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ARMONK, NY - 27 Aug 2007: US consumers want insurance companies to more effectively communicate new products and services available to them, provide tailored policies and services to better meet their needs, and bring their customer experience up to par with other industries. Yet, despite boasting one of the largest groups of loyal and satisfied customers of any industry, few insurance companies are delivering in new and innovative ways to connect with their customers to enhance their experience and drive organic growth.    » read more »

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK - 27 Aug 2007: The Danish Agricultural Advisory Service and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that they have signed a seven-year, 13 million euro agreement for IBM to manage operations and support for the Service's Ø90 solution. The Ø90 solution manages bookkeeping, income statement, balance sheets and value added tax (VAT) accounts for farmers in Denmark. The contract is expected to bring significant cost savings for the Danish Agricultural Advisory Service on the operation of Ø90 and extends an existing contract with IBM signed in 2003.    » read more »

'Orchestra' of Powerful Processing Chips Will Drive Geoscience, Medical Imaging, Aerospace and Financial Services Research

Researchers Say the 50,000 Years of Computer Time Needed to Discover Cures May Be Achieved in One Year Using World Community Grid

HOUSTON, TX - 23 Aug 2007: In an effort to halt the spread of deadly infectious diseases now threatening to reach epidemic proportions around the world, an unprecedented research effort was launched today by IBM (NYSE: IBM), The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), and the University of Chicago to discover drugs to treat and cure dengue fever, West Nile encephalitis, hepatitis C, and a host of related diseases including yellow fever.    » read more »

ARMONK, NY, 22 Aug 2007 -- A new IBM (NYSE: IBM) online survey of consumer digital media and entertainment habits shows audiences are more in control than ever and increasingly savvy about filtering marketing messages.    » read more »

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, 22 Aug 2007 -- Today at the VoiceCon 2007 conference, IBM (NYSE: IBM) unveiled the next phase of its unified communication and collaboration (UC2) strategy by expanding its IBM Lotus Sametime software into a product family that will include new telephony integration software.

Today at the VoiceCon 2007 conference, IBM (NYSE: IBM) unveiled the next phase of its unified communication and collaboration (UC2) strategy by expanding its IBM Lotus Sametime software into a product family that will include new telephony integration software.    » read more »

AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS - 22 Aug 2007: IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Omron today announced a seven-year strategic services contract for IBM to manage Omron's information technology (IT) infrastructure operations in Europe.

Omron is an international company involved in a variety of fields including: industrial automation, electronic components, automotive electronics, social systems and healthcare. In line with Omron's global strategy to concentrate on its core business in order to reduce costs and grow revenue, the company has selected IBM to manage its IT infrastructure.    » read more »

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, and KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA - 22 Aug 2007: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that live sales avatars from Australia, Singapore and Malaysia will staff its virtual IBM Business Center at http://slurl.com/secondlife/IBM%20Business%20Center////.
This team will also help clients from New Zealand.

They join others from North America, Latin America and Europe who started working there in May.

This means the center, which has had 10,000 visitors since it opened, offers visitors the opportunity to connect with a real IBM representative 24 hours five days a week.    » read more »

Designed to Safeguard Identified Critical Business Data and Customer Privacy

- With 31 Percent of Server Marketplace, IBM Sees Growth in x86, UNIX and System z Servers
- Report Cites Virtualization and Refresh Cycle Driving Growth

ARMONK, NY - 23 Aug 2007: Riding a wave of virtualization and server refreshes, IBM (NYSE: IBM) was the number one server vendor in the second quarter, posting growth in x86, UNIX and System z servers, analyst firm IDC said today.    » read more »

ARMONK, NY, 22 Aug 2007 -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has acquired WebDialogs, Inc., a Billerica, Massachusetts-based, privately held provider of Web conferencing and communications services, with more than 500,000 users worldwide. Financial details were not disclosed.    » read more »

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, NY - 15 Aug 2007: The National Center for Biomedical Computing at Columbia University, in collaboration with the IBM (NYSE: IBM) Computational Biology Center at IBM T.J. Watson Labs, today announced a call for participation at its yearly workshop for the assessment of methods for reverse engineering of biological circuits.
The Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessments and Methods (DREAM) workshop is intended to provide a forum for researchers to discuss a framework for the evaluation of experimental and computational tools used to reverse engineer biological pathways.    » read more »

WASHINGTON, DC - 15 Aug 2007: The Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) today awarded IBM (NYSE: IBM) a contract to provide services for the Digital-to-Analog Converter Box Coupon Program.

The Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) today awarded IBM (NYSE: IBM) a contract to provide services for the Digital-to-Analog Converter Box Coupon Program.    » read more »

IBM to Provide Breakthrough Stream Computing System for Real-Time Environmental Monitoring

BEACON, NY & ARMONK, NY - 16 Aug 2007: In a unique collaboration with the potential for far-reaching consequences for environmental research and policy, The Beacon Institute and IBM today announced a plan to create the first technology-based monitoring and forecasting network for a major American river and estuary.    » read more »

Rain or Shine, China taps IBM for meteorological expertise

Armonk, NY & Beijing - 16 Aug 2007: The Beijing Meteorological Bureau (BMB) announced today that it has acquired a new IBM (NYSE: IBM) supercomputer to aid in weather forecasting and air-quality control. The system is capable of sweeping an area up to 44,000 square kilometers to provide hourly numerical weather forecasts for each square kilometer.    » read more »