Watson recorded a breakthrough in computing by winning Jeopardy and has potential for financial, medicine and future prediction systems.

After seven years of research and planning, thousands of hours of testing, and over fifty champion-level sparring matches, Watson was more than ready to whip the two greatest Jeopardy!champions in history.

After seven years of research and planning, thousands of hours of testing and over fifty champion-level sparring matches, Watson is finally ready to face the two greatest Jeopardy!champions in history.

2010 has sure been an extremely successful year for acquisitions. Almost every tech-giant out there was on an acquisition spree, Google topping the chart.

IBM has claimed yet another breakthrough in computing and data storage with the ability to record the behavior of atoms on a scale of nanoseconds. This will let them study changes in the behavior of atoms to data storage accurately.

Our computers are powered by age old connections, the ones that had powered US Telegraph lines around a hundred and fifty years ago. IBM is going to change this.

New IBM z196 processor has a 5.3GHz speed. IBM z196 also has a 1.5MB L2 cache and 1.4 billion transistors and can process over 50 billion instructions per second.

IBM started developing mobile apps with Mail Triage, an app to manages Email on the iPhone OS. IBM has many cool apps in store for Google Android too.

In 2005, IBM promised of not using it’s patents to trouble Open-Source. But now, it is acting otherwise. IBM said, TurboHercules violates 173 of IBM’s patents.

IBM has devised a new device in collaboration with eMeter which is based on a smart grid. This device has been developed under their smarter planet strategy. This technology helps in intelligent power management of the house and is available to the public.

TurboHercules, a French firm dealing in Open Source Mainframe software has filed its antitrust complaint on IBM which is the third one in the line for IBM.

IBM is teaming up with educational institutions in India and Japan to create an open mobile user interface (UI) which will be common across all devices and will be much more user friendly.

IBM has announced Develothon 2010, a program which aims to develop awareness amongst the software engineers in India regarding newer technologies.

IBM is introducing a new breed of processors called Power7 processors. IBM is also launching 3 new systems based on this processor for the high-end server market. This will heat up the competition with HP and Oracle.

With Zimbra’s purchase, VMware is expanding from virtualization solutions to offer a suite of collaboration tools for the enterprises. Microsoft and HP have a signed a deal to provide integrated solutions to business customers. Panasonic is migrating to the cloud, dumping Microsoft Exchange and opting for IBM LotusLive suite.