IBM Happenings: March 2007
The month of March at IBM was filled with a slew of announcements in hardware, software, services, acquisitions, and strategic alliances. In the public sector, IBM will develop a data management system that will provide detailed information about student performance and progress for New York City’s public schools. The announcements made by the company during […]
Royalty Free Music
I have to admit to my confidence that it would happen — more than $1 Billion in sales of digital music in 2005, which was triple the year before. Revenues in 2006 doubled to about $2 billion. People are willing to pay for music if it is offered to them in a contemporary way — […]
Home Automation (update)
Thanks for all the feedback on the BusinessWeek magazine and video pieces. Seems to be a lot of interest in home automation. I will continue working on the series of stories that I promised. I just realized that BW has archived the video version of the story. It is still available and I have updated […]
Turning Silver into Gold
One day back in the late 1990’s, Mary Furlong paid a visit to IBM to give us an update on what she was doing at SeniorNet, which she had founded in 1986. SeniorNet ‘s mission was to provide older adults with education about and access to computer technologies to enhance their lives and enable them […]
Three Percent
The Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce has announced that U.S. retail e-commerce sales for the fourth quarter of 2006 were $29.3 billion, an increase of 4.6 percent from the third quarter and 24.6% above the fourth quarter of 2005. In fact, the year to year growth has been more than 20% for every […]
