Posted by John Patrick on Jul 24, 2011 in
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People,
Social media 
The Wall Street Journal posed the question of whether Facebook is worth $100 billion. I still have no idea, but I continue to think Facebook is now facing a very formidable competitor. My initial reaction has strengthened. G+ circles are a big deal and clearly the differentiator. As for growth, technowizard Leon Haland has shared some interesting data that shows the relative growth rates of Google, Facebook and Twitter. Haland said that Twitter got 10 million users in 780 days (2.13 years), Facebook got 10 million users in 852 days (2.33 years), and Google Plus gained 10 million users in just 16 days (2 weeks). Google Plus is growing exponentially. The Christian Post reported on Wednesday that Google Plus had reached 18 million users.
Regardless of the exact numbers, I see G+ growing very rapidly becuase it has a better privacy model than anyone else, as far as I can see. With Facebook, a friend is someone for whom you have accepted an invitation. Are they really all your friends? How many friends can a person have? What is a friend? With Google+, you can establish circles for best friends, semi-friends, acquaintances, people you can’t stand, favorite people, geniuses, half-loaves, golf buddies, political cohort, heard of them, never heard of them, etc. In other words, you define your circles, you put people in one or more of the circles you create, you easily upgrade or downgrade which circle a person is in, and you are confident that none of your “friends” can see which circle you have put them in. As that notion takes hold, I think millions of people will migrate to Google+.
I currently have 169 people in my circles and there are 117 that have me in their circles. The magic is that they don’t know what circle I have them in and I don’t what circle my “friends” have me in. I may be in the “jerks” circle of them all, and I may have placed many of my connections in the “heard of them once” circle. I have seen G+ connections come in to me that show that someone has 7,000 people in their circles. That is ok with me. Someone can have 100 million people in their circle if they want. I see Bill Gates, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin in some people’s circles. Are they really friends of these czars? Maybe. I doubt it. My rule of thumb for “friends” is as described previously. My criteria for “industry friend” is someone I have actually met and talked to. Someone else may have a criteria of “heard of them”. It doesn’t matter. The key thing is that if you want to post a message to your family circle or best friends, you know that only this limited group of people that you have defined will be able to read your post. The point is that G+ gives you control. You define what a friend is. You can allow large numbers of people into your circles if you choose, but that does not mean that they can read your posts to “soccer moms” or “my political cohort”.
It is going to be interesting to see how the exponential growth of G+ plays out. Maybe everybody will be connected to everybody, but at least you will have the ability to share with everybody or just your “motorcycle friends” or whatever. Stay tuned.
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Posted by John Patrick on Jul 15, 2011 in
Favorites,
People,
Social media The Wall Street Journal posed the question of whether Facebook is worth $100 billion. I have no idea, but the market will sort that out over time. I do, however, have a point of view about Facebook versus Google+. From what I see so far, I think Facebook is now facing a very formidable competitor. My initial reaction has strengthened. Circles are a big deal and clearly the differentiator. What is a friend?
With Facebook, a friend is someone for whom you have accepted an invitation. Are they really all your friends? How many friends can a person have? What is a friend? The Merriam-Webster dictionary says that a friend is one attached to another by affection or esteem. Would you say that about all your Facebook friends? I think of a friend as someone that I would ask for personal advice, invite to dinner at my home, borrow something from or lend something to, or discuss a medical condition with. I know most of my friend’s families or at least know something about them. I think we could all agree that there are various levels of friends.
In theory, you can establish this granularity with Facebook, but it is not easy and when you have done it, you are not really sure who can see the grouping you have established or who can read something you post to that group. With Google+, you can establish circles for best friends, semi-friends, acquaintances, people you can’t stand, favorite people, geniuses, half-loaves, golf buddies, political cohort, heard of them, never heard of them, etc. In other words, you define your circles, you put people in one or more of the circles you create, you easily upgrade or downgrade which circle a person is in, and you are confident that none of your “friends” can see which circle you have put them in. As that notion takes hold, I think millions of people will migrate to Google+.
