Archive for January 4th, 2006
Wednesday, January 4th, 2006
IBM stock trade volumes high
Morningstar reports that trading volume in IBM stock was unusually high for the 3rd Jan.
Volume more than twice 30-day average
This stock experienced unusually high trading volume of 11,712,800 shares today; its average daily volume over the previous 30 days was 5,493,400 shares.
Interestingly, the stock only closed slightly lower for the day, although there was […]
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Wednesday, January 4th, 2006
Voice enabled web surfing demo
IBM’s Igor Jablokov does an interview and demo for ABC News (US) showing a X+V (XHTML plus Voice) enabled mobile device surfing the web for information using voice control.
Demo: Talk to Type
(via the spkydog koop)
More info on X+V on developerWorks: X+V is a markup language, not a Roman math expression
Tags:ibm, mobile device, voice control, x+v
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Wednesday, January 4th, 2006
Is software development a commodity
Frank Schophuizen poses (and answers) a question:
Is software development a commodity ?
IBM goes for open source. At first I could not believe that a company like IBM would ever consider giving away anything to anyone. But with Eclipse they do and by donating a subset of the Rational Unified Process they are doing it again. […]
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Wednesday, January 4th, 2006
Acronyms
I have always had a soft spot for acronyms, and for poking fun at IBM and its over-use of acronyms (and even IBM marketing for attempting to stop technical staff from using them when naming products!!).
Willie Favero has a humorous look at the use of acronyms, especially in the context of relational database technology.
Acronyms
While watching […]