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IBM Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 10:14PMInternational Business Machines Corp. rose the most in the Dow Jones average, advancing 5.7 percent. The world’s biggest computer-services company reported revenue and earnings that beat analysts’ estimates and boosted its full-year profit forecast as companies bought more software and equipment.
Equities up as Coca-Cola, IBM profits beat forecast Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 9:36PMDow Jones:12,587.42 (+202.26) Nasdaq:2,826.52 (+61.41) S&P 500:1,326.73 (+21.29)
US stocks surge; DJIA posts biggest point gain since Dec 2010 Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 6:12PMThe Dow Jones Industrial Average notched its biggest point gain of the year yesterday as investors cheered IBM's strong earnings and President Barack Obama's praise for the $3.7 trillion deficit reduction plan.
US close: Bumper day for the Dow Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 6:08PMLONDON (SHARECAST) - The Dow Jones industrial average racked up its best day of 2011, rising 1.63% on the back of strong performances from tech stocks. Coincidentally, the broader based S&P 500 also rose 1.63%, while the tech-heavy NASDAQ Composite raced ahead by 2.225%.
IBM Sells $2 Billion of Notes After Sales Surpass Estimates Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 5:29PMInternational Business Machines Corp. sold $2 billion of five-year notes at a lower interest rate than it got in December after reporting second-quarter sales that beat analysts’ estimates.
U.S. Stocks Climb After Obama Backs Deficit Plan; Apple Rallies Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 5:12PMU.S. stocks rose, sending the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to its biggest rally since March, as President Barack Obama endorsed a bipartisan deficit-reduction plan. Equity futures rose after U.S. markets closed as Apple Inc.’s profit topped estimates on record iPhone and iPad sales.
Euro stocks rebound from seven-month low Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 5:12PMEuropean stocks gained, rebounding from a seven-month low, as companies from Novartis AG to International Business Machines Corp. reported earnings that beat estimates.
Market gives Obama thumbs up! Stocks see biggest one-day gain in months Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 5:05PMStocks posted their biggest one-day gain since March yesterday as investors focused on upbeat earnings news and hopes rose for a deal in Washington that would keep the United States from default.
US stocks rise as Obama endorses debt plan Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 4:27PMU.S. stocks rose, sending the Standard & Poor's 500 Index to its biggest rally since March, as President Barack Obama endorsed a bipartisan deficit-reduction plan and International Business Machines Corp. spurred the largest technology advance in a year.
Napkins: Where Ethernet, Compaq and Facebook's cool data center got their starts Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 3:13PMNapkins don't really stack up well against hard drives or even floppy disks for preserving data over time. But some of the technology and business world's most enduring ideas are said to have at least gotten their starts as sketches on dinner or cocktail napkins (which in fact were inspiration for the 5 ¼ floppy disk's size). Read more
TrainSignal Releases VMware Security Design Training Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 3:03PMVMware vSphere Security Design Training teaches students the critical skill of securing a vSphere environment. (PRWeb July 19, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/vcap-training/07/prweb8654487.htm
IBM, Juniper Lead Nasdaq Tech Rally Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 2:49PMNEW YORK, (TheStreet) -- The Nasdaq Composite surged 62 points or more than 2% Tuesday as investors charged back into tech stocks. The buying mood was aided by strong earnings from IBM Monday and the anticipation of big numbers from Apple after the bell today. ... Click to view a price quote on IBM . Click to research the Computer Hardware industry.
IBM's history: Big Blue has long been green Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 9:26PMAs it celebrates its 100th anniversary this year, IBM Corp. has for years been known as an environmental innovator, said Leslie Carothers, president of the Environmental Law Institute.
Lindahl supports Performing Arts Center project at Western Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 2:02PM“I enjoy the performing arts. It's really nothing more profound than that.” Those are the words of Tate Lindahl, a retired Western Illinois University administrator and Macomb resident, whose seven-figure bequest will support the much-anticipated Western Illinois University Performing Arts Center. “I have always felt that the most important part of a performance, aside from the performers ...
