IBM Bluehouse: A Facebook for business
D' Technology Weblog — ... IBM open the door to a SaaS (software-as-a-service) product called “Bluehouse” beta — a service that merges some of the best features of social networking with business collaboration tools. The service is free during public beta release, and once the testing ends, subscription pricing, which has not yet been detailed, will kick in. ...

Many Fixes, Enhancements in Dojo's Release 1.2 [OStatic]
GigaOM Network — Dojo, one of the leading open-source libraries and widget sets for JavaScript programming, released its latest version (1.2) yesterday. Dojo, which is developed by the Dojo Foundation and released under both the BSD License and Academic Free License, is officially integrated with a number of Web development frameworks, such as Django and the Zend Framework, and by vendors such as IBM and Sun Microsystems. Dojo began in 2004, as a small project that would add DHTML to Web applications being ...

Best Buy's "Enterprise Twitter"
ReadWriteWeb — IBM’s got BlueTwit. Oracle’s testing OraTweets. SAP’s experiments include ESME, SAP Talk (laconi.ca), ShoutIt and apparently others. Yammer has an ad-hoc base at thousands of companies. But so far, no large corporation has rolled out microsharing company-wide. Enter Gary Koelling and Steve Bendt, Best Buy’s Senior Managers for Social Technology, and better known as the guys who built Blue Shirt Nation. ...

Putting Your Trust in the Cloud
LinuxInsider — ... information technology industry, businesses that embrace new technologies while maintaining strategic focus on core IT and business initiatives will be successful in the emerging technology landscape and will have the tools to better leverage existing resource investments. In order to satisfy today's challenges in the explosion of data, the need for businesses to move to the next generation of computing, cloud computing, is imminent. [image] Harold Moss is a security architect for IBM (NYSE: IBM) ...

The Forbidden City: Beyond Space and Time by IBM and China’s Palace Museum
D' Technology Weblog — IBM and Palace Museum in Beijing, China have created an exact replica of the 178-acre Forbidden City “The Forbidden City: Beyond Space and Time” that provides you access to an immersive 3-dimensional virtual world to celebrate and explore aspects of Chinese culture and history. Once inside, you can choose an avatar, dress him or her up in Qing Dynasty-era robes, take virtual tours, play Go with computer-controlled characters, ...

Apple's New Ads Ridicule Microsoft's New Ads
E-Commerce Times — ... There was no strong identity around Vista. Why would you buy it, what would you do with it?" Time for a Cease-Fire? Does it really serve Apple's purposes to pile on Microsoft for Vista, and to do it in a way that might indeed be a little too inside-baseball for the average consumer? It's simply the latest chapter in Apple's long marketing (Mac)book that began with the famous "1984" ad, directed by a young Ridley Scott, that took on the computer industry leader at the time, IBM (NYSE: IBM) ...

Want to Measure Social Media ROI? Pick a Metric
E-Commerce Times — ... in 2003, has become the industry standard measure of word of mouth advocacy. The score is calculated by simply asking consumers on a scale of 1 to 10 their likelihood to recommend a specific company or brand. The score is the percentage of respondents highly likely to recommend (answering 9 or 10) minus those less likely to recommend (scoring 0 to 6). Similar to NPS is the Customer Focused Insight Quotient (CFiq), which was developed by IBM's (NYSE: IBM) ...

要約: ０．５０ドルの通常配当実施を決定＝米ＩＢＭ
Business Wire Technology News — Business Wire My Business Wire News Events Products & Services About Us All News Company NewsCenters Company Profiles Annual Reports Welcome Login Register Search News: Help http://www.ibm.com October 28, 2008 11:17 AM Eastern Daylight Time [image] 要約: ０．５０ドルの通常配当実施を決定＝米ＩＢＭ 米ＩＢＭ（ＮＹＳＥ：ＩＢＭ）は２８日の取締役会で、１株当たり０．５０ドルの四半期通常配当を、１１月１０日現在の株主に対し１２月１０日に支払うことを決定した。これにより同社は、１９１６年以来３７２期連続の配当実施となる。 ...

IBM董事会批准季度现金股息
Business Wire Technology News — http://www.ibm.com October 28, 2008 11:17 AM Eastern Daylight Time [image] IBM董事会批准季度现金股息 商业编辑 美国商业资讯2008年10月28日纽约州阿尔蒙克消息——监管新闻： IBM公司（纽约证券交易所：IBM）董事会今天宣布常规季度现金股息为普通股每股0.50美元，将于2008年12月10日向截至2008年11月10日登记在册的股东发放。 12月10日的股息发放结束后，IBM公司已经从1916年起连续372次发放季度股息。 --30--SM/ny* 免责声明：本公告之原文版本乃官方授权版本。译文仅供方便了解之用，烦请参照原文，原文版本乃唯一具法律效力之版本。 Contacts IBM Douglas Shelton, 914/499-6533 doshelton@us.ibm.com Permalink: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20081028006176/zh-CN http://www.ibm.com Release Languages English Spanish ...

IBM董事會批准季度現金股息
Business Wire Technology News — http://www.ibm.com October 28, 2008 11:17 AM Eastern Daylight Time [image] IBM董事會批准季度現金股息 商業編輯 美國商業資訊2008年10月28日紐約州ARMONK消息——監管新聞： IBM公司（紐約證券交易所：IBM）董事會今天宣佈了定期的季度現金股息為普通股每股0.50美元，股息將於2008年12月10日發放給截至2008年11月10日登記在冊的股東。 在12月10日發放股息結束後，IBM公司自1916年以來已連續發放了372次季度股息。 --30--SM/ny* 免責聲明：本公告之原文版本乃官方授權版本。譯文僅供方便瞭解之用，煩請參照原文，原文版本乃唯一具法律效力之版本。 Contacts IBM Douglas Shelton, 914/499-6533 doshelton@us.ibm.com Permalink: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20081028006176/zh-TW http://www.ibm.com Release Languages English Spanish ...

OpenOffice 3: Useful, Compatible - and Pretty
LinuxInsider — ... is available in final release. It's a form of Linux that I like a lot, and it incorporates Google gadgets and other goodies that make net-based programs more practical. Free. IBM (NYSE: IBM) ...

A Blade Server Guy in an iPod World: What Gives?
E-Commerce Times — A former IBM (NYSE: IBM) Latest News about IBM executive is going against the company's wishes and joining Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) Latest News about Apple . Mark Papermaster, previously vice president of IBM's blade server Rackspace is the expert when it comes to delivering Windows and Linux hosting solutions. Click here to learn more. unit, will become head of the iPod and iPhone development team, Apple has confirmed. IBM has already filed a lawsuit to try to stop his hire. Papermaster is under a one-year non-compete agreement, IBM says, due to his ...

