Category Archives: Technology

China Construction Bank (Asia) and IBM Developing Hong Kong’s First Bancassurance Powered by Blockchain

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New Blockchain Solution to Streamline Transaction Processing and Enhance Service Delivery and Customer Experience

HONG KONG – 20 Sep 2017: China Construction Bank (Asia) Corporation Limited (“CCB (Asia)”) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the development of the first blockchain-enabled bancassurance project in Hong Kong. Built on the IBM Blockchain Platform, the solution is designed to streamline CCB (Asia)’s bancassurance process and greatly enhance customer experience and the quality of services delivered through faster transaction processing time and increased transparency. (more…)

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In the Age of Social Media, He’s a New Kind of Scientist

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What does it mean to be a scientist? Far more than doing research in a lab, says Michael Johnson, whose unconventional passage into the field began with a bowling championship and a music degree.

“Think of it basically like a cheeseburger,” says Michael Johnson. He’s talking about the enzyme ribonucleoside-diphosphate reductase. (more…)

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IBM and MTN Help Protect Endangered African Rhinos with Internet of Things Technology

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South Africa’s Welgevonden Game Reserve to thwart poachers with MTN, IBM and Wageningen University

Johannesburg, South Africa and Armonk, NY – 19 Sep 2017: IBM (NYSE: IBM), MTN, a leading African telecommunications provider, Wageningen University (WU) in the Netherlands and Prodapt, today announced they are harnessing IBM Internet of Things (IoT) technology as part of the MTN Connected Wildlife Solution. The solution will help predict threats and combat the poaching of endangered rhinos at Welgevonden Game Reserve in South Africa, with the intent to expand the solution to other reserves in future. (more…)

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Students ‘create something really incredible’ in broader aim to help two cross-border cities thrive together

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Orysya Stus is used to traffic. She’d seen plenty of it growing up in the Bay Area in California. But when she got to Seattle and drove downtown for the first time, trying to find a parking space was an exercise in frustration, exacerbated by all the other drivers desperately circling to find an elusive spot for their vehicles. (more…)

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Research identifies methods to protect against online privacy attacks

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When Congress voted in March to reverse rules intended to protect Internet users’ privacy, many people began looking for ways to keep their online activity private. One of the most popular and effective is Tor, a software system millions of people use to protect their anonymity online. (more…)

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IBM Expands Certified Public Cloud Infrastructure for SAP HANA®

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New solutions offer up to 8TB of memory and VMware configurations to support data-intensive business applications powered by the SAP HANA platform.

ARMONK, N.Y. – 12 Sep 2017: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the availability of new SAP-certified bare metal servers for SAP HANA® platform deployments in the IBM Cloud and new configurations for VMware environments. The new cloud infrastructure-as-a-service solutions are designed to give enterprises the power and performance they need to manage their mission-critical applications running on SAP HANA. (more…)

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