An IBM report has claimed that the vulnerabilities have risen by 36 per cent from last year.

The report has claimed that major flaws were remained unpatched.

IBM has stated that the X-Force report which comes with 4,396 new vulnerabilities in the very first six months of 2010. Interesting thing to be noted that approximately 55 per cent have not acquired the security patches from the carriers.

IBM has launched the latest systems management software that has been developed by the technology that comes from $400 million deal of BigFix previous month.

IBM has rolled out the latest systems based on Power 7, in addition to a server capable of scaling up to 256 cores, for its Unix venture.

The server is tainted to be one of the largest Unix based server that has ever been released by any firm and aims at utilizing large-scale database apps.

The European Commission has called for two competition inquiries to find out whether the firm IBM has abused its position in the mainframe computers market.

One of the two inquiries will be carried out following allegations by two software making firms named Turbo Hercules and T3. These inquiries will see whether IBM has created any obstacle for its competitor firms to do their business freely.

IBM's financial results for the Q2 of 2010 have dismayed the hopes of trade watchers at Wall Street expectations.

It was stated that the company is witnessing a slow growth in software sales and a net increase in income of 9 per cent mounting to $3.39 billion, or $2.65 per share. However, the revenue dropped to go with $24.2 billion estimated by analysts, which expectedly was $23.7 billion.

IBM has pronounced the release of new cloud computing data centre in Ehningen, Germany, claims a report.

It was further added that the centre has been opened to meet the demands for IBM's cloud services in Europe.

IBM has proclaimed of making Firefox as its default browser.

The software corporation offers its 400,000 employees as the default browser for work as making the share jump to a slight higher level.