SSDs Are All About Latency
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — Topics: Storage SSDs Are All About Latency Posted by George Crump , Nov 5, 2008 02:55 PM [image] Nearly every storage manufacturer has been articulating a solid state disk (SSD) strategy in the past two quarters. EMC , HP , IBM , HDS , NetApp and Compellent are all set to add the capability to their offering. Some are doing so today, while others are still in the strategy mapping process. What most of them agree on is that SSDs can be a game changer, with the potential performance improvements of 30X when compared ...

Ruminations on Microsoft's Future
E-Commerce Times — ... economic downturn and thrive in the next uptick, will be those who very much focus on providing verticalized and customized applications on a consulting or professional services basis. In that regard, Microsoft is a bit behind the eight ball. They don't really have the strength on the consulting, professional services, and verticalization side, that an SAP (NYSE: SAP) Latest News about SAP AG , Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) Latest News about Oracle , or an IBM (NYSE: IBM) Latest News about IBM can bring to the table. Microsoft, if they want ...

Choosers Can Be Beggars; Bloodied Hands Applaud Amazon
LinuxInsider — ... One analyst told us the problems are related to a change in manufacturing process that Sony made several years ago. Clearly it didn't go well. Consumers can check Sony's Web site to see if their unit is affected. Or they can check to see if flames are shooting out of their fan opening. That's always a sure sign there's a problem. Tug-of-War It's pretty ironic that a guy named "Papermaster" would be a world-class whiz at hardware design, but what's even more ironic is that former IBM (NYSE: IBM) ...

Choosers Can Be Beggars; Bloodied Hands Applaud Amazon
E-Commerce Times — ... One analyst told us the problems are related to a change in manufacturing process that Sony made several years ago. Clearly it didn't go well. Consumers can check Sony's Web site to see if their unit is affected. Or they can check to see if flames are shooting out of their fan opening. That's always a sure sign there's a problem. Tug-of-War It's pretty ironic that a guy named "Papermaster" would be a world-class whiz at hardware design, but what's even more ironic is that former IBM (NYSE: IBM) ...

Where are the Japanese Googles?
E-Commerce Times — ... . Perhaps it is no coincidence that the cancer Sony's group was investigating happened to be focused on the brain. Other companies, like IBM (NYSE: IBM) ...

YouTube's Identity Crisis, Circuit City's Cash Crisis: A Week to Forget
E-Commerce Times — ... several months. This month alone, it announced plans to shutter more than 150 stores and hand out pink slips to 20 percent of its workforce. The bankruptcy should enable the company to continue paying its remaining employees. It also hopes to continue taking customer returns, making exchanges and honoring gift cards -- but that's going to be up to the judge. The Power of Access Internet service providers have been slow to bring broadband to some of America's more rural areas, but IBM (NYSE: IBM) ...

HP's Wrath, Baidu's Greed and Other Deadly Sins
E-Commerce Times — ... mind capable of sensation, perception, action, cognition, emotion and interaction, that is. Computers aren't very good at integrating sight with hearing, touch, taste and smell, for example. And computers are lost when it comes to context and ambiguity. And they're nowhere near as energy-efficient and architecturally streamlined as the human brain. Yet. Through a grant provided by the government research agency DARPA Latest News about DARPA , a team of scientists from IBM (NYSE: IBM) Latest News about IBM and five big-name U.S. universities are going to ...

IBM, Harvard Launch Distributed-Computing Search for Super-Efficient Solar Cells [Earth2Tech]
GigaOM Network — ... IBM and researchers from Harvard University launched a joint effort today to identify more efficient and lower-cost solar cell materials using distributed computing. Leveraging small amounts of computing power from potentially hundreds of thousands of personal computers, this latest addition to the company’s World Community Grid platform will process more than 1 million configurations of atoms over the next two years in search of an organic molecule that can be used to make materials for an ultra-efficient plastic ...

Smart Grid Could Create 280,000 Smart Jobs
Earth2Tech — ... from IBM(s IBM) shows some similar, but more accelerated, results for smart grid investments. IBM’s study, conducted by the ...

Smart Grid Could Create 280,000 Smart Jobs [Earth2Tech]
GigaOM Network — ... from IBM(s IBM) shows some similar, but more accelerated, results for smart grid investments. IBM’s study, conducted by the ...

IBM sets new patent record in 2008
VentureBeat — IBM just announced that it is the first company ever to earn more than 4,000 U.S. patents in a single year. VentureBeat writer Dean Takahashi has already written about some of the cool technology being developed at IBM’s Almaden Research Center in San Jose, including a microscope with 100 times the resolution of magnetic resonance imaging and a computer modeled on the human brain, but IBM’s announcement puts a number on all of that innovation: 4,186, the amount of patents IBM earned in 2008. That’s more than Microsoft, ...

Daily Tidbits: Obama Girl partners with Stickam to stream Inauguration
Webware.com — Amber Ettinger, better known as "Obama Girl", will stream live coverage of the Presidential Inauguration on Stickam starting Monday. Obama Girl will stream live Monday night at 8:00 p.m. ET from InauguralFest and viewers will be able to see what she is doing all day at the Inauguration ...

Women in Tech: The Executives
Fast Company - Technology — - Genevieve Bell Director User Experience Group Intel - Sandy Carter VP, Service-Oriented Architecture & WebSphere Marketing IBM - Safra Catz President Oracle - Susan Decker President Yahoo - Andrea Jung Board Member Apple (and CEO, Avon ) - Julie Larson-Green Corporate VP Windows Experience Microsoft - Ann Livermore EVP Technology Solutions Group HP - Marissa Mayer VP, Search Products and User Experience Google - Sheryl Sandberg COO Facebook - Linda Sanford SVP, Enterprise on Demand Transformation & Information ...

Apple's Saber-Rattling, Capitol Hill's Ruckus, Big Blue's Silence
E-Commerce Times — ... months; cable and satellite companies would have to hold their breath for their expected subscriber spikes; and millions more dollars of corporate and taxpayer money would have to be spent financing coupons and educational efforts that would in no way benefit the ailing U.S. economy. But that's OK. The important thing is that those millions of impoverished grannies in farmhouses keep getting "Wheel of Fortune" on the air -- that is, until their screens turn to snow. Keep It Down IBM (NYSE: IBM) ...

Web Applications: Achilles' Heel Of Corporate Security
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — Last year, 55% of all the computer security vulnerabilities disclosed affected Web applications, and 74% of these had no patch. So says IBM in its 2008 X-Force Trend and Risk report, released Monday, which paints a dire picture of online computer security. "Certain types of corporate applications, namely custom-built software like Web applications, remain a highly profitable and inexpensive target for criminal attackers," the report states. "The sheer number of new vulnerabilities, the majority of which have no available patch, coupled with the ...

