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 ...

Big Blue has charted a course to revive its position in the PC market by developing software designed to substantially reduce the costs of managing desktops. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at ...

Similar to the action toys of two decades ago, prototype ThinkPad notebooks from IBM can be transformed from the traditional notebook form factor to a disconnected desktop with a more comfortable ...

Contract manufacturer Sanmina-SCI Corp. said it will take over production of some IBM desktop computers in the United States and Europe in a $5-billion pact IBM said will cut its costs in the ...

Controversial in its day, Desktop IV proved indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts could give agencies a vehicle to buy large quantities of hardware in a streamlined fashion. If ever there ...

IBM and Fujitsu both announced entry-level servers based on the Clarkdale processors as part of a move to capitalize on customer requirements for low-cost servers. Intel on Thursday unveiled the ...

IBM is thinking differently about desktop PCs. The company will introduce on Wednesday a new line of desktops for businesses called ThinkCentre, following the company's "Think" vision for PCs, that ...

Sun Microsystems, in a somewhat sarcastic open letter to IBM posted on Sun’s Web site, is inviting Big Blue to purchase Sun’s Linux-based Sun Java Desktop System for IBM’s own employees. In a letter ...

A follow-up to the S50 Small, the unit is about 35 percent smaller than its predecessor -- about the size of a dictionary -- and weighs in at apprpoximately 13 pounds. "It just takes small to a ...

IBM on Monday introduced new services, dubbed Open Client, designed to make it easier for customers to run its Lotus collaboration software on a mixture of Windows and Linux desktop operating systems.

IBM Research is experimenting with a chameleon-like computing device called the Meta Pad, designed to easily convert from a desktop machine to a handheld to a notebook and back again. Representatives ...

For most small to midsized businesses, software means Microsoft. For almost any category of business software — from word processing to spreadsheets, presentations to communication and collaboration — ...