North Carolina State University (NC State) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced plans to provide every student in North Carolina access to advanced educational resources through NC State's Virtual Computing Lab (VCL), a cloud computing-based technology.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Audible Magic Corp. today announced that Audible Magic has licensed video fingerprint software from IBM to enhance and expand its portfolio of patented audio and video identification technologies.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Global Hyatt Corporation will standardize on IBM Lotus Notes and Domino and Lotus Sametime software for unified communications and collaboration among its thousands of employees and its 365 managed, operated and franchised hotels in 45 countries.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today extended its most widely used software, Lotus Notes, to new markets through delivery as a hosted service, Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging.

Mercedes-Benz in Brazil, the largest manufacturer of trucks and buses in Latin America, has signed a contract with IBM in Brazil (NYSE: IBM) to modernize and replace its network infrastructure equipment.

As a result of its quick expansion in Brazil, Leroy Merlin, one of the biggest global retail chains in the area of home building and decoration, has increased the scope of its outsourcing agreement with IBM in Brazil (NYSE: IBM).

At today's AJAXWorld, the OpenAjax Alliance announced the successful interoperability of two key technologies with more than a dozen Ajax products. These advances will further enable software developers to create enterprise-class web sites with Web 2.0 features using its open standards software.

The Vienna Insurance Group doesn't have to worry about their IT services. The leading insurance group affirms its belief in IBM Austria by announcing a new information technology (IT) services agreement with IBM (NYSE: IBM) for the next 6 years.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today that Merrill Lynch will use its new iDataPlex servers, a new class of data center hardware that allows mass-scale, Internet-style computing in a compact, energy-saving package.

IBM Invests US$60 Million in Argentina Over a Ten Year Period in New Global Delivery Centers and in the Extension of Its Virtual IT Campus; the New Centers Join a Network Including Centers in Chile, Peru and Venezuela. IBM Already Has Five More IT Service Centers in Operation in SSA; the New Centers Add to a Series of Investments by IBM in Its SSA IT Centers in Excess of US$200 Million Over the Past 7 Years.

IBM announced that it is collaborating with Business Partners and universities to launch a jointly developed scholarship program for students focused on furthering mainframe education. The new program is designed to support increased demand in education and training in mainframe and large enterprise computing.

Cognos, an IBM (NYSE: IBM) company in business intelligence and performance management solutions, today unveiled new collaborative business modeling software for business users to create, maintain, govern and share business perspectives and quickly organize strategic information for improved decision-making and performance management.