Products to Watch: February 2, 2009
eWeek - RSS Feeds — ... IBM Rational Quality Manager IBM Rational Quality Manager features a Web 2.0 interface and customizable testing plans to track quality-driven software delivery across distributed teams. www.ibm.com Quicksilver AT 's Quicksilver is the first USB mobile broadband device worldwide to use the latest Icera Livanto chip set. Weighing in at 1.2 ounces, Quicksilver allows users to send and receive large e-mails, browse the Internet, and stream video wherever there is a cell phone signal. ...

Steve Wozniak joins storage startup
SFGate: The Technology Chronicles — ... startup Wozniak was named chief scientist at Fusion-io , a startup in Salt Lake City that makes fast, easily managed solid-state storage devices for computers, the company said in a statement. A co-founder of Apple Computer along with Steve Jobs, Wozniak will act as a technical advisor to Fusion-io's research and development team and work with executives on strategy. The company is already working on storage products with both Hewlett-Packard and IBM . Fusion-io emerged a little over two years ago. It launched at Demo , a popular ...

Who Benefits From IBM-Amazon Cloud Deal? Oracle
E-Commerce Times — It just goes to show how perplexing the gathering cloud marketplace is that the punditry are hesitant to meaningfully analyze this important development. But Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) More about Amazon.com -- with a history of bold and long-term bets -- and IBM (NYSE: IBM) More about IBM -- with a history of making markets whether it's right about the future or not -- have made the best of bedfellows in the deal announced late Wednesday. Why? Because IBM has taken the cloud bait ... big time. And Amazon has just partnered with the best enterprise IT ...

Getting Lucene Down to Business With Lucid Imagination
LinuxInsider — ... map. They were at the intersection of two of the most exciting market sectors, Gries said. Better, that intersection of enterprise and open source search wasn't crowded. "The next step was to start recruiting the major committers to work for the company and arrange funding," he said. The numbers were impressive, even if the field already had notable players. The top competition included Autonomy, Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) More about Google Appliance, Microsoft/Fast, IBM (NYSE: IBM) More about IBM and Endeca, according to Gries. However, the potential was ...

Getting Lucene Down to Business With Lucid Imagination
E-Commerce Times — ... map. They were at the intersection of two of the most exciting market sectors, Gries said. Better, that intersection of enterprise and open source search wasn't crowded. "The next step was to start recruiting the major committers to work for the company and arrange funding," he said. The numbers were impressive, even if the field already had notable players. The top competition included Autonomy, Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) More about Google Appliance, Microsoft/Fast, IBM (NYSE: IBM) More about IBM and Endeca, according to Gries. However, the potential was ...

Will the Recession Give Birth to a Mac Netbook?
E-Commerce Times — ... the price leader and the technology leader," Hargreaves said. "In the smartphone market, there is no true competitor offering what they offer in terms of feature functionality at the price Apple offers it." Despite cutting his outlook on Apple's revenue and earnings, Hargreaves maintained his "market outperform" rating on the stock. "[Apple's] earnings are going to be hurt," he said. "The stock trades in line with HP (NYSE: HPQ) More about Hewlett-Packard and IBM (NYSE: IBM) More about IBM , but I think that Apple's long-term earnings growth potential ...

Smart Grids Go Island Hopping in Europe
Earth2Tech — ... IBM said today it joined a smart grid project in Denmark that’s aiming to upgrade the country’s electric transmission grid to handle the large-scale adoption of electric vehicles. The project will start off with test work on a small Danish island before tackling the whole nation. The Denmark smart grid group, partly backed by the government, is called the EDISON project, a really long (and kind of silly) acronym for “Electric Vehicles in a Distributed and I ...

In Software Architecture, Quality Equals Security
E-Commerce Times — ... intersects with enterprise architecture. Aligning the two deepens the security protection across more planning- and architectural-level activities, to make security pervasive -- and certainly not an afterthought. To gain deeper insights into how IT architects can bring security and reduced risk to businesses, I queried panelists Chenxi Wang, principal analyst for security and risk management at Forrester Research ; Kristin Lovejoy, director of corporate security strategy at IBM (NYSE: IBM) More about IBM ; Nils Puhlmann, chief security officer and vice ...

IBM and HP: Not the Competitors People Think
E-Commerce Times — ... a prime example. IT hosts numerous bloody competitions ranging from product-by-product throwdowns, to broader vendor vs. vendor cage matches. Generally, such comparisons, especially at the product level -- pitting PC, handset or networking specialists against one another -- make eminent sense. But often, comparisons at the company level continue long after they should have gracefully retired. Over the past 20-or-so years, the financial community, customers and the media have viewed IBM (NYSE: IBM) ...

DEMObeat video: Energy efficiency, social data sharing, and productivity 2.0
VentureBeat — ... ’s Sam Lawrence, and IBM ’s Jeff Pierce, respectively, and the moderation was provided by yours truly. ...

Cloud Computing: Not Always the Best Solution
E-Commerce Times — ... in San Diego to examine how cloud computing aligns with enterprise architecture. The discussion raised the question: What will real enterprises need to do to gain savings and productivity in the coming years to exploit cloud computing resources and methods. In essence, this becomes a discussion about real-world cloud computing. To gain deeper insights into how IT architects can bring cloud computing benefits to their businesses, I queried panelists Lauren States, vice president in IBM's (NYSE: IBM) ...

IBM Demos Six Web 2.0 Apps
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — IBM on Thursday lifted the veil on its vision of tomorrow's Web. At its Market Street office in San Francisco, Rod Smith, IBM's VP of emerging technology in IBM's software group, and Stefan Nusser, a research staff member at IBM's Almaden Research Center, introduced six IBM technology projects designed to help people deal with the proliferation of online content in an increasingly browser-centric world. IBM's overall goal in pursuing the various projects, said Smith, was to help people work more efficiently as the Web grows. Toward that end, the technology ...

IBM Demos Six Web 2.0 Apps
TechWeb — IBM on Thursday lifted the veil on its vision of tomorrow's Web. At its Market Street office in San Francisco, Rod Smith, IBM's VP of emerging technology in IBM's software group, and Stefan Nusser, a research staff member at IBM's Almaden Research Center, introduced six IBM technology projects designed to help people deal with the proliferation of online content in an increasingly browser-centric world. IBM's overall goal in pursuing the various projects, said Smith, was to help people work more efficiently as the Web grows. Toward that end, the technology ...

BPEL4People: Remaining Human While Automating Processes
E-Commerce Times — ... this dichotomy you can have your worklist system completely standards-based, but not necessarily tied to your workflow system or BPM engine. We've had customers actually use that. We've had at least one customer that's decided to implement their own human task worklist system, rather than using the one that comes out of the box, and know that what they have created is standards compliant. All of the companies involved -- Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) More about Oracle , IBM (NYSE: IBM) More about IBM , SAP (NYSE: SAP) More about SAP AG , ...

