Archive for September, 2006
Thursday, September 28th, 2006
Blogroll please…
IBM now has a blogroll. (Per Andy Piper) One can only surmise that someone at IBM read my post about the benefits of corporate blogging and were convicted that they weren’t doing more.
In Andy’s post above, he called one of his colleagues “desperate for traffic” because they used their name a keyword. […]
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Thursday, September 28th, 2006
IBM: The Patent Pioneer or Pure Theater
The New York Times had a front page article this week talking about IBM’s announcement that they are trying to add more transparency to their patent filing process. In summary they will:
Put all their patents on the web whether current or pending
Try to name their patents intuitively
No patents based on business processes unless there […]
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Monday, September 25th, 2006
IBM as a Web Host
Did anyone know that IBM was a webhost? Not the signup-and-get-a-free-domain kind, but the services-provider-for-companies-needing-distributed-data-centers kind. I had never heard that but I guess it makes sense. 5 Years ago there were a slew of articles about IBM as a big time web design firm with a division somewhere like Atlanta I think […]
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Sunday, September 24th, 2006
IBM announces the PC
2006 marks the 25th anniversary of the IBM PC. It was a revolutionary idea… a computer on every desk.
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Thursday, September 21st, 2006
IBM Continuing Ramp up in India
IBM to add 3000 staff in a single Kolkata, India (Calcutta) facility (Link) as part of IBM’s $6 Billion dollar plan to, in the words of InformationWeek, “own India’s technology landscape”.
“IBM is betting big that India will for years to come be the center of excellence for software development and related work like IT services […]
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Monday, September 18th, 2006
IBM Offers a Privacy-Friendly RFID Chip
IBM’s RFID solutions just got more robust, offering a new clipped tag, allowing users to prevent the chip from broadcasting details about the item to which the chip is affixed.
IBM’s “Clipped Tag” is giving consumers the ability to simply “opt out” and protect their privacy by tearing or scratching off the RFID antennae, eliminating the […]
2 Comments » - Posted in General, Products by Greg
Monday, September 18th, 2006
IBM PS3 Chip Makes Red Herring Top 5 Stories of the Week
IBM’s marketing of the cell chips from PS3 was a Red Herring top story of the week.
Sony’s PlayStation 3 console may be off to a late start in the latest round of the console wars. But the company cranking out Sony’s silicon is finding plenty of uses for the PlayStation 3’s cell processor […]
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Thursday, September 14th, 2006
I love Sametime 7.5
IBM formally launched Lotus Sametime 7.5 this morning. Way to go IBM for building fast and for living up to your hype. They announced it less than a year ago and it’s already “shipped” so to speak.
Sametime 7.5 is more than an incremental release. It opens up collaboration tools in several […]
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Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
IBM now selling computers with cell chip processors
From the press release:
The IBM BladeCenter QS20 is a Cell BE-based blade system designed for businesses that can benefit from high performance computing power and the unique capabilities of the Cell BE processor to run graphic-intensive applications. The IBM BladeCenter QS20 will expand the use of Cell into industries such as medical imaging, aerospace, defense, […]
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Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
xBox 360 Development - How IBM Landed the Deal
This is a great older article (5/1/2006) about the xBox 360 project cycle. It reads a lot like a project post mortem on the xBox 360 design process. The article discusses how IBM scored the Microsoft contract for xBox 360 chips
I love an article that teaches you about the company by presenting the […]