Category: Technology

IBM to Acquire Unica Corporation

Accelerates IBM initiatives to help organizations better understand their customers and transform marketing campaign execution ARMONK, N.Y. (August 13, 2010) – IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Unica Corporation (Nasdaq: UNCA) today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement for IBM to acquire Unica in a cash transaction at a price of $21 per share, or […]

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IBM Forecasts Bump in U.S. Retail Electronics and Appliance Sales

Analytics-based models look at both seasonal peaks and long-term trends ARMONK, N.Y. (August 11, 2010) – Retailers of electronics and appliances in the U.S. are expected to grow sales of those products by $739 million in September and October, according to an analytics-based forecast produced by IBM (NYSE: IBM).  The forecast represents a five percent […]

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IBM Acquires Datacap

ARMONK, N.Y. (August 10, 2010) – IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the acquisition of Datacap Inc., a privately-held company based in Tarrytown, NY. Datacap is a leading provider of software that enables organizations to transform the way they capture, manage and automate the flow of business information to improve business processes, reduce paper costs or […]

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PT Badak NGL Selects IBM to Support Business Growth

IBM Power Systems sophisticated virtualization technology and energy-saving capabilities help energy giant PT Badak NGL increase efficiency and reduce operating costs JAKARTA, Indonesia (August 05, 2010) – IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that PT Badak NGL, Indonesia’s leading energy producer, is using IBM Power Systems™ to run the company’s ERP systems, helping them improve performance, […]

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Sharp Community Medical Group Taps IBM and ActiveHealth Collaborative Care Solution to Help Doctors Deliver Better Patient Care

SAN DIEGO (August 05, 2010) – Sharp Community Medical Group (SCMG) announced today it will employ a new Collaborative Care Solution unveiled today by IBM (NYSE: IBM) and ActiveHealth Management to connect the medical group’s 200 primary care physicians and 500 specialists throughout San Diego County in order to help doctors to deliver more complete […]

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ActiveHealth and IBM Pioneer Cloud Computing Approach to Help Doctors Deliver High Quality, Cost Effective Patient Care

Sharp Community Medical Group to Build Patient Centric Practice with Collaborative Care Solution ARMONK, N.Y. (August 05, 2010) – IBM (NYSE:  IBM) and ActiveHealth Management, an Aetna (NYSE: AET) subsidiary, today unveiled a new cloud computing and clinical decision support solution that will enable medical practices, hospitals and states to change the way they deliver […]

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IBM and McDonald’s Launch New Cashless Payment System

IBM solutions and services to transform McDonald’s card payment system LONDON (August 04, 2010) – IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has signed a three year agreement with McDonald’s to provide a new cashless payment solution for 1,300 McDonald’s owned and franchised restaurants across the UK and Ireland. IBM will help McDonald’s cater to the […]

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New IBM Collaboration with Japan’s TIC and KOA to Address Urgent Need for Elderly, Disabled Citizens to Join e-Government

Groundbreaking collaboration creates new Web Accessibility Cloud Center Japan (August 03, 2010) – IBM (NYSE: IBM) Japan, Tottori Prefecture Information-Center (TIC) and KOA Corporation (KOA) today announced that they have embarked on a groundbreaking project to greatly improve access to critical public government online services by constructing a first of a kind Web Accessibility Cloud […]

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Open Source Community Paves Way for Developers to Improve Internet Access for the Aging, Disabled

New technologies from OpenAjax Alliance greatly simplify, speed Web 2.0 application development SAN JOSE, Calif. (August 03, 2010) – Aiming to greatly ease the barriers that the aging or people with disabilities experience in participating in Internet activities, the OpenAjax Alliance (OAA) announced it has created new open source tooling technology to help software developers […]

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IBM and IIT Bombay to Collaborate on Mobile Web Research

Program aims to make information and services widely accessible via mobile devices NEW DELHI (August 03, 2010) – Continuing to foster greater innovation through joint research collaboration with world-class academic institutions in India, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced an Open Collaboration Research (OCR) project with the Industrial Design Centre (IDC) at the Indian Institute of […]

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