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• Wall Street Beat: June starts slow but hope for tech in 2012 remains

  By Marc Ferranti | 01 June, 2012 19:09

  June is off to a rocky in the markets for technology companies as shares slump in the wake of troubling economic reports, though cooler heads appear to have confidence in the sector for the long term.

• Are CEOs getting the social media thing?

  By Michael Cooney | 24 May, 2012 13:33

  IBM says a study it did of some 1700 Chief Executive Officers worldwide found that many indeed - or should be - grasping social media as a key enabler of collaboration and innovation.

• Mobile app standoff: Web app vs. native app

  By Tom Kaneshige | 22 May, 2012 05:33

  Think mobile app, and what do you see?

• IBM Retirement Plan Promises Jobs Through '13

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 21 May, 2012 23:47

  IBM is offering employees who are nearing retirement, and who might be worried about layoffs, a one-time opportunity to participate in a program that would guarantee their employment through Dec. 31, 2013.

• For the NFL, Big Is Better -- Except in IT

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 21 May, 2012 20:11

  The National Football League may have big stadiums, big players and big games, but when it comes to computer systems, the league's vice president of IT, Nancy Galietti, doesn't use the word big.

• SAP lays out cloud strategy post-SuccessFactors deal

  By Chris Kanaracus | 15 May, 2012 22:06

  SAP announced a broad set of plans to become a player in cloud computing, spanning from a "loosely coupled suite" of business applications to data integration and PaaS (platform as a service) Tuesday during the Sapphire conference in Orlando.

• IBM brings Intel's Ivy Bridge architecture to M4 server line

  By Jon Gold | 15 May, 2012 04:33

  IBM today announced that it will begin rolling out a family of Intel Ivy Bridge-equipped versions of its M4 server expected to reduce data center power costs and offer entry level virtualization servers.

• Dell, IBM announce servers with new Intel Xeon chips

  By Agam Shah | 15 May, 2012 01:09

  Dell and IBM announced servers with Intel's latest Xeon server chips, which will bring faster throughput and memory allowing servers to take on more complex workloads while reducing data center costs.

• Open source Java moving to Linux, AIX on PowerPC

  By Paul Krill | 10 May, 2012 06:14

  Open source Java will be brought to the PowerPC architecture for Linux and IBM's AIX OS under a proposal floated this week that could eventually benefit the different Linux distributors.

• Forecast: Cloudy but fine

  By Patrick Budmar | 09 May, 2012 15:14

  Don’t worry, the Cloud isn’t about to clear in the foreseeable future. That’s the tip from industry experts analysing its outlook.

• Potential bidding war emerges for Quest Software

  By Chris Kanaracus | 10 May, 2012 01:38

  A number of parties have submitted bids to acquire Quest Software, which announced in March that it was going private via a US$2 billion stock buyback in partnership with equity firm Insight Venture Partners.

• IBM on oath to cut internal apps by 85 per cent

  By Patrick Thibodeaau | 07 May, 2012 23:36

  IBM has reduced the number of applications it uses internally by 70%, but that's not enough for CIO Jeanette Horan.

• Watch Steve Jobs play FDR in Apple film, circa '1984'

  By Paul McNamara | 07 May, 2012 14:39

  You'll have to go to Buzzblog if you want to see Steve Jobs playfully portraying Franklin Delano Roosevelt - right down to the cigarette holder - it's there in all of its 20-second glory.

• Dispatch from the technology culture wars

  By Mike Elgan | 05 May, 2012 21:12

  It's an election year, so you're going to hear a lot about the "culture wars." You know: The endless battle between conservative and progressive values.

• Researchers use diamonds to boost computer memory

  By Lucas Mearian | 05 May, 2012 06:17

  Johns Hopkins University engineers are using diamonds to change the properties of an alloy used in phase-change memory, a change that could lead to the development higher capacity storage systems that retain data more quickly and last longer than current media.