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Not a single instance of “Lotus” to be found in this Lotusphere/Connect 2012 snapshot
I.B.M. is benefiting from its seal-of-approval status as it seeks to build a big business in selling Web-based social networking, collaboration and decision-support software to corporations. The unit selling social business software, Connections, was founded in 2007, and it has tens of thousands of customers, I.B.M. says. About 5,000 people, mostly customers and partners, are expected to attend the company’s Connect 2012 conference in Orlando, Fla., on Monday and Tuesday.
I.B.M. Makes Its Social Computing Strategy Smarter – NYTimes.com
Continue reading: I.B.M. Makes Its Social Computing Strategy Smarter – NYTimes.com
Speculation about Google’s patent strategy – but I doubt IBM would have been shy about exercising its patents against Oracle
The newest batch of patents from IBM have only a handful of mobile telephony applications. Instead, they are rich in database intellectual property, including patent 6442548, titled "database interface for database unaware products," and patent 7831632, titled "method and system for reconstruction of object model data in a relational database."
That could be useful in Google’s ongoing litigation with Oracle. The database giant sued Google in August 2010 for infringing on copyrights and patents related to Java, which Oracle acquired along with Sun Microsystems earlier that year. The companies have been publicly… Continue reading: Google’s acquisition of IBM patents may aid its Oracle case | Digital Media – CNET News
Speculation about Google’s patent strategy – but I doubt IBM would have been shy about exercising its patents against Oracle
The newest batch of patents from IBM have only a handful of mobile telephony applications. Instead, they are rich in database intellectual property, including patent 6442548, titled "database interface for database unaware products," and patent 7831632, titled "method and system for reconstruction of object model data in a relational database."
That could be useful in Google’s ongoing litigation with Oracle. The database giant sued Google in August 2010 for infringing on copyrights and patents related to Java, which Oracle acquired along with Sun Microsystems earlier that year. The companies have been publicly… Continue reading: Google’s acquisition of IBM patents may aid its Oracle case | Digital Media – CNET News
Some interesting Watson details
The top human Jeopardy players are very, very good, with the all-time champion answering nearly two-thirds of the questions in a match with 85 to 95 per cent accuracy. In 2007, the best the IBM team could manage was around 30 per cent accuracy, so they decided to shift their approach from sifting through large amounts of structured databases to looking at more unstructured data via Hadoop.
The second big shift in strategy was the abandonment of software rules wherever possible. Brown explained, for example, that while it might seem logical to set up a rule that a data set for “month” should only include the standard twelve, January… Continue reading: IBM reveals secrets of Watson’s Jeopardy triumph • The Register
Strange days indeed
Super-investor Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway biz has revealed that he has spent most of this year buying up a 5.5 per cent share in IBM.
The "Oracle of Omaha" said Berkshire had bought $10.7bn of IBM’s stock to take a stake that makes it, along with State Street Global Advisors, one of the largest investors in the company.
Buffett traditionally stays away from stakes in technology firms because he doesn’t understand them, but said IBM was different.
Legendary investor scoffs IBM stake, nibble by nibble • The Register
Continue reading: Legendary investor scoffs IBM stake, nibble by nibble • The Register
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