Time To Buy IBM's Linux Watch?
News For example, through tuning Linux, IBM has increased the battery life of the original Linux watch from about 4 hours to 6, he said. IBM is showing the new watch at the CeBIT trade show. Though the watch is a technology demonstration and isn't for...
[March 26, 2001, 8:23]
IBM Mainframes To Get Linux Treatment
News Linux has a different price point than mainframes do -- IBM's move is really something to watch," said Tracy Corbo, a senior analyst with Hurwitz Consulting in Framingham, Mass. Once IBM made its Linux variant available to developers, the download...
[July 28, 2000, 8:38]
Linux Watch Counts Down To Launch
News IBM will be showing the latest version of its prototype Linux watch at CeBIT this month. The WatchPad, is the result of IBM's collaboration with watch maker Citizen, and was first unveiled last October, but this will be its first big public outing.
[March 8, 2002, 17:34]
Linux Watch: Ahead Of Its Time?
News IBM showed off the first Linux watch prototype in June 2000. IBM is working with Citizen Watch in an effort to bring a wristwatch computer to market. But as one IBM researcher noted later, the first computer watch really ran only one application...
[October 12, 2001, 10:41]
LinuxWorld: Linux Gets Bluetoothed
News At the IBM stand a prototype watch running Linux and capable of making a Bluetooth connection to access the Web is being shown off. Chandra Narayanaswami, manager of wearable computing solutions at IBM, says that open source software such as Linux...
[February 2, 2001, 7:59]
Linux-loving McNealy Dons Penguin Outfit
News It's amazing to watch IBM chase down the Linux path the way they did Windows four years ago," he said. said a sweltering McNealy, referring to IBM's loud move to spend vast sums of money on Linux in 2001.
[February 8, 2002, 12:48]
Linux Prepares For Battle
News IBM, for example, is demonstrating a Linux-based watch at the conference. Linux is increasingly being used in productive, commercial environments," said Deepak Advani, an IBM vice president in charge of Linux business development.
[July 4, 2001, 13:02]
Will Hammer Get The Support It Needs?
News IBM also is part of The IA-64 Linux Project (formerly named the Trillian Project), an open source effort to port Linux to the IA-64 architecture. IBM, which has been working to support IA-64 on a couple of different fronts, also had nothing to say...
[August 11, 2000, 9:21]
Web Standards Body Finalises Anti-patent Policy
News Microsoft, SAP and IBM -- which has made Linux a centrepiece of its strategy and has earned more patents annually than any other company for the past 10 years in a row -- are among the industry heavyweights that have bypassed the W3C because of...
[May 22, 2003, 7:46]
Fossil Unearths Wrist PDA
News IBM showed the latest version of its prototype Linux watch at CeBIT in March. The WatchPad is the result of IBM's collaboration with watch maker Citizen, and features a pager-like application for sending and receiving short messages.
[April 30, 2002, 17:08]
Novell 'aggressive' About Internal Adoption Of Linux Desktop
News Speaking to ZDNet UK on Tuesday following the completion of his company's acquisition of Linux distributor SuSE Linux, Steve Brown claimed that Novell fully supported an earlier commitment by IBM to roll out desktop Linux internally but would not...
[January 13, 2004, 16:17]
Industry Nervous, Not Afraid Of SCO Suit
News SCO filed a suit against IBM in March charging Big Blue with misappropriating some Unix technology and building it into Linux, an open-source operating system now installed on roughly 27 percent of corporate servers and more than half of all Web...
[May 27, 2003, 11:24]
Open-source Legal Body Sues Over GPL Violation
News The SFLC initially was funded by the Open Source Development Labs — a consortium now called the Linux Foundation — and also is sponsored by Linux open-source allies including IBM, HP and Red Hat. Monsoon's Hava product line lets customers record...
[October 1, 2007, 15:08]
Oracle Quietly Works With Mozilla
Talkback This is analogous to the server side accelerators IBM has bolted into WorkPlace optimizing connectivity to WebSphere, Notes, and DB2 server systems. This is exactly what IBM is going to do with WorkPlace, a portable productivity environment built...
[August 5, 2005, 23:11]
3G: We're Off To See The Future! Pt II
News The dark horse this time is Linux -- especially now that IBM has demonstrated it running in a watch! In terms of size, Samsung, for example, has shown that a cellular handset can be built into a [CDMAOne] watch.
[August 23, 2000, 14:44]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It used to be Acorn -- laugh openly at the Archimedes, and watch that mailbox groan with closely argued missives from angry ARM fans saying "It's a far superior machine to anything IBM ever designed" -- and before that, you had to rip the mickey...
[March 26, 2004, 16:15]
Gartner: Patent Issues Aren't The Only Cause For Munich's Linux Delay
News Software patent issues have somewhat clouded the open-source landscape since the SCO Group filed its suit against IBM in 2003. Governments considering a migration to open-source software should watch what Munich and Vienna are doing.
[August 12, 2004, 10:10]
News Schmooze: Bert Really Is Evil
News IBM and Citizen must think Linux is cool, because they've spent lots of R&D money building it into, yes, a watch. Linux saw what must be its fastest kernel update this week after a final version posted on Tuesday, version 2.4.11, suddenly vanished...
[October 12, 2001, 15:26]
Linux Developers Warned To Watch Their Backs
News In a presentation at Linux.conf.au 2004 in Adelaide, specialist Australian IT lawyer Jeremy Malcolm said that while it was widely anticipated in the open-source community that SCO's lawsuit against IBM for alleged copyright infringement would...
[January 15, 2004, 8:40]
Linux Developers Warned To Watch Their Backs
Talkback SCO responded to IBM on Monday's deadline with 60 pages of answers to IBM's questions and an unspecified number of documents. SCO also filed with the court a certification of compliance with the court order and an affidavit with the reasons they...
[January 15, 2004, 17:05]
