We’ve read a number of histories of the IBM PC and lived through that time, too. But we enjoyed [Gareth Edwards’] perspective in a post entitled The Misfit who Built the IBM PC. The titular character ...

Donkey Kong had only just started lobbing barrels at a chunky Mario as he climbed up wonky ladders, Ronald Regan had recently taken over the white house, and the very first Duran Duran album had just ...

IBM is replacing Eastman Kodak's PCs worldwide, as the photography giant looks to cut its information technology costs. The program, which began more than a year ago, will be completed next year and ...

Price isn't everything, according to IBM executives. Instead, the keys to the kingdom are manageability, security and wireless communications, three elements IBM has included in its PC fall fashions.

A sale of IBM's PC unit would be the latest example of a move toward consolidation as the market reaches maturity. A third of today's top 10 manufacturers could exit the PC business by 2007, according ...

Forty years ago this month, I started my first job in the PC industry. When I signed on, I thought I’d be writing a manual for a popular Apple II word processing program. Instead, I wrote one of the ...

IBM will pour US$3 billion into computing and chip materials research over the next five years, as it rethinks computer design and looks to a future that may not involve silicon chips. The computer ...

IBM's decision to sell its PC business to Lenovo underscores the fact that most companies cannot generate steady profits selling PCs Perhaps it isn’t quite as surprising as if Ford Motor Co. suddenly ...

IBM Research is experimenting with a chameleon-like computing device called the Meta Pad, designed to easily convert from a desktop machine to a handheld to a notebook and back again. Representatives ...