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A new deal between IBM and IBEC, a BPL provider, will bring BPL coverage to 340,000 rural homes, many of which currently have no access to cable or DSL broadband.

Rural Internet users left out of the loop by mainsteam Internet solutions like cable and DSL may soon have a new option thanks to a deal IBM has hammered out to begin providing broadband over power lines. On Wednesday, the company announced it had signed a $9.6 million deal with IBEC, a broadband-over-power-line (BPL) provider, to begin equipping several rural test markets with BPL technology.

http://news.digitaltrends.com/news-article/18394/ibm... 

A U.S. District Court in New York has ordered former IBM executive Mark Papermaster to immediately stop working for Apple. Papermaster was recently wooed away from IBM after being offered what he described as “a once in a lifetime opportunity”.

http://www.edibleapple.com/judge-orders-ibm-executiv... 

Laptop: IBM T60pOperating System: Vista BusinessThinkpad Access Connection Version: 4.31bI am not able to connect to Wireless networks which are using SSID, and a Shared WEP key using Thinkvantage Access Connection. I can see the problem in...

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Second Life - More on IBM Codestation and other new IBM islands.

A few photos of the advertising presence on Second Life of IBM, Circuit City, Showtime, Adidas and Reebok. These are all photos taken from the private islands owned by each respective company.

Advances in speech recognition paves way for unified language ?

Blog update on IBM developments in Second Life

A new IBM island, due for launch in February, is available for view now in SL.

Companies as varied as Toyota, Dell, Sears, and Adidas have all established bulkheads in the 3-D virtual world called "Second Life." Is this influx of brands an exciting precursor of how we'll be conducting business very soon, or the ultimate exercise in corporate flat-footedness?