Ed Scannell

Hoping to strengthen its software integration strategies aimed at large corporate accounts, IBM Corp. on Tuesday acquired MetaMerge, a Norway-based company that specializes in directory integration software.

IBM Corp. Research on Tuesday announced what it believes is a breakthrough in data storage using nanotechnology that allows a trillion bits of information to be packed into a square inch, the equivalent of about 25 million printed textbook pages on a postage-stamp size surface.

Microsoft Corp. on Friday announced it will release a beta of its first service pack for Windows XP late this month that contains a wide assortment of new bug fixes and features, as well as the first changes that bring the operating system into compliance with the government's consent decree.

IBM Corp. last Thursday marked the one-year anniversary of its Project eLiza

Microsoft Corp.'s ongoing crusade to establish a firm foothold in the enterprise got a little more traction recently from a benchmark test conducted by Accenture Ltd. that show Windows .Net servers compared favourably with Unix-based servers running mission-critical applications.

IBM Corp. bolstered its support for the Linux development community on Monday unveiling its WebSphere Studio Application Developer for Linux along with WebSphere Studio Site Developer, both of which are built on the company's Eclipse open-source development platform.

Wasting little time after the announcement of a Web security specification it is co-developing with Microsoft and VeriSign, IBM said it is adding two new security features into the 3.1 version of its Web Services Toolkit.

Trying to sustain the momentum it started building in the portal market last year, IBM unwrapped a new series of portal products that includes new collaboration capabilities and built-in Web services.