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.

NEW YORK -- After years of pushing its own technology outsourcing business, IBM Corp. made an about-face yesterday and hired a pair of contractors to assume some of its own assembly work. Armonk, N.Y.

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 ...

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 ...

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. The ...

The company plans to try to take some of the cost and irritation out of managing PCs. Businesses pay a monthly fee for each employee, and Big Blue takes care of their tech woes. Michael Kanellos is ...

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 ...

I can set up a Linux desktop from bare metal to working customized desktop in about an hour. I can set up several dozens Linux desktops for an SMB (small to medium sized business) in a day. I can’t, ...

IBM on Monday detailed a line of programming tools meant to create a market of customized add-ons for its Lotus Workplace desktop applications. The company said its Rational development tools division ...

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 Monday debuted Virtual Desktop for Smart Business, the company's first desktop virtualization product targeting SMBs. The new software, which allows Windows or Linux desktops to be hosted and ...