FACTOID # 106: Americans are 15% more innovative than the Japanese. But in percentage terms, the Japanese grant 3.5 times more patents.
 
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Encyclopedia > IBM (disambiguation)

IBM might be an acronym or abbreviation for: It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Backronym and Apronym (Discuss) Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations, such as NATO, laser, and ABC, written as the initial letter or letters of words, and pronounced on the basis of this abbreviated written form. ... An abbreviation (from Latin brevis short) is a shortened form of a word or phrase. ...


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IBM's success in the mid-1960s led to inquiries as to IBM antitrust violations by the U.S. Department of Justice, which filed a complaint for the case U.S. v.
IBM in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, on January 17, 1969.
IBM invented many of the core technologies used in all forms of computing, including the first hard disk drive and the Winchester hard disk drive, the cursor (on computer screens), Dynamic RAM (DRAM), the relational database, Thin Film recording heads, RISC architecture, and the floppy disk.
IBM - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (3355 words)
IBM's success in the mid-1960s led to inquiries as to IBM antitrust violations by the U.S. Department of Justice, which filed a complaint for the case U.S. v.
IBM is currently part of the Cell Project (together with Sony), a next generation processor architecture designed for multimedia, hi-def and gaming content.
IBM India and other IBM offices in China, the Philippines and Costa Rica have been witnessing a recruitment boom and steady growth in number of employees.
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