Archive for January, 2006
Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
Analysis of Micromuse acquisition
Tony Lock, Chief Analyst for Bloor Research writes about the recent IBM acquisition of Micromuse - and is pretty positive about it.
IBM Closes 2005 With Capture of Micromuse
All in all, this could be a very shrewd buy. The combination of the Tivoli systems and service management technologies with Netcool’s carrier-class network performance management capabilities will […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2006
Australian Open starts today
IBM has been the technology provider to the Australian Open Grand-Slam Tennis Championships for 14 years now. Since 1993, IBM’s partnership with the tournament has seen a significant investment of technology and new features for the fans and customers of the event.
In addition to the official Australian Open website, IBM has their own website with […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2006
IBM’s upcoming earnings announcement
Note: For recent IBM earnings posts try IBM Earnings Here.
This Forbes “Eye on Stocks” column features stocks whose earnings reports come out on Tuesday, including IBM.
Eye On Stocks For Tuesday, Jan. 17
IBM is set to announce results for the fiscal first quarter on Tuesday after the closing bell. The Wall Street consensus calls for the […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2006
Old IBM Adverts
A website has started collecting old adverts for computer products as a form of history. It’s actually fascinating to see where we are now, compared to how things were back then. Someone ought to put a lot more effort into collecting such e-memorabilia (did I just coin a new term ?), it will be great […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2006
IBM’s fridge servers
A.H. Rajani writes a rather cynical post about IBM’s advertising for a new server product line, the eServer Bladecenter.
IBM Gone Wild
IBM, whose commercials are so ’sophisticated’ they usually forget to tell customers what they are selling, is advertising a new line of servers. At first they lament on how most businesses have at least one […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2006
More details on SEC probe into IBM’s Q1
Steve Hamm writes an analysis of the SEC enquiry into IBM’s reporting of its first quarter results.
The Heat Rises Under IBM
The first quarter of 2005 keeps coming back to haunt IBM. Not only did it miss analysts’ earnings estimates, which sent its stock and credibility plunging — but the way it communicated with […]
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Sunday, January 15th, 2006
How IBM Blogs
An interesting article posted in The Journal News about how IBM blogs. Most of this has been written about before - but it’s good to get another point of view on it.
Big Blue bit by the blogging bug
When Christopher Barger started a blog almost three years ago, he wanted to write about something other than […]
1 Comment » - Posted in People by Sim'
Sunday, January 15th, 2006
IBM to fix voting in Arizona
The Business Journal reports that IBM won a contract with the state of Arizona to implement a system which will make regsitration of voters more streamlined and secure.
Business Journal via Yahoo Finance: IBM awarded $9.4M deal to develop secure voter database
IBM has received a $9.4 million contract to assist the state of Arizona in developing […]
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Saturday, January 14th, 2006
Interview: Carlos “Johnny†Lopez II - Professional Gamer, IBMer
GameTomorrow: a blog hosted by some of the leaders in IBM in relation to gaming and game hardware and software technology - published an interview with Carlos Lopez, and IBMer recently turned pro-gamer.
IBM’s Resident Professional Gamer Talks Gaming
With IBM currently leading the video game industry in processor development, it makes sense that they also have […]
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Saturday, January 14th, 2006
Article about Craigslist
Okay, again it’s not strictly on-topic, but following my principle of writing about IBMers, past and present, here’s a fascinating article on Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist. Craig is an ex-IBMer, so I count that as enough reason to write about it.
From
New York Magazine: A Guy Named Craig: “How a schlumpy IBM refugee found […]