When you and your family post to your family circle about upcoming Labor Day plans, you all will know that only family circle members will be able to read those personal and private communications. Privacy has been a highly visible issue for Facebook for a long time, but in my opinion, they have not really addressed it. Google has, and hence my optimism about Google+. I don’t rule out that a new entrant will come along and trump them all. That is the great thing about the Internet. A great idea can take hold and scale practically overnight. Stay tuned and keep an eye on your circles.
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Happy Birthday to all as we celebrate the birthday of our Nation. I am not sure who said it, but it is a great quotation, “The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.” Freedom of speech is a key element from among the many freedoms that millions of people–unfortunately, not all people–enjoy. The Internet has added multiple channels of communication since the early days of Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), the Internet standard for electronic mail (e-mail). The first synchronous communication channel was Internet Relay Chat (IRC), and it was followed by instant messaging, various Web chat services, and Short Message Service (SMS), the text communication service component of mobile communication systems (cell phones). Enter social networks, or social media, and we have a whole new layer of channels. I think of this evolution as starting with the basic communications layer, the Internet. On top of the Internet we have a great application called the World Wide Web, and it gives us multi-media content sharing, e-commerce, e-learning, e-health, and many other applications. I think of social networking as a layer on top of the Web that gives us a way to blog, collaborate, share, hangout, chit, chat, chit chat, tweet, hire, be hired, network, find investors, make deals, find a date, get married, and much more.
Will Facebook dominate the new world of social media? Who knows? Perhaps. Perhaps not. At one point it looked like Myspace would dominate. It was the most popular social networking site in the United States in June 2006, but two years later it was overtaken by Facebook. Then the company was purchased by News Corporation for $580 million, and then on June 29, 2011, Myspace was sold to Specific Media for $35 million. The unstoppable got stopped. It could happen to Facebook too. The Internet has proven many times that no one company is too big to fail. Enter the Google Plus Project. I explained it this morning around the holiday breakfast table at the Lake. Some family members are tech savvy, some not. They all were shaking their heads in the affirmative as soon as I described Google Plus Circles. You can have a family circle, a boating circle, a friends circle, an acquaintance circle, a new mothers circle, a hospital board circle, etc. When you post something to the family circle, you know exactly who is going to be able to read it. This is the issue with Facebook–when you post something, you are likely not sure who is going to be able to read it. There are privacy controls but nobody seems to quite understand them. Let me cite LinkedIn to make the point. I have 304 “Connections” at LinkedIn. These are people I actually know. The 304 connections link me to 7,487,410 other people, not counting the 76,856 new people that were added to my network since June 27. If you are looking for a job, having friends of your friends’ friends know about you may be a good thing. When you are writing a personal reflection about something to share with your friends, do you really want the network effect? Perhaps not. With Google Plus, when you post something to your friends circle, you know exactly who is going to be able to read what you had to say. The war over social network market share is underway. Based on what I see so far, I would not rule out Google. If key influencers begin to shift allegiance, the momentum for Facebook could change very quickly.
The bottom line is that we should be thankful that we can communicate or not whenever we want. It is one of our greatest freedoms. Let us be mindful of the many millions of people who have no freedom to communicate. Stay tuned and have a nice 4th.
Epilogue: This story appears in the blog, Twitter, Facebook, and Google Plus.
Tags: facebook, google, google plus, myspace, news corp, news corporation, social, social media, social networking, specific media, twitter
Posted by John Patrick on Feb 3, 2011 in
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patrickWeb 
I have been experimenting with the Amazon aStore and decided to add books that I have read. After I complete a book, I will add it to the patrickWeb aStore so to make it easy for followers of my blog to buy books I have enjoyed, if they choose to. The first book I will add is Bill Bryson’s At Home. Like all Bryson books, it is extraordinary. Bryson takes you on a tour of his home in England room by room–living room, dining room, basement, kitchen, etc. and in each room he delves deeply into the history of things. For example, reading the dining room chapter you end up learning about the history of food, cooking, servants, and many other things in incredible detail just like all his books. I can highly recommend this latest one. Feel free to visit the patrickWeb aStore and take a look. Feedback welcome.
