According to Gartner research, Microsoft is leading the charge in the OS arena with a near 80% market share with a second place IBM coming in with a mere 7.5%. In terms of growth, MS saw a raise of 8 percent year-over-year while Apple and Oracle jumped 15.8% and 7,683% respectively. Oracle’s rapid growth can more »

IBM has recently made a breakthrough by making graphene-based processors achieve a speed of 100 GHz. By comparison, silicon-based processors max out at 40 GHz. What’s more, an IBM researcher, Yu–Ming Lin, said that it is possible to fabricate graphene transistors with existing processes used in the semiconductor industries. This should speed up commercialization of more »

Toshiba is finally putting a Cell processor in a television and will show it off on October 5, 2009. Announced back in CES 2009, Japan gets this super-TV first. What purpose could having a Cell processor have in a television? Toshiba says they will use the processor to upscale standard definition video to higher quality. more »

According to the Wall Street Journal, IBM will be sending out another slew of pink slips, this time targeting their global business services department. The IBM employees’ union sent out a warning to workers that the layoffs are expected to be handed down as early as tomorrow. This latest round of layoffs comes only a more »

When news falls through the cracks… wait, that’s “The Daily Show’s” bit. There’s lots of stories in the tech world and sometimes they get buried by Google, Microsoft, and Apple’s every move. Here’s a round up of stories that you may have missed. Pioneer wants to be in your car, Cisco wants to make splash with the business world, and OS X for everyone is coming.

It was only a few years ago when Sun Microsystems was on top of everything. Just before the dot-com bubble burst, it was seeing huge sales and stock prices above $250. It’s sad to see just how bad the company is doing now, but it seems to be trying to get out of it. It more »

IBM showed off some impressive numbers yesterday despite slower Q4 revenue. The company posted $4.4 billion profit in Q4 of 2008 vs $4.0 billion for the same quarter in 2007; that is a 12% increase to you and me. The company is proving it’s move to higher margin product focus such as SaaS is paying more »

Have you ever wondered what your colleagues would look like in high def while attending a video conference? You can now find out with the use of HD video conferencing from Radivision. The high definition video conferencing will be available through IBM Lotus Sametime using the SCOPIA conferencing platform.

Supercomputers are great, in fact even the name is great: conjuring images of CPUs in red capes flying to the help of damsels in distress. However, in the real world they are hundreds of cabinets stuffed full of computer stuff and do in fact loo incredibly dull. The opposite can be said of what they actually do as they push the boundaries of what is capable using solely 0s and 1s to solve complex calculations, help define new theorem, and play Crysis on full graphics.

Yet, as with everything in this world, it has become a competition to have the fastest computer and this has been going on since computers began; in fact, even Romans competed over abacus skills. In June, the Roadrunner which was built by IBM, became the fastest computer ever achieving a sustained speed of 1.026 petaflops.

However there could be a new leader on the Top 500 list which is compiled by computer experts and is to be updated this week in a supercomputing conference in Austin. This is Cray’s Jaguar XT, which claims to have reached 1.64 petaflops, a massive increase on its probable predecessor and is set to gain this prestigious honor. It runs Linux and has a massive 362TB of memory which is spread out over its 284 cabinets, each of which holding 192 quad-core AMD Opteron chips.

The US has been having tough times lately on Wall Street. Meanwhile, it’s rumored that the “tech giants” may not be following suit (that’s a good thing). Google, Microsoft, and IBM are expected to report their second quarter (Q2) 2008 earnings later today. How do you think they’ll do?

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