A Deal in Cement Todd Watson 7/31/2012 1 comment IBM is partnering with global building materials company CEMEX, in a 10-year services contract awarded to IBM worth just over $1 billion.
The Blackout in India Todd Watson 7/31/2012 1 comment For those of us here in the West, the blackout in India would be like the power going out across all of the US and all of the UK, at once.
REAL Coupons Todd Watson 7/30/2012 4 comments IBM recently partnered with major German retail hypermarket chain, REAL, to provide a convenient and personalized service to shoppers, even if they forgot their paper coupons back at home.
One Missed Putt Todd Watson 7/23/2012 1 comment Ernie Els, the one-time British Open Champion and 42-year-old grinder, walked away with the Claret jug yesterday after surreptitiously ousting Australia's Adam Scott.
IBM Furthers Focus on Marketers Todd Watson 7/18/2012 Post a comment As marketing organizations take the lead in tech acquisitions, it's notable that IBM has spent some $3 billion making acquisitions in this growing market over the past several years, including the acquisitions of Coremetrics, DemandTec, TeaLeaf, and Unica.
British Rocketballz Todd Watson 7/16/2012 Post a comment Turbo has a distinct feeling this is going to be a seriously compelling, and competitive, week of golf.
Shopping in the Great White North Todd Watson 7/12/2012 3 comments SHOP.CA, Canada’s largest online e-commerce marketplace, is using analytics software from IBM’s smarter commerce initiative to help engage increasingly empowered online consumers in a unique shopping experience.
No News Is Bad News Todd Watson 7/9/2012 Post a comment Despite the woes in Europe and minor slowdown in Asia, IT spending is going up, and in fact, Gartner revised its numbers to 3 percent growth from 2.5 percent last quarter.
Don’t Get Knocked Offline With DNSChanger! Todd Watson 7/6/2012 3 comments The DNSChanger Trojan horse virus is still in 12% of the Fortune 500! And on July 9, any systems still infected will be “summarily disconnected from the rest of the Internet.”
All About the Content Razorblades Todd Watson 7/6/2012 Post a comment Amazon is working with Foxconn on its own mobile mousetrap that would presumably provide easy access to all kinds of compelling content from Amazon’s vast cloud of digital entertainment.
Shopping for That MobileBeat Todd Watson 7/3/2012 Post a comment IBM Research has created a new augmented reality application that gives in-store shoppers instant product details and promotions, all in the palms of their hands.
Tiger Woods & La Roja Todd Watson 7/2/2012 Post a comment Tiger Woods won his own tournament, the AT&T Congressional, as he sidled by Bo Van Pelt in a tight finish cemented on the 18th and final hole.
Midsize businesses rarely achieve the same standards of security in their own datacenters as professional providers that specialize in delivering these services to organizations.
It was about 10 years ago when a new generation of software-as-a-service (SaaS) alternatives started to gain acceptance and adoption among organizations of all sizes. And it has only been about five years since Amazon Web Services captured the marketplace's attention with Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3, which opened the door to a vast array of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings. Now, the third piece of the cloud computing puzzle is beginning to win over organizations seeking to build their own apps: platform-as-a-service (PaaS).
Energy consumption is a primary contributor to global warming. At the end of 2012, 40 percent of energy consumption in the US came from commercial and residential buildings.
Big-data and analytics tools enable marketers to understand customers as individuals, identifying unmet needs and addressing each customer as a "segment of one," says John Kennedy, VP corporate marketing, IBM.
New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority is conducting a pilot test of digital kiosks to guide subway users to where they want to go more efficiently and at lower cost.
The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
While NFC's original goal was to enhance mobile commerce applications, it is finding its way into a number of other uses, which is creating both opportunity as well as challenges for IT departments.
Enterprises would like to move to cloud computing but are hesitant because they are concerned about providers’ ability to secure company data. Here are some tips that help to ensure that if breaches occur, the business is not left holding the bag.
Edmunds separates customers into segments based on the info it collects on its site and from partners, and uses that to push out custom content, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
The IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit in Monaco kicked into high gear today, and we've already begun to see news emerging from that lovely city-state by the sea.
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