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ARMONK, N.Y. - 17 Jun 2009: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it plans to shift $100 million investment over the next five years into a major Research effort which aims to advance mobile services and capabilities for businesses and consumers worldwide.

IBM is investing to create technology in its labs that bring simple, easy-to-use services to the millions of people who have bypassed using the personal computer as their primary method of accessing the Internet, and instead use their mobile devices for managing large forces of enterprise field workers, conducting financial transactions, entertainment, shopping, and more.    » read more »

Using an atomic force microscope, nanoscience milestone opens up new possibilities in molecular electronics

ZURICH, Switzerland, June 12, 2009 -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) scientists in collaboration with the University of Regensburg, Germany, and Utrecht University, Netherlands, for the first time demonstrated the ability to measure the charge state of individual atoms using noncontact atomic force microscopy.    » read more »

ARMONK, N.Y. - 09 Jun 2009: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a new social networking community designed to help its partners more easily connect and collaborate with each other from anywhere around the world to bring new technologies to market and close sales faster and more efficiently.

The new community enables companies to gain real-time access to IBM subject matter experts to support sales leads and client implementations. Partners can also create personalized profiling tools to develop online communities that make their skills visible to other partners, connect with them on new technology innovations and joint sales leads and develop and deliver new technologies online through interactive forums before test-marketing or taking offerings directly to clients.    » read more »

SYDNEY - 09 Jun 2009: Telstra announced today that it has extended its information technology (IT) operations and services agreement with IBM until the year 2014. The five-year contract, which is an extension of an existing services agreement, is worth a total of AU$745million. It will result in greater automation and improved remote management capability of Telstra's IT systems, while reducing server build time enabling the telecommunications giant to more efficiently execute complex projects across its IT infrastructure.    » read more »

ARMONK, N.Y. - 04 Jun 2009: IBM (NYSE: IBM ) today announced new System z software to enable companies to drive down IT costs while increasing business flexibility and improving service. IBM announced it plans to release approximately 30 new software technology enhancements in 2009 that extend the advantages of using System z as a platform for developing, deploying and running today's applications and business data.

The announcement is part of IBM's ongoing pursuit to help customers simplify their environment and reduce costs by migrating scattered applications and data onto a lower cost, more scalable and manageable platform.    » read more »

Stream Computing Provides Real-Time Analysis For New Insight into Effects on Earth

BERLIN - 03 Jun 2009: IBM (NYSE:IBM) and Uppsala University and the Swedish Institute of Space Physics announced today a major new Stream Computing project to analyze massive volumes of information in real time to better understand “space weather”. By using IBM InfoSphere Streams to analyze data from sensors that track high frequency radio waves, endless amounts of data can be captured and analyzed on the fly.

Over the next year, this project is expected to perform analytics on at least 6 gigabytes per second or 21,600 gigabytes per hour – the equivalent of all the Web pages on the Internet.    » read more »

Companies collecting data infrequently, not engaging customers and suppliers

ARMONK, NY - 01 Jun 2009: IBM’s (NYSE:IBM) second annual global corporate social responsibility survey of senior business executives again shows significant gaps between their goals and their ability to attain them.

Nearly all of the 224 respondents said they remain committed to incorporating CSR principles into their business strategies – despite the global recession -- to improve business performance, societal contribution and reputation.

But the survey results identified three specific problems:    » read more »

New Technology, Services and Financial Incentives Offered

ARMONK, N.Y. - 29 May 2009: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new services and programs to help more companies lower costs and reduce inefficiency by migrating from Sun and HP servers to IBM's System z, particularly on the Linux platform.

The new Server Consolidation and Migration Services offering, which includes patent-pending technology, can dramatically reduce the time and effort in moving applications from siloed, inefficiently used servers to a more cost-effective and easier-to-manage IBM mainframe infrastructure.

IBM also announced a program -- z Rewards -- that offers financial incentives to help customers take advantage of these migration services.    » read more »

New facility will feature "green" technologies to reduce energy use by more than 50 percent

ARMONK and SYRACUSE, N.Y. - 29 May 2009: IBM (NYSE: IBM), Syracuse University and New York State have entered into a multiyear agreement to build and operate a new computer data center on the University's campus that will incorporate advanced infrastructure and smarter computing technologies to make it one of the most energy-efficient data centers in the world. The data center is expected to use 50 percent less energy than a typical data center today, making it one of the "greenest" computer centers in operation.    » read more »

New University Collaborations and Developer Resources Foster Local Technical and Business Skills Development

HO CHI MINH, Vietnam - 26 May 2009: IBM (NYSE: IBM) further expanded its reach into growing nations with the opening of the first IBM Innovation Center in Vietnam. The new center aims to help local communities build skills and develop new technologies to support demand for digital infrastructure projects in banking, telecommunications, energy and government industries.    » read more »

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam - 18 May 2009: IBM (NYSE: IBM) and FXA Group today announced a first of a kind collaboration with the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) and the Vietnamese State Agency for Technological Innovation (SATI) that will accelerate the adoption of traceability solutions to improve global food safety.    » read more »

Lab tests may begin in just weeks as a result of World Community Grid

GALVESTON, Texas - 05 May 2009 -- IBM and the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) launched an effort using IBM's World Community Grid "virtual supercomputer" to allow laboratory tests on drug candidates for drug-resistant influenza strains and new strains, such as H1N1, in less than a month.    » read more »

Board Authorizes $3.0 Billion for Stock Repurchase

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. - 28 Apr 2009: The IBM (NYSE: IBM) board of directors today declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.55 per common share, payable June 10, 2009 to stockholders of record May 8, 2009.

Today’s dividend declaration represents an increase of $0.05, or 10 percent higher than the prior quarterly dividend of $0.50 per common share.

IBM has increased its quarterly dividend by 175 percent since 2006. This is the 14th year in a row that IBM has increased its quarterly cash dividend.

With the payment of the June 10 dividend, IBM will have paid consecutive quarterly dividends every year since 1916.    » read more »

Diluted earnings of $1.70 per share, up 4 percent

ARMONK, NY - 20 Apr 2009 -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced first-quarter 2009 diluted earnings of $1.70 per share compared with diluted earnings of $1.64 per share in the first quarter of 2008, an increase of 4 percent as reported. First-quarter net income was $2.30 billion compared with $2.32 billion in the first quarter of 2008, a decrease of 1 percent. Total revenues for the first quarter of 2009 of $21.7 billion decreased 11 percent (4 percent, adjusting for currency) from the first quarter of 2008.    » read more »

ARMONK, NY - 16 Apr 2009: According to a study released today by IBM (NYSE: IBM), increasing demand on rail systems in the U.S. and around the world will dramatically strain existing rail infrastructure. The study, "The Smarter Railroad," analyzes new approaches to modernize and build high-speed rail networks globally, such as those announced today by President Obama.    » read more »