IBM Happenings: January – February 2010
After thirty-eight years at IBM, it was hard to cut the cord. One of my self-appointed duties as an e-tiree has been to post news clips of things going on at the company. Fortunately, there is a lot going on there! I post what I call “IBM Happenings” more or less once a month. Not […]
News and Reporters
Three of America’s great business magazines have been around for a long time — Forbes since 1917, BusinessWeek since 1929, and Fortune since 1930. I started reading them in 1967 when I completed engineering school and joined IBM. I stopped reading Forbes and Fortune regularly some years ago but have remained faithful to BusinessWeek for […]
Knovel Blogs
The Knovel Blogs at are all about sharing ideas on engineering information and productivity. You can find things as diverse as an interview with a weatherman to the history of the space shuttle. If you are an engineer or have an interest in engineering, Knovel is a fun place to visit. Neil Schulman, Editor in […]
In The Clouds (Part 5)
There is something about clouds that brings the term into our daily lives. We say “it is a cloudy day”, or “there is not a cloud in the sky”, or if we feel especially elated or happy we might say “I feel like I am on cloud nine“. Nowadays many are talking about “cloud computing“. […]
Amazon and the iPad
Amazon’s profit for the fourth quarter of 2009 was $384 million on revenue of $9.52 billion. That is more than $10 million of products shipped each and every day. Retail sales in total in the U.S. was roughly one trillion dollars in the third quarter of 2009. Just 3.5% of that — $35 billion — […]