Real-time language translation, medical monitoring via the mobile Web and nanotechnology to purify water are some of the innovations IBM Labs thinks will be on the market within five years.
The founder of Wikipedia, the popular user-edited online encyclopedia, is developing a wiki-based search engine to compete with established commercial search engines from Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.
Cisco Systems Inc. is suing Apple Inc. to prevent it from using the name iPhone for the new smart phone Apple introduced Tuesday at the Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco.
Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) is strengthening ties with Microsoft Corp. to provide a broadened portfolio of business software products to the enterprise market while delivering a competitive blow to rival IBM Corp.
IBM says its blade servers are "fundamentally better" than Hewlett-Packard Co.'s (HP's) that are based on energy efficiency, a growing concern of data center operators. But HP questioned the credibility of IBM's claims.