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Posted by John Patrick on Oct 12, 2010 in
Aviation,
Favorites,
Healthcare 
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I had met Dr. Gawande in New York a week or so ago and was quite impressed with his talk about “How To Live When You Have To Die“. The ChecklistManifesto is an easy read because the recommendations are practical and understandable. Dr. Gawande uses examples from medicine and aviation to make the point about how easy it is for people to forget things that can jeopardize the lives of others.
Being a pilot, I already appreciated the importance of checklists. When learning to fly, the checklist is fundamental. You learn to use it all the time, no matter how much experience you have. The book is replete with examples of how things went wrong in a medical setting when a simple step was skipped due to the frenetic pace of the operating room and possible distractions and interruptions.
No one likes to talk about the error rate in surgery, but suffice it to say that the numbers are non-trivial. Thousands of people are harmed in some way. Dr. Gawande believes that simple checklists can dramatically change the numbers. He cites studies where this is proven. His focus and enthusiasm for patient safety is having a positive impact around the world. I look forward to reading his two other books: Complications and Better.
Tags: Aviation, checklist, surgery
Posted by John Patrick on Aug 29, 2010 in
Favorites,
ipad,
Kindle,
Media,
WiFi 
The new Kindle 3 — “Smaller, Faster, Cheaper“” — arrived on Friday morning, a few days earlier than Amazon had promised. I would say that the new device will assure Amazon’s lead for some time. It is really fantastic. I had no complaints with the Kindle 2 — in fact I love it — but the new one has a nicer feel to it. The slightly smaller size allows you to truly read “one handed”. The power switch was moved to the bottom from the top and I find that much more convenient. The new color seems more with the times. A few other button changes but overall it is pretty much a refined version of the Kindle 2 which was a refined version of the Kindle 1. I am sure we won’t have to wait a year for the Kindle 4.
The Kindle 3′s new no glare screen has increased gray-scale contrast — it is clear as a bell and it loves the summer sun. The battery life is supposed to be one month. The migration from Kindle 2 to Kindle 3 was trivial. Took the new device out of the box, plugged it in, and turned it on. I clicked “register” and gave it my Amazon account id and password. I also gave it the SSID of my Wireless Access Point here at the Lake and that was it. In seconds I was reading the book that I had started on the Kindle 2 (and read parts of on the iPhone 4 and the Kindle app on the iPad).
I still love the iPad but when it comes to reading books the Kindle is hands down better and with the Kindle 3 that advantage will be multiplied. The new Kindle comes in two flavors: one with WiFi for $139 and one with WiFi and 3G for $189. For most of us the WiFi model is more than adequate. If you are going on a trip you can download your favorite newspaper plus a book or two or more using your home WiFi and you are set. You don’t really need 3G for other applications because the Kindle doesn’t have other applications! That is what your iPad is for.
The magazine, book, and newspaper publishers still haven’t figured out what to do about the rapid adoption of e-readers. The iPad is great for reading news, but which news source is best to read? The New York Times has the worst model. They offer a dozen stories and plan to charge if you want more. The Wall Street Journal charges $3.99 per week for their news on the iPad but if you want to read a WSJ story on the web or your iPhone they want you to take out another subscription. Wired and Time want you to pay $5 per issue of their magazines. I believe people will be willing to pay for good content but nobody yet has the right model. I have experimented with quite a few news “readers” that display the RSS feeds of just about all publishers. I currently like NewsRack the best. None of the news readers are perfect but they are all getting better.
