Topic: IBM Corporation

Self Versus Others

As part of my consulting work with companies such as HP, Nike, Gap Inc., IBM, Mercedes-Benz, and others, one of the things my team does is examine how to improve the performance of teams -- how they make decisions, how they innovate, ...READ»

Rotterdam: The Smart Delta City of the Future

Much ado has been made about smart grid energy management, but what about smart water management? IBM and the Netherlands city of Rotterdam are collaborating on a forecasting system for water and energy management. The ...READ»

Chumbo Rewrites the Software Code

Chumbo.com sells software on the Web -- 15,000 titles from nearly 500 companies. But its "killer app" is reinventing how the software industry works. "We want to give people a richer retail experience."READ»

Water-Cooled, High-Performance IBM Computer Can Cut Carbon Footprint by 85%

When IBM researchers went looking for a better coolant for high-powered computers, they didn't have to look very far. Working alongside researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), IBM has developed a ...READ»

Inventing from the Inside Out

On August 2, 1985, as Delta flight 191 approached Dallas-Fort Worth airport, it was rocked by wind shear, causing the plane to crash. Aboard was Philip Estridge, the man who helped bring the IBM PC to market in record time. With ...READ»

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What's IBM's $100 Million Cell Phone Investment For?

IBM's just announced that it's pulled together $100 million to invest in future cell phone tech. It will be used to improve things like cell-phone security, user interface functionality, and business use of cell phones. But, when ...READ»

In The Hot Seat

Who: Ginni Rometty

Title: General Manager

Company: IBM Business Consulting Services

Where: Somers, NY

Challenge: Lead the just-created, largest consulting-services company in the worldREAD»

In Today's Papers

Reading and ripping: 'Blogosphere' spurs government oversight "Amateur investigators use Web to uncover pork" How Disney made broccoli cool "Research has helped the Disney Channel target the children's market and transform its ...READ»

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IBM Serves Up Two New G1 Apps for Wimbledon

Summer wouldn’t be summer without Wimbledon, and Wimbledon wouldn’t be Wimbledon without IBM. This summer, Wimbledon’s long-time technology partner--IBM creates the systems that log each and every stroke as well as other match ...READ»

IBM's Management Makeover

As its world changes, IBM is studying its top-performing leaders. What do they do differently, and can everyone do it?READ»

On Being PC

Tomorrow, the IBM PC celebrates its 25th anniversary -- and I was proud of FC Now's milestone! On Aug. 12, 1981, IBM announced its first personal computer, the IBM 5150. It cost $1,565. It had 16K of memory. I can hardly ...READ»

Take Your College to Work Day?

The New York Times reported today that many companies are beginning to offer college counseling to children of employees. That was sort of around when I was looking at schools - it was called nepotism and networking - see who your ...READ»

Mongrel PCs

IBM's deal, announced yesterday, to sell its personal computer operations to China's Lenovo is completely fascinating. As others have observed, it represents a serious attempt by a formerly parochial Chinese manufacturer to go ...READ»

Patent Leader

PatentCafe recently released its list of the top 200 companies, ranked in terms of how many patents they received. Here are the top 10: International Business Machines Corporation 3,254 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. - ...READ»

Wimbledon Seer App Serves Augmented Reality on a Grass Court

You may think Wimbledon, with its exquisitely manicured grass courts, royal family attendees, and strawberries and champagne is an old-fashioned affair. You'd be wrong. This year, along enjoying a retractable roof, the audience is ...READ»

Big Blue Meets Big Green With Its Supercomputers

Big Blue has morphed into Big Green. In the Green 500 list of super-powerful computing machines, IBM has snapped up 57 of the top 100 places. The Green list is a re-ordering of the famous annual Top 500 list of supercomputers in ...READ»

" Please Stay on the Line"

What do call-center companies tell each other? Press 1 to find out.READ»

Doctors, Help Us Heal Ourselves

I just learned about a fascinating initiative in which 20 global health organizations and universities are working with IBM to see whether an open-source approach might help clip the wings of bird flu. Building on the work of Larry ...READ»

What's Necessary to Make a Sustainable Business?

Information. Sustainability initiatives can’t succeed unless you know where you are starting out, what you are doing, and where you are going. Especially if the Obama Administration’s cap-and-trade bill becomes law, ...READ»

Mobile SaaS

An interesting and profitable market is growing at the intersection of SaaS and mobile computing.READ»

Zero-002

ZPURPOSE - ZPAST - FCBIO Session Time: 41 Minutes Wake Up Call: A great designer makes his design comprehensible Improve management of all transition points Focus on being grounded when abstraction ...READ»

IBM's Global Rail Innovation Center Brings Next-Gen Train Systems to China

Any doubts about whether China will be the world's next high-speed rail hub can be put to rest now that IBM has firmly planted itself in the country with its first Global Rail Innovation Center. The center, according to IBM, will ...READ»

Fast 50 2008: IBM

The streak is still going strong. In 2007, for the fifteenth consecutive year, IBM racked up more U.S. patents than any other company on the planet -- 3,125 in all. That's a whopping 60 patents per week. Sure, they're a prolific ...READ»

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