For its $100 million health care initiative, IBM is enlisting researchers like those who helped develop this chip in Zurich as a one-step point-of-care diagnostic test. (Credit:IBM) IBM plans to announce on Thursday a $100 million three-year initiative–enlisting its own scientists and technologists alongside new hires in the medical field–to develop technologies and business processes for health care and insurance providers. IBM points to its work in systems integration, services research, cloud computing, analytics, and emerging fields such as nanomedicine, as the drive behind[....]
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IBM is looking to help genome experts further their research by providing a cloud where they can better share information with their colleagues. IBM and the University of Missouri announced Friday a new initiative to develop a cloud-computing environment where universities and medical professionals could work together on genome research on a large-scale, regional basis. Tapping into Big Blue’s high-performance computers, the joint IBM-Missouri cloud would let researchers share their findings and discoveries with each other more quickly and efficiently than they do now. Such an[....]
Firefox has become the default browser for nearly 400,000 IBM employees, a big coup for the open-source project during a time of increasing browser competition. “All IBM employees will be asked to use it as their default browser,” Bob Sutor, vice president of open source and Linux at IBM’s Software Group, said in a blog post Thursday. “Firefox is enterprise-ready, and we’re ready to adopt it for our enterprise.” Mozilla has said in recent weeks it believes nearly 400 million people use its software. In particular, IBM will load Firefox on new computers,[....]
Jeff Jonas, chief scientist, IBM Entity Analytics (Credit:IBM) Despite what is often considered to be a conservative approach to business, IBM has no shortage of big thinkers who use their skills both internally and externally to influence the way the company thinks about technology and how it applies to business processes. This week I met with Jeff Jonas, chief scientist, IBM Entity Analytics, to talk about how predictive analytics is moving into new realms of big data and how companies are using software to deal with the deluge of information. Jonas joined IBM in 2005 when Big Blue[....]
What is the end of the world? For some, it would be dedicating your life to appear on a TV game show. For others, it would be creating a machine that can prove itself better than anyone who dedicates their life to appear on a TV game show. For myself, it seems clear that IBM has created something that will be the apogee of appointment television by honing a supercomputer to compete with the finest mailmen, insurance brokers, and nurses to prove that it can, well, find the question in the answer. Yes, IBM’s Watson is, according to The New York Times, to appear on[....]
IBM wants to be the behind-the-scenes software provider of the mobile phone market, the company said Wednesday as it discussed its mobile enterprise strategy and opened a new software research and development center in Massachusetts. The facility based in Littleton, Mass., is Big Blue’s largest campus in North America devoted to software development with roughly 3,400 employees. The new campus will focus on developing software and applications for the mobile phone market. Unlike other large technology companies that have taken the mobile market by storm, such as Apple and Google, IBM[....]
Sergio Rezende, Brazil's science and technology minister, was in San Francisco last month as part of an effort to talk up the country's technology efforts. (Credit:Ina Fried/CNET) IBM plans to announce on Tuesday the opening of a new research facility in Brazil, the first new IBM Research lab in a dozen years. The facility–IBM’s first in South America–will begin by putting researchers at existing IBM facilities in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, with plans to have more than 100 researchers in place within the next few years. “Brazil’s abundance of[....]
IBM, Texas Instruments, Samsung, ARM, and others have formed a company to streamline development of products, such as tablets, on ARM processors. Newly formed company Linaro is backed financially by a coterie of big companies. (Credit:Linaro) Typically, companies wanting to develop for ARM processors–one of the most prolific chip designs in the world–need to wade through a morass of different operating systems and versions of those operating systems. Those include Google’s Android and Chrome OSes, Ubuntu Linux, Palm’s WebOS, and MeeGo from Intel and Nokia. The[....]
IBM has just released its fourth annual survey based on 1500 face-to-face interviews with global CEOs. Past studies have been rich sources of understanding the trends that company leaders are seeing shaping their businesses. The opening statement by IBM’s own CEO, Samuel J. Palmisano, sets the stage for this year’s study: “[E]vents, threats and opportunities aren’t just coming at us faster or with less predictability; they are converging and influencing each other to create entirely unique situations. These firsts-of-their-kind developments require unprecedented degrees[....]
IBM is apologizing for handing out USB drives at a security conference in Australia this week that had malware on them. The thumb drives were distributed for free to people who walked up to the IBM booth at the AusCERT conference. “Unfortunately we have discovered that some of these USB keys contained malware and we suspect that all USB keys may be affected,” Glenn Wightwick, chief technologist at IBM Australia, wrote in a letter to AusCERT delegates that was reprinted on the Beast or Buddha blog. “The malware is detected by the majority of current Anti Virus products[....]