What Apple and Google Could Teach AMD and FLOSS
LinuxInsider — ... , you would think the FLOSS folks would want to avoid extra controversy for him at the moment. The Lesson Google Learned From Apple Back when I was at IBM (NYSE: IBM) ...

IBM Announces Web-Based Radiology Theatre
ReadWriteWeb — IBM has announced an online "radiology theatre" product, currently at the prototype stage, which allows teams of medical experts to "simultaneously discuss and review patients' medical test data using a Web browser." The project is being run in collaboration with the Brigham and Women's Hospital of Boston and is built on IBM's next-generation browser platform Blue Spruce, which ReadWriteWeb reviewed when it was first announced back in November. IBM also used the WebKit Open Source Browser Engine. The app runs on the Linux or MacOS X ...

WSJ Says IBM Will Buy Sun
AppScout — Sun's stock fell 4¢ to $4.97 Tuesday. That values the company at around $3.7 billion. I hope you bought because the Wall Street Journal and others are reporting IBM is interested in buying Sun for $6.5 billion in cash. The Journal implies Sun is playing easy-to-get, shopping itself around to likely suitors. "In recent months, Sun has approached a number of large tech companies in the hopes of being acquired, say people familiar with the matter. The world's largest tech company, Hewlett-Packard, declined the ...

IBM Looks to Buy Sun: Further Proof It's Darkest Just Before Dawn [OStatic]
GigaOM Network — The Wall Street Journal is reporting that IBM is currently in talks to purchase Sun Microsystems. The acquisition is not a foregone conclusion, due in part to the very different corporate cultures in the companies. Some believe this tension will ultimately help both companies succeed, if they can just get through the talks. The acquisition could take place as early as this week, and it is speculated that IBM could pay over $6.5 billion for Sun. Sun's recent financials have been more than ...

IBM Looks to Buy Sun: Further Proof It's Darkest Just Before Dawn
OStatic blogs — The Wall Street Journal is reporting that IBM is currently in talks to purchase Sun Microsystems. The acquisition is not a foregone conclusion, due in part to the very different corporate cultures in the companies. Some believe this tension will ultimately help both companies succeed, if they can just get through the talks. The acquisition could take place as early as this week, and it is speculated that IBM could pay over $6.5 billion for Sun. Sun's recent financials have been more than a little disappointing, ...

IBM In Talks to Buy Sun
TechWeb — ... . The purchase would give IBM access to customers that are attached to the Sun brand, according to a person familiar with the situation who declined to be identified because the talks are private. IBM may pay at least $6.5 billion, the Wall Street Journal said, valuing Sun at almost twice its $4.97 closing price yesterday. According to Bloomberg, IBM CEO Sam Palmisano said last week he planned to "go on offense" during the recession, pursuing acquisitions and investing in research. A purchase would give Palmisano a greater share of a shrinking market. Last quarter, server ...

IBM In Talks to Buy Sun
BankTech Site Feed — ... . The purchase would give IBM access to customers that are attached to the Sun brand, according to a person familiar with the situation who declined to be identified because the talks are private. IBM may pay at least $6.5 billion, the Wall Street Journal said, valuing Sun at almost twice its $4.97 closing price yesterday. According to Bloomberg, IBM CEO Sam Palmisano said last week he planned to "go on offense" during the recession, pursuing acquisitions and investing in research. A purchase would give Palmisano a greater share of a shrinking market. Last quarter, server ...

Sun-IBM Deal Just Doesn't Add Up
LinuxInsider — Someone has floated a trial balloon, through a leak to The Wall Street Journal , that IBM (NYSE: IBM) More about IBM is in "talks" to buy Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: JAVA) More about Sun Microsystems for US$6.5 billion. The only party that would leak this information is Sun itself, and it smacks of desperation in trying to thwart an unwanted acquisition, or to positively impact another deal that Sun is weak in. If IBM wanted to buy Sun it would have done so years ago, at least on the merits of synergy and technology. If IBM wanted to buy Sun simply to ...

Sun-IBM Deal Just Doesn't Add Up
E-Commerce Times — Someone has floated a trial balloon, through a leak to The Wall Street Journal , that IBM (NYSE: IBM) More about IBM is in "talks" to buy Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: JAVA) More about Sun Microsystems for US$6.5 billion. The only party that would leak this information is Sun itself, and it smacks of desperation in trying to thwart an unwanted acquisition, or to positively impact another deal that Sun is weak in. If IBM wanted to buy Sun it would have done so years ago, at least on the merits of synergy and technology. If IBM wanted to buy Sun simply to ...

Merger Madness: Love Is in the Air
E-Commerce Times — ... can give you live chat on the big screen. Home use? Enterprise use? Who knows? Really, any kind of use is good for Cisco, because as more and more data-heavy video files go flying around the Internet 10th Annual Online Fraud Report. Online Payment Fraud Trends, Merchant Practices and Benchmarks. Get your copy today. , companies need to buy more big networking equipment -- which Cisco also happens to sell. [image] Listen to the podcast (14:54 minutes). Match Made in Heaven IBM (NYSE: IBM) More about IBM could be close to buying struggling server ...

Weekly Wrapup: iPhone 3.0, Facebook Privacy Controls, Web-based Books, And More...
ReadWriteWeb — ... trees that enable machines to put concepts in topical context. Ready to play Aristotle and create an ontology of cheese, model airplanes, global anti-hunger organizations or any other topic? What blogging was to publishing, a simple tool that made far more people able to participate, Twine's new ontology writing and hosting service could be to the act of teaching machines about new topics. IBM Announces Web-Based Radiology Theatre IBM has announced an online "radiology theatre" product, currently at the ...

IBM Acquisition Would Leave Sun Out in the Cold
LinuxInsider — From the perspective of IT users, developer communities and global industry as a whole, IBM (NYSE: IBM) More about IBM may be the worst place for beleaguered Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: JAVA) More about Sun Microsystems to land. Sure a merger as is rumored is good -- but not urgently or obviously so -- for IBM. Big Blue gains modest improvement in share of some servers, mostly Unix-based. It would actually gain just enough share of high-end servers to justly draw antitrust scrutiny nearly worldwide. Yet these types of servers are not today's growth ...

IBM Acquisition Would Leave Sun Out in the Cold
E-Commerce Times — From the perspective of IT users, developer communities and global industry as a whole, IBM (NYSE: IBM) More about IBM may be the worst place for beleaguered Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: JAVA) More about Sun Microsystems to land. Sure a merger as is rumored is good -- but not urgently or obviously so -- for IBM. Big Blue gains modest improvement in share of some servers, mostly Unix-based. It would actually gain just enough share of high-end servers to justly draw antitrust scrutiny nearly worldwide. Yet these types of servers are not today's growth ...

IBM + Sun: Bad for FOSS?
LinuxInsider — ... in just a few hours. IBM and Sun The biggest news of all in the past few days, however, would have to be reports suggesting that IBM (NYSE: IBM) ...

