IBM has opened its first Innovation Center in the Philippines in an effort to expand into growing nations and to help local business and academic communities to develop skills and create new technologies that support demand for digital-infrastructure projects in banking, energy, telecommunications, transportation, retail and government industries. T...

IBM has been given two awards from the government of India for its work on improving the lives of individuals with disabilities. The first award was India’s National Award 2009 in the category of “Technological Innovation, ” which recognizes the work of IBM researchers in creating technology for what IBM calls the “Spoken Web...

Juniper Networks announced Thursday that they have reached a new agreement with IBM. IBM now provides Juniper Networks’ Ethernet networking products to its customers. The agreement also extends the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) agreement that IBM will include SRX Series Service Gateways manufactured by Juniper. Juniper Executive VP and...

This morning, IBM announced that it has been contracted by Australian airline Qantas to provide project delivery functions, falling in line with its overarching goal of improved business efficiency. The contract stipulates that IBM draw on and apply its project management delivery expertise and industry knowledge to Qantas’ work in order to en...

Lockheed Martin Corp. has completed a design review for a fingerprint identification system for the FBI.  Lockheed Martin said completion of the design review by its Next Generation Identification team, including BAE Systems Information Technology Inc. and IBM Corp., can incorporate future ...

Big Blue has launched an ambitious battery project  with the a goal of commercializing an experimental battery technology — lithium metal-air — in order to acheive over ten times the energy density of today’s best batteries. This week, IBM will host a gathering of some of ...

IBM has conducted a study evidencing the number of overall phishing attacks has gone down so far this year to 0.1 % of all spam email as compared to a range of 0.2-0.8% at the same time in 2008, however criminals are learning new methods of attack. IBM also asserted that spam email has not...

IBM has won a five-year contract IT contract to manage all of BP‘s business applications and service desk functions, and Indian IT firm Infosys has been awarded a five-year contract to manage manage “a large portion” of the company’s business systems.  The contracts make up a portion of a y...

IBM Corp. has negotiated a long-term contract to provide application management services to W.R. Grace & Co., a specialty chemicals company.  Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. IBM Global Business Services will build a technology platform to allow W.R. Grace & Co. to update and standardize app...

IBM researchers in conjunction with Paul W. K . Rothemund of the California Institute of Technology are working on a new technology that is will allow them to arrange DNA origami structures on surfaces that are compatible with current semiconductor manufacturing equipment capabilities....