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MIT Unveils New Digital Sandbox

William M. Bulkeley, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 5, 2010 at 4:52 pm PT

The famed Media Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology unveiled its new home, a $90 million, six-story playpen. It’s designed to let some of the world’s smartest and most creative engineers explore their inner robot, create new social networking tools or build intelligent music systems.

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Print Outsourcing Gives Boost to Xerox, H-P

William M. Bulkeley, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 22, 2009 at 7:35 am PT

With companies around the world outsourcing their printing services, the printer and copier industry seems to have found a rare bright spot. Big companies are increasingly hiring Xerox Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and others to provide “managed print services,” a variety of outsourcing in which the vendor takes control of the customer’s production of office documents, typically owning the machines, advising on how to use them, and taking a per-page charge.

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IBM Adds to "Cloud" Facilities

William M. Bulkeley, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 10, 2009 at 12:00 am PT

International Business Machines Corp. opened one new data center and unveiled plans for another and a research laboratory in Pacific Rim countries, reflecting its growing business in cloud computing, in which applications remotely run on shared computers. IBM said it will build an 80 million New Zealand dollar (US$57 million) data center in Auckland, New Zealand, that will be completed in 2010.

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Chicago's Camera Network Is Everywhere

William M. Bulkeley, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 17, 2009 at 5:00 am PT

A giant web of video-surveillance cameras has spread across Chicago, aiding police in the pursuit of criminals but raising fears that the City of Big Shoulders is becoming the City of Big Brother. While many police forces are boosting video monitoring, video-surveillance experts believe Chicago has gone further than any other U.S. city in merging computer and video technology to police the streets.

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Litl Introduces Its Web-Based Netbook

William M. Bulkeley, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 5, 2009 at 12:01 am PT

Is a computer with no disk drive and no applications software still a computer? Litl LLC, a small Boston company, says its eponymous Litl device is the future of personal computing. Litl is a Web computer with a full keyboard and an operating system designed for people who use online software like Google Docs and store their photos on Flickr or Shutterfly.

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IBM Sells Unit, Expands Buyback

William M. Bulkeley, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 28, 2009 at 11:01 am PT

Dassault Systèmes SA agreed to pay $600 million to buy an International Business Machines Corp. unit that sells Dassault’s design software. The sale to Dassault, which makes software for computer-aided design and product management, removes one of the last vestiges of IBM’s once vast applications-software business.

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Moffat Viewed as "Classic IBM Executive"

William M. Bulkeley, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 19, 2009 at 8:11 am PT

Within International Business Machines Corp., Robert W. Moffat Jr. was known as a “quintessential IBMer,” rising to Big Blue’s top echelons by relentlessly cutting costs to boost profits. To the rest of the world, he is becoming known as one of the highest-ranking executives to be embroiled in an insider-trading scandal since Wall Street was rocked by such schemes in the 1980s.

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Mainframes Remain Lucrative Business for IBM

William M. Bulkeley and Keith J. Winstein, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 9, 2009 at 11:44 am PT

A mainframe computer may seem as out-of-date as a typewriter in the age of Google and iPhones. But the half-century-old business is still crucial and lucrative enough to be drawing scrutiny from U.S. antitrust investigators. International Business Machines Corp. is now almost alone in the market for mainframes: high-end computers that run everything from Amtrak’s reservation system to benefits payments for the Social Security Administration.

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Printing and Binding Your Blog for Posterity

William M. Bulkeley, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 8, 2009 at 10:35 am PT

Some bloggers are beginning to save their words on paper after all–collected between hard covers in a bound volume to pass along to their children. A service, Blog2Print, from New York custom-book maker SharedBook, prints blogs into books and says that demand has been been growing 50 percent every month, although from a small base.

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Businesses Take Another Look at Virtual Desktops

William M. Bulkeley, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 29, 2009 at 10:14 am PT

As companies look for new ways to squeeze costs out of their technology budgets, some are deciding that the next PC they purchase need not be a PC at all. Instead, they are rolling out virtual desktops–a set-up consisting of a screen, keyboard and small connector box that ties into a powerful server in the computer room that has all the software, storage and processing capabilities that each desktop user needs.