IBM Happenings: November December 2009
The months of November and December were busy ones at IBM with a flurry of announcements in hardware, software, services, acquisitions, and strategic alliances. The complete index of IBM Happenings (by year and month) is here. As part of the major focus on a “smarter planet“, IBM is heavily engaged in healthcare both as an information technology […]
Solar
Alternative energy — sources that have no undesired consequences unlike fossil fuels or nuclear energy — are renewable and are often thought of as “free”. There are billions of dollars being spent on alternative energy but there clearly are benefits compared to conventional energy sources. The alternative sources include biomass, wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric the tides and […]
e-philanthropy
There are so many ways to help those in need. I wrote a story called e-philanthropy just over ten years ago — posted below. The number of developments on the Internet since then would have been unfathomable back then. I remember Mary Meeker from Morgan Stanley giving a presentation about eBay back then and have […]
Nook Epilogue
I got “Kindlized” in March 2008. Two years later I got “nooked”. The “e-book” idea — replacing the paper book with something electronic — has been around for three decades but it is really taking hold now. Over the years there have been various “e-book readers” introduced and now we are seeing a flood of […]
OCLC – Part 2
I continue to learn a lot about libraries from my board service at OCLC. No grass is growing under their feet at OCLC as they continue to look for new ways to connect the world’s libraries. Mobile devices are fast becoming the medium of choice for access to information for more and more of us. […]