Category Archives: Technology

Syniverse Adopts VMware on IBM Cloud to Meet Customers Mobile Service Needs

Global technology provider manages up to four billion transactions per day using a hybrid cloud environment

ARMONK, NY – 29 Aug 2017: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Syniverse, a global connectivity enabler, has adopted IBM Cloud to expand its flexibility and capacity in serving rapidly changing mobile service needs for its customers. (more…)

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Toxic online comments. Here are the top US Cities

Toxic or hateful comments on different internet forums, news portals are getting wildly common. Online commenting platform Disqus analysed 92 million comments from nearly 2 million users over a period of 16 months. The result is shown in the following infograph from Statista, the statistics portal. (more…)

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Unsichtbare Begleiter

Das könnte dir gefallen“ oder „Top-Serien für Sie“: Amazon, Netflix und Co. scheinen zu wissen, was wir mögen. Dahinter stecken Algorithmen, deren Bedeutung in allen Lebensbereichen immer mehr zunimmt. Der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler Roland Schroll beschäftigt sich mit den Auswirkungen von computerbasierten Verfahren auf unser Konsumverhalten. (more…)

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From slum to Harvard: How one Microsoft director came up and sees digital revolution in Asia

Growing up in the slums of the Philippines, Dr. Astrid S. Tuminez did not have the luxury of eating regular breakfast as a child. She was one of seven kids and life was hard for her family. She had only one pair of socks, which she would wash once a week. When it rained, she plugged the holes in her shoes with lollipop wrappers. When she was five years old, the Catholic nuns in the city invited Tuminez and her sisters to attend their school. That’s when her life changed. (more…)

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The Weather Company, an IBM Business, to Integrate Global Flight Tracking Data from FlightAware

Flight Tracking Enhancements to Help Improve Situational Awareness And Enable Critical Decision-Making For Airline Operators

ANDOVER, MA – 16 Aug 2017: The Weather Company, an IBM Business (NYSE: IBM) announced today that it is enhancing its global flight operations solution WSI Fusion, with live flight tracking data from FlightAware. WSI Fusion provides early insight into changing flight, airport and airspace conditions, enabling aviation providers to carefully plan and track flights, optimize operations and reduce the impacts of disruptive events. With the addition of FlightAware’s data, including its private network of over 12,000 Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B) ground stations in over 160 countries, WSI Fusion customers will have access to enhanced flight following capabilities worldwide. (more…)

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Sony and Sony Global Education Develop a New System to Manage Students’ Learning Data, Built on IBM Blockchain

– New cloud-based platform to help track and manage student data to improve efficiencies in education system

TOKYO and ARMONK, NY – 09 Aug 2017: IBM (NYSE: IBM) Japan today announced that Sony Corporation and Sony Global Education, a subsidiary of Sony that works to provide global educational services, have developed a new blockchain-based student education records platform. (more…)

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