All the Web is stored on one Sun data center
SFGate: The Technology Chronicles — ... housed in a shipping container on Sun's campus in Santa Clara. There is a ceremony beginning at 10 a.m. Sun will supply power, water for cooling and networking capabilities for the container, which is sealed, and its technology will help the Internet Archive control energy and maintenance costs and the integrity of the archive's data, Kahle said. And he's not worried about the possibility of Sun being acquired by IBM . (Talks between the companies were ...

Yes to new open source business models, no to whinging
Open Source — ... market to sustain them. Without ads Google goes bust. If cutbacks mean no one can convert to paid support Red Hat does too. Driving monetization is a question that worries Matt Asay quite a bit, and it should. When traditional routes fail, what else is left? Three things are left, it seems to me. Innovating new business models. Creating services people will pay for online, managing actual projects (and climbing the value chain) in open source. Tweaking existing business models. Aggregating new ...

Is Storage Commoditization Important?
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... and IBM . To be honest, I don't recall seeing the larger vendors position these solutions as a way to optimize commodity storage. The typical strategy was to buy their virtualization appliance and then from that point forward buy their storage. It makes sense, you can switch to their storage software without throwing away your existing investment in storage but then the expectation, at least on their part, is to continue to buy their disk arrays for "enhanced support". That is a fair strategy and especially HDS and NetApp bring a lot to the table from a storage software ...

IT Cost-Cutting: Consider Virtualization, Look to the Cloud, Check Out Open Source
E-Commerce Times — ... times, even if the budgets are getting cut and there's less opportunity for new systems or technology. They need to redirect that stress to discover how the IT organization can benefit the business. You want to help motivate people through the crisis and work on a roadmap for better days ... . Provide a positive direction to use their energy and resources. Re-evaluate commercial software use: You may have investments in Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) More about Oracle , IBM (NYSE: IBM) More about IBM , or other platforms, and there may be opportunities to use ...

IT Cost-Cutting: Consider Virtualization, Look to the Cloud, Check Out Open Source
LinuxInsider — ... times, even if the budgets are getting cut and there's less opportunity for new systems or technology. They need to redirect that stress to discover how the IT organization can benefit the business. You want to help motivate people through the crisis and work on a roadmap for better days ... . Provide a positive direction to use their energy and resources. Re-evaluate commercial software use: You may have investments in Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) More about Oracle , IBM (NYSE: IBM) More about IBM , or other platforms, and there may be opportunities to use ...

IBM makes big online collaboration move with LotusLive Engage
VentureBeat — ... IBM is making a big move into the online collaboration market with a new product called LotusLive Engage, which it will be demonstrating tomorrow at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. ...

IBM's Acquisition of Sun on the Horizon [OStatic]
GigaOM Network — According to the New York Times and Bloomberg, IBM's purchase of Sun Microsystems is imminent. The official announcement and terms of the acquisition will most likely be made public on Monday, but a late in the day announcement hasn't been ruled out. It's estimated that the purchase will cost IBM nearly $7 billion. There's been much speculation and discussion both here at OStatic and elsewhere about what this means for Sun and its open source projects. Is ...

IBM's Acquisition of Sun on the Horizon
OStatic blogs — According to the New York Times and Bloomberg, IBM's purchase of Sun Microsystems is imminent. The official announcement and terms of the acquisition will most likely be made public on Monday, but a late in the day announcement hasn't been ruled out. It's estimated that the purchase will cost IBM nearly $7 billion. There's been much speculation and discussion both here at OStatic and elsewhere about what this means for Sun and its open source projects. Is this acquisition good news for ...

Linuxy Pranks, Microsoft Duds, and Red Hat Suitors
LinuxInsider — It's not every day a journalist gets to cover history-making news, but it's truly amazing how often such opportunities seem to present themselves at the beginning of April. Take last week, for example. First, we nearly fell off our chairs when we learned that IBM (NYSE: IBM) ...

Linuxy Pranks, Microsoft Duds, and Red Hat Suitors
E-Commerce Times — It's not every day a journalist gets to cover history-making news, but it's truly amazing how often such opportunities seem to present themselves at the beginning of April. Take last week, for example. First, we nearly fell off our chairs when we learned that IBM (NYSE: IBM) ...

IBM walks from Sun deal, but it could come back
VentureBeat — IBM has withdrawn its $7 billion acquisition offer to buy Sun Microsystems, shelving at least for the moment a merger that would have created a dominant global market leader in computer servers. The collapse of talks hammered Sun’s stock price. It dropped 23 percent, to around $6.50 or well below the purchase price being talked about — reportedly around $9.50. However, in a sign the market doesn’t believe the talks are over for good, Sun’s shares remain higher than $4.97 level before news about a possible deal with IBM arose. ...

IBM Unveils Prototype Options Trading System
TechWeb — Today, IBM unveiled a prototype of an automated options trading system. During the project, scientists at IBM Research collaborated with TD Securities to achieve a 21 times performance improvement on the volume of data consumed by financial trading systems. Through the combination of ...

BI Bridge-Building: Q&A With Noetix CEO Morris Beton
E-Commerce Times — ... or benefits. That we wanted to keep those things in place. What I would like us to do, I said, is take a look at discretionary spending and to be careful about rehiring from attrition. That positioned us well from what is going on in the economy. We have reduced expenses by 12 to 15 percent as a result. CRM: How can your products help your customers' bottom lines in the near term? MB: We are in the BI arena. Typically what most customers are dealing with is BI platforms such as IBM's (NYSE: IBM) ...

It’s 2009: Do You Know Who Your Customers Are?
BankTech Site Feed — ... these firms for understanding, serving and communicating with those who provide their assets and hold their equity. Not only is this an opportunity to retain an institution’s existing and merged client base, but it also allows us to leverage existing relationships and to cross-sell to others of similar cultural heritage thus sending the important message that we value the cultural heritage of our client relationships. Dr. Leonard Shaefer is chief scientist with Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM ’s Global Name Recognition unit, and Edward Lull Jr. is VP of ...

Let the IT Land Grab Begin
E-Commerce Times — The reported acquisition of Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: JAVA) More about Sun Microsystems by Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) More about Oracle makes a ton more sense than IBM's (NYSE: IBM) More about IBM earlier failed bid. This new compact, if it succeeds, will bring as good an end to an independent Sun as the pioneering (yet long flagging) IT vendor could have hoped for at this sorry stage in its history. However, there are much larger implications in Oracle's latest super-grab than Sun's demise and assimilation. Among them is ...

Let the IT Land Grab Begin
LinuxInsider — The reported acquisition of Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: JAVA) More about Sun Microsystems by Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) More about Oracle makes a ton more sense than IBM's (NYSE: IBM) More about IBM earlier failed bid. This new compact, if it succeeds, will bring as good an end to an independent Sun as the pioneering (yet long flagging) IT vendor could have hoped for at this sorry stage in its history. However, there are much larger implications in Oracle's latest super-grab than Sun's demise and assimilation. Among them is ...

