IBM (NYSE: IBM) and SAP (NYSE: SAP) today announced an agreement with Marks & Spencer (M&S) to implement a suite of SAP Retail applications.
The programme aims to provide M&S with accurate business data and robust core processes to enable business improvement initiatives in cost and operating efficiencies. Specifically, the programme will improve stock visibility and management of information, while increasing process efficiency which M&S believes will enhance the customer experience and drive greater control over net margin.
Marks & Spencer Director of IT & Logistics, Darrell Stein, says: “We selected IBM and SAP after an extensive assessment of the market. In addition to strong retail credentials, we felt there was also a strong cultural alignment. In …

Builds Cloud Computing Environments for Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, Qatar University, Texas A&M University at Qatar, University of Pretoria, HEALTH Alliance and Kyushu University
IBM announced it is working with six universities to leverage IBM Blue Cloud solutions to speed up projects and research initiatives that were once constrained by time, limited or unavailable resources, or overloaded IT systems.
The Qatar Cloud Computing Initiative, driven by three universities, will open its cloud infrastructure to local businesses and industries to test applications and complete various projects, including seismic modeling and the exploration for oil and gas.
*  Another university, the University of Pretoria, is using cloud computing to test the development of drugs to slow the progression of …

Symphony Document Viewing, Quickr Team Collaboration, Domino Designer and XPages to Expand Capabilities on the BlackBerry Platform
ORLANDO, Florida – LOTUSPHERE – IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM, TSX: RIM) today introduced new Lotus collaboration features and developer tools on the BlackBerry® platform that will enable greater access to live expertise and collective intelligence through BlackBerry® smartphones. The new features will help customers find expertise, form teams, share information, and stay in touch in real time making them more effective and productive while on the go.
This initiative is in response to the explosion of mobility worldwide. IBM’s Institute for Business Value predicts one billion mobile Web users by 2011 and a significant …

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, NY – 18 Aug 2008:  IBM (NYSE: IBM) and its joint development partners — AMD, Freescale, STMicroelectronics, Toshiba and the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) — today announced the first working static random access memory (SRAM) for the 22 nanometer (nm) technology node, the world’s first reported working cell built at its 300mm research facility in Albany, NY.
SRAM chips are precursors to more complex devices such as microprocessors.
The SRAM cell utilizes a conventional six-transistor design and has an area of 0.1um2, breaking the previous SRAM scaling barriers.
Researchers achieved this breakthrough at CNSE of the University at Albany, State University of New York. CNSE’s Albany NanoTech is the world’s most advanced university …