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Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Infographics
Our children are now crawling with it, according to a new commercial by IBM.
[youtube And it's not the only commercial to alert us to the fact that everything around us is a series of numbers and patterns to be combed, categorized and visualized--this piece is part of a larger series by IBM, claiming that our planet is " alive with data ." How prevalent is our cultural obsession with data? youtube 1s6xPy-IU4g]
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Fast Company
- Thursday, March 18, 2010
Smart IBM Software Could Rescue You From Dumb Call Center Hell
IBM has developed new software that uses advanced analytics in an attempt to improve customer satisfaction with call centers. IBM expects RAMP to "enhance customer satisfaction, reduce attrition, increase revenue and improve contact-center productivity resulting in better overall company performance," and it's available now.
[youtube IBM RAMP, or Realtime Analytics Matching Platform, brings two sets of data--that of the caller and that of the customer service representative--and, once it has identified what the client is phoning about, hooks them up with the right person for the job.
Fast Company
- Thursday, March 18, 2010
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Charts: IBM’s Software-Led Margin Expansion
Many people still think of IBM as the company that sells Big Iron—mainframes and its enterprise server descendants. In a financial slide presentation IBM released today to the SEC as an 8K document , however, you really get a sense of how much IBM has continued to shift its business towards software and services over the past eight years.
As can be seen in the chart above, IBM’s pre-tax income margins have more than doubled from a low of 7.2 Of course, the engine of the company’s profits long ago shifted to consulting and software. The result has been
TechCrunch
- Tuesday, September 8, 2009
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How IBM Plans to Win Jeopardy!
IBM's Watson will showcase the latest tricks in natural-language processing.
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IBM Uses Amazon To Leapfrog Microsoft On The Way To The Blue Cloud
IBM is advancing its aggressive cloud computing strategy with a string of announcements this week. The most recent was IBM's partnership with Amazon Web Services to allow access of its software to solution providers using Amazon's cloud computing applications. The partnerships offers pay-as-you-go access to development and production versions of IBM Information Management database servers, IBM Lotus content management, and IBM WebSphere portal and middleware products through The partnership makes sense because Amazon has been an early leader in the cloud computing sphere, and IBM is making strides towards becoming the master of cloud computing.
TechCrunch
- Thursday, February 12, 2009
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Monster Merger: IBM Buys SPSS For Approx. $1.2 Billion
IBM is buying analytics software and solutions provider SPSS in an all cash transaction at a price of $50/share, resulting in a total cash consideration in the merger of approximately $1.2 IBM shares of IBM fell 67 cent to $116.96 Tags: Company & Product Profiles ibm sps billion. The acquisition is subject to SPSS shareholder approval, applicableregulatory clearances and other closing conditions.
TechCrunch
- Tuesday, July 28, 2009
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IBM Files Patent For Geek Couch Potato Dream: A TV Remote That Tweets
Slouchers on Twitter (you know who you are), take note: IBM is apparently working on technology that would enable you to blog or tweet straight from the remote control of your TV. Tags: Company & Product Profiles ibm Twitte The company has filed a patent for said technology with the USPTO , reports BaltTech .
The interesting part of the patent filing, which was submitted by IMB engineers last year but only surfaced online a few months ago:
TechCrunch
- Friday, August 28, 2009
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Mobile Data: IBM Tags Wimbledon With Seer Android
Now IBM has its own augmented reality mobile app for Wimbledon called Seer Android (see demo in the video above).
Since it is the technology provider of the tennis tournament, IBM decide to tag Wimbledon. Using the Android G1’s compass, camera, and GPS, IBM’s app shows pop-up windows whenever it recognizes whatever you are pointing at: tennis courts (along with who is playing), bathrooms, buses, and so on. Some of the most promising set of mobile apps being built today use a cell phone’s camera and GPS to overlay data onto the real world. In other words,
TechCrunch
- Tuesday, June 23, 2009
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IBM Invests in Battery Research
The company hopes to develop powerful, lightweight lithium-air batteries.
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IBM and The Internet of Things
In the Web world, you know that a trend has major traction when IBM is all over it. However in the case of Internet of Things, IBM is proving itself to be an unusually early adopter.
recently spoke to Andy Stanford-Clark, a Master Inventor and Distinguished Engineer at IBM. Today we delve Like any large Internet company, Big Blue is careful about which trends it latches onto. It was a good couple of years before they were spotted at the Web 2.0
ReadWriteWeb
- Wednesday, July 22, 2009
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Oracle Wants To Be The Apple Of The Enterprise, But It Just Became IBM
Rather than look like Apple with its dedication to making the perfect product, Oracle just became IBM. How different really is Oracle buying Sun than if IBM had bought it , other than the price? Tags: Company & Product Profiles ibm Oracle Sun Microsystem Larry Ellison has always wanted to be the Steve Jobs of the enterprise. With this morning’s announcement that Oracle will buy Sun Microsystems for $7.4
TechCrunch
- Monday, April 20, 2009
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IBM Adopts Saba as its Learning Technology Partner
A very important partnership was announced today: IBM announced a major commitment to Saba as its primary learning management technology partner.
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Bersin Tags: Enterprise Learning HR Systems LMS, LCMS ibm lms Sab Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management
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Josh Bersin
- Wednesday, May 13, 2009
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