Stocks: Investors Await Earnings Deluge Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 11:15AMWall Street will be awash in corporate news this week, as some the nation's largest and most influential companies report their quarterly results.
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Marts are just legal crapshoot Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 12:42AMDear John: I just wanted to relay a quick thought I have every time you (or a reader) chide the stock market as a "casino," or any other gambling reference. As one of the hated, evil fat cats in the finance industry, I agree wholeheartedly! And guess what else: That...
HVCC to provide worker training under statewide initiative Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 12:02AMPaul Post
Education grant would help colleges teach skills to unemployed workers Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 8:45PMSARATOGA SPRINGS — Empire State, Hudson Valley and Adirondack Community colleges would provide worker training programs under a $50 million statewide education initiative.
Apple Case Against HTC Could Fall Apart Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 11:12AMDespite an ITC judge ruling in favor of Apple for two out of ten patents, HTC is confident that their mobile innovation will win in the end.
Space Shuttle IT: try landing it and launching again Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 4:33AMNews from Nasa: one of the Shuttle's four computers has gone into digital dreamland and its memory is being downloaded...
Long Term Haurlan Index Divergence Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 3:59AMThe Long Term Haurlan Index is showing a big divergence now, similar to ones that we have seen at past instances of impending stock market turmoil. That is the important part of the story in this week's chart.
High-tech competition is the best market regulator Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 11:11PMThe U.S. Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether Google is using its dominance in web search to give its services an unfair advantage and looking into whether Twitter is abusing its position to lock out competitors.
Year later, Campus USA still growing into new headquarters, banking on bright future Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 10:01PMSo far, the building is bigger than the company. More than 20,000 square feet remains unused. One quadrant of the first floor is wide open; several departments fill about half of their available space; and a call center has several empty cubicles.
Astronauts restart computer Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 4:28PMAtlantis commander Christopher Ferguson and pilot Douglas Hurley carried out troubleshooting procedures early Friday and successfully restarted a shuttle flight computer that failed Thursday.
Final Glance: Computer companies Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 5:04PMShares of some top computer companies were mixed at the close of trading:
iPad-controlled supercomputing as a service coming this fall Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 4:50PMSupercomputing as a service that can be controlled from an iPad could pop out of academia as soon as this fall in the form of a commercial service.
Computer learns to play Civilization by reading the instruction manual Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 4:14PMA computer at an MIT lab has learned how to play Civilization by reading the instruction manual, and it wins more than most of us do.
Microsoft will Never Drop the Windows Brand Name Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 3:24PMThis venerable brand has been through a lot and earned its place in computing history and the future.
IBM throws its source code and support behind OpenOffice Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 2:35PMDon't write off OpenOffice for LibreOffice quite yet. IBM's donating all of its IBM Lotus Symphony office suite code to the new Apache OpenOffice.
Virtual Bridges Joins Open Virtualization Alliance, Extends Support for Linux Desktops Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 10:39AMAUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Virtual Bridges has joined the Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA), helping to increase overall awareness of the KVM hypervisor.
Building the Borg: US intelligence agency wants to know how your overtaxed brain works Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 10:29AMThis one sounds like it comes right out of a science-fiction writer's nightmare. A US intelligence agency wants to develop applications based on the way the human brain makes sense of large amounts of haphazard, partial information. Read more
Samsung study rejects cancer claims Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 9:13AMA study commissioned by Samsung Electronics rejected assertions that employees may have been exposed to carcinogenic chemicals at its plants, as several cancer-stricken former employees of the world's top memory chipmaker seek compensation for their illnesses.
Arthur Frischman Named President of Raxco Software Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 7:30AMGAITHERSBURG, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Raxco Software, a leader in performance and storage management f...
Raxco Software Hires Software Industry Veteran to Drive Growth Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 7:16AMGAITHERSBURG, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Raxco, leaders in performance management software for more than 30 years, names Arthur Frischman president to lead new growth in optimization and virtualization.
