IBM to lend its expertise to Tucson Water in 2013

If opening the monthly water bill is the reason behind your high blood pressure, you might be able to dump the beta blockers in 2013.

Tucson tech firms, solar site among award finalists

A Tucson electronics company, a local tech startup and a solar-demonstration area at the University of Arizona Science and Technology Park and IBM Corp. are among the finalists for the 2012 Governor’s Celebration of Innovation Awards.

Northwest school briefs

Hispanic Chamber awards scholarships

Flawed Dow gives skewed market picture

NEW YORK - It's the granddaddy of stock indexes, a centenarian that is spritely for its age. Since a near fatal fall in March 2009, it's nearly doubled.

Call center in Tucson has closed, IBM says

IBM Corp. confirmed Friday that it has closed a customer-service call center in Tucson.

IBM closes call center in Tucson

IBM Corp. confirmed that it has closed a customer-service call center in Tucson.

IBM system cuts tech-management costs

Rodney Adkins, a senior vice president at IBM, with one of IBM's new PureSystems units at a company lab in Research Triangle Park, N.C.

IBM system cuts tech-management costs

IBM Corp. has rolled out a new category of "expert integrated" systems it calls a major step forward in simplifying corporate computing.

IBM tech expert here garners top company honor

is IBM chief technology officer for disk storage.

IBM tech expert here garners top company honor

Computing giant IBM Corp. has named a Tucson-based storage-technology expert one of seven new IBM Fellows, Big Blue's highest technical honor.

market roundup

Stocks mostly fell Tuesday on mixed reports on home prices and consumer confidence. Rising energy stocks and a decision by IBM Corp. to double its stock-repurchase plan propped up the Dow Jones industrials, but the Nasdaq composite index slid after Chinese Internet search company Baidu Inc. …

Spotlight: College of Engineering honoree went far after ditching law plan

During freshman orientation week, David Allais planned to study law until he and two friends happened to stroll by the UA law college. He found himself in a cavernous room lined with leather-bound books.

Spotlight: College of Engineering honoree went far after ditching law plan

Ben's Bells : 'He can repair anything,' and does so willingly for all

The recipient of this week's Ben's Bell is Ron Creath, a retired IBM field engineer and his neighborhood's handyman.

Ben's Bells : 'He can repair anything,' and does so willingly for all

market roundup

Investors push Dow past 10,000

NEW YORK — The Dow Jones Industrial Average's rally Wednesday above 10,000 erases about half the damage done since the gauge soared to a record two years ago.

Investors push Dow past 10,000

Flight control system for FAA still has a few kinks

WASHINGTON — A new computer system key to modernization of the nation's air traffic control system has run into problems, raising doubts about whether it can be operational 15 months from now when current computers must be replaced, union officials said Wednesday.

Clean tech looks like the Next Big Thing

SAN FRANCISCO — Our economy sure could use the Next Big Thing. Something on the scale of railroads, automobiles or the Internet — the kind of breakthrough that emerges every so often and builds industries, generates jobs and mints fortunes.