Job seekers, be prepared
SFGate: The Technology Chronicles — ... and IBM . Here's a question from the Best Buy Geek Squad: "If you saw the General Manager steal a candy bar from the front register, would you report him?" (That would not be tattling, right?) And if you're asked what kind of cereal you'd like to be, assuming you could be a cereal, you're applying to be a financial analyst at ...

IBM turns its developer site into a social network
VentureBeat — ... has been using its software developer site as a watering hole for those who use IBM’s tools. Now the My developerWorks site is becoming a social network. ...

Oracle and Sun: Match Made in Hades?
LinuxInsider — ... , Solaris, OpenOffice.org and even Linux itself. 'Forked to Hell and Very Unhealthy' "I would have preferred if Sun ended up in IBM's (NYSE: IBM) ...

Group Names IBM, Zeemote, Infinity, Wolfe Executives as Leading Women Entrepreneurs
Xconomy — ... of the company’s software operations in Littleton, MA. Friday is also executive sponsor of the IBM New England Women’s Network. (There’s an interview and podcast featuring Friday here). ...

IBM Weaves Cloud, Appliance, BPM, CEP and SOA Into One Fabric
E-Commerce Times —

IBM says nows the time to invest in innovation in Vietnam
VentureBeat — ... Big Blue is opening up an innovation center to help startups and local businesses develop and market new technologies. IBM will also develop relationships with Vietnamese universities and conduct joint research with them in areas such as analytics and cloud computing. Full told, IBM has just a dozen employees in Vietnam. But it expects that will grow. ...

The Neverending 'Year of Linux on the Desktop' Debate
LinuxInsider — ... by email. "It does not necessarily need someone planning to make money from GNU/Linux to do that, but advertising is expensive so the two are usually connected." An ad "showing off some good features and advantages of GNU/Linux could indeed bring in customers, but the retailers/OEMs already get loot from M$ for pushing their stuff, so there is a disincentive for established merchants to push GNU/Linux," Pogson noted. "It will have to be someone big enough to stand up to M$ -- like IBM (NYSE: IBM) ...

Can SMBs Live Without Mobile Security?
E-Commerce Times — ... "Mobile devices are pretty much mini data portfolios. If they're lost or stolen, they present many opportunities for people with malicious intentions," Logan told the E-Commerce Times. "It's like buying insurance. Many companies like to see if they can avoid spending the money -- but in the long run, if they're caught without it, the costs are tremendous." In addition to becoming lost or stolen, a mobile device can be attacked or be the source of an attack, said Tom Cross, manager of IBM (NYSE: IBM) ...

Riding Out the Storm: Q&A With Information Builders CEO Gerry Cohen
E-Commerce Times — ... we think, will be a boom year for us. A lot of companies right now are not making investments in technology, but sooner or later they will be forced to. CRM Buyer: Business intelligence software is a small tech niche dominated by a few large players. How do you compete with these companies? Cohen: It's true that we are an independent BI vendor, and our competitors are stack vendors such as SAP (NYSE: SAP) More about SAP AG , which acquired Business Objects, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) More about IBM , which acquired Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN) More ...

IBM launches social network for partners
VentureBeat — ... IBM is becoming a lot more social. The company launched a social network for its software developers not long ago. And today it’s launching a social network for its various partners to help bring technology to market faster and close sales more efficiently. ...

IBM Debuts New Social Network for Business Partners to Discover, Collaborate, & Profit
ReadWriteWeb — ... is launching PartnerWorld Communities, a new social net for the hardware/software giant's partners to identify skills, resources, and new business opportunities with one another. ...

iPhone envy? IBM launches mobile research intiative
VentureBeat — ... Maybe Big Blue has a bad case of iPhone envy. IBM said today it is launching a major research initiative to take mobile technology for businesses and consumers to new heights over the next five years. ...

IBM Expands Its SaaS Offerings With LotusLive Connections
ReadWriteWeb — As a major addition to its on-demand suite, IBM has unveiled LotusLive Connections at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, where it won the Cloud Computing Technology Buyers' Choice Award. LotusLive has long revolved around Web conferencing, with other features being somewhat secondary. The real power for the enterprise came from IBM's Lotus Connections, which is limited to on-premise deployment. But when LotusLive Connections becomes available on June 30th, all that will change. Sponsor Splitting The Difference LotusLive Connections ...

Top 5 Reasons for Building Governance Into the Cloud
E-Commerce Times — ... enterprise IT, will need to have such total governance in place. So, today we'll go round robin with our IT analyst panelists on their top five reasons why service governance is critical and mandatory for enterprises to properly and safely modernize and prosper vis-à-vis cloud computing. We see a lot of evidence that the IT vendor community and the cloud providers themselves recognize the need for this pending market need and requirement for additional governance. For example, IBM (NYSE: IBM) ...

Mobile Software Firm Strikes While the Market Is Hot
E-Commerce Times — ... The acquisition also opens Antenna to Dexterra's vast partner network for the development, sale and support of its platform. Dexterra has invested heavily in the development of this network over the last 12 to 24 months. While Antenna has a reseller agreement with AT&T (NYSE: T) More about AT&T , it can now tap into Dexterra's relationships with carriers such as Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) More about Vodafone and with systems integrators such as IBM (NYSE: IBM) More about IBM and Accenture.

With Google’s ongoing lack of innovation, should they return back to being resourceful?
Josh Chandler — In the past, I have often called Google.com out for being uninnovative, whether it was for poor design of products, or how Google’s overindulgence in creating new features in Google Mail Labs which are rarely useful, the 11 year old search engine has never truly caught my ...

IBM and The Internet of Things
ReadWriteWeb — ... In the Web world, you know that a trend has major traction when IBM is all over it. Like any big Internet company, Big Blue is careful about which trends it latches onto. It took a good couple of years until I spotted them at the Web 2.0 conference, for example. And that's fair enough, due to the size of the company and the time it takes to rally that workforce behind an idea. However in the case of Internet of Things, IBM is proving itself to be an unusually early adopter. ...

Weekly Wrapup: Why Amazon Bought Zappos, IBM's Internet of Things, The Mythical GDrive, And More...
ReadWriteWeb — ... In the Web world, you know that a trend has major traction when IBM is all over it. Like any large Internet company, Big Blue is careful about which trends it latches onto. However in the case of Internet of Things, IBM is proving itself to be an unusually early adopter. We recently spoke to Andy Stanford-Clark, a Master Inventor and Distinguished Engineer at IBM, who has ...

