SAN FRANCISCO - IBM Corp. rolls out a new mainframe computer today that boasts a 50 percent performance boost and dramatically lower energy costs than its predecessor.

Opening up APIs is smart PR move for Microsoft
TechWorld - Quality management depends on an iterative development cycle and a proactive, closed-loop software fitness program, supported by integrated tooling, data and traceable metrics. Mail classified to a friendCrescent-News - Candidate to provide direct day-today support to the manufacturing operations within the plant, with emphasis in tooling maintenance and management.

Cheap keys mar Asus U6’s slick look
Luxury laptops The new Asus U6 notebook is aimed at lonely executives in search of a surrogate partner. In its promotional materials, an Asian model is used to sex up the laptop, much like an old sports car ad. Big turnoff.

Earnings roundup: Dress Barn, Sourcefire
Apparel retailer Dress Barn Inc. on Wednesday said fiscal second-quarter net income fell by more than half, as it marked down apparel as sales at its Dressbarn chain fell, but profit beat analyst expectations.

Pakistan lifts YouTube curbs over video clip
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan’s telecommunications regulator said yesterday it had lifted restrictions imposed on YouTube over an anti-Islamic video clip, but rejected blame for a cut in access to the website in many countries over the weekend.

Pretty in pink - and at a discount
mobile phones I’m a notoriously clumsy gift-giver. Lisa, who married me anyway, even had me return her engagement ring.

Speakerphone promises safer driving
HANDS-FREE CALLING I always try to get my wife Lisa off the phone when she calls me from the highway on her commute home from Providence. (Rhode Island drivers make their Massachusetts counterparts seem downright cautious on the road.) “It’s OK,” she always says. “I’ve got my headphone in.”

Versata Announces Versata(R) 6 BRMS Version 6.3 for Implementation of
Earthtimes - The latest release from Versata helps improve our developer productivity by consolidating its model-driven development tooling and modularizing its build processes,” said Sandeep Gupta, vice president, Equifax Enabling Technologies. “It provides us Windows 2008 to hit the right security buttonsTechWorld - Quality management depends on an iterative development cycle and a […]

FCC chief says Net providers can’t block access ‘arbitrarily’
CAMBRIDGE - Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin warned yesterday that Internet service providers can’t block consumers from using lawful Internet activities in the name of providing better service.

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