ICAP, the world's largest interbank broker, agreed to buy electronic currency trading system EBS for $775 million in cash as it expands computer-based transactions.
Indeed, according to Code.org, a nonprofit that seeks to expand computer science instruction in schools, there are more than 540,000 open computing jobs.
The blade computers solved a host of problems for companies grappling with expanding computer centers.
He said North Korea was in the midst of a major push to expand computer use in every classroom and workplace.
He said Tuesday that some of the money from this fund could be used to help expand computer classes in libraries.
General Alexander said that confronting what he called the two biggest threats facing the United States — terrorism and cyberattacks — would require the application of expanded computer monitoring.
There are added costs for expanded computer help desks, work-study jobs for students who provide emergency technical assistance in dormitories, and training for reluctant, old-fashioned faculty.
Dell said that over the next few years it expected demand to rise, largely because big companies are expanding computer systems to do more business on the Internet.
It has an agreement with I.B.M. to expand computer capabilities for information-based medicine and another with General Electric to develop advanced imaging equipment for medical procedures.
By the time Mr. Brown arrived in 1999, Electronic Data had been divested by G.M. but was steadily losing ground to I.B.M. in a rapidly expanding computer services market.
[ABC News] Responding to environmental concerns about the energy consumed by its rapidly expanding computer server farms, Apple plans to rely solely on renewable energy to power its main American data center in North Carolina by the end of the year.