IBM buys analytics software firm SPSS for $1.2 billion
VentureBeat — IBM is buying analytics software firm SPSS for $1.2 billion in cash as the recession-inspired tech consolidation wave continues. The companies said the deal would strengthen IBM’s focus on information analytics, where the firms say they have complementary technologies and market positions. SPSS focuses on a category dubbed predictive analytics as a tool for managing companies and making smarter decisions. IBM will pay $50 a share, a 42 percent premium above Monday’s closing stock price for SPSS. The deal is subject to regulatory approval and is ...

IBM Snatches Up Companies Left & Right
ReadWriteWeb — Today, IBM announced two acquisitions: source code and application security company Ounce Labs, and SPSS, a provider of predictive analytics. Both purchases arrive on the heels of IBM picking up the privately-held Exeros in May. Downturn or not, IBM isn't picking these companies up on the cheap. SPSS — a publicly traded firm — was bought for $1.2 billion, which breaks down to an all-time high of $50 a share. With others by Intel and Oracle as well, the recent flush of acquisitions shows things are picking up for the software sector. ...

IBM Capitalizes the 'I' in IT
E-Commerce Times — Last week, IBM (NYSE: IBM) More about IBM announced the new Smart Analytics System, a fine-tuned solution for analyzing both structured information in databases and unstructured, often incompatible data from sources such as blogs, emails, information archives, podcasts, videos, Web sites and wikis. The Smart Analytics System can solve complex business problems as much as three times faster than other products, according to the company, while requiring up to 50 percent less storage. In addition, the systems are designed to be deployed and managed with a fraction of the ...

The State of BPM: Poised for Takeoff
E-Commerce Times — ... Sales opportunity for software and IT service firms. Sparked by customers seeking to cut costs and by innovations in e-commerce, the BPM market could easily double over the next several years. That explains why BPM providers continue to develop improvements to their products or otherwise position themselves to gain a competitive advantage. For example, one BPM player, Global 360 , upgraded its offerings with the July release of its Process-360 10.0 program. That followed IBM's (NYSE: IBM) More about IBM May rollout of enhancements for its BPM offerings, ...

On Bugs, Viruses, Malware and Linux
LinuxInsider — ... "By definition, physical access is already a compromised system. Any security issues past that point is simply splitting semantic hairs." Linux is far more secure than Windows, yagu asserted. "Linux is Unix -- which, by the way, so are Macs," he noted. "Unix's architecture is fundamentally different from Windows, especially the defaults for how access to important system resources is granted. "I've worked on Linux, HP (NYSE: HPQ) More about Hewlett-Packard Unix, IBM (NYSE: IBM) More about IBM Mainframe Linux, Sun Unix, blah, blah, blah, and in my ...

KnowledgeTree Takes Root in New ECM Markets
E-Commerce Times — ... The product has received 650,000 downloads of the open source community edition. Also, we have 300 plus commercial subscribers. Many of these users are small-to-large government agencies," Chalef told TechNewsWorld. Nifty Niche Entering the ECM market with an open source product gave Chalef a leg up. The ECM world of documents and files has few open source options in it, according to Alan Pelz-Sharpe, analyst at CMS Watch . "Currently, it remains dominated by the likes of IBM (NYSE: IBM) More about IBM , EMC (NYSE: EMC) More about EMC and ...

KnowledgeTree Takes Root in New ECM Markets
LinuxInsider — ... The product has received 650,000 downloads of the open source community edition. Also, we have 300 plus commercial subscribers. Many of these users are small-to-large government agencies," Chalef told TechNewsWorld. Nifty Niche Entering the ECM market with an open source product gave Chalef a leg up. The ECM world of documents and files has few open source options in it, according to Alan Pelz-Sharpe, analyst at CMS Watch . "Currently, it remains dominated by the likes of IBM (NYSE: IBM) More about IBM , EMC (NYSE: EMC) More about EMC and ...

The BPO Outlook: Mostly Cloudy With Patches of Sun
E-Commerce Times — Five years ago, megadeals were all the rage in the business process outsourcing (BPO) world. Global players such as IBM (NYSE: IBM) More about IBM , Accenture , ACS and CSC were racking up billion-dollar multiyear contracts, mainly for accounting, human resource and procurement functions. Now that's changing. "What we can say in BPO is that we have seen a slowdown in deal signings," Ed Thomas, an outsourcing analyst at Datamonitor , told CRM Buyer. In 2008, there were 155 BPO deals totaling US$1 million and above, Datamonitor reported. ...

The BI Outlook: A Bright Spot of Growth in a Gloomy Economy
E-Commerce Times — ... intelligence. "That's a growing development. It's going to make the tools more available," he stated. Cloud computing is an important trend in the business intelligence field, Hultgren agrees, seeing it as part of a broader industry trend rather than something specific to business intelligence. "There's a lot of discussion about cloud computing," Hultgren said, and there's growing recognition of Software as a Service. Major Players Large database and software companies such as IBM (NYSE: IBM) ...

The Joy of Linux Myth Debunking
LinuxInsider — ... false. 'It Is Good for Business' In fact, more than 70 percent of work on the kernel today is done by developers who are being paid for their efforts, the report found. "I hope this finally kills off the 'GPL is bad for business' myth," wrote chrb on Slashdot , where more than 250 comments greeted the findings. "Every one of those companies is paying for work on the kernel because it is good for their business. Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) More about Red Hat , IBM (NYSE: IBM) More about IBM , Novell (Nasdaq: NOVL) More about Novell ...

How the USTA Will Stream US Open Matches Online
Contentinople: — ... ., which will stream the videos. USTA signed IBM as its official technology partner. "Big Blue" built the USOpen.org site, and the company also designed an interactive media console that uses ...

Oracle To Sun Customers (And IBM): “We’re In It To Win It”
TechCrunch — Gotta love this advertisement from Oracle, directed at current Sun Microsystems customers (and now rival IBM), stating its intentions with SPARC and Solaris before the monster acquisition is even a done deal. It’s a full-page ad that appeared in the European edition of the Wall Street Journal today, and you can find it online on the Oracle website as well. However, as Matt Asay noted earlier, no mention of MySQL in the ad. (Thanks to @Toon for the tip) ...

The iPhone's 2 Billion Horsepower App Engine
E-Commerce Times — ... Manage and grow your business with Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Business Edition products for which they receive payments over time can book more of the revenue and profits at the time of sale. Before the ruling, such vendors had to go through a complex process in which the revenue and profits from the hardware was booked immediately, while revenue and profits from the software were booked over the life of the product. Apple, Palm (Nasdaq: PALM) More about Palm , IBM (NYSE: IBM) More about IBM , Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) More about Cisco ...

How High - or Long - Can AAPL Fly?
E-Commerce Times — ... were soaring on Tuesday, closing up over 2 percent at US$190.01 Tuesday. The company has enjoyed some good news lately -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) ...

