Modernomics* – Daily Writings on Technology
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Los Angeles regional headquarters of IBM Data Processing Division In July 1958, two years after the division was established, DPD opened this Western Regional Headquarters facility in Los Angeles, Calif., to serve 12 states, Hawaii and Alaska. [via IBM Archives: Los Angeles regional headquarters]
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Found this great picture while browsing through the Life archives over at Google Images. It’s such an interesting photograph. Were they posing? The suits are wonderfully 1950s: a large lapel, white shirt and a “smart tie.” The caption reads: Italian-American working as a clerk for International Business Machines Corporation with its motto on desk “THINK.” [...]
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Found this great picture while browsing through the Life archives over at Google Images. It’s such an interesting photograph. Were they posing? The suits are wonderfully 1950s: a large lapel, white shirt and a “smart tie.” The caption reads: Italian-American working as a clerk for International Business Machines Corporation with its motto on desk “THINK.” [...]
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Serendipitously, I just uncovered a post relating to IBM and social media use guidelines, which I wrote about yesterday with regard to the Associated Press’ new policy. IBM’s document is a “public submission to the Department of Homeland Security as part of their Privacy Workshops they hosted in Washington D.C. earlier this week.” photo credit: [...]
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photo credit: photomequickbooth IBM has brought Cisco Systems and a host of the world’s biggest energy services companies into partnership with its flagship energy efficiency and carbon reduction consulting service, Greentech Media reports. Last year, IBM launched a consulting practice, called “Green Sigma,” based on taking sensor data and analysis software and applying them toward [...]
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photo credit: Argonne National Laboratory Wired Gadget Lab reports of another Green innovation IBM is in the process of developing: Massive supercomputers that devour electricity to keep them humming are not exactly the poster children for green technology. But IBM hopes to change that with its plans to build a supercomputer that will use water [...]
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photo credit: Argonne National Laboratory Wired Gadget Lab reports of another Green innovation IBM is in the process of developing: Massive supercomputers that devour electricity to keep them humming are not exactly the poster children for green technology. But IBM hopes to change that with its plans to build a supercomputer that will use water [...]
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photo credit: miralize Wired.com posted an article pointing to a new set of guidelines from the AP regarding a corporate policy about staff posting to twitter and Facebook. The Associated Press is adopting a stringent social-networking policy for its employees, informing them to police their Facebook profiles “to make sure material posted by others doesn’t [...]
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photo credit: kevindooley “Conserve energy. Consolