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  • Citigroup investigates how IBM Watson can smarten up banking

    Citigroup is evaluating technology from IBM Watson to help it improve customer service, using big data analytics. The system is no ordinary CRM, as Watson famously won the US games show “Jeopardy” ...

  • Photos: Computer Weekly IT Blog Awards 2010 - The winners

    The Charity challenge - Brian Teeman Read the blog: Brian Teeman Blog Awards in association with IBM. IT Professional (male) - Mark Wilson Read the blog: Mark Wilson Blog Awards in association with...

  • IBM user group to talk patches with Microsoft

    In a first for the IBM Computer Users' Association, members are to spend a day with Microsoft on 10 November for a technical...

  • Refund for IBM users

    The IBM Computer Users' Association has become increasingly concerned about the escalating battle between SCO and IBM on the...

  • Security is key at IBM conference

    Dealing with internal and external security threats will be high on the agenda at the IBM Computer Users Association's security...

  • High-end sluggers take the gloves off

    Heavyweight server users are watching for the outcome of the latest contest between Sun Microsystems and IBM. Computer Weekly...

  • IBM hit with another European antitrust complaint

    A French company has filed a complaint with European competition authorities, accusing IBM of allowing customers to run IBM mainframe operating systems only on IBM computers. Mainframe computers an...

  • CUA wins OfficeVision concession

    The IBM Computer Users' Association has claimed victory in its battle to get Big Blue to take action over the withdrawal of...

  • Sharing - a logical move for IBM's iSeries

    E-mail your AS/400 product queries to john.charlton@rbi.co.uk, or by post to Nigel Adams, c/o IBM Computer Today, RH401, RBI,...

  • Photos: Computer fashions (it was acceptable in the 80s)

    Rainbow digital equipment - computer fashions of the 1980s In the year Frankie Goes To Hollywood released "Relax" only to see it banned from Radio One, impromptu staring matches became the surprise...

  • Apollo 11: The computers that put man on the moon

    It is hard to appreciate the technical challenges involved in putting a man on the moon, but 1960s computer technology played a fundamental role.   << previous article --- next article >> Full Apollo 11...

  • IBM dominates green supercomputer market

    IBM's supercomputers are more energy efficient than platforms offered by its rivals. According to research from the Green500.org, which measures supercomputer performance, the top 20 most energy-ef...

  • Supercomputer simulates bone structure to tackle osteoporosis

    IBM and scientists of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) have demonstrated an extensive simulation of real human bone structures. The simulation was made using the IBM Blue Gene...

  • What did Bill Gates ever do for me: IT managers speak out

    IT managers believe Bill Gates has made software cheaper through pioneering mass market computing. But they are concerned Microsoft could lose focus from their core product set without him. IT dire...

  • UK's top IT leaders to judge awards

    A wide range of IT industry leaders will judge Computer Weekly’s Best Places to Work in IT Awards. They include BCS chief executive David Clarke, BCS Elite chairman David Tidey, president of the Co...

  • New Vista licences target large firms

    Six months on from the enterprise launch of Windows Vista, Microsoft last week released new licensing options for virtualised and thin client environments running the Vista operating system. So far...

  • Best Places to Work in IT Awards 2007 winners

    The Best Places to Work in IT Awards 2007 were celebrated at the London Marriott Hotel in Grosvenor Square on 2 March. Profiled here are the winners whose effective and innovative employment practi...

  • SSRG conference to offer advice on managing supplier relationships

    How to deal effectively with strategic supplier relationships  will be the subject of a conference on 11 May at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Identifying Strategic Suppliers and Managing ...

  • Cut-price mainframe from IBM

    IBM has introduced its cheapest mainframe, with pricing starting at about £55,000, as a platform for supporting service oriented architecture transactions. The System z9 Business Class mainframe of...

  • A trip from the Swinging 60s

    To most people the 1960s hosted a revolution in western culture, music and fashion. Yet the decade also witnessed the first intimations of the impact computers could have on the business world as w...