International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)
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IBM Is Upping Its Game In Cloud Computing—And So Is Everyone Else
IBM today announced its biggest deal to date under its new CEO, Virginia Rometty, who took over last year. The company acquired cloud computing firm SoftLayer to help it compete with Amazon, the leader in public cloud services. Read More »
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IBM Joins Pivotal's Open-Source Cloud Foundry Project
IBM made another move in the open-source-cloud space this week by joining Cloud Foundry, the open-source cloud-platform project kicked off and overseen by Pivotal, a cloud-platform spin-off owned by EMC, VMware and GE and led by VMware's former CEO Paul Maritz. Read More »
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IBM Rolls “Internet Of Things” Starter Kit
IBM today said it teamed up with wireless sensor builder Libelium to offer what it calls an Internet of Things starter kit that would let customers deploy dozens of different sensor applications. Read More »
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IBM Throws Its Weight Behind MongoDB For Mobile Apps
IBM and 10gen are collaborating on a standard that would make it easier to write applications that can access data from both MongoDB and relational systems such as IBM DB2. Read More »
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IBM Tries To Put Twitter In Patent Cage
This may have been the day that IBM actually started to look desperate. In an update to its S-1 filing prior to its initial public offering some time this week, Twitter somewhat casually revealed that IBM has notified the social media company that it is infringing on three of IBM's patents. Read More »
IBM's Potential x86 Server Sale To Lenovo Highlights Oncoming Train
IBM famously unloaded its PC business to Lenovo well before the post PC era hit. Is Big Blue bailing on commodity servers before the floor falls out? Read More »
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IBM's Smarter Approach To Contextual Cities
I am writing a book called Age of Context with Robert Scoble. It is expected to be complete in October. Following is an excerpt from a chapter called Contextual Cities and the New Urbanists. Read More »
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IBM's Watson Wants To Fix America's Doctor Shortage
The supercomputer's greatest opponent may be the American healthcare system Read More »
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IBM’s Dr. Watson Is NOT A Meaningful User
IBM’s Dr. Watson of Jeopardy! fame has finally completed its residency and fellowships and, presumably to its creators’ utter delight, is now a practicing Oncologist. The prodigy “cognitive system” completed its training in less than a year at the illustrious Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and although only proficient in lung cancer right now, Dr. Watson’s career as an advisor to oncologists everywhere is off to a great start... Read More »
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ITU Signs Off Network Spec For Personal Medical Devices
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has signed off a new standard for communication between personal medical devices. Read More »
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It’s Back: District Court Judge Revives SCO v IBM
Sad that Game of Thrones has wrapped up its third season? Looking for some drama to fill the time? We've got just the thing for you. One of the Internet's longest-running and most-hated lawsuits is back: SCO v. IBM has been reopened by Utah district court judge David Nuffer. Read More »
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Lessons from AWS Part III: Consumer Platform Drives Cloud Lead
There has been a lot of discussion, including Part I of this series, about Amazon’s relentless leverage of scale to drive down pricing in cloud services. What is much less talked about is how its consumer platform drives its cloud leadership. Read More »
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Linux Continues To Rule Supercomputers
The June 2013 Top500 supercomputer list is in, and 476 of the top 500 fastest supercomputers in the world run Linux. Read More »
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Prepare For Change! This Is Not Your Father’s Database Industry
Incumbent database vendors aren’t exactly struggling to make ends meet, but the smart ones know that resting on their laurels might get them there someday. That’s because open source technologies like NoSQL and Hadoop are coming after their business. Read More »
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Profound Open Sources UI Tool Framework
Profound Logic has open sourced its User Interface application development tool framework citing user and developer flexibility among its key reasons for doing so. Profound UI version 4.5 will now also benefit from improved integration between the IBM i and other compatible platforms. Read More »
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