An Autumnal Tour of Linux Workshops
LinuxInsider — ... Master the Mainframe competition , he added. "For the fall, I'm working on integrating Linux with some of my home-automation devices," Montreal consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack told LinuxInsider. For Chris Travers, meanwhile -- a Slashdot blogger who works on the ...

Redefining the Value of Cloud
E-Commerce Times — ... the concept of cloud computing and are likely to gravitate to those vendors they trust as suppliers. As a result, many customers will be attracted to vendors that are perceived as the centerpiece of a growing "club" of like-minded decision makers, even if the vendor's solutions are not clearly differentiated from a technical perspective. In many cases, these customers will even pay a premium price to join that club. This isn't a new idea. Tech vendors and consulting companies, like IBM (NYSE: IBM) ...

Greenpeace praises Apple's US Chamber of Commerce exit
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... , "Apple has stormed out of the biggest lobby group in the United States. At issue is the US Chamber of Commerce's use of funds to oppose climate change legislation. Apple has done the right thing, and IBM and ...

Is Big Blue a Desktop Linux Friend or Foe?
LinuxInsider — ... Finally, IBM also trod on Linux turf lately with its post, "10 important Linux developments everyone should know about," which hit ...

Gearing Up for the Project Management Market Explosion
E-Commerce Times — ... , Planview , Compuware and HP (NYSE: HPQ) More about Hewlett-Packard , according to the Branham Group. The solutions offered by all of these vendors go well beyond the original Microsoft Office Project capability and provide the centralized management of previously distributed project and resource information, says Branham. In addition to the vendors Branham counts as major players, IDC names Planisware , @task , Innotas IBM (NYSE: IBM) More about IBM , SAP (NYSE: SAP) More about SAP AG and ...

Latest GreenBeat speakers: Adrian Tuck, Andy Tang, Andy White & Allan Schurr
VentureBeat — ... Allan Schurr, vice president of strategy and utilities at IBM. IBM is significant for the Smart Grid because it provides most of the software that utilities use to route their energy. Schurr leads IBM’s work with partners, policy makers, and IBM services and technologies focused on customer management, advanced metering infrastructure and distributed energy. He previously held management jobs at Itron, Silicon Energy and Pacific Gas and Electric. ...

Brocade's Motorola Deal Obscures Its Long Term Plan
bMighty.com - Features — ... , which has experienced a lot of success in the networking market and is working with IBM to develop next-generation integrated devices. A Brocade acquisition would flesh out much of what's missing in the IBM/Juniper datacenter arsenal -- specifically, a FCoE line of switches. IBM has the servers needed to compete in the new integrated system space, however, the company has been moving away from hardware sales to position itself as a consulting company. Although its name has surfaced as a possible Brocade buyer, it's hard to understand why Big Blue would want to get back into ...

IBM: Skip Windows 7, use IBM Client for Smart Work
VentureBeat — ... IBM Client for Smart Work mixes open source productivity software with online tools and Canonical’s Ubuntu operating system. It was developed for sale in Africa and other emerging markets, but it seemed like there was an audience in the United States, too, IBM says. ...

Going Microsoft-Free, Saying Buh-Bye to McBride
E-Commerce Times — There was a lot of news in the FOSS world last week, and it seems fair to say that the overall atmosphere was positive. First, following the widespread outcry that followed IBM (NYSE: IBM) More about IBM and Canonical's release of a Microsoft-free desktop package in Africa last month, the two companies announced last week that a similar offering is now available for companies in the U.S. as well. Woohoo! Maybe IBM *is* Linux's friend after all! With news like that, it's no wonder Linus was inspired to pose for this photo... ...

Going Microsoft-Free, Saying Buh-Bye to McBride
LinuxInsider — There was a lot of news in the FOSS world last week, and it seems fair to say that the overall atmosphere was positive. First, following the widespread outcry that followed IBM (NYSE: IBM) More about IBM and Canonical's release of a Microsoft-free desktop package in Africa last month, the two companies announced last week that a similar offering is now available for companies in the U.S. as well. Woohoo! Maybe IBM *is* Linux's friend after all! With news like that, it's no wonder Linus was inspired to pose for this photo... ...

Meet-Up Month: RightNow, Sage and Microsoft
E-Commerce Times — ... (NYSE: AMD) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have all reported better than expected financial results for the recently finished quarter. The semiconductor market has always been a reliable indicator of an upturn in the tech sector, and I am hopeful that these results are the first signs of a general economic rebound. But recovery means more than simply reporting better financial results, especially if the increase is from a depressed level caused by recession. It's clearly a half-full glass, but that's fine with me. [image] Denis Pombriant is the managing principal of the ...

Where SOA Meets the Cloud
E-Commerce Times — ... So, really the book is about how to use SOA in the context of cloud computing, and that's the message I'm really trying to get across. ... As we move toward cloud computing, there are more economical and cost-effective architectural options. There is also the ability to play around with SOA in the cloud, which I think is driving a lot of the SOA. In fact, I find that a lot of people build their first initial SOA as cloud-delivered systems, be it Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN), IBM (NYSE: IBM), Azure from Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), and some of the other platforms that ...

The iPhone's China Syndrome
E-Commerce Times — ... in real-time to customer Increase Customer Sales with Email Marketing -- Free Trial from VerticalResponse feedback across all channels, including social media. "More and more of our customers' employees are using the iPhone at work," Amy Pressman, Medallia's president and chief financial officer, told MacNewsWorld . These users range from vice presidents to managers of individual hotels and retail stores to front line staff. Medallia's announcement follows in the footsteps of IBM (NYSE: IBM). In October, Big Blue ...

Cisco Forecasts Growth for First Time in Downturn
Digital Trends — ... chief financial officer, Frank Calderoni, said in an interview. “It’s not completely back to normal levels, and with that kind of uncertainty, you really have to take things quarter by quarter.” The company’s expansion into markets outside its core routing and switching businesses poses one threat to Cisco in the form of lower profit margins . Cisco is entering the computer-server market, where it will compete with longtime partners Hewlett-Packard Co . and IBM Corp . It is also expanding its product line to include consumer gadgets. Cisco ...

Text Analysis and the Next Generation of BI
E-Commerce Times — ... The idea is that if you are going to do something to prevent a terrorist attack, you need to detect and respond to the signals that are out there, that something is pending really quickly, and you have to have a high degree of certainty that you're looking at the right thing and that you're going to react appropriately. ... Text analytics actually predate BI. The basic approaches to analyzing textual sources were defined in the late '50s. Actually, there is a paper from an IBM (NYSE: IBM) researcher from 1958, that defines BI as the analysis of textual sources. ... [Now] we ...

Data Projects to Pave the Way for Business Intelligence
TechWeb — ... recently completed a number of customer data integration projects to build business intelligence reports (using Oracle software) for institutional sales groups. State Street is engaged in an ambitious enterprise data management initiative. Technology Providers : IBM , ...