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• Are CEOs getting the social media thing?

  IBM says a study it did of some 1700 Chief Executive Officers worldwide found that many indeed - or should be - grasping social media as a key enabler of collaboration and innovation.

• IBM Retirement Plan Promises Jobs Through '13

  IBM is offering employees who are nearing retirement, and who might be worried about layoffs, a one-time opportunity to participate in a program that would guarantee their employment through Dec. 31, 2013.

• For the NFL, Big Is Better -- Except in IT

  The National Football League may have big stadiums, big players and big games, but when it comes to computer systems, the league's vice president of IT, Nancy Galietti, doesn't use the word big.

• Academics propose groundbreaking uses for Watson

  Three winners of an academic competition at the University of Rochester to create the most innovative and useful applications for IBM's Watson cognitive computing systems were announced yesterday by Big Blue.

• SAP lays out cloud strategy post-SuccessFactors deal

  SAP announced a broad set of plans to become a player in cloud computing, spanning from a "loosely coupled suite" of business applications to data integration and PaaS (platform as a service) Tuesday during the Sapphire conference in Orlando.

• IBM brings Intel's Ivy Bridge architecture to M4 server line

  IBM today announced that it will begin rolling out a family of Intel Ivy Bridge-equipped versions of its M4 server expected to reduce data center power costs and offer entry level virtualization servers.

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  Dell, IBM announce servers with new Intel Xeon chips

  Dell and IBM announced servers with Intel's latest Xeon server chips, which will bring faster throughput and memory allowing servers to take on more complex workloads while reducing data center costs.

• Open source Java moving to Linux, AIX on PowerPC

  Open source Java will be brought to the PowerPC architecture for Linux and IBM's AIX OS under a proposal floated this week that could eventually benefit the different Linux distributors.

• Potential bidding war emerges for Quest Software

  A number of parties have submitted bids to acquire Quest Software, which announced in March that it was going private via a US$2 billion stock buyback in partnership with equity firm Insight Venture Partners.

• IBM on oath to cut internal apps by 85 per cent

  IBM has reduced the number of applications it uses internally by 70%, but that's not enough for CIO Jeanette Horan.

• Watch Steve Jobs play FDR in Apple film, circa '1984'

  You'll have to go to Buzzblog if you want to see Steve Jobs playfully portraying Franklin Delano Roosevelt - right down to the cigarette holder - it's there in all of its 20-second glory.

• Dispatch from the technology culture wars

  It's an election year, so you're going to hear a lot about the "culture wars." You know: The endless battle between conservative and progressive values.

• Researchers use diamonds to boost computer memory

  Johns Hopkins University engineers are using diamonds to change the properties of an alloy used in phase-change memory, a change that could lead to the development higher capacity storage systems that retain data more quickly and last longer than current media.

• Intel-McAfee developing cloud-security strategy

  Intel, which last year acquired McAfee for its security expertise, today described work it is doing to provide enterprises with a way to secure data stored in public or hybrid cloud environments.

• IBM: The rapidly changing role of top security executives

  Security issues are exerting a ton of pressure and monetary concerns on the executives in charge of keeping corporate networks and assets safe.