How do you shop? Do you prefer to go to the mall or are you one of those people who buy everything through the Internet? A global survey from IBM Corp. with 30,000 people around the globe showed that when it comes to shopping,...
Big Blue held its 5th IBM Forum in São Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25. During the event, company said that cloud computing and emergent markets are pillars of its growth. Check below
Don Tapscott: The age of networked intelligence is rising
Author of “Macrowikinomics:...
Speaking at the IBM Forum event in São Paulo, Don Tapscott, author of “Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World,” said that due to the prevalence of the Internet, we are currently living in the age of networked intelligence.
Tapscott explained that through technology, institutions can...
Emerging markets, such as Brazil, China and India, along with cloud-computing, analytics tools and solutions for a smart planet are IBM Corp.'s four main global initiatives. Big Blue believes that the combination of these four sectors will drive its growth in the coming years....
IBM Brazil highlighted innovation, collaboration integration and business intelligence during its IBM Forum event in Sao Paulo. “We are becoming more interconnected, with globally integrated enterprises in a smart and connected world. And intelligence will be driven by business analytics, and due to that...
ARMONK, N.Y. - 24 Aug 2011: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. has chosen IBM point-of-sale and self-checkout technology to help transform customer service, speed innovation and increase the operational efficiency of 484 Winn-Dixie store locations, and other store formats across...
The United States accounts for four of the top 10 operators ranked by mobile data revenues in the second quarter, led by Verizon Wireless (VZ), which pulled in $5.8 billion, according to a new report from wireless analyst Chetan Sharma. A combined AT&T Mobility/T-Mobile...
ARMONK, N.Y., - 16 Aug 2011: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Russell's Convenience is transforming its business with cloud collaboration technology from IBM. ...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.
It was a morbid week for Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) and Clearwire Corp. (CLWR), no doubt about...
Google has snapped up 1000 patents from IBM ranging from those touching on web based querying to design and production of memory and microprocessing chips, and even some relating to routers and servers.
The search and software giant has been trying to pick up patents...
Google has snapped up 1000 patents from IBM ranging from those touching on web based querying to design and production of memory and microprocessing chips, and even some relating to routers and servers.The search and software giant has been trying to pick up patents...
Dell Inc. (DELL) announced today that it will acquire Force 10 Networks, a buy that backs up analyst speculation that the second-largest computer maker in the world would absorb a networking vendor to provide the company a combined networking and data center offering to...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
eWEEK | June 29, 2011 | Brian Horowitz
Consumers who are neither fitness freaks nor chronically ill are willing to pay for health-monitoring gadgets, according to a new IBM study.
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Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
IBM Corp. spent $1.2 million and software giant Oracle Corp. paid $1.1 million to lobbyists in the first quarter, attempting to influence interests from patent concerns, international trade and immigration law, to tax loopholes and government health care legislation.
Among other agencies,...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
Alcatel-LucentRussia: With State Corporation Russian Technologies to develop and manufacture Long Term Evolution (LTE) components customized for the Russian market. The companies will set up a R&D Center in St. Petersburg operated by Alcatel-Lucent RT that will be fully integrated with Alcatel-Lucent's wireless operations....
The following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week: DeviceAnywhereUnited States: With HP to expand support for HP application testing environments with integrations to the latest versions of HP Quality Center (QC) and QuickTest Professional (QTP). The company also signed a new strategic...
Today's telecom operators are facing perhaps the most competitive threats to their business that they ever have. Device manufacturers, operating system companies, over-the-top service providers and large digital content giants are each developing their own relationships with individual end users and enterprises. Faced with...
According to an alliance of IBM Corp. (IBM) workers for the union organization Alliance@IBM, the technology kingpin is slashing jobs across the country, which includes the possibility that Austin will be affected.
The alliance is affiliated with the Communication Workers of America, and alleges that...
DUBLIN – IBM Corp. (IBM) has introduced a new set of software and services for communications service providers. The enhancements to the IBM Service Provider Delivery Environment will bring service providers new capabilities in cloud-based services, business-to-business commerce, enterprise marketing management, real-time analytics and...
DUBLIN – Highlighting the changing telecommunications ecosystem, IBM's global industry leader Bob Fox cited a recent study released by the company revealing that around 33% of consumers choose social media as their main source of information when looking for communications, products and services, jumping...