Meanwhile the Kindle DX has found a temporary home on eBay. The auction began Friday evening and already has 13 watchers and eight bids. The Kindle DX has been in use for airport and approach charts on the airplane but is no longer needed now that the pilots have iPads. This is a good example of where a “multi-purpose” device is better. There are many applications that are very handy in the cockpit and the iPad becomes an EFB (electronic flight bag). Hopefully, the pilots are not reading books while flying!
Tags: amazon, author, Aviation, efb, electronic flight bag, ipad, Kindle, kindle 3, kindle 4, publisher, WiFi
Posted by John Patrick on Jul 31, 2010 in
Favorites,
IBM 
After thirty-eight years at IBM, it was hard to cut the cord. One of my self-appointed duties as an e-tiree has been to post news clips of things going on at the company. Fortunately, there is a lot going on there! I post what I call “IBM Happenings” more or less once a month. Not sure if I will do this forever but people seem to find it useful. Click a thumbs up or down after the postings to let me know what you think. There is an archive of the news clips since I began posting back in 2004.
IBM to acquire BigFix
The acquisition accelerates IBM’s efforts to help organizations secure
the enterprise by managing and automating security and compliance
updates on thousands of computers globally.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/32026.wss
IBM unveils Global Commuter Pain study
IBM surveyed 8,192 motorists in 20 cities on six continents, the majority
of whom say that traffic has gotten worse in the past three years.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/32017.wss
Roche, IBM to develop DNA sequencing technology
Roche and IBM announced an agreement to develop a nanopore-based
technology that will directly read and sequence human DNA quickly and efficiently.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/32037.wss
Comepay selects IBM System z10
Comepay, a leading provider of self-service payment kiosks in Russia,
has selected an IBM System z10 mainframe to run its core business
operations.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/32004.wss
IBM launches Berlitz’s Language Services intranet
IBM announced Berlitz International Inc.’s ambitious project to use
social software and social analytics to improve the career development
and satisfaction of its employees.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/32011.wss
IBM opens cloud center in Ehningen, Germany
The new facility will host a range of technology platforms and optimized
service delivery processes, enabling its clients to harness the potential
offered by cloud computing.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/32135.wss
IBM bolsters research to improve healthcare
IBM will enlist some of the company’s leading scientists and technologists
to help medical practitioners and insurance companies provide high-quality,
evidence-based care to patients.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/32125.wss
IBM introduces new security appliance
The new IBM Security Network Intrusion Prevention System helps
organizations take a more holistic approach to security, eliminating
the need for multiple point solutions.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/32134.wss
IBM, People’s Hospital build patient-centric care system
IBM and Peking University People’s Hospital have built an
evidence-based patient centric care system to enable resource
sharing among medical services providers for improved patient care.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/32126.wss
IBM announces open beta program for AIX 7
AIX 7 builds on the capabilities of previous releases of AIX and can fully
exploit the performance and energy management capabilities of the
new POWER7 servers.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/32121.wss
IBM reports 2010 second-quarter results
IBM announced second-quarter 2010 diluted earnings of $2.61
per share compared with diluted earnings of $2.32 per share in the
second quarter of 2009, an increase of 13 percent.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/32144.wss
IBM unveils zEnterprise System
IBM announced the zEnterprise mainframe server and a new systems
design that allows workloads on mainframe, POWER7 and System x
servers to share resources and be managed as a single, virtualized
system.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/32166.wss
Memphis reduces crime with IBM predictive analytics
The Memphis Police Department has enhanced its crime fighting
techniques with IBM predictive analytics software and reduced serious
crime by more than 30 percent.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/32169.wss
Sun World transforms produce business with IBM
Sun World International LLC is harnessing IBM analytics technology
to improve crop yields, reduce waste and expand its customer base,
while providing more cost effective and energy-efficient harvesting
practices.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/32159.wss
IBM acquires storage company Storwize
Storwize provides real-time data compression technology to help
clients reduce physical storage requirements by up to 80%.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/32219.wss
We discussed the acquisition during a teleconference on July 29.
