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IBM blocks Dropbox and iCloud as well as Siri
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Earlier today it was reported that Siri was being blocked for IBM employees nationwide as a sort of cut-back on their “bring your own device” policy for smartphones and tablets at the workplace – that policy has expanded, it seems. A new addition to the reports we’ve heard this morning indicate that IBM not only has Apple’s Siri blocked, but several other applications such as Dropbox and Apples iCloud. The reason IBM has these applications blocked from the their offices is simple: data might not be as secure through these applications as they want their employees data to be.
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IBM blocks Siri over privacy concerns
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If you happen to be an IBM’er who owns an iPhone, you will no longer be able to use Siri, at least while in the office.
Facing growing privacy concerns pertaining to the “bring your own device (BYOD)” trend, many companies are attempting to figure out ways to ensure private company data is protected. Several mobile services store some of your personal data, be it contact lists or voice search history on your device, leaving certain data ripe for the picking. Siri is a well-known offender, and Apple’s privacy policy openly states that they store your Siri search items on its servers to better improve Siri and other Apple products and services.
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IBM's $43 Million Computer For the World's Largest Radio Telescope
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When it's built, the Square Kilometer Array will be the world's largest radio telescope. Then, when it goes online, it will spit out 1,000,000 terabytes of data each day—and IBM is trying to make a computer which can handle it.
The Squarer Kilometer Array—which will be made up of 15,000 small antennas and 77 larger stations—will collect a heap of data that scientists hope will shed light on the origins of the Big Bang. The sheer weight of numbers means it will generate a staggering amount of information. To give some context, it will generate 1,000,000 terabytes—or one exabyte—a day. That's twice as much information as there is traffic on the internet in the same period. It's an insane amoun...
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IBM touts quantum computing breakthrough
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Scientists at IBM Research today said they have achieved a major advance in quantum computing that will allow engineers to begin work on creating a full-scale quantum computer.
The breakthrough allowed scientists to reduce data error rates in elementary computations while maintaining the integrity of quantum mechanical properties in quantum bits of data, known as qubits.
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IBM optical chip moves data at 1Tbps
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IBM researchers have developed a prototype optical chip that can transfer data at 1Tbps (terabit per second), the equivalent of downloading 500 high-definition movies, using light pulses, the company said today.
The chip, called Holey Optochip, is a parallel optical transceiver consisting of both a transmitter and a receiver, and is designed to handle the large amount of data created and transmitted over corporate and consumer networks as a result of new applications and services. It is expected to power future supercomputer and data center applications, an area where IBM already uses optical technology.
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IBM Cuts More Than 1,200 Jobs in North America
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IBM this week laid off more than 1,200 workers in North America, and additional cuts are possible, according to an employee advocacy organization.
As of Wednesday, 1,202 IBM workers across multiple business units had been laid off, according to Alliance@IBM, which is keeping tally of the cuts as it receives severance documents from affected workers. The job cuts are mostly located in the U.S., with some in Canada, Bloomberg is reporting. Almost half of those who have been laid off work from home, according to a Computerworld report citing a union spokesman.
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Quantum computing a step closer to reality, says IBM
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IBM is set to announce major advances which it claims will take us a major step closer to actually seeing a working quantum computer.
The prospect of quantum computers has intrigued scientists for years, but despite the potential, actually turning it into a reality has proved troublesome, with quantum decoherence caused by outside factors such as temperature and radiation.
All that could be set to change, with IBM's research arm set to announce how it has broken three records that take us ever closer to quantum computers.
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IBM creates 9nm carbon nanotube transistor
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IBM has created 9nm transistors from carbon nanotubes, the same versatile material that the world's lightest material is constructed from and can also camouflage objects. In contrast, silicon has a theoretical limit of 10nm, and while transistor architectures are currently pushing 22nm, a presentation in July showed Intel could have 10nm chips ready by 2015 (PDF). Smaller architectures not only lead to smaller chips, but also lower power usage — something that the researchers say the carbon transistor delivered even better than expected.
