That's the vision from IBM, which just published its “5 in 5″ forecast, which attempts to predict five technologies that have the potential to significantly change our lives in the next five years. One of the more surprising candidates: machines that ...

http://mashable.com/2011/12/21/ibm-kevin-brown-mind-reading/

By John C. Dvorak IBM just released its annual "5 in 5" predictions in tech within the next five years. Let me summarize in one word: BORING! The idea, of course, is to get attention for IBM's actual programs. You can expect that IBM has some ...

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2397870,00.asp

By QUENTIN HARDY | December 19, 2011, 4:52 pm IBM just issued its annual list of five predictions of developments in technology that it thinks will come true in the next five years. Like lots of predictive lists, particularly those that come around New ...

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/19/whats-behind-i-b-m-s-big-predictions/

by Helena Bottemiller | Dec 19, 2011 Technology giant IBM and Shangdong Commercial Group Co., a major retailer in China, have teamed up to build a pork traceability system in China's Shandong Province, IBM announced last week. ...

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2011/12/ibm-and-china-team-up-to-build-pork-traceability-system/

INDIANAPOLIS – A Marion County judge ruled Friday that IBM officials can depose Gov. Mitch Daniels in the dueling lawsuits filed over the privatization of the state's welfare intake eligibility system. The deposition must be conducted within 60 days at ...

http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20111217/LOCAL/312179983/1002/LOCAL

By Ricardo Lopez, Los Angeles Times IBM's Watson supercomputer may be best known for handily beating "Jeopardy!" game show champs. Now it's being harnessed to help doctors at Cedars-Sinai's cancer clinic in Los Angeles stay up-to-date on medical ...

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cancer-computer-20111217,0,1691323.story

15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Emptoris Inc., a leading provider of cloud and on-premise analytics software that brings more intelligence to procurement and supply chain operations with spend, ...

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/15/4124381/ibm-acquisition-of-emptoris-bolsters.html

The commission said it had accepted IBM's offer to supply some spare parts and technical information to companies that service and maintain IBM mainframe computers on nondiscriminatory terms for five years. Under the agreement, IBM, which also services ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/technology/ibm-settles-antitrust-case-with-eu.html

By Susan R. Morrissey IBM announced plans to give the National Institutes of Health a database of more than 2.4 million chemical compounds. NIH will add this information to PubChem, a freely available database of chemical structures of small organic ...

http://cen.acs.org/articles/89/web/2011/12/PubChem-Data.html

International Business Machine (IBM), which continues to expand in Africa with new procurement operations to support growing business demand in 17 African countries, has announced the opening of a new procurement centre in Ghana to support IBM's rapid ...

http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/business/artikel.php?ID=225508

The Alvarion and IBM partnership offers power and water utilities, municipalities and Telcos the strength of IBM, the industry's leading systems integrator, software and hardware vendor and Alvarion, a leading 4G wireless broadband vendor, to optimally ...

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/alvarion-solution-awarded-with-ibm-safe-certification-for-smart-grid-solutions-2011-12-12

By Eric Smalley IBM's IP cloud can help find a chemical needle in the patent haystack. (Photo: Flickr/Pranjal Mahna) Need to scour the world's patent databases for a particular chemical compound? There's a cloud for that. IBM has released the Strategic ...

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/12/ibm-patent-cloud/

By EVELYN M. RUSLI IBM said on Thursday that it had agreed to buy DemandTec, a Web-based enterprise software company, for $440 million in cash. DemandTec, a provider of analytics software for retailers, is at the intersection of two trends in ...

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/ibm-buys-demandtec-for-440-million/

IBM and Accenture are locked in a two-way fight for a multimillion-dollar contract to implement the NSW Department of Education and Training's delayed $386 million SAP project. The program, dubbed Learning Management and Business Reform, ...

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/government/ibm-accenture-in-tussle-for-nsw-education-sap-learning-management-and-business-reform-contract/story-fn4htb9o-1226217111935

By Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Responding to increased use of tablets within workplaces, IBM will release on Wednesday several mobile applications designed to let employees use IBM enterprise social collaboration software with iPads and other mobile ...

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/245604/ibm_launches_enterprise_social_collaboration_apps_for_tablets.html

US computer giant IBM said Monday that it has bought Curam Software, an Irish company that makes programs used by government agencies to deliver social services to citizens. US computer giant IBM said Monday that it has bought Curam Software, ...

http://www.bangkokpost.com/tech/computer/269474/ibm-buys-irish-software-company

5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) and international development charity Practical Action today announce the launch of Energy Aid, a new global charity with a mission to provide sustainable energy for those who have limited or no access for ...

http://www.itnewsonline.com/showprnstory.php?storyid=190662

Turns out that that's not entirely true: Apple's licensed at least one iOS software patent related to scrolling functionality to Nokia and IBM, and offered a license to Samsung during failed settlement negotiations in November 2010. ...

http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/3/2608407/apple-license-ios-scrolling-patent-nokia-ibm-offered-samsung

by Anton Shilov IBM and Micron Technology announced this week that Micron will begin production of hybrid memory cube (HMC) memory device built using the first commercial CMOS manufacturing technology to employ through-silicon vias (TSVs) at IBM's ...

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/memory/display/20111202035446_IBM_and_Micron_to_Produce_the_First_Hybrid_Memory_Cube.html

By Timothy Prickett Morgan • Get more from this author The Hybrid Memory Cube consortium formed by Samsung Electronics and Micron Technology this October is leveraging IBM Microelectronics' 3D wafer-baking expertise to get HMC memory to market in two ...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/01/ibm_micron_hybrid_cube_memory/

IBM rode its strength in the Unix server business to grab market share from feuding rivals Hewlett-Packard and Oracle to move into a statistical tie with long-term server market top dog, HP. However, HP held onto its strong blade server market lead. ...

http://www.crn.com/news/data-center/232200519/ibm-rides-hp-oracle-unix-discord-to-become-top-server-vendor-idc.htm

IBM said Cyber Monday online sales were 33 percent higher in 2011 when compared to the same day in 2010. IBM also said Cyber Monday 2011 online sales were up 29.3 percent over Black Friday 2011. IBM said Cyber Monday 2011 was a big hit, driven largely ...

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/IBM-Cyber-Monday-Online-Spending-Up-33-795810/

IBM Corp. moves past Hewlett-Packard as No. 1 in worldwide sales of server computers in the quarter. IBM Corp. overtook Hewlett-Packard in the third quarter as the world's biggest seller of server computers, Gartner Inc. said. IBM had server sales of ...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/28/BUJC1M53MS.DTL

by Timothy Prickett Morgan If you currently use the Performance Management iSeries service, IBM is replacing it with a new set of performance monitoring services that span both IBM i and AIX platforms. In announcement letter 611-050 from November 15, ...

http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh112811-story10.html

And today, IBM Coremetrics data shows a 24.3 percent growth in online sales on Black Friday compared to the same period last year. Mobile traffic on Black Friday was 14.3 percent of all retail traffic compared to 5.6 percent in 2010. ...

http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/26/ibm-black-friday-online-retail-spending-up-24-3-percent/