IBM promises streamlined M2M communication with MessageSight

IBM Corp. said its MessageSight appliance will help organizations better manage communications between mobile devices and other machines connected to the corporate network. Unveiling MessageSight at the Impact 2012 conference here, Big Blue

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: May 2nd, 2013 Michelle Warren

Live demo of real-time analysis of human brain networks

It has been a year since the launch of a research and development initiative between IBM Canada, the governments of Canada and Ontario, and a consortium of seven universities, backed by a total

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 24th, 2013 Maria Karpenko

IBM Canada’s Twitter machine knows what grinds your gears: traffic

Santa Claus knows if you’ve been bad or good, but IBM knows what you’ve been tweeting. In another example of a real world implementation of big data, IBM’s Social Sentiment Index uses big

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 2nd, 2013 Jeff Jedras

Waterloo students competing in ‘March Madness’ of computer programming

As March Madness – the month of NCAA basketball playoff matches that is also viewed as the tournament that recognizes the best post-secondary school talent in the world – comes to a close,

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 27th, 2013 Brian Jackson

IBM reaffirms its commitment to Open Standards

Cloud computing customers need the ability to access pools of information from different sources. They must be able to access code and tools from a variety of vendors, ensuring that they use the

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 6th, 2013 Michelle Warren

How Shop.ca tapped an enterprise solution to sell more SKUs than Wal-Mart

On stage at IBM Connect, Big Blue’s marquee social enterprise conference in Orlando, Sandy Carter presents success stories from large enterprise customers using IBM’s WebSphere Commerce solution – the most-used e-commerce platform of

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 14th, 2013 Brian Jackson

IBM launches lineup of new SMB servers for big data

IBM Corp. is releasing eight new servers in its Power Systems lineups that are targeted at small to mid-sized businesses looking to tap into big data applications and cloud storage technology, the firm

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 13th, 2013 Brian Jackson

Three keys to mobile commerce success

Not only is mobile becoming primary, 90 per cent of smartphone users keep their device within arms-length 100 per cent of the time. Businesses need to be part of that, and it will

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 7th, 2013 Jeff Jedras

Cyborg future? IBM predicts computers with human senses

By Jeff JedrasThe brains at IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM) have released a series of five predictions, all focused on what computers will be in five years. And not only will computers not be

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: December 17th, 2012 Jeff Jedras

IBM offers SMBs analytics as a service

IBM Corp. is pushing the pedal on big data analytics, including a focus on analytics-as-a-service for small to mid-sized businesses. The company announced new acceleration technology for its portfolio of big data software

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: October 29th, 2012 Brian Bloom

You can’t have smarter cities with stupid people

Technology can change the world’s cities radically in the next couple of decades – if people and politics will let it.That was the impression left by a panel discussion entitled Planetary Intelligence and

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: October 26th, 2012 Grant Buckler

Angry Birds teach physics to summer camp students

Angry Birds is more than just your average mobile video game – it’s a veritable popular zeitgeist. It’s hard to exaggerate the success of this simple game, in which birds are slingshot through

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: August 22nd, 2012 Brian Jackson

Quebec’s microchip hub gets a $218 million shot in the arm

Did you know that the largest IBM chip assembly plant in the world is in Bromont, a tiny Quebec town of just 7,500 people?And that two world famous chips were made in Bromont:

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: July 30th, 2012 ITBusiness Staff

Robot Olympics, banana DNA and other fun at tech camp for girls

Twenty-six girls from around the Toronto area will be designing running shoes, extracting DNA from bananas, and competing in a mock robot Olympics this week during IBM's tech camp for girls.For over a

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: July 16th, 2012 ITBusiness Staff