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Friday, February 24th, 2006
The end of TV as we know it
IBM Global Services has released a study showing one perspective on the future of the television industry.
The study covers the changing face of television viewing as a result of greater interactive media choices available to today’s viewing public. Naturally, the focus is on technology - how technological change has created challenges for traditional broadcast media, [...]
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Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
IBM Corporate Advertising 1948-1954
DigiBarn run an online computer museum, and one of their exhibits shows some classic IBM adverts from the late 1940’s and early 1950’s.
IBM Corporate Advertising 1948-1954
DigiBarn actually have quite a large collection of IBM memorabilia, including hardware, software, and a collection of song lyrics (see also IT Anthems). The following Google search should give links [...]
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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
Interview with Tom Morrissey, IBM Analyst Relations
John Simonds interviews his colleague, Tom Morrissey about their group, IBM Analyst Relations.
Tom is “… an Analyst Relations professional in IBM’s Software Group, focused mainly on IBM solutions for the SMB market”, and his job is “… to brief and consult with Analyst Firms on IBM’s portfolio of Express offerings for our Business Partners serving [...]
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2006
IBM’s Battle of the Bands
The team at EightBar posted about an internal IBM podcast running a “battle of the bands” competition.
This is actually quite cool - using IBM’s internal podcast system, they are encouraging any IBMers who play and record original music to send in their songs where they will be put up against other competitors, and the IBM [...]
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Monday, February 20th, 2006
Ambuj Goyal interview on Software as a Service
InternetNews.com published an interview with Ambuj Goyal about IBM’s information-as-a-service strategy.
Clint Boulton writes, “From afar, IBM’s purchases of entity analytics player SRD Software, portal connector Bowstreet and a raft of other small software companies might reek of a company plugging cavities with high-tech fillings. But look closely and you can see the buys as part [...]
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Friday, February 17th, 2006
Interview with Doug Heintzman, IBM SWG Strategist
John Simonds interviews Doug Heintzman, who is Director of IBM Software Group technical strategy about a variety of topics, including “the beginnings of IBM’s Software Group, strategy issues, pattern recognition to solve problems, the future, the most important skill at IBM and IT analysts”.
Read the full interview at Delusions of Adequacy: Bloggerview with Doug Heintzman [...]
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Thursday, February 16th, 2006
Bob Sutor Interview in ComputerWorld
ComputerWorld have published an interview with IBM’s Bob Sutor where he talks about the mounting interest in open-source software.
Eric Lai writes “Bob Sutor, IBM’s vice president of standards and open-source, sees 2006 as the year when a number of industries will move to embrace open-source software — and he expects IBM to play a role [...]
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2006
IBM Bento
This is cute - Japanese Bento Box … IBM style IBM Bento
(via digg)
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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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