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8 Ways to Better Understand the Internet of Things
Future sustainable technologies linking the physical and virtual world' In future posts we'll be covering IoT-driven growth in the fields of virtual factories, digital cities, agriculture and forest management. 'Novel Companies as large as IBM have invested heavily in IoT. The world's second Internet of Things Conference is scheduled to take place at the end of November in Tokyo. The deadline for papers was just extended to June 1 - which gave us an idea.
ReadWriteWeb - Thursday, March 18, 2010
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Got Budget? Virtualization as Poster Child for Less Meetings
NewScale has customers like McKesson and Charles Schwab and competitors like HP, IBM, Tivoli. We see this as a future cloud inflection point, where instead of there "cloud services", we are all in one. McKesson is a global health care leader that has 26 operating companies. The centrial IT group had the vision to automate "the last mile" of IT planning, the budget approval process.
ReadWriteWeb - Thursday, March 18, 2010
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4 Technology Partners And What They Say About the IBM Cloud
The IBM Cloud is a prototype of the ecosystem we expect to see emerge in the world of cloud services. It has the flavor of other platform environments, with the primary goal of integrating IBM with third-party applications to serve developers and end customers. But what is the importance of these third-party applications and what do they say about the future of IBM Cloud? It is the partners that tie into the larger ecosystems, often existing on multiple platforms. The healthy platforms will resemble coral reefs in which the partners are important to the
ReadWriteWeb - Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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  • HSTP: Hyperspeech Transfer Protocol
    IBM's research scientists in India have developed a technology that will offer users the ability to talk to the Web and create 'voice' sites using mobile phones according to a news article in the Economic Times today. Unlike personal computers it will work on mobile phones where people can simply create their voice sites," IBM India Research Laboratory Associate Director Manish Gupta told the Economic Times. Hyperspeech Transfer Protocol (HSTP), a protocol designed to seamlessly connect telephony voice applications, will enable users to browse across voice applications by navigating the Hyperspeech (the voice hyperlink) content in a voice application.
    ReadWriteWeb - Monday, March 16, 2009
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  • IBM Debuts Food Traceability iPhone App
    Today at the IBM Information on Demand event, IBM will demo a new app that will bring the Internet of Things to the iPhone. IBM told ReadWriteWeb that when 4G becomes common place in mobile phones, then apps such as Breadcrumbs will become more powerful and be readily used on-the-fly by consumers when grocery shopping. Breadcrumbs is a glimpse of what we'll see in the near future, when information will literally - finally - be at The as yet unreleased iPhone app is called Breadcrumbs and it will give consumers access to information about grocery food items.
    ReadWriteWeb - Monday, October 26, 2009
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  • Lotus Notes Soon To Become Even More LinkedIn
    LinkedIn has partnered with IBM to create a new plugin that integrates its professional social network into Lotus Notes, a popular business desktop client that includes Email, calendar, and IM functionality. However, the plugin does not yet automatically look up the contacts mentioned in your Emails - you’ll still have to click on their names or use the pre-populated search to look them up (automatic lookup is planned for a future release). The plugin is making its debut to the public at Lotusphere , with plans for its release in the first half of 2009. For users who
    TechCrunch - Monday, January 19, 2009
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  • IBM Furthers Investment In Business Analytics With Smart Analytics Cloud
    During IBM’s Q3 earnings call a few weeks ago, IBM CFO Mark Loughridge highlighted business analytics as a sector where Big Blue is investing significant amounts of cash. Tonight, IBM is unveiling a new internal analytics product that the company is touting as the “largest private cloud computing environment for business analytics in the world,” which launches internally with more than a petabyte of information. The company recently acquired data analytics company SPSS for $1.2 billion and business analytics firm RedPill.
    TechCrunch - Sunday, November 15, 2009
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  • IBM Q3 Profits Rise 14 Percent
    IBM is reporting a 14 percent growth in year over year net income, posting a third-quarter profit of $3.2 IBM has been shifting its focus towards software and services from hardware and it appears to be paying off. Chairman, president and CEO, Samuel Palmisano said in a statement that IBM’s “strategic shift to higher-value businesses” contributed to the growth and the company saw “improved revenue trends in business and share gains in software billion, or $2.40 a share, on revenue of $23.6
    TechCrunch - Thursday, October 15, 2009
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  • IBM and Procter & Gamble's 21st Century Workplaces
    How many people are actually happily employed, using their skills, with a sufficient feeling of security to plan the future, and a minimum of stressful overload? Companies such as Procter & Gamble, IBM, and others are trying to create innovation and profits through values and principles that enable them to have a positive social impact. Employers must give people opportunities and tools to succeed, but individuals U.S. unemployment numbers came in just before Labor Day , and they are grim: 9.7
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, September 8, 2009
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  • Innovating for the Future — Sustainably
    While some companies might have difficulty meeting these targets, a number of utilities are moving forward with smart grid pilots, enabled by smart meters and distribution equipment from GE and from the likes of IBM and Cisco. While some might expect sustainability to be the last thing on business leaders' minds right now, our conversations with clients and prospects suggest otherwise. Many are starting to see that success in sustainability is key to emerging from the current recession and achieving long-term growth.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, June 3, 2009
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  • The 2008 IBM Global CEO Study
    IBM just released the 2008 Global CEO Study . IBM has been conducting such studies every two years for the last several years by interviewing hundreds of CEO's around the world. The Enterprise of the Future is the key theme of the 2008 CEO Study . The CEO interviews identified five core traits for the Four years ago, the 2004 study found that CEOs were emerging from the depressed business environment caused by the bursting of the dot com bubble , and were beginning to shift their priorities from cost cutting to driving profitable growth and strengthening overall financial performance.
    Irving Wladawsky-Berger - Monday, May 19, 2008
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  • IBM's New Image Recognition-Based Search
    Regardless of the reason for your memory loss, IBM is working on a tool that can help. There are ways to imply meaning to unstructured data, and the semantic web project is promising to develop the tools to help us do that in the future." Two such "divining" projects include CoPhIR (Content-based Photo Image Retrieval) Test-Collection and IBM's MUFIN (Multi-Feature Indexing Network). We've all seen photos of ourselves in locations we can't quite remember. Often they're from exotic travels or from days long past.
    ReadWriteWeb - Thursday, September 10, 2009
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  • Incredibly Cool! Vision of Future of Application and eLearning Development
    where we had speakers from IBM, Google, Microsoft, Sony and others talking about what it really means (especially for corporations). One of the most interesting things was the Enterprise Mashup demonstration by Rod Smith at IBM. Last week I moderated an event on Web 2.0 He basically showed how a business-user would be able to wire together an application.
    eLearning Technology - Friday, November 3, 2006
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