IBM to help establish market for trading weather options
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What are the odds of a cold day in hell? Storm Exchange is setting up a market that will let corporations analyze business changes due to fluctuations in weather.
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The City of Brownsville, Texas, has hired IBM (NYSE: IBM) to help design an enterprise modernization project, providing city departments with a wireless Internet infrastructure and residents with an improved access to city services.
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IBMÂ  is rolling out a new set of financing options that it hopes will increase its sales to SMB (small and medium business) customers by simplifying the financing process.
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IBM Tuesday will announce an expansion of its services for companies seeking help with radio frequency identification technology. Over the past several months, IBM has developed RFID services
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NEW YORK, New York, United States of America -- International Business Machines (IBM) Corp has put its computer business up for sale, the New York Times said Friday, quoting people close to negotiations.
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The New York Stock Exchange and  International Business Machines Corp. IBM.N on Tuesday  introduced a new wireless system that will ensure more  efficient processing and tracking of stock trades.
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PC Magazine - IBM provides software, hardware and services to enable financial services firms to support high-performance computing and grid systems.
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IBM IBM.N is reportedly in  talks to sell its personal computer business in a deal that  could be worth up to $2 billion and would cap a gradual  withdrawal from the business it helped to pioneer in 1981.
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The resources IBM will provide include articles to help Java developers use the Cloudscape database in custom application development.
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IBM will offer a range of new services to help industrial firms respond to retail and government pressure to implement radio-frequency identification.
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A patent application turned up by the Associated Press reveals that IBM has proposed an electronic trading system that would enable a new kind of derivatives market for intellectual property. In this market, traders would buy and sell "floating" rights to chunks of a company's IP portfolio, thus becoming not only the recipient of royalties from that portfolio, but the designated defender of those IP rights in court, for a limited period of time.
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It seems like the season of big contracts. Dell recently bagged a biggie from Philips and now IBM gains one from the Britainâs retail bank, Lloyds TSB.
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Investor's Business Daily - IBM on Wednesday took the wraps off a new design it has developed for faster memory on chips, which should make video games peppier and networks zippier.
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San Francisco, December 4: IBM is reportedly in talks to sell its personal computer business in a deal that could be worth up to $2 billion and would cap a gradual withdrawal from the business it helped to pioneer in 1981.
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Last November's buyout by IBM of SOA software provider Cognos is already having a major impact on businesses that use vertical market software. That impact is being felt in the way these businesses warehouse and access their data.
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The U.S. Securities and  Exchange Commission aims to issue guidelines on the appropriate  timing for companies to issue stock options this summer when it  proposes new rules dealing with executive compensation, SEC  Chairman Christopher Cox said on Monday.
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All the trade is storm-related today,&quot; said Stephen Briggs, managing director of Intermarket Group. &quot;Obviously, people are speculating we may see some platforms closing in the Gulf.