The prototypical high-tech "unicorn" is a startup that investors view as the next big thing. Rocket Software, which recently joined the club of private companies valued at $1 billion or more, is an ...

The venerable mainframe computer is experiencing a surprising but well-deserved resurgence, as the organizations that depend on these systems realize how important they are for digital initiatives and ...

John Markoff Steve Lohr of the New York Times has a good piece on an interesting product that you and I won’t be buying: IBM’s new mainframe computer, which Big Blue announced today. The story ...

The era of mainframe computers and directly programming machines with switches is long past, but plenty of us look back on that era with a certain nostalgia. Getting that close to the hardware and ...

Big Blue is set to announce upgrades to its mainframe computer, refreshing a high-end server line many had given up as extinct. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Most of these are pretty straightforward to figure out, but he ran into some troubles trying to understand the full adder board. The first issue is there is some uncertainty surrounding the logic ...

Riverside County, one of the largest counties in the country, recently replaced a half-century old mainframe computer system used to calculate property taxes. While the old system badly needed ...

Today in 1959, IBM delivered the first two 7090 mainframe computers. It was the second generation after the 709 vacuum tube mainframe computers. The 7090 was six times faster than the 709 thanks to ...

IBM Corp. recently introduced a new mainframe computer that boasts a 50 percent performance boost and dramatically lower energy costs than its predecessor. The new System z10, with a starting price at ...

For nearly a decade, the Vermont Department of Labor sought to replace the rickety mainframe computer that has powered its unemployment insurance system since the 1980s. Under a federal program ...

My friend Wilfried in the Netherlands (he hates it if I say he's from Holland, in which case he once again explains the difference to me at great length) just pointed me toward an interesting blog on ...

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