http://newyork.corante.com/ en-us basulto@gmail.com 2005-08-11T07:41:56-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/08/11/ibm_embraces_open_source_search.php Information Week has more on IBM's overtures to the open source community: "IBM is at it again. The IT giant is offering yet another batch of technology to the open-source world in hope of propagating widespread text search and analytics.... 50983@http://newyork.corante.com/ e-business 2005-08-11T07:41:56-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/08/09/the_fastest_supercomputer_in_new_york_city.php NYU has installed a new IBM supercomputer, giving it the fastest supercomputer in New York City. All the more remarkable, since the supercomputer (using IBM's blade technology) only occupies a total space of 30 square feet. While the supercomputer is... 50970@http://newyork.corante.com/ e-business 2005-08-09T07:00:56-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/07/28/yahoo_taps_into_ibm_talent_pipeline.php Everybody knows that IBM researchers are some of the best in the business. According to the New York Times, Yahoo is now attempting to tap into IBM's talent pipeline, especially the highly sought-after scientists who pioneered an advanced search-engine technology... 50952@http://newyork.corante.com/ e-business 2005-07-28T07:39:39-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/07/28/ibms_optimization_man.php The July/August issue of Consulting Magazine has an interview with IBM's Bill Pulleyblank, leader of the team which developed Blue Gene - the world’s fastest computer. Pulleyblank offers a behind-the-scenes look at the company's Center for Business Optimization, which combines... 50950@http://newyork.corante.com/ e-business 2005-07-28T07:01:14-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/07/26/max_out_your_credit_cards_with_the_help_of_your_tv_remote_control.php The New York Daily News makes this sound more exciting than it really is: shopping from your sofa with a TV remote control. According to a spokesperson for the Electronic Retailing Association, "Interactive television is exploding. There's virtually no end... 50935@http://newyork.corante.com/ e-business 2005-07-26T07:17:17-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/07/26/indian_pumpanddump_scheme_claims_victims_in_new_york_metropolitan_area.php In the New York Post, Christopher Byron breaks down a global stock swindle involving a shadowy financier from India who's wanted by Interpol but may be "wandering around New Jersey even as we speak." As Byron explains, "the swindle that... 50933@http://newyork.corante.com/ e-business 2005-07-26T07:05:20-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/07/21/ibm_reorganizes_it_services_unit.php IBM's IT services unit, which now accounts for half of the company's worldwide annual revenue and more than half of the company's global workforce, has grown so big and so unwieldy that the company is splitting the unit into two... 50913@http://newyork.corante.com/ e-business 2005-07-21T08:27:54-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/07/13/ibm_dips_its_big_blue_toe_into_the_blog_waters.php Information Week notes that IBM is preparing a new set of blogging tools for commercial launch next month. According to one analyst who had been formerly skeptical of IBM's dedication to blogging, the release of Weblog Preview is "a... 50882@http://newyork.corante.com/ e-business 2005-07-13T14:50:41-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/07/05/online_retailers_experiment_with_blogs.php In his weekly e-commerce report, Bob Tedeschi reports on the ways that online retailers are using blogs to boost sales. Tedeschi says it's all aboard for the blogging bandwagon: "Online merchants are starting to test Web logs... in hopes of... 50835@http://newyork.corante.com/ e-business 2005-07-05T06:12:48-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/06/15/ibm_now_has_almost_25000_offshore_workers_in_india.php IBM opened yet another software development center in India and announced plans to hire 1,000 programmers in the new center by the end of the year. That's on top of the 23,000 other employees that IBM has at its four... 50754@http://newyork.corante.com/ e-business 2005-06-15T13:54:14-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/06/14/ibm_moves_aggressively_to_promote_rfid_technology.php IBM is launching an aggressive new marketing campaign around radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. There will be three key aspects of IBM's renewed push into RFID technology: an expansion of RFID-related consulting services offered by IBM Global Services; the release... 50745@http://newyork.corante.com/ e-business 2005-06-14T07:51:13-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/06/06/wild_wild_west_meets_wild_wild_internet.php Billy Martin's, the boutique Western wear retailer with stores on the Upper East Side and in East Hampton and plenty of celebrity clients, has launched a new e-commerce marketing program with the help of Strategic Growth Ventures. According to the... 50701@http://newyork.corante.com/ e-business 2005-06-06T13:56:22-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/06/02/a_spoonful_of_internet_helps_the_medicine_go_down.php On June 9 and June 16, Manhattan Research will be hosting online seminars on the future of digital medicine in an effort to highlight its new e-medicine strategic research and advisory practice: "To help hospitals and health systems better understand... 50685@http://newyork.corante.com/ e-business 2005-06-02T07:35:50-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/05/24/is_that_an_rfid_tag_in_your_pocket.php The New York Daily News takes a futuristic look at RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology for retail consumers. In one scenario, small computer tags would be embedded right into clothing and other store items. Consumers would then scan the products... 50642@http://newyork.corante.com/ e-business 2005-05-24T07:04:33-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/05/13/corporate_bloggers_poking_holes_in_membranes.php Hugh Macleod of Gaping Void explains why corporate blogging works. The key, says Macleod, is creating a "porous membrane" that enables people within the company having "internal conversations" to relate better with customers outside of the company having "external conversations."... 50594@http://newyork.corante.com/ e-business 2005-05-13T01:39:01-05:00