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| 2005-7-6 |
Research report puts IBM at top of RFID service providers
Research report puts IBM at top of RFID service providers
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| 2005-7-6 |
China's auto suppliers could face bumpy road
China is the world??s fastest growing automotive market, but a new study suggests the auto suppliers fueling that expansion may be growing too fast. In fact, says the report, there could be over capacity ?C and a resulting shakeout ?C in the supplier market within five years.
Written by Economist Corporate Network and released by the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) and IBM Business Consulting Services?? Institute for Business Value, the study was conducted in February.
More than half of the companies responding to the survey in China plan to increase annual manufacturing capacity by more than 20 percent over the next five years. Yet, just one in five expects market demand to equal that rate of growth.
The study found that IT spending among the suppliers was generally low, with more than three-quarters of respondents investing less than $100,000 per year. It also examined major concerns, including an overwhelming need to find and retain good staff, cited by survey respondents as a barrier to successful development. Less than a quarter of those surveyed plan to use enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to help them automate their systems.
??This study reveals extraordinary developments in the region??s automotive industry ?C and the volume of response suggests China??s automotive suppliers are both aggressive and ambitious in their efforts to become an engine for global industry,?? said Dan Blake, Global Automotive Industry Leader, IBM Business Consulting Services. ??A critical success factor will be the extent to which they invest in the infrastructure required to make the engine a cost-competitive proposition.??
Learn more:
China's Auto Suppliers Need Greater Investment In Business Systems (press release)
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| 2005-7-6 |
Five top innovators named IBM Fellows
Over the past five decades IBM innovators have conceived, built and brought to market a series of breakthrough technologies that have transformed industries around the world. The creative minds behind these innovations have received many laurels including Nobel Prizes and National Medals of Science and Technology. Many of them have also received the highest technical honor that IBM bestows - the title of IBM Fellow.
This year IBM is naming five new Fellows. The 2004 honorees are a diverse group, boasting accomplishments in areas ranging from nanotechnology to technologies that are making cell phones even smaller and more powerful.
This year IBM is naming five new Fellows. The 2004 honorees are a diverse group, boasting accomplishments in areas ranging from nanotechnology to technologies that are making cell phones even smaller and more powerful.
The five new IBM Fellows are:
Phaedon Avouris (IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY) is a pioneer in nanoscience and nanotechnology. Dr. Avouris' innovations have created the potential for carbon nanotubes to compete with the long-established silicon transistor for important information technology applications. He has demonstrated fully functional transistors based on a single carbon nanotube molecule that is about 50,000 times thinner than a human hair. He also demonstrated an electrically induced and controlled light source based on a single nanotube molecule.
Curt Cotner (Software Group, Silicon Valley Lab) is considered one of the leading innovators in the relational database field and is the chief architect of DB2 for z/OS and OS/390, the cornerstone of IBM's relational database products. He is recognized for inventing more efficient communications procedures within DB2 and he is the leader and architect of database connectivity for IBM's WebSphere product family.
David Harame (Systems and Technology Group, Burlington, VT) led IBM??s commercialization of silicon germanium (SiGe) from the early stages of materials investigations to commercial manufactured BiFET and BiCMOS technologies. These innovations are a driving force behind the explosion in low-cost, lightweight, personal communications devices, such as digital wireless handsets.
Audrey Helffrich (Systems and Technology Group, Poughkeepsie, NY) led the hardware strategy for IBM's successful transition from bipolar to CMOS on the mainframe in the 1990's. She's an expert across a range of high-end system technologies and has led efforts from extremely complicated technologies with Parallel Sysplex on the IBM eServer zSeries to the implementation of industry standard technologies like InfiniBand.
Kevin Stoodley (Software Group, Toronto, Canada) is recognized worldwide as a leader in compiler technology (programs that translate source code into object code). He provides strategic and technical direction of IBM's compiler and related technologies ensuring that IBM processors, compilers and software work together to deliver leadership performance, scalability and robustness. He works at the forefront of IBM's static/dynamic compilation strategy.
"Innovation is the engine that powers IBM," said Nick Donofrio, IBM senior vice president, technology and manufacturing. "Our history is rich with world-class minds that have pioneered entirely new ways of doing business and invented thousands of new products that have transformed business and society alike."
The company also presented more than $3 million in cash awards to employees and teams whose technical achievements brought exceptional innovation to the company and its customers.
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| 2005-7-6 |
IBM gets 'On' new advertising campaign
IBM's newest advertising campaign is literally On. On, symbolized by a red computer key emblazoned with that word, is the latest component of the company's campaign to define "On Demand" and to educate customers and potential customers about its advantages. The ON key, coupled with the words Demand Business, continues to deliver that strategy, but with more specific examples.
"After seven years of using the red 'e' as the centerpiece of our corporate brand advertising, we've built up tremendous awareness, goodwill and association for IBM," said Lisa Baird, vice president, Integrated Marketing Communications. "The new on demand business branding -- which introduces the red 'on' button -- reflects the continuing evolution of our business model."
One set of advertisements using simple images and headlines showcases clients who have turned on ?C Honda, China, eDiamond Grid, Royal Caribbean, E*Trade, Gehry Technologies and National Geographic. More copy-intensive print advertisements, headlined "What is ON?" and "How to get ON," explain the different facets of On Demand Business.
"Being 'on' means you're responsive and flexible," Baird said. "It means being on your game: on budget, on track, on schedule. We want people to associate IBM with that new, on demand way of doing business."
The campaign, which includes both print and television advertising, begins this month in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. It will launch in other parts of the world within the next few months.
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| 2005-7-6 |
Engineering and technology focus of camp for 1,000 girls
Forget about braiding lanyards or telling stories around the campfire. For more than 1,000 middle school girls around the world, camp this summer means focusing on technology and engineering. Dubbed EXITE (Exploring Interest in Technology and Engineering), the week-long sessions will take place in 37 IBM locations ranging from the U.S. and the Netherlands to Thailand, India and Japan.
??We know that once girls get to middle school they are less likely to take the math and science courses that will enable them to pursue engineering and technical degrees when they go to college,?? says Janet Perna, general manager, Data Management Solutions, IBM??s Software Group. ??Our goal with the EXITE camps is to introduce the girls to women who are making important contributions in technology and engineering and to let them know that the industry is looking forward to a new generation of women who will lend us their expertise.??
The EXITE curriculum is far from theoretical. Participants will have the opportunity to build hand-powered flashlights and fire extinguishers, direct and produce their own movies using digital equipment, explore weather-related technology and conduct forensic experiments. More than 2,000 IBMers will be EXITE camp volunteers ?C developing, coordinating and overseeing such activities as web-page design, computer chip design, laser optics, animation, robotics, and working with computer hardware and software.
??It was at the EXITE camp that I learned how cool science could be,?? said Katie Dreeland who attended an EXITE camp in Tucson last year.
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