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International Business Machines Corporation (IBM, or (colloquially) Big Blue; ) is an American computer technology corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York. The company is one of the few information technology companies with a continuous history dating back to the 19th century; it was founded in 1888 and incorporated (as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (C-T-R)) on June 15 1911. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware, software, infrastructure services, hosting services, and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. With almost 330,000 employees worldwide and revenues of States dollar|$" target="_blank" >*91 billion annually (figures from 2005), IBM is the largest information technology company in the world, and holds more patents than any other technology company.
In recent years, services and consulting revenues have been larger than those from manufacturing. Significantly, IBM has also been steadily increasing its workforce in developing countries (notably, in IBM India) and retrenching in the US and Europe . Samuel J. Palmisano was elected CEO on January 29 2002 after having led IBM's Global Services, and helping it to become a business with $100 billion in backlog in 2004. Palmisano replaced Louis V. Gerstner, who had held the job from 1993 to 2002, taking over from John Akers, who left during a period of financial difficulty for the company.
IBM has engineers and consultants in over 170 countries and IBM Research has eight laboratories, all located in the Northern Hemisphere, with five of those locations outside of the United States. IBM employees have earned five Nobel Prizes, four Turing Awards, five National Medals of Technology, and five National Medals of Science.
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Almaden Lab at IBM - Current research and career opportunities.
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Bill Morrow's thinkpads.com - ThinkPad user forum, ThinkPad information and sales. Hard-to-find parts such as disk drive mounting shells. A useful resource for ThinkPad owners.
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Blue Star - New and used parts for ThinkPads and other IBM systems, as well as Compaq and 3Com.
Epinions.com - Reviews by ThinkPad users.
Meta Description: [ Epinions has the best comparison shopping information on IBM PC Laptops. Compare prices from across the web and read reviews from other consumers on IBM PC Laptops before you decide to buy. ]
IBM Parts - My TrackPoint caps have worn out! Where can I get some more? Direct from IBM Parts at this site, or by phone. (Those caps are part #84G6536, and they have every other ThinkPad part too.)
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IBM ThinkPad - IBM's home page for the ThinkPad series of notebook computers.
IBM ThinkPad and PC Support - Make a list of the IBM ThinkPad and PC models you own, then get a personal support page with information and downloads for your machines, and optional email notification of driver updates.
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Index Computer Remarketing - Buyer and seller of ThinkPads and ThinkPad parts.
Meta Description: [ One of the nations largest providers of IBM parts & DELL parts. Index Computer,IBM Parts,Dell Parts - from www.indexworldwide.com ]
The IBM Butterfly - The ThinkPad 701C with its folding butterfly keyboard was one of the first subnotebooks, a true classic.
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ThinkPad Mailing List - How to subscribe to the ThinkPad mailing list. A good list with about 10-30 messages a day, mostly on topic.
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