Archive for February, 2006
Tuesday, February 14th, 2006
Telecommuting technology
HR consulting company, Vertitude has a great article on telecommuting and the impact on management and work styles. Part of the article has a focus on IBM and the way the organisation’s telecommuting policy works.
Elaine Gottlieb writes “Of IBM’s 300,000 worldwide employees, 40 percent have no office at the company. IBM equips the home offices […]
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Monday, February 13th, 2006
The Future Of Speech
PC Magazine published an interview with two of the research leaders in IBM’s speech recognition group, Dr. David Nahamoo, manager of Human Language Technologies, and Dr. Roberto Sicconi, manager of Multimodal Conversational Solutions. The interview covered IBM’s new speech recognition technologies and the direction that speech recognition capabilities will be taking us in the future.
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Sunday, February 12th, 2006
Lotus Software and Web 2.0
Network World published an article about some of the recent announcements from Lotusphere, IBM’s main Lotus software focussed conference.
John Fontana writes “IBM/Lotus plans to expand its corporate collaboration tools by adding social relationship, behavior mapping and alerting technology that lets users easily share ideas, data, research and corporate knowledge. Customers are hoping that the tools […]
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Saturday, February 11th, 2006
IBM Podcast - “IBM and the Future of Privacy”
IBM’s next podcast in their “Future of” series has been relased - “IBM and the Future of Privacy”. This podcast investigates issues surrounding personal privacy of data and information including health and financial records, and shopping habits.
There is a fundamental conflict between the benefits to be had from sharing more personal information with the needs […]
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Friday, February 10th, 2006
Analyst increases IBM rating to “buy”
Business Week reports that analyst Megan Graham-Hackett has increased the rating for IBM from 3 stars (hold) to 4 stars (buy).
Megan writes, “We are raising our recommendation to buy based on valuation, as the shares are now trading at 13.5 times our 2006 earnings per share (EPS) estimate of $5.90. We do not believe this […]
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Thursday, February 9th, 2006
Caterpillar’s James W. Owens elected to IBM Board of Directors
James W. Owens, CEO of Caterpillar Inc., has been elected to the IBM Board of Directors - to take effect on the 1st March, 2006.
James has been in charge at Caterpillar since January 2004, having been an employee since 1972.
More details on James W. Owens can be found at Wikipedia, Forbes.com and Business Week
IBM press […]
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2006
IBM Podcast - “IBM and the Future of Sports”
IBM recently released another podcast in their “Future of” series - “IBM and the Future of Sports”. This podcast looks at the way technology has changed the nature of sports - the way they are played, the way they are watched, and the way athletes train and prepare.
There is a greater use of technology in […]
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Tuesday, February 7th, 2006
IBM Stock Dividend
The board of directors at IBM has indicated the next dividend payment to shareholders will be $.20 per common share, payable March 10, 2006 to stockholders of record February 10, 2006.
Apparently - this dividend payment makes it 361 consecutive quarterly dividends, starting in 1916. That’s a pretty good track record. Pity about the […]
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Monday, February 6th, 2006
IBM buys software from INFICON
IBM has announced that they have purchased the ARGUS semiconductor software from INFICON - process control software for semiconductor manufacturing.
IBM press release: IBM Acquires ARGUS Semiconductor Software From INFICON
Tags:ibm, inficon, manufacturing, semiconductor, software
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Sunday, February 5th, 2006
Palmisano joins Exxon Mobil board
IBM’s CEO, Sam Palmisano has apparently joined the board of Exxon Mobil
Source: Yahoo Finance: IBM’s CEO joins Exxon Mobil board and BizJoirnals IBM’s CEO joins Exxon Mobil board
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