IBM, which built the G-series around a desktop Pentium 4 processor, is one of the last brand-name manufacturers to start selling a notebook with the chip. Manufacturers, starting with Toshiba and ...

IBM’s Linux migration plans were made public in January 2004, just months after IBM Chief Information Officer Bob Greenberg formed an internal initiative called the Open Desktop project to ...

LAS VEGAS--IBM is rediscovering the desktop. Although analysts and pundits have called for IBM to exit the PC market in past years, Big Blue has charted a course to revive its position in the ...

IBM is choosing its battles, and manufacturing desktop PCs isn't one of them. The company said Tuesday that it will outsource production of its NetVista desktop PC line to Sanmina-SCI under a ...

IBM has designed a new set of services specifically for small and medium-size businesses that need help managing their desktop PCs and printers, the company announced Wednesday. The new suite ...

IBM Global Services last week rolled out a comprehensive desktop management service with a focus on security for small to midsize businesses that need help managing their desktop PCs and printers.

Now that IBM is being led by Arvind Krishner (its version of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who is clearly behind Microsoft’s desktop cloud pivot), it is likely IBM will come to a similar conclusion.

Cruising the ibm web site I found out that IBM has taken the thinkpad keyboard with ultranav and put it in a desktop USB keyboard. Description seems to say it only works with IBM products.

Each employee’s desktop can have access to personal data, as well as personal preferences such as bookmarks for their browsers. IBM estimates that 200 desktops can be run from a single IBM server.

But IBM’s Sametime is targeted at businesses, schools and governmental bodies that want to run Linux on the desktop, rather than hobbyist or individual users of Linux, Marshak said.

IBM hopes that disillusionment with Vista and uncertainty about Microsoft's long-term roadmap will create an opening for Linux to emerge as a stronger contender in the desktop market.

IBM is choosing its battles, and manufacturing desktop PCs isn't one of them. The company said Tuesday that it will outsource production of its NetVista desktop PC line to Sanmina-SCI under a ...