Apple lovers and users — I mean the computer company, not the fruit — are prone to occasional emotional outbursts about the hardware and software that emerge from the compnay's portals in Cupertino. It never fails to amuse me when grown adults get their knickers in a knot over any digital device. One would think that there are far more important things in life over which one should get agitated.

Predictions of a bloodbath at IBM, heatedly denied by the company, appear to be true. Up to 100,000 of the company’s staff, nearly one quarter of the total global workforce, is facing the axe.

IBM is no longer the world’s third biggest x86 server vendor. Lenovo is.