November 2010
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Will a Flood of Tiny Sensors Help Us Cut... →
Such sensors will also play a role for IBM, which has more than a dozen smart-grid projects around the world. The devices form the backbone of the “smart meters” that give consumers and utilities a tuning knob for power use. IBM will also target factories that want to fine-tune their round-the-clock manufacturing churn. To demonstrate, the company outfitted its Burlington, Vt.,...
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In California, Carports That Can Generate... →
Solar Roofs over parking lots are changing the landscape of California’s districts. By covering school parking lots with solar panels, districts are meeting as much as 75 percent of their electricity needs while enhancing green education.
Nov 30th
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Your Most Valuable Asset ... People | Atlantic...
We hear a lot of talk about how businesses are embracing collaboration. But when it comes down to it, companies are aiming too low. Most businesses use collaboration technology for marketing and recruiting and that’s about it. Corporate feeds touting the latest products and news on Twitter? Check. Reaching out on Facebook to new college grads? Got it. But rolling out the same kinds...
Nov 30th
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A Nanophotonics Breakthrough: The Result Could be... →
A team of scientists at IBM Research has achieved a breakthrough in nanophotonics that could hasten the arrival of machines capable of performing one million trillion calculations a…
Nov 30th
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Is Reverse Combustion the Key Alternative Energy Source? - Smarter Technology A new technology from researchers at Princeton is turning carbon dioxide into a viable fuel source. These days, everyone from governments to major companies are worried about their carbon footprint and so are turning to alternative energy sources right and left to help reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the...
Nov 29th
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The Mobile Device Is Becoming Humankind's Primary...
People everywhere are consuming more and more wireless bandwidth to manage a wider variety of tasks. Evidence shows that the mobile phone is becoming indispensable to us: more people are paying for apps, and they’re more willing to trade privacy for benefits. Chart 2: Mobile service is among the fastest-spreading technologies in history. The number of mobile-phone accounts worldwide has...
Nov 29th
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Optimising Infrastructure in Urban India →
Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by Dr. Manish Gupta, Chief Technologist, IBM India/South Asia and Director, IBM Research – India Last week I watched the first episode of a TV series,…
Nov 28th
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Jim Morrish Principal Analyst “The fast-evolving mobile phone environment and declining technology prices have set the stage for traditional M2M services to make the leap into the consumer space.” The roots of the emerging ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) market lie in industrial machine-to-machine (M2M) systems. Historically, M2M monitoring was ideally suited to asset-intensive,...
Nov 24th
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Smarter Cities Santiago: A discussion on the... →
“The future belongs to those who are bold enough to grab it.” Those were the worlds of Claudio Orrego, the mayor of the municipality of Penalolen, a section of Santiago, Chile. Mayor Orrego was one…
Nov 24th
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a360: Rethinking the Mobile Web
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Advancing Mobility | the next frontier in smarter transportation Read the new study on the evolving nature of vehicle manufacturing, sales, ownership and new models for business and society around transportation
Nov 22nd
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“The company is using a combination of RFID sensors, GPS and cellular...”
– Driscoll’s Monitors Its Berry Shipments in Real Time - RFID Journal
Nov 20th
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Nov 20th
Streetline wins at IBM SmartCamp World Finals →
Did you get a chance to watch any of the IBM SmartCamp World Finals from Dublin over the last few days? I watched via the LiveStream channel and I thought it was fantastic. Being able to watch…
Nov 19th
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A Smarter Planet Feed: Analytics & New...
via feeds.feedburner.com Subscribe to all posts on the Smarter Planet Tumblr network tagged around analytics and new intelligence Posted via email from Jack’s posterous | Comment »
Nov 19th
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Smart Cape Cod Initiative Aims at Solving Water... →
Source: Wikimedia Commons America’s Cape Cod has long been celebrated as a summer paradise where vacationers enjoy swimming in the surf, digging for clams, and fishing. But there’s…
Nov 19th
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Nov 18th
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3D Healthcare: Coming to a Hospital near you →
As we move into the era of electronic health information, IBM Researchers are working to make “3D healthcare” as commonplace as the tongue depressor and the stethoscope. Click here to view the…
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Watch live streaming video from ibmsoftware at livestream.com  2010 Business Analytics Summit on IBM Software Channel
Nov 18th
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“Imagine a future where everything is connected to the internet. Not just your...”
– The internet of things › Science Features (Australian Broadcasting Company | Science)
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http://theclimatedesk.org →
doitdoitdoitnow: Q: What is the Climate Desk? A: The Climate Desk is a journalistic collaboration dedicated to exploring the impact—human, environmental, economic, political—of a changing climate. The partners are The Atlantic, Center for Investigative Reporting, Grist, Mother Jones, Slate, Wired, and PBS’s new public-affairs show Need To Know.
Nov 17th
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As Textbooks Go Digital, Campus Bookstores May Go... →
infoneer-pulse: As students cut costs by buying books from cheaper online retailers or by downloading e-textbooks, campus bookstores sell fewer and fewer textbooks. That’s triggering an identity crisis for one of the oldest institutions on campus and leading some college officials to ask: If textbooks go digital, does the campus even need a bookstore? “Book sales are declining—they’re down...
Nov 17th
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Data for a Better Planet. How should we use data... →
Businesses are also using data tracking to spur their employees to accomplishing companywide goals: Wal-Mart partnered with Zazengo to help employees track their “personal sustainability” actions such as making a home-cooked meal or buying local produce…. These tools are simultaneously cool and useful. They’re also just the beginning; there are countless ways to use data to improve society that...
Nov 17th
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Top Businesses choose Analytics over Intuition →
At organizations in every industry, in every part of the world, business leaders wonder whether they are getting full value from the massive amounts of information they already have within…
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IBM Software Channel - live streaming video powered by Livestream Startups Face-off in Global Entrepreneur SmartCamp World Finals Top technology start-ups from around the world are traveling to Dublin today to compete in IBM’s first-ever SmartCamp World Finals.
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