Xilinx Joins EEMBC Board of Directors Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 7:06AMContact: Markus Levy, EEMBC, +1-530-672-9113, markus.levy@eembc.org
Booz Allen says system was hacked Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 6:58AMBooz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp., which hired a former National Security Agency chief to market cybersecurity programs to the government, said some of its own files were exposed after an attack by hackers. AD: Helping Midsize Businesses Fuel Innovation Helping Midsize Businesses Fuel Innovation Take an interactive tour to discover how customized IBM solutions can help midsize businesses level ...
Before the PC: IBM invents virtualisation Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 5:09AMA brief history of virtualisation Virtualisation is not a novelty. It's actually one of the last pieces of the design of 1960s computers to trickle down to the PC – and only by understanding where it came from and how it was and is used can you begin to see the shape of its future in its PC incarnation.…
Clearwater Beach Library offers free computer training Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 10:42AMFrom 1-3 p.m. every Monday, Clearwater Beach Library is offering free computer training.
EARNINGS PREVIEW: Global Growth To Boost US Software Companies Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 10:12AMEARNINGS PREVIEW: Global Growth To Boost US Software Companies
Opengear Hires Rick Stevenson as CEO Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 9:52AMLAS VEGAS, NV--(Marketwire - Jul 11, 2011) - Opengear ( www.opengear.com ), provider of next generation console server and remote management solutions , announced today that Rick Stevenson will be its new CEO. Stevenson has previously worked with Opengear's founders while at several startups, including Stallion Technologies and SnapGear. He replaces Bob Waldie, who ...
Before 'the cloud' was cool: Virtualising the un-virtualisable Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 8:43AMA brief history of virtualisation Buzzwords often have very short lifetimes in IT. Today it's cloud computing, but there would be no infinitely scalable cloud without the previous "big new thing": virtualisation. We take it for granted now, but it's worth remembering that it is still quite a new and relatively immature technology, with a long way to go.…
Companies Can Motivate Families to Live Healthier Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 5:42AMMONDAY, Oct. 4 (HealthDay News) -- A small cash incentive from an employer might be enough to prompt healthy lifestyle changes in families, new research suggests.
New bump on IT highway Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 5:22AMBusiness Line Hurdle to be crossed. When it is election time in the US, the Indian IT ecosystem feels the heat. With outsourcing of jobs such a prickly issue, naturally the debates in the US tend to get more high-decibel and poll candidates proactively champion ‘Buffalo, not Bangalore' cause.
High Performance Shared Research Cloud on JANET(R) to Cut Computing Costs of University Research Into Fractions Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 5:07AMSLOUGH, England, July 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ UK University Research Community and UK Economy to Benefit from Sharing Logicalis HPC Cloud Environment International solutions provider, Logicalis UK [http://www.uk.logicalis.com ], today …
More Autism Diagnoses in High-Tech Areas, Study Finds Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 4:37AMFRIDAY, June 24 (HealthDay News) -- Autism experts have long noted that they meet a lot of engineers and computer programmers who have autistic children compared to, say, salespeople. A new study suggests there may be merit to those observations.
Freie Universität Berlin Selects ClusterVision to Design New HPC Facility Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 4:12AMThe new Intel® Xeon® based cluster will provide a cost-effective and efficient HPC capability to an extended research community at one of Germany’s most prestigious educational institutions (PRWeb July 11, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/7/prweb8631983.htm
This Is What "Computer Dating" Looked Like In The 1960s Saturday, July 9, 2011 @ 11:44PMForty years before Mark Zuckerberg came up with Facebook, a few Harvard students created Operation Match , the precursor to online dating. The New Yorker reports that in 1965, Lewis Altfest, a 25-year-old accountant, and Robert Ross, a computer programmer for IBM, then made their own, improved version: Project TACT (Technical Automated Compatibility Testing) for young New Yorkers living on the ...
Online Social Security services are A-plus Saturday, July 9, 2011 @ 11:41PMIn February 2011, the TV show "Jeopardy!" broadcast its first competition that pit man against machi ...
School Notes Saturday, July 9, 2011 @ 11:33PMPublished: Sunday, July 10, 2011 at 12:01 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, July 8, 2011 at 3:18 p.m. Dr. Richard Kelso and Carol Osborne received the University of South Florida Polytechnic's Spring 2011 Outstanding Faculty Award.