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			<description><![CDATA[Teaming up looks tantilising on paper but when it comes to executing the strategy the reality can be somewhat murkier and that's where collaborative systems come in.]]></description>
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			<title>IBM finds way to build microchips using DNA</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Scientists claim breakthrough will make computer chips more powerful, faster and cheaper to manufacture]]></description>
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			<title>Give me, give me, give me… more financial leverage!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[If there's a silver lining here in the Middle East to the economic correction being experienced around the world, it is the adoption of IT asset management instruments including Basel II and Sarbanes-Oxley to track, maintain and replace equipment to ensure ROI and leverage that all important liquidity.]]></description>
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			<title>Building a Smarter Planet</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ITP.net speaks to John L Kennedy, Vice President of Marketing for IBM about the company's Smarter Planet initiative]]></description>
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			<title>IBM to sell Juniper wares as its own</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[OEM agreement will see IBM rebrand and sell select Juniper Ethernet networking products]]></description>
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			<title>Failed negotiations see IBM taken to court</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Patent licensing firm Mosaid Technologies claim IBM has infringed on six of its United States patents]]></description>
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			<title>Making up ground</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Brocade comes out strong after IBM deal and Foundry purchase.]]></description>
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			<title>Saudi supercomputer ranked as fourteenth most powerful worldwide</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[King Abdullah University of Science and Technology's Shaheen supercomputer ranks 14th on Top500.org list]]></description>
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			<title>Let there be light</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Illuminating the path to insightful business decisions can cost a fortune, but what if executives do not know what they are asking for?]]></description>
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			<title>IBM to invest $100m in mobile R&amp;amp;D</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Mobile research to focus on consumer and business users that connect to the web via mobile devices]]></description>
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			<title>IBM airs out cloud computing portfolio</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Big Blue has followed on from the manifesto controversy with the launch of a large range of cloud computing services.]]></description>
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			<title>Knockout margins</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Customers are becoming notoriously prudent over their IT purchases, but if manufacturers are to be listened to there are still pieces of ‘killer' hardware that will force end-users in this market to open their wallets. We asked leading vendors in the region to scour their portfolios and identify a ‘recession-proof' product that will help resellers beat the downturn.]]></description>
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			<title>IBM infrastructure boosts Saudi e-government drive</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Tech giant completes deployment of project infrastructure integral to the Kingdom’s Yesser eGovernment Program]]></description>
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			<title>IBM fights downturn and Oracle threat</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[IBM might be an industry heavyweight, but that doesn’t afford the firm and its partners automatic shelter from the storm. This is the time a calming voice is most needed to soothe the worries of the channel. Recently-installed director of global business partners MENA and Pakistan at IBM, Jean-Christophe Knoertzer, does his best to extinguish channel fears over, not just the recession, but also the prospect of a fresh gauntlet with Oracle-Sun partners.]]></description>
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			<title>IBM sets up regional headquarters in Dubai</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Technology giant plans to tap 100 emerging markets in Central, Eastern Europe, MENA.]]></description>
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			<title>IBM report confirms rise in web-based security attacks</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Reveals that more than half of all vulnerabilities analysed last year were related to web applications]]></description>
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			<title>IBM goes to mid-market with new offerings</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Solutions focus on growing demand for dynamic infrastructure as well as energy efficiency]]></description>
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			<title>IBM acquires the assets of Exeros</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Big blue has announced the acquisition of the assets of Exeros]]></description>
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			<title>Professionals are social too</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Jeffrey Schick, VP of IBM’s Social Software division, reveals why social networking makes good business sense]]></description>
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			<title>Cloud Manifesto makes stormy debut</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Open Cloud Manifesto comes under fire from a number of key players including Microsoft]]></description>
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			<title>GBM hits the road to push enterprise message</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Roadshow with Magirus, IBM and VMware to promote benefits of virtualisation software]]></description>
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			<title>Satyam opens bidding for new investor</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Services company opens bidding process to find new majority shareholder]]></description>
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			<title>IBM to establish service centre in Egypt</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Centre will create 1,500 jobs over the next three years and expand IBM’s presence in the region]]></description>
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			<title>Tech week in pictures: 5th February</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A visual summary of the news and launches that made headlines in the world of technology this week. (Getty Images) ]]></description>
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			<title>IBM to build new world-leading supercomputer</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[New supercomputer for US nuclear tests to be twenty times faster than present fastest]]></description>
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			<title>IBM and Qatari universities launch into cloud computing</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[IBM and three Qatari universities have announced an initiative to drive the use of cloud computing for research in the Middle East]]></description>
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			<title>IBM begins laying off staff</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[More than 2,800 already made redundant as American employees demand the company stop outsourcing jobs]]></description>
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			<title>IBM takes business collaboration to the clouds</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Launches LotusLive - a virtual office that features IBM Lotus tools for enterprise customers]]></description>
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			<title>Storage anatomy</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Every desktop PC and notebook has a non-volatile storage device to store data. Here, WINDOWS explains exactly what makes hard drives and newer solid state drives tick.]]></description>
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			<title>Taking the virtual leap</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[We’ve all heard about how virtualization is changing the world of IT, but are companies in the Middle East actually embracing the technology? ]]></description>
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