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Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
Design at IBM: Not an oxymoron
IBM’s newly promoted VP of Brand and Values Experience, Lee Green, talks to Business Week about the evolving role of design within the company:
Design has been a cornerstone of IBM’s offerings and of high importance to the corporation for decades. As a result, we’ve developed an internal capability that is highly skilled and highly diverse.
As […]
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Tuesday, May 16th, 2006
PBS’ Cringely writes IBM off
Robert X. Cringely, the host of PBS’ “Electric Money”, a long-time tech industry commentator, and a highly opinionated blogger, offers a scathing critique of IBM in a recent post:
IBM is a disaster-in-the-making. Big Blue as a total enterprise is running primarily on customer inertia and clever advertising, which definitely isn’t enough.
One aspect of IBM’s malaise […]
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Monday, May 15th, 2006
IBM’s supercomputer investment seen reaping nanotech benefits
Motley Fool examines the impact of IBM’s recent announcement of a partnership with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) to build a $100 million supercomputer:
On the face of it, the deal might not appear to be of much significance — but it is… for the better part of the past decade, [RPI] has been applying the science […]
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Friday, May 12th, 2006
BW profiles IBM advances in speech recognition
A short article in Business Week profiles areas where speech recognition technology may become mainstream, including hands-free controls in cars and medical translation, highlighting IBM research in these areas. From the article:
Speech recognition became more accurate as computer scientists found ways for software to grasp some of the meaning of language, so that it […]
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Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006
IBM acquires BuildForge
Today, IBM has acquired BuildForge, an Austin-based developer of build and release management software, to complement its suite of Rational products. From the press release:
BuildForge technology will enable IBM Rational customers to accelerate software delivery, as well as meet audit and compliance mandates. The acquisition of BuildForge furthers IBM Rational’s strategy to help clients govern […]
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Monday, May 1st, 2006
Spotlight: IBM Institute for Business Value
I am starting a new post category: Spotlight. In these posts, I will be profiling IBM products, services, or programs that people outside IBM may not be familiar with.
This week, the spotlight is on the IBM Institute for Business Value. The Institute for Business Value is a think tank within IBM Global Services that “provides […]
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Friday, April 28th, 2006
Industry analysts offer mixed reactions to IBM’s SOA announcement
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a much-discussed concept in IT circles these days, and forms a key part of IBM’s software and services strategy. Earlier this month, IBM announced a whopping 31 new products and enhancements related to SOA, primarily in the company’s Websphere product line, as well as a massive SOA training effort for IBM’s […]
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Friday, April 28th, 2006
IBM rolls out “mainframe lite” in China
AP reports that IBM has unveiled a less expensive version of its top-of-the-line z9 mainframe in hopes of expanding the market for its mainframe line to smaller companies, particularly in the fast-growing Chinese market. From the article:
While IBM’s top-of-the-line z9 mainframes cost $1 million and up — for banks, government agencies and other big organizations […]
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Thursday, April 27th, 2006
IBM’s acquisition of Tivoli, 10 years later
The Austin Business Journal offers a 10-year retrospective on IBM’s 1996 acquisition of Tivoli, then a startup providing server monitoring technology and now one of IBM’s “five software brands” (along with Lotus, DB2, Rational, and WebSphere):
Today, the division is one of IBM’s fastest-growing and profitable divisions, bringing in about $1 billion in revenues last year. […]
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Tuesday, April 25th, 2006
IBM researchers strike gold in “junk” human DNA
IBM today announced its researchers have discovered that many parts of the human genome formerly thought to be without value may actually provide important insights for genomic research. From the press release:
… Regions of the human genome that were assumed to largely contain evolutionary leftovers (called “junk DNA”) may actually hold significant clues that can […]