June 2011
Meet James Downing →
James Downing, supervisor, San Jose Stormwater Management Program
Another person for a smarter planet
San Jose, California, has nearly 30,000 storm drain inlets leading to 1,200…
Smarter Startups: Live Blogging from IBM SmartCamp... →
Existence is difficult enough for startups no matter what business they’re in, but it’s even harder for small companies that aim to change the world in fundamental ways. Welcome to the…
The Adventures of a NYC Startup: Education... →
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Serial entrepreneur Nilanjan Sen has created a global virtual education marketplace with his Examville.com. The startup is competing in IBM SmartCamp New…
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Picture Story: An Ecosystem of Entrepreneurs →
This week’s SmartCamp competition in NYC is one of several ways IBM is helping entrepreneurs on the journey from idea to market-ready product.
Click on the image to open the picture story.
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Vote now for your favorite analytics startup: IBM... →
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IBM SmartCamp New York City has just announced the Final 5 startups in this year’s competition. The finalists cover the Smarter Planet topic of smarter analytics.
Voting…
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Plant a New Language in Your Mind - Technology... →
A Web app tailors language learning to your ability, and turns the experience into a game.
A world memory champion and a neuroscientist have joined forces to create a language-learning website called Memrise, which combines mnemonic tricks with a game to help users learn quickly and efficiently. Its carefully paced learning structure and competitive points system, the app’s developers...
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Eric Schmidt: Mobile payments at retail to explode... →
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt is bullish on the growth of mobile payments in the coming year.
Speaking at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity today, Schmidt said he believes one-third of all restaurants and retail outlets will allow for mobile payments within the next year, the Financial Times reports him as saying. He reportedly told those in attendance that that...
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“Today, 83 percent of midmarket CIOs surveyed by IBM have identified analytics,...”
– Quote found at Startups to Compete for Analytics Market Opportunity at IBM SmartCamp
Using Analytics in the ICU to Save Lives →
By Dr. Michael Schmidt, Director of the Neurological Intensive Care Unit Neuromonitoring and Informatics program at Columbia University Medical Center
The goal of personalized medicine is…
Cloud Computing is Going Mainstream →
Long the province of Internet startups and Wall Street outfits, cloud computing is at last going mainstream. That conclusion smacked me upside the head when I spoke to Jessica Carroll,…
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White House Promotes a Smarter Grid - Technology... →
But some consumers, concerned about rising prices and privacy, would rather their electricity meters stayed dumb.
This week Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced new initiatives to support the development of the smart grid. But he also warned that the United States isn’t doing enough to get the grid ready for cheap renewable energy. And he acknowledged privacy concerns are making some...
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WatchFormer IBM chairman Thomas Watson, Jr. knew how important it was to work with people who question the way things are and challenge the status quo. In fact, he even had a name for them. “Wild Ducks” is a film about four IBM clients whose questioning minds and unconventional ideas are transforming our world. See and hear their inspirational stories. For more information, please...
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IBM Donates More Than 2.5 Million Hours of... →
IBM today announced that as part of its Celebration of Service, designed to allow employees, retirees, clients and business partners to donate their time and expertise during the company’s Centennial year, 300,000 IBMers around the world — close to three quarters of its global workforce — are volunteering in more than 5,000 projects in 120 countries, meeting civic and...
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Smartphones and tablets create huge corporate... →
Adapting security and management for the new generation of mobile devices — everything from the Apple iPhone and iPad to Google Android devices to name a few — is turning out to be a huge corporate challenge.
More on mobile security: Smartphones, devices spark IT security melee
“We’re struggling to get our arms around it,” says Tim Mathias, senior director of IT...
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YouTube - happymaking4u's Channel →
Wonderful personal project by IBM’s talented Silvia Mihailescu.
2011, IBM’s 100th anniversary - my personal video:-) to find out more on about IBM’s Centennnial go on ibm.com/100
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Watson: From quiz show to oil field | Chron.com -... →
A few months ago, two of the top-winning players on Jeopardy squared off against a computer system named Watson — and lost. Watson was able to navigate the puns and word games that are typical in a Jeopardy question, pore through 200 million pages of natural-language content stored in its memory, and find answers in less than three seconds. This feat may sound like an entertaining bit of...
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New system brings 'Internet of Things' to China's... →
Almost all of China’s coastal waters and its inland waterways with grades higher than four have been covered by an Automatic Identification System for ships, according to a recent announcement from the Maritime Safety Administration of China. The Automatic Identification System for ships involves modern communication, network and information technology. Via ship-based Automatic...
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IBM's business analytics selected by Papa Gino's... →
Papa Gino’s selected the IBM software for on-time, anywhere pizza deliveries in 30 minutes or less, as food ordering capabilities are now available through a new iPhone application. Financial details of the selection were not available. These business analytics have reportedly given Papa Gino’s increased visibility into the performance of its online customer loyalty campaign, ...
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“Citibank, Sony PlayStation, Lockheed Martin, Gmail—it seems every day a new...”
– Citibank, PlayStation, Gmail Hacked: Why Are We Ignoring Cyberattacks? - The Daily Beast (via infoneer-pulse)
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Papa Gino customers get individualized offers by... →
Customers prefer to get offers and promotions by text or e-mail. Mid-sized companies like this New England pizza chain are getting ahead with analytics-driven offers and logistics. The new technology is even taking the guesswork out of telling customers exactly when their orders will be delivered.
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The S Word: The future of machine communications →
Chi Onwurah is the Labour MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and shadow innovation and science minister
My debate on machine to machine communications (M2M) will be transmitted by BBC Parliament at 9.52 on Sunday morning (read the full transcript here). Clearly they are expecting a peak audience for what is, I think, the first time the subject of M2M communications has been raised in the ...
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IBM Preps Graphene For High-Frequency Chips –... →
A material called graphene has been making lots of headlines in science journals, and is sometimes even discussed as a potential successor to silicon in computer chips. IBM doesn’t buy that prediction, but is still betting big on the substance.
The computer maker Thursday said it built an integrated circuit from graphene that operates at up to 10 gigahertz, suggesting even higher frequencies...
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“Media companies need to be able to extract data from all aspects of their...”
– As written by Steve Canepa, general manager, IBM Global Media & Entertainment Industry in his blog post “Top Three Analytics Trends in the “Smarter Media”
Mobile Money: The Disconnect Between Emerging and... →
When it comes to using mobile phones as electronic wallets, the emerging markets are clearly way ahead of the more developed ones. In Kenya, the Philippines and elsewhere, millions of people are…
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“Analyzing large data sets—so called big data—will become a key basis of...”
– Quote found at “Report - Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity” at McKinsey & Company (via horizonwatching)
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Can wireless networks support the promise of the... →
Google, Apple, and Amazon are pushing more and more of your entertainment, your data — heck, your life — into the cloud. But what’s it mean for the wireless network operators who are already struggling to keep up with heavy data demand?
Each of these companies recently announced new digital storage services for music. The idea is that people can put their music in the...
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IBM Teams With Met Museum on Monitoring -... →
International Business Machines Corp, the world’s largest computer-services provider, is using its technology knowledge to help preserve medieval art in a bid to gain clients seeking to make their buildings more efficient.
IBM is installing sensors at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York that will monitor room temperature, humidity and chemicals and automatically make adjustments to...
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