux By Farhad Manjoo Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/08/18/sco_ibm/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/08/18/sco_ibm/index.html?source=rss SCO claims IBM and Linux have ripped off its old program code. Linux advocates say that's bunk. Nothing will become clear until SCO shows its hand in court. Lawyers against Linux By Farhad Manjoo Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/06/03/sco_linux/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/06/03/sco_linux/index.html?source=rss A software company launches a billion-dollar suit against the open-source operating system's biggest backer, IBM -- and only succeeds in underscoring Linux's strength. A unified theory of software evolution By Sam Williams Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/04/08/lehman/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/04/08/lehman/index.html?source=rss Meir Lehman has been studying the life cycles of computer programs since he was a researcher at IBM 30 years ago. One of these days he's going to get it all figured out. Poison Valley, Part 2 By Jim Fisher Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/07/31/almaden2/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/07/31/almaden2/index.html?source=rss What new cocktails of toxic chemicals are brewing in the high-tech industry's "clean rooms" -- and will we ever know what harm they're causing? Poison Valley By Jim Fisher Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/07/30/almaden1/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/07/30/almaden1/index.html?source=rss Is workers' health the price we pay for high-tech progress? First of two parts. How Big Blue fell for Linux By Andrew Leonard Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/fsp/2000/09/12/chapter_7_part_one/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/fsp/2000/09/12/chapter_7_part_one/index.html?source=rss When open-source developers and IBM took gambles on each other, free software showed it can flourish in the heartland of corporate computing. IBM and Microsoft? Think again Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/letters/daily/2000/06/09/microsoft_leonard/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/letters/daily/2000/06/09/microsoft_leonard/index.html?source=rss "IBM wasn't interested in buying the Microsoft of that era." Microsoft owes everything to Justice By Andrew Leonard Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/08/delamarter/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/08/delamarter/index.html?source=rss Would Bill Gates have come to power if the Justice Department's antitrust division hadn't attacked IBM? Microsoft, Mahir and money, money, money By Janelle Brown, Mark Gimein, Andrew Leonard and Kaitlin Quistgaard Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/12/15/best/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/12/15/best/index.html?source=rss A software superpower is declared a monopoly, free software rakes in billions and money makes the world go round: The year in tech. The free PC is dead! Long live the free PC! By Mark Gimein Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/log/1999/12/03/free_pc/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/log/1999/12/03/free_pc/index.html?source=rss By driving the price of low-end computers to near zero, the free-PC movement is driving itself to near extinction. Microsoft besieged by civil suits By Janelle Brown Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/log/1999/11/29/microsoft_cases/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/log/1999/11/29/microsoft_cases/index.html?source=rss Will the five class-action suits -- and more undoubtedly to come -- cause the software giant any pain? Stoking the Net's growth By Julie Polito Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/view/1999/10/18/ellen_hancock/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/view/1999/10/18/ellen_hancock/index.html?source=rss Industry veteran Ellen Hancock talks about Windows NT, glass ceilings -- and how her company, Exodus, keeps its vast server farms humming. Is the Thinkpad now Linux-friendly? By Andrew Leonard Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/log/1999/09/14/linux_thinkpad/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/log/1999/09/14/linux_thinkpad/index.html?source=rss IBM says its laptops will be "compatible" with Red Hat Linux -- but just what does that mean? Linux laptop lust By Andrew Leonard Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/09/07/linux_laptops/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/09/07/linux_laptops/index.html?source=rss Laptop hardware is an unconquered frontier for Linux -- a place where the cutting edge sometimes slices free software to shreds. Microsoft disputes IBM testimony ASSOCIATED PRESS Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/log/1999/06/10/ibm/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/log/1999/06/10/ibm/index.html?source=rss Microsoft challenges an executive's claim that Redmond pressured IBM to distribute its browser and not Netscape's. Newsreal: Muddling through By Steve Michel Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1997/11/12/news/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1997/11/12/news/index.html?source=rss Steve Jobs' latest spin on the "new" Apple might keep the troops in line, but can the company ever really advance again?