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HTC calls on IBM for help breaking into the enterprise market
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HTC is teaming up with business stalwart IBM in an effort to bring Android devices to the enterprise market. HTC has yet to make a dent in the lucrative business market that is dominated by RIM's BlackBerry, but now it is betting on the availability of IBM's enterprise apps to help it out.
For as much trouble as HTC has had getting a footing in the business sector, Android has seen much of the same, as enterprise customers have not found it to be secure enough for their purposes just yet. In contrast, Apple has been able to make a dent in RIM's enterprise holdings with its ubiquitous iPad tablet and the level of control that it offers system administrators.
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IBM creates atomic storage device with only 12 atoms
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The technology world is always marching on, and a big push is to make things like computers and storage systems smaller, faster, and higher capacity. That can get to be very tricky though with processes used for microprocessors and other tech already working at the nanometer level. IBM has created a new method of storing data, creating a storage device that needs an amazingly tiny number of atoms.
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Google buys 217 more patents from IBM
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Google apparently sees a lot of value in IBM's patent portfolio, and Big Blue is apparently happy to sell them off: Google just bought 217 patents from IBM, following its two purchases totaling over two thousand patents last summer. The sales are reflected in the US patent and trademark office database, but we don't know exactly how much money changed hands in this sale (or any of the bigger ones last year). Some of these patents cover mobile phones and other technology relevant to Google's defense of Android, but there's also dozens that don't appear to be directly related, including some patents on data caching, blade servers, and server load balancing. These things could have to do with A...
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IBM helps Google get locked and loaded in patent wars
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The headlines are unavoidable – in the world of mobile devices, everyone is suing everyone else. Lawsuits lead to counter lawsuits, companies band together to pool their patents. But most of it has stemmed from one simple fact: Google is younger and has far fewer patents than competitors like Apple, Microsoft, and Oracle.
Google has spent the last half of the year loading up to hunt bear, so to speak. While the buyout of Motorola (and its patent portfolio) made headlines, IBM has also been quietly helping Google close the patent gap. Just last week Google acquired 188 patents and 29 pending patent applications from Big Blue. Clearly someone didn’t take the entire holiday season off.
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IBM predicts mind-controlled smartphones in the next five years
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Since 2006, IBM has predicted what technological advances the next five years will bring as part of its "5 in 5" series, and this year the company says that by 2017 the technology to read brain impulses will have advanced to the point where you could conceivably have a baseball hat that reads your mind and transmits your thoughts to your smartphone. This sounds great, but the recent "Project Black Mirror" Siri hack / hoax brought some attention to thought-controlled computing and it sounds like this technology is still much more than five years away.
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IBM launches enterprise-level security service for mobile devices
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Once upon a time it was pretty easy for corporate IT departments to secure the smartphones of their employees. You simply limited them to choosing a Windows Mobile or Blackberry device, which had enterprise security features already built in.
Alas, Windows Mobile is now an artifact of history, and by last count less than 1/5 U.S. smartphones is a BlackBerry. As Android and iOS smartphones and tablets dominate the ecosystem, IT departments have been scrambling to try and manage the security on the new devices.
Enter IBM’s Hosted Mobile Device Security Management service. The service includes a security app that installs on a phone or tablet, as well as management tools that allow an IT depart...
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IBM Names Virginia Rometty CEO and President
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Hot on the heels of HP's decision to hire a newly-appointed CEO comes an announcement from IBM that it too is welcoming a new CEO. The company this week announced that senior vice president and group executive for sales, marketing and strategy, Virgina Rometty, is to be the company's new chief executive officer and president. Rometty will step into the shoes of current IBM chairman, president and chief executive officer, Samuel Palmisano.
Palmisano has been CEO since 2002 and during his time at the helm, IBM's EPS has increased by almost five times, the company has generated over $100 billion in free cash flow, and invested more than $50 billion in research and development. Speaking in a sta...
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