IBM Happenings: January 2006
The new year got off to a fast start for IBM. There was a slew of announcements in hardware, software, services, acquisitions, and corporate initiatives. There have been forty or so acquistions in the past five years. An interesting contract was landed to assist the State of Arizona in developing and implementing a statewide system […]
Top Ten Technology Trends – live blog
Thanks to all for the nice feedback about the "Top 10 Technology Trends" panel yesterday, John Blossom, Shore Communications Inc., correctly characterized the panelists as "a very powerful cast of characters". He also live-blogged the panels, including this one. You can find his index of panel links here.
Top Ten Technology Trends
February 2, 2006 There were many good speakers and panels at the SIIA Conference yesterday and today. It was my job to moderate the final panel of the conference which was called "Top 10 Technology Trends". Leading the panel was a special treat for me because the panelists were colleagues that I have known and […]
Three G’s
IBM has added a new dimension to the Genographic Project. More than 100,000 people have acquired genographic kits and had their DNA analyzed and learned where they came from. This is not the last few generations of the family tree but rather about what haplogroup they belong to and what migratory path was taken by […]
Fraud Reduction Could Fund A Chunk Of Healthcare
On February7 we will be discussing Computational Biology at Demo. No doubt we will hear about some potential breakthroughs in healthcare. One thing we know for sure is that new healthcare solutions are costly. How will people afford them? There are many issues associated with this and one of them is the fraud that occurs […]