Blue Gene quits ivory tower
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Fresh from setting a supercomputer performance record, IBM has announced it will make a commercial version of its Blue Gene system available for businesses and scientific researchers.
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By Dale Kasler, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  May 31--Two key Tower Records employees have quit the company that bought Tower's Web site, leaving unclear the future of the site's Sacramento office.   Caiman Holdings Inc.
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In September, IBM announced that the Blue Gene/L prototype had sustained speeds of 36 trillion calculations per second. Blue Gene/L recently achieved a sustained performance of 70.
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Founder and primary investor Mitchell Kapor is phasing out his involvement in the Open Source Applications Foundation.
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IBM, a while back, showcased its supercomputer, Blue Gene/L, at Top 500 supercomputer contest. At that time, the company was behind in performance by a Japanese firmâs supercomputer that managed to take away the first place crown.
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Genetics pioneer Craig Venter has news from the frontiers of biology.
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Obeying the courts, Windows will no longer have a Media Player in Europe. Also:  Monsanto buys another seed maker & hellip;.  Robot soldiers ready for Iraq & hellip;. and more.
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In an about-face that slaps the HDi interactive layer, Sonic Solutions says that it will stop sales of its professional software that assists in the authoring of HD DVD discs, choosing to focus on Blu-ray instead.
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(InfoWorld) - Citing a mistaken filing, Microsoft has abandoned a patent application for technology in its Visual Studio software development platform that originated outside the company, a Microsoft representative said on Tuesday. The application involved Microsoft's implementation of the BlueJ developer environment, which the company calls "Object Test Bench," said the representative, who attributed the company's response to an InfoWorld press inquiry on the subject to Jason Matusow, Microsoft's senior directory of IP and interoperability. "Microsoft mistakenly filed for a patent on a technology included in components of Visual Studio 2005 that was based upon an academic project to help individuals grasp introductory concepts of software programming through pictorial representation of code," the representative said. The company had been notified by Michael KÃ¶lling, the creator of BlueJ, that the patent application covered technology substantially similar to his project. BlueJ is an IDE for teaching object-oriented programming and Java to beginners, according to KÃ¶lling's blog. "Microsoft agrees with Professor KÃ¶lling, and in keeping with the companyâs standards for quality patent filings, [it is] expressly abandoning the patent application with the USPTO (United States Patent & Trademark Office) through normal procedures," the company said. KÃ¶lling could not be reached for comment on Tuesday. But in his blog, he raised the question of whether Microsoft's patent application would be denied because it was based on "prior art," which is technology that already existed. "While I am sure we would have had a good case to file for prior art, and while it is likely that this would have stopped the application, I really have better things to do with my time," he wrote. In a blog entry last Friday, KÃ¶lling had expressed fears that the patent application could destroy BlueJ.
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The company that has been synonymous with the term &quot;PC&quot; since it was first created is getting out of the PC business. According to a report in the New York Times, IBM is in talks with China&#39;s largest maker
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The California Institute of Regenerative Medicine is losing its chief scientific officer. It's just the latest kerfuffle in a year of management missteps.
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Business & money: SCi Entertainment, the video games publisher, has parted company with founder Jane Cavanagh
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Blog: Microsoft's game guru leaves the company for EA--interesting, since he made a big deal about EA Sports title Madden NFL 2008 at his E3 address.
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Media Lab Europe, a high-tech research center founded by the Irish government and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, announced on Friday it is closing because it's run out of money.
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Biologists have uncovered a gene that switches off stem cells as a person ages.
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Saying he&#39;s &#39;tired of the censorship,&#39; the shock jock announces he&#39;s abandoning traditional broadcasting and going over to satellite.
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Fresh from setting a record for performance among supercomputers just a few days ago, IBM Monday announced it is making a commercial version of its Blue Gene system available to be aimed at businesses and scientific researchers.