The first shipment of Russian aid to minority Serbs in newly independent Kosovo has arrived in Belgrade, in a show of Moscow's support for Serbia in its dispute with the West over Kosovo.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today that the company recently shipped its 1,000th POWER6™ processor-based System p™ 570 server, with Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: ARW) being the recipient.

IBM announced that it has shipped the 25,000th high-end disk storage solution to the University of Pittsburgh. The new disk storage solution is part of a hardware, software and virtualization storage infrastructure to improve the learning environment for faculty and staff, enable the university to lower its total cost of ownership, improve data center energy efficiency and respond rapidly to storage infrastructure demands.

The world is a very different place out beyond the horizon. Even as you read this, there are some 40,000 large cargo ships plying the world’s waterways and oceans, not to mention innumerable smaller merchant craft, all pulling in and out of ports, loading, unloading, changing out crews and cargos, and steaming from one location to the next.