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It's IBM OS/2's 25th birthday. So long, farewell, we hardly knew ye. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers fondly reminisce.

IBM has just published its top five predictions for technology in 2016. And, by golly, what a load of utterly bogus, crazy rubbish they are. "5 in 5"? More like Zero in five. Energy from water? An end to passwords? Mind control? All these and more debunked in The Long View...
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IBM (NYSE:IBM) has launched its unstructured-data cloud service, based on Hadoop. Called BigInsights, it's essentially MapReduce for Dummies, which is no bad thing. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers welcome their new pachydermic overlords. Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment. Not to mention: Fight For The Future...

IBM has surpassed Microsoft in market worth, an ironic turn of events considering that Microsoft outsmarted IBM years ago and left the company practically for dead. It's a sign of how Microsoft hasn't been able to adequately adjust to a changing world. Microsoft would do well to examine how IBM turned around its fortunes, and learn some lessons from the company's revival.

Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) has unveiled its T4 processor, as well as its 9,600-thread SuperCluster behemoth. In the run-up to next week's Oracle OpenWorld, Larry Ellison and Mark Hurd are proudly showing off their new stuff. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ponder the feeds 'n' speeds. Not to mention: Guess the FUNCTION of the THING...

IBM (NYSE:IBM) has kicked off a huge research program to improve how it manages its customers' IT systems. It aims to bring scientific rigor to outsourcing. But I can't help thinking this is just about moving more jobs overseas. Let me explain, in The Long View...
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Google, Facebook and Microsoft are among the heavy hitters of the tech industry that have teamed up to support a new, cloud-focused initiative called Software-Defined Networking (SDN).

As IT job descriptions change, the best way to succeed in an IT career may be to do a tour of duty on the business side.

Making sense of the seating arraignments and non-invites.

Yes, IBM is in Jeopardy! No, not like that. Its Watson supercomputer has been playing two ex-champion human opponents in the famous answer-asking gameshow. In Round One, Watson tied for first place.
The first day of IBM's supercomputer game of Jeopardy! is over. Watson did reasonably well, but its game was by no means perfect. Stay tuned for two more days. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ask, "What is Watson?" Not to mention the shortest route between two Wikipedia articles...
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It's a decade or so ago, and on a project with a tight schedule in Saudi Arabia, this systems analyst pilot fish gets an additional task: installing the new terminals for an IBM minicomputer. The catch: This building is wired for both 110 and 220 volts.

IBM's Watson supercomputer will be competing in Jeopardy! next month. Against two "unbeatable" contestants: Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings [no relation]. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers take Artificial Intelligence for $200, Alex. Not to mention #sharingisawesome...
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IBM's famous butterfly keyboard created a sensation in 1995. But by the time the next ThinkPad model came out its wings had been clipped. Here's what happened.

Unless you have been stranded on a deserted island the last few years, you know that the storage industry is rapidly consolidating. This is due in part to the recent contraction of the overall economy, but only in part. This primary cause of the contraction is that the storage industry is maturing.

There's been a tectonic shift in open source land, as IBM throws its weight behind Oracle's OpenJDK and its Java Community Process. It's backing away from the Apache Software Foundation's Harmony project, which sought to build an open-source Java SE, independent from Sun/Oracle. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ponder these strange bedfellows. Not to mention crowdsourced "facts"...
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