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Kudos to #IBM - their Centennial Film is stirring stuff! http://youtu.be/39jtNUGgmd4 /#ibm100

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IBM announced today that nine hospitals across Russia have switched from paper-based medical systems to electronic medical records using IBM Lotus Notes.

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IBM formally unveiled the fifth annual "Next Five in Five" – a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years:
• You'll beam up your friends in 3-D
• Batteries will breathe air to power our devices
• You won’t need to be a scientist to save the planet
• Your commute will be personalized
• Computers will help energize your city

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#IBM vPanel Webcast on Auto 2.0: Exploring New Models for Human Mobility on Thu. Dec. 9 12-1pm ET http://bit.ly/f89zQl

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IBM supercomputers are the most energy efficient supercomputers in the world, according to the latest Supercomputing 'Green500 List' announced by Green500.org. A prototype of IBM's next generation Blue Gene supercomputer is #1 on the list.

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RT @GeorgeDearing: #IBM launches the Smarter Cities Challenge - $50 million in grants to help them share data across geography & systems ...

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IBM has been named systems integration partner for the $100 million smart grid initiative led by the EnergyAustralia consortium. IBM will lead the development of Australia’s first smart grid network, following the formal contract signing of the deal between EnergyAustralia and the Australian Government and work will commence immediately.

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IBM has delivered a first-of-a-kind hot water-cooled supercomputer to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), marking a new era in energy-aware computing.  The innovative system, dubbed Aquasar, consumes up to 40 percent less energy than a comparable air-cooled machine. Through the direct use of waste heat to provide warmth to university buildings, Aquasar's carbon footprint is reduced by up to 85 percent.

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Cisco Systems earned the top spot on the new Greenpeace "Cool IT" leadership list, while some of Japan's biggest electronics vendors, Toshiba, Sharp, Sony and Panasonic, finished last. The list ranks 15 of the biggest technology vendors on their efforts to fight climate change.

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IBM has signed an $130 million, five-year agreement (CDN 130 $Million) with the Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) to create a smarter transportation solution that will lead to greater efficiencies and lower fees for airlines.

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There is no single “smart grid” out there today, but rather a welter of different systems that all need to be tied together. That’s the job IBM has chosen for itself in the smart grid space, and so far the IT behemoth has made some significant strides in its ambitions

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IBM and the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Saudi Arabia’s national research and development organization, today announced a research collaboration aimed at creating a water desalination plant powered by solar electricity, which could significantly reduce water and energy costs

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Technology company IBM is to create up to 200 jobs in Dublin over the next three years at a new research centre.

The €66 million development in its Smarter Cities Technology Centre, which will be located at IBM's Mulhuddart site, is being assisted by the IDA.

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In a paper published in the American Chemical Society journal, Macromolecules, scientists from IBM and Stanford University detail discoveries that could lead to the development of new types of biodegradable, biocompatible plastics. The result of a multi-year research effort, the breakthrough also could lead to a new recycling process that has the potential to significantly increase the ability to recycle and reuse common PET and plant-based plastics in the future. Today’s announcement may have sustainability implications across a wide range of industries including biodegradable plastics, plastics recycling, healthcare and microelectronics.

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IBM Research today unveiled a breakthrough method based on a mathematical algorithm that reduces the computational complexity, costs, and energy usage for analyzing the quality of massive amounts of data by two orders of magnitude. This new method will greatly help enterprises extract and use the data more quickly and efficiently to develop more accurate and predictive models.

In a record-breaking experiment, IBM researchers used the fourth most powerful supercomputer in the world -- a Blue Gene/P system at the Forschungszentrum Julich in Germany -- to validate nine terabytes of data (nine million million or a number with 12 zeros) in less than 20 minutes, without compromising accuracy.

Additionally, the process used just one percent of the energy that would typically be required.

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IBM announced it has built a solar cell -- where the key layer that absorbs most of the light for conversion into electricity, is made entirely of readily-available elements -- that set a new world record for efficiency and holds potential for enabling solar cell technology to produce more energy at a lower cost. Comprised of copper (Cu), tin (Sn), zinc (Zn), sulfur (S), and/or selenium (Se), the cell's power conversion demonstrates an efficiency of 9.6 percent -- 40 percent higher than the value previously attained for this set of materials.

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IBM announced today it is working with two wastewater agencies in Sacramento, California to help identify and resolve infrastructure problems before they impact the region's one million residents.

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IBM has been working hard on improving technologies that help with water quality and management. The company feels that managing water is equally - if not more- important as managing electricity, and technology can be a big part of the solution. IBM has just released a new, fun video that highlights problems surrounding water, and what new tech IBM feels can greatly improve how we monitor, measure, use and conserve water.

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IBM recently ran a 'Jam' - an online discussion - on environmental sustainability and why it is important for CIOs, CEOs and CFOs to address it. The Jam involved thousands of practitioners and subject matter experts from some 200 organisations. It focused primarily on business issues and practical actions.

Take a look at the check list below and it becomes rapidly apparent, C-level management need to tackle the issue before it is foisted upon them.

IBM's Institute for Business Value will fully analyse the 2080 Jam contributions, but this is the essential CIO checklist derived from comments made during the Eco-Jam.

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IBM Works with Walt Disney Imagineering to Create a New Smarter Planet Exhibit in the Epcot center

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