Multimedia Guide To History Engages Students In Learning Experience Mountain View, Calif. (November 12, 1998) – IBM today unveiled its World Book® Discoveries multimedia software, the first in a series of forthcoming DVD-ROM reference offerings from IBM for families.Discoveries enhances the 1999 World Book product line by offering students a multimedia introduction to world history. […]
Companies Advance Final Proposal to Formalize Standard; Demonstrate Product Prototypes Burlingame, CA (November 11, 1998) – IBM, Unisys and Oracle, accompanied by other leading software vendors and end-users, today presented the final proposal of an industry standard to streamline collaborative application development efforts on the Web. The three companies also demonstrated how disparate development tools […]
www.wgv.com St (November 11, 1998) – World Golf Village and its official information technology partner, IBM, today unveiled the revamped www.wgv.com, the official Web site for World Golf Village, home of the World Golf Hall of Fame. Originally launched in December 1997, the site now boasts a new design, interactive content and multimedia features.“The revamped […]
100 Years of Magnetic Recording San Jose, CA (November 11, 1998) – To mark the 100th anniversary of magnetic recording, IBM has extended the legacy of this technology today with the announcement of the world’s highest capacity hard drive for desktop PCs.The IBM Deskstar 25GP is the latest product in the century-long evolution of inventions […]
N/A N/A (November 11, 1998) – IBM introduced the world’s highest capacity hard drives for notebook and desktop PCs at 14 gigabytes (GB) and 25 GB, respectively. The 25 GB drive is 5,000 times the capacity of the first hard drive product, introduced by IBM in 1956.1998 IBM announced the microdrive, the world’s smallest and […]
N/A Somers, N.Y (November 10, 1998) – IBM today announced that it has been awarded a subcontract by OAO Corporation to provide desktop support services for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). IBM Global Services will participate in an alliance to provide PC desktop computing, server, and communications services to NASA on a monthly […]
Leads Major Vendors with 83 Percent Growth Among Top 100 Sites SC '98, Orl & o, Fla (November 10, 1998) – IBM announced today that it has increased its share of systems on the TOP500 list of the largest supercomputers by more than 40 percent in just the past six months. IBM systems now account […]
N/A Fishkill, N.Y. & Wilsonville, ORE (November 09, 1998) – IBM and Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ:MENT) today announced a strategic licensing relationship that allows Mentor Graphics to offer IBM PowerPC 401 and 405 embedded processor “cores” as part of its extensive library of proven commercial cores. The agreement enables design teams to incorporate IBM PowerPC […]
N/A Research Triangle Park, NC (November 09, 1998) – IBM today announced two 18.1-inch(1) active matrix Thin Film Transistor (TFT) flat panel monitors. With an estimated reseller price starting at $2,849(2), the new T85 flat panel monitor sets another breakthrough price point in the industry for comparably-sized TFT monitors.“This new 18.1-inch flat panel monitor enhances […]
Joint efforts to accelerate CDSA open specification adoption Armonk, N.Y., & Santa Clara, Calif (November 05, 1998) – IBM and Intel today announced joint efforts to promote broad industry adoption of Internet security features that work across multiple computing platforms.As part of this effort, IBM and Intel will promote the adoption of the Common Data […]