Details are available at:
http://www.ibm.com/itanalyst/teleconferences
IBM opens cloud computing center in Poland
IBM Poland and the Wroclaw University of Technology announced
an agreement to establish the first university cloud computing center
in Poland.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/32226.wss
IBM, Carnegie Mellon to create Smarter Infrastructure Lab
The IBM Smarter Infrastructure Lab at Carnegie Mellon University
will develop technologies that are consistent with IBM’s Smarter
Planet initiative.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/32225.wss
IBM, Tridium to develop energy-efficient building systems
IBM plans to work with Tridium, Inc. to develop new technology
and solutions that will allow companies to maximize efficiency
of their new and existing buildings and facilities.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/32218.wss
IBM, UPMC to make ‘smart’ patient rooms
IBM and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center are teaming
up to bring “smarter” hospital rooms to patients nationwide.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/32217.wss
Complete index of IBM Happenings for 2004-2010
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Posted by John Patrick on Jul 29, 2010 in
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ipad,
Kindle,
Media Smaller, Faster, Cheaper. That has been the mantra of the computer business for decades and it continues on. As predicted here, Amazon has announced a smaller, faster, cheaper Kindle 3 and it also turns out to be clearer. The new no glare screen has increased gray-scale contrast and it loves the summer sun. The battery life is one month and the slightly smaller size and 8.7 once weight means you can hold it in your hand for a long time with no fatigue. At a price of $139 this new Kindle will likely become something that every member of the family will have. I think Jeff Bezos has the right idea with his “single purpose” device combined with a strategy to make all Amazon books readable on all the devices no matter who makes them. I love my iPad but when it comes to reading books the Kindle is hands down better and with the Kindle 3 that advantage will be multiplied.
The new Kindle comes in two flavors: one with WiFi for $139 and one with WiFi and 3G for $189. For most of us the WiFi model is more than adequate. If you are going on a trip you can download your favorite newspaper plus a book or two or more using your home WiFi and you are set. You don’t really need 3G for other applications because the Kindle doesn’t have other applications! That is what your iPad is for.
I have a small investment in Amazon and plan to hold on to it for a long time. I think their visiion and execution are outstanding as I have written many times here in the blog. The Wall Street pundits are not as bullish, however. In fact the latest stories on the company’s performance talk about “costs soar”, “investors spooked”, “expectations not met” and other negative phrases. Amazon was criticized for spending to expand it’s infrastructure. Apparently Wall Street would prefer that the company wait until they start dissatisfying customers and then apply bandaids. Amazon is adding 13 fulfillment centers this year and has hired an additional 2,200 employees over the last quarter. As an investor I like the long term view that Jeff Bezos has taken consistently from day one. He ignores the pundits and listens to the customers.
What was the bad news that caused the stock to take a big hit this week? Amazon’s earnings rose 45% on a 41% increase in sales. Sales of electronics and other general goods rose 69% to $3.49 billion. Operating expenses such as marketing and distribution costs jumped 40%, almost as much as sales. They didn’t rise — they jumped. Rising less than sales was a very good thing when I was a CFO. Another “negative” is that Amazon’s sales of traditional media, such as books and DVDs, continued to decelerate. That will be true for everyone as we all know. That is why Amazon is pushing the Kindle.
In spite of the “negatives” Amazon’s profit for the quarter grew from $142 million to $207 million while revenue rose from $4.65 billion to $6.57 billion. But analysts were critical that return on invested capital fell to 34% from 42% a year ago. Most companies would die to get 10%. The bottom line is that expectations get out of hand. An analyst puts a number in a spreadsheet for what they expect revenue or profit to be and those numbers become set in concrete. Somehow the analysts know more than Jeff Bezos about what his numbers should be. In the long run things adjust properly but in a quarter by quarter game the strategy and reality of performance are less important than what the expectations were.
