IBM is preparing to launch on Tuesday a new family of ThinkPads for small businesses considering a switch from desktop PCs to notebooks. The G-series ThinkPads are meant to offer mobility but still ...

Previously supporting only Mozilla and Microsoft's IE, Big Blue's Workplace desktop software now also supports the Firefox browser. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

IBM's other Linux shoe could drop Monday, as Big Blue is expected to endorse the idea of Linux on desktop computers at a conference. Big Blue has heavily promoted the open-source operating system for ...

IBM Monday introduced new services, dubbed Open Client, designed to make it easier for customers to run its Lotus collaboration software on a mixture of Windows and Linux desktop operating systems.

IBM launched on Monday its Smart Business Desktop service, a combination of thin client computing, virtualization, and the cloud, which is claimed to be the "industry's first public desktop cloud ...

Sun Microsystems, in a somewhat sarcastic open letter to IBM posted on Sun’s Web site, is inviting Big Blue to purchase Sun’s Linux-based Sun Java Desktop System for IBM’s own employees. In a letter ...