Check out Livestream’s new channel makover for the IBM Global Business Services Video Studio.
We’re putting the platform to work for live events, webcasts and new kinds of online video programming, and also collecting clips into libraries such as Smarter Healthcare, Smarter Cities, Smarter Energy and of course the new intelligence of Smarter Analytics.
You can embed or share the channel, libraries and clips in many new ways, so stop by. We planning more exciting live webcasts and events, so stay tuned!
IBM on Monday announced plans to deploy an internal cloud computing environment that will make more than a petabyte of information—the equivalent of 100 times the content of the Library of Congress—instantly available to employees under a project called Blue Insight. IBM said it also plans to make the service’s architecture, dubbed IBM Smart Analytics Cloud—available to customers.
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Report: Countries prepping for cyberwar
Major countries and nation-states are engaged in a “Cyber Cold War,” amassing cyberweapons, conducting espionage, and testing networks in preparation for using the Internet to conduct war, according to a new report to be released on Tuesday by McAfee.


Wi-Fi wants its piece of the Smart Grid | VentureBeat
The Wi-Fi Alliance has created a task force to work on setting standards so that Wi-Fi can play a large role in future development of the cleaner, more efficient Smart Grid. Today, this new group released a white paper exploring all of the areas where Wi-Fi could aid in communication between the new electric meters, utilities and their customers.
“Trillions”
trillions of networked computers representing all scales of information and objects will make up the edgeless ecology of information that we’ll be floating in.
Participatory Sensing - An Interview with Deborah Estrin - O’Reilly Radar
The iPhone is a rich portable computer with onboard sensors. Specifically, it is a location-aware (GPS), motion-aware (accelerometer), directionally-aware (digital compass) visually aware (camera being used to scan QA codes or serve as visual input), sonically aware (microphone and speakers), always-connected (wireless or 3Gs) handheld computer. Every operative word in that sentence is deeply meaningful and rich with possibilities we have just begun to explore. The iPhone does a whole lot more than display information. It is an environmental sensor. Its value lies just as much in sensing information as it does in displaying information.