IBM on Wednesday is set to announce a new portfolio of solutions and services to help enterprises analyze large volumes of data. IBM InfoSphere BigInsights is based on Apache Hadoop, an open-source technology designed for analysis of big volumes of data. IBM InfoSphere BigInsights is made up of a package of Hadoop software and services, BigSheets, a beta product designed to help business professionals extract, annotate, and visually uncover insights from vast amounts of information quickly and easily through a Web browser, and industry-specific frameworks to help clients get started. IBM[....]
An IBM supercomputer is doubling as a space heater via a technique that reduces energy use by 40 percent and dramatically lowers the overall carbon footprint. Based at Swiss university ETH Zurich and dubbed Aquasar, the liquid-cooled supercomputer went live on Thursday and started analyzing fluid dynamics while simultaneously providing heat for the building. In a typical data center, about half of the energy is used for cooling. IBM’s processor-level liquid cooling is designed to use 40 percent less energy than air cooling. (Credit:IBM Research) Researchers at IBM and ETH Zurich[....]
Texas is about to become IBM’s test subject for a series of telematics transportation technologies with the blessing the U.S. Department of Transportation. IBM Chairman and CEO Sam Palmisano plans to announce the news in Houston on Wednesday at the 20th annual meeting of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITSA 2010), along with U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and Texas Transportation Institute Director Dennis Christiansen. The partnership between IBM and Texas will closely follow the federal intelligent transportation research agenda put forth by Secretary[....]
Office buildings are still in the Stone Age when it comes to efficiency, according to an IBM survey of U.S. office workers released Thursday. Only about one-third of the people surveyed from 16 U.S. cities said their office building is “environmentally friendly” and conserves energy by automatically adjusting lights and temperature. About 65 percent of survey respondents favor redesigning their workspace to be more environmentally responsible. Time is also being wasted in these office buildings, with one-quarter of almost 6,500 respondents saying that elevators are poorly[....]
commentary At least no one can accuse IBM of playing favorites when it comes to open source. IBM, a longtime defender and advocate of open-source software, took a shot over the bow of the open-source community in March when it sent a cease-and-desist letter to the company behind the OpenHercules open-source project. Has Dr. Jekyll IBM just met its Mr. Hyde? On March 11, 2010, Mark Anzani, vice president and chief technology officer within IBM’s System z business unit, sent TurboHercules a letter asserting its patents against the OpenHercules open-source project. In it Anzani expresses[....]
A former senior IBM executive pleaded guilty on Monday to securities fraud in a case that has also reached the executive ranks at high-tech giants Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. Robert Moffat, once thought to be a candidate for chief executive at IBM, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and one count of securities fraud at a Manhattan federal court, according to the Associated Press. He will face up to six months in prison, based on federal sentencing guidelines. Moffat, 53, provided confidential information about a reorganization at chipmaker Advanced[....]
IBM is expected to announce Tuesday its plans to go online with its commercial cloud service for software development and testing, allowing enterprise and government clients to access to IBM cloud services. Testing services are an excellent use-case for cloud services, and a number of start-ups including Sauce Labs and SOASTA have offerings that allow customers to test their applications without having to build a massive test infrastructure. According to IBM Research, the average enterprise IT department devotes up to 50 percent of its entire technology infrastructure to development and[....]
A group of scientists from IBM and Stanford University announced Wednesday a chemistry breakthrough that could change the nature of plastics and plastics recycling. Using organic catalysts, the team has developed a new method for producing and breaking down plastic polymers. Jim Hedrick is a researcher at IBM’s San Jose, Calif., facility who worked on the organocatalysis breakthrough. (Credit:IBM/Monica M. Davey) “Additionally, the team has developed a new strategy for the synthesis of high molecular weight cyclic polyesters and the generation of new families of biocompatible[....]
IBM is embarking on a research project to design mobile gadgets that are easier to use for people who have disabilities or aren’t fully literate. As part of the project, announced Wednesday, Big Blue will collaborate with India’s National Institute of Design and the University of Tokyo’s Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology. The goal is to develop a common interface for mobile devices that will make them easier to use. As digital information becomes more vital, IBM said, it believes the Internet needs to be more accessible to a wider range of people,[....]
BOSTON–If the green-tech industry had its equivalent of the iPhone, it would be the electric car, a product that has cachet with consumers. But it’s still unclear what will drive sales of plug-ins: will it be consumers willing to pay more for a greener ride or government mandates for fuel efficiency? Speakers on a panel about electric vehicles on Saturday at the MIT Energy Conference said that both consumers and government policies will drive electric and plug-in hybrid car adoption. But they also expect electric cars will be premium products desired both because they are[....]