Meanwhile Amazon reported it sold more e-books than paper books over the past three months. The company also disclosed an agreement with literary agent Andrew Wylie giving it exclusive rights to sell digital editions of certain older titles by authors such as Philip Roth and John Updike. The deal bypasses publishers completely. This is profound. The publishers are furious about the deal but for the rest of us it means fairly priced access to a large number of classics. The Kindle library now exceeds 600,000 and is growing rapidly. That should take care of a lot of summers.
Tags: amazon, author, ipad, Kindle, publisher, wylie
Posted by John Patrick on Jul 20, 2010 in
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Favorites,
Gadgets,
ipad,
iPhone,
Kindle,
Media,
Mobile PC World Magazine says “Amazon Kindle Sales Defy IPad by Rising Each Month in Q2“. This does not come as a surprise for a number of reasons. One is that the Kindle is a great product that is highly intuitive and easy to use. People get addicted to it and they tell their friends and family about it. I have been wanting to read Michael Lewis’s The Big Short but it was not available until recently on the Kindle. I waited. Great book, by the way. I know people who told me a few years ago that they had no interest in the Kindle but now are addicted. It was a popular gift item last holiday season and with the price reduced (again) it has become attractive to a much larger audience. Another factor is that the iPad is not the Kindle killer that some had thought. As described here a number of times, the iPad is great but not for for long periods and not for reading outdoors. Summer reading is the sweet spot for the Kindle.
Now we have the new Kindle DX. The “old” Kindle DX was already quite nice. We have been using it as an “electronic flight bag” for roughly 15,000 approach and airport charts. The Kindle reduces clutter in the cockpit but the iPad does a better job as an EFB since it has numerous aviation applications that enable pilots to calculate weight and balance, get the latest weather, and file flight plans directly with the FAA. Now that we have the iPad the DX can revert to the original reason we got it — reading newspapers and magazines. The DX is great for books too but the smaller Kindle is more comfortable to hold. The sweetspot for the DX is magazines, newspapers, and documents. Putting the DX on a stand and flipping through the Sunday paper is a treat. And now with the new DX it will be even better.
The new 9.7″ diagonal, high contrast e-ink screen has 50% better contrast than it’s predecessor. The Kindle DX display looks and reads like real paper, with no glare. With the free 3G wireless (no monthly payments and no contract) and the lower price, the DX is going to be a good choice for many people. Battery life is great too — read for up to 1 week on a single charge; turn wireless off and read for up to two weeks. The built-in PDF Reader has enhanced zoom capability to easily view small print and detailed tables or graphics. For professionals who have thousands of documents it will be a natural.
There will be a lot of competition for tablets and e-readers but from what I have seen so far the iPad and the Kindle, and the Kindle DX are the best. I love my iPad but for reading books the Kindle is better. I especially like being able to go back and forth between the iPhone 4, the Kindle, the Kindle DX, and the Kindle e-reader on the iPad and always have the bookmark synced to where I last was reading. As for newspapers and magazines the next move needs to be from the publishers who seem frozen with indecision. They want to charge a lot of money for their content but most of us don’t want to pay. Why pay for a New York Times app on the iPad when you can read the New York Times blogs on Pulse for free? As for magazines there is great potential for electronic versions but I don’t think people will pay the $4.99 for each new issue that Time and Wired are charging. I expect a lot of news about the news in the months ahead.
Tags: approach plates, Aviation, documents, dx, e-book, e-ink, e-reader, efb, flight charts, ipad, Kindle, kindle dx, magazines, New York Times, newspapers, pdf, time magazine, wired
Posted by John Patrick on Jul 17, 2010 in
Favorites,
IBM After thirty-eight years at IBM, it was hard to cut the cord. One of my self-appointed duties as an e-tiree has been to post news clips of things going on at the company. Fortunately, there is a lot going on there! I post what I call “IBM Happenings” more or less once a month. Not sure if I will do this forever but people seem to find it useful. Click a thumbs up or down after the postings to let me know what you think. There is an archive of the news clips since I began posting back in 2004.
