U.S. patent office looking for prior art on IBM patent application
EDN
As part of its Peer-to-Patent: Community Patent Review, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is seeking comments and prior art references on a patent application from IBM Corp. concerning “a method for readjusting and interpolating a progress of an execution of multi-step program by a computing device.”
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IBM's all-star salesman
CNN Money
Vivek Gupta barely waits for the driver to pull to a stop before jumping out of the back seat of the taxi. He strides toward a converted textile mill in south central Mumbai, which now houses the offices of Vodafone Essar, a subsidiary of the British-based wireless provider. Inside, it looks as if a procurement manager has ordered an entire catalog of Herman Miller's latest offerings, from angled cubicles to mushroom-shaped noise-canceling devices. Gupta exchanges pleasantries with the security guard and takes the stairs to the executive suite two at a time, greeting half-a-dozen people by name along the way. He stops before the office of Vodafone's chief technical officer, who looks up warmly. "Vivek!" the man says, springing to his feet. He claps Gupta on the back. "Sometimes even we are not sure if his name badge says 'Vodafone' or 'IBM.'"
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Avnet offers IBM Foundry services
EDN
IBM and Avnet Electronics Marketing expanded their engineering services relationship, allowing the top distributor to offer IBM Foundry solutions in North America, including design libraries, CMOS and SOI technologies.
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