The University of Southern California has added a mobile component to its Web-based courses. Students who are taking online classes toward master's degrees in social work or education can now use smartphones or tablets to stay on top of their work.

Hard to imagine but it has been 58 years since IBM and Georgetown University teamed up to run what they said was at the time the first English-to-Russian language computer translation program.

The traditional retirement age for CEOs at IBM has been 60, or close to it.

A move toward more and more services in the cloud is inevitable, but vendors still need to focus on security, and the U.S. government needs to rewrite privacy laws to protect cloud customers, a group of experts said Tuesday.

Microsoft's top legal official yesterday called on the US Congress to create new laws that would give data stored in the cloud the same protections as data stored on a PC. He also called for tougher penalties for hackers who access data centers, citing significant damage that's often done in such attacks.