IBM helps clients simplify their IT
IBM announced new products and services designed to simplify the way that clients manage their IT environments by delivering specialized capabilities associated with cloud, integration and scalability.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/30799.wss
IBM research effort examines human health
IBM launched a multi-year research effort to enable individuals, governments and businesses to better understand which actions to take to improve human health.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/30969.wss
IBM, TTI collaborate on intelligent transportation
IBM and Texas Transportation Institute have agreed to collaborate on research and development of intelligent transportation projects in Texas and beyond.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/30809.wss
New software personalizes customer relationship strategies
The new software enables users to analyze information from social media sources and then merge that with vast internal data for faster insight and predictive intelligence.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/31472.wss
IBM opens cloud laboratory in Singapore
IBM announced the opening of a cloud computing laboratory in Singapore to help businesses and government design, adopt and reap benefits of cloud technologies.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/30803.wss
IBM releases 2010 Global CEO Study
The survey of more than 1,500 CEOs worldwide finds that creativity – more than discipline, integrity or even vision — is needed to successfully navigate an increasing complex world.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/31670.wss
IBM moves predictive analytics into new era
IBM SPSS Decision Management software places the powerof predictive analytics directly into the hands of business users for faster, more insightful decision making.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/31689.wss
IBM announces new x86 systems
The new x86 systems leverage IBM software and hardware to deliver optimized performance and speed rollouts of high-performance clusters.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/31685.wss
IBM announces new PartnerWorld program benefits
IBM announced new capabilities to help IBM Business Partners deepen their skills to deliver high-value solutions for clients, while creating opportunities for growth.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/31696.wss
IBM software, services help clients take advantage of data
IBM announced new software and services designed to help organizations take advantage of the growing and diverse forms of data and content.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/31687.wss
IBM, Hildebrand to bring smart metering to homes across Britain
IBM is teaming with energy consultant Hildebrand to help consumers make more informed decisions about their energy consumption with IBM data management software.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/31690.wss
IBM to acquire Coremetrics
Coremetrics will expand IBM’s business analytics capabilities by enabling organizations to use a cloud-based delivery model to gain real-time insight into consumer interactions.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/31907.wss
IBM releases Global Student Study
The study, “Inheriting a Complex World: Future Leaders Envision Sharing the Planet,” reflects the consolidated view of more than 3,600 students in more than 40 countries.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/31937.wss
IBM announces offerings for the mobile business market
IBM unveiled a range of new software, services and research offerings designed to bring a new level of intelligence to the fast-growing mobile enterprise market.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/31917.wss
IBM opens software lab in Massachusetts
The IBM Mass Lab is creating software that manages some of the world’s most complex process and infrastructure problems such as modernizing and automating the world’s physical infrastructures.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/31916.wss
IBM announces Lotus Notes Traveler for Android
Lotus Notes Traveler for And roid beta version is no-charge software that provides two-way, over-the-air synchronization of information between Lotus Domino and mobile devices.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/31936.wss
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts signs services agreement
IBM and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts announced a new five-year services agreement in which IBM will transform the organization’s IT environment.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/31991.wss
IBM, Esty Environmental Partners to address sustainability
A group of major companies have formed the Sustainability Innovators Working Group — aiming to define and develop new approaches to environmental management and corporate sustainability.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/31988.wss
IBM, SCWA to address water management in California
IBM and the Sonoma County Water Agency have teamed up to address the pressing problem of water management in the heart of Northern California’s wine country.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/31995.wss
New IBM software helps manage electronic trading
IBM unveiled a new technology platform designed to transform how financial services firms manage the data and transaction volumes generated by capital markets around the world.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/31975.wss
Wall Street firms to increase IT spend through 2011
A new survey of IT Wall Street professionals reveals that almost one-half expect 20-30% of their technology budget to be allocated for transformational initiatives in 2010 and 2011.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/31976.wss
Complete index of IBM Happenings for 2004-2010
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