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- Senior IBM exec among those charged in Wall Street insider trading sting
- Greed on Wall Street has landed six people - including a long-time, high-level IBM executive - in handcuffs after the FBI charged them with being involved with "the largest hedge fund insider trading case in history." In all, the six netted illegal profits of more than $20...
- Tags: Hedge Fund, FBI, Wall Street, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., IBM Corp., Chiesi, MOFFAT, Federal Government, Investment, Financial Services, Government, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
- A single national market for health care
- health care should wait untill we get rid of the liberals in the governmentonce the Democrats are no longer in power we could start talking about some real healthcare reform based on tax credits and tort reform.Socialist ideeas like single payer or public option are a non starter.Heaven forbid, a...
- Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Healthcare reform, health care
- Discussion threads 2009-10-07
- 'Skank' blogger talks, sues Google for $15m
- Now the world knows: the "skanks of NYC" blogger is one Rosemary Port, a 27-year-old student at the Fashion Institute of Technology, and she is one pissed-off young lady. She not only has strong words for model Liskula Cohen, whose legal action outed her as the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Duty, Lawyer, Port, Blogging, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-23
- Wishful thinking: Can we make this carbon clock count backwords?
- Remember the world debt clock that loomed notoriously over Times Square in New York? Now, city residents will get to see a massive, close-to-70-foot tall carbon carbon counter that is being sponsored by Deutsche Bank's Asset Management division. [caption id="attachment_5597" align="alignnone" width="475" caption="Deutsche Bank counts carbon rather publicly"][/caption] ...
- Tags: Counter, Deutsche Bank AG, Carbon, Asset Management, Engineering, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- One example of "smarter planet"
- The smart grid for electricity has become so mainstream Congress wrote it into the stimulus law enacted earlier this year. IBM's marketing of "smarter planet" goes way beyond electricity and networked grid. I recently spoke with Drew Clark, director of strategy of IBM Venture Capital Group. And...
- Tags: Sensor, Grid, IBM Corp., Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-06-21
- Ford plugs in
- Ford Motor is providing some test cars to Hydro-Quebec, a large electricity company in Canada. These are Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles which the insiders insist on initialling as PHEVs. The Ford PHEV cars are in the Escape model line. Courtesy: Ford...
- Tags: Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle, Ford Motor Co., Ford PHEV, Hydro-Québec, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- Thinking rationally. Some ideas from IBM about consolidating data centers
- Sorting through some notes from the Uptime Institute's recent IT Symposium in New York and wanted to share some comments and observations from the presentation made by Steve Sams, who is the company's vice president of global site and facilities services. Sams has been behind the massive...
- Tags: Data Center, Virtualization, IBM Corp., Sams, Data Centers, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-05-01
- Convergence alert: Keep an eye on the building network tech guys
- This is one of those thinking-out-loud posts that I believe will inform many GreenTech Pastures posts to come. Just wanted to direct your attention to a new ad campaign out of IBM this morning that is focused on the role that "smart buildings" will play in the green movement in...
- Tags: Data Center, Network, Information Technology, Cisco Systems Inc., Convergence, Data Centers, Strategy, Networking, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- Interview with Andrea Vaccari, research associate at MIT's SENSEable City Laboratory
- Now that machine and sensor data is joining social data traffic on the Internet, the ability to interpret and create meaning out of the information to improve life could be the post-Web 2.0 manifesto. MIT's Senseable City Lab has been on the task for years with various...
- Tags: City, Mobile, Network, Data, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Cell Phone, Analysis, SENSEable City Laboratory, Cellular Phones, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-04-06
- Uptime conference will focus on strategy that marries IT reliability must-haves with energy-efficiency goals
- The economy is quite different than the last time the Uptime Institute held its Green IT Symposium, and apparently this factor is helping stalling some of the energy-efficiency initiatives that people were so excited about last year. Not surprisingly, the focus of the gathering a few weeks...
- Tags: Asset, Strategy, Energy Efficiency, Data Center, Information Technology, Uptime, Uptime Institute, IT Efficiency, Data Centers, Asset Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-03-27
- IBM is looking less and less like an IT company and more and more like an eco-tech company
- Trick question: How many liters of water does it take to make a pair of jeans? One estimated answer: 10,855. Think about what it'll also take to wash them over their life-time and it's pretty easy to see why many of the companies talking...
- Tags: Information Technology, IBM Corp., Operational Planning, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- Encouraging more Girls in Tech . . .
- Nobody knows why there aren't more women in the tech industry but whatever the reason, the organization Girls in Tech hopes to change that. Adriana Gascoigne is the founder of Girls in Tech, a 1300 strong organization that seeks to empower women in the technology industry. ...
- Tags: Women, Tech, Adriana Gascoigne, Anita Borg Institute, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- A 1968 computer demo that changed people's lives
- Can a computer demo change people's lives? I've seen plenty in my time but none that moved me in any significant way. Yet 40 years ago, Doug Engelbart gave a demo that did change people's lives and changed the entire course of computer systems development. On Monday...
- Tags: Collective Intelligence, Computer, Demo, Productivity, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Google's proxy: Internet censorship; Schmidt's security detail
- Google filed its proxy statement with the SEC on Tuesday and detailed an attempt to get the search giant to stand up to Internet censorship abroad. Google recommended shareholders vote against the effort. The Internet censorship proposal was raised by the Office of the Comptroller of New...
- Tags: Shareholder, Security, Google Inc., Censorship, Internet, Government, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Jim Hendler shares AI's lessons for the Semantic Web
- Professor James A. Hendler goes by the daunting title of 'Tetherless World Senior Constellation Professor' at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute RPI in Troy, New York. Behind the title stands a man who has been closely involved with Artificial Intelligence AI research for many years, and someone recognised as amongst the progenitors...
- Tags: Web, Vision, Hendler, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Great news for Microsoft: Zunes stolen!
- Providing yet another sign that Apple's iPod is the audio and video platform, a policy think-tank on Tuesday said that thefts of the media player have skewed crime statistics. Microsoft wishes it had that publicity. But some forward-thinking thieves are bucking the trend and stealing Zunes. Well,...
- Tags: Apple iPod, Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Corp., iCrime Wave, Electronics Department, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
- What makes Scoble cry: Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope?
- Robert Scoble posted about a Microsoft product that he couldn't disclose in the works that brought tears of joy to his eyes. He wrote: Yesterday was one of those days. Curtis Wong and Jonathan Fay, researchers at Microsoft, fired up their machines and showed me something that I can’t...
- Tags: Sky, Microsoft Corp., WWT, Tools & Techniques, Groupware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- Global warning on global warming: U.S. must help out
- Monday there was an international conference on global warming. It happened in New York, hosted by the United Nations. The U.S. was represented at the event by Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. She said "Put simply, the world needs a technological revolution. Existing energy technologies...
- Blog posts 2007-09-25
- Let the river flow, but keep an eye on it
- From my limited interaction with my fellow blogger Harry, I know that he's a bird nut. I'm a diving gal, myself, so I'm disposed to notice stuff about marine biology.This story from The New York Times was brought to my attention when I reached out to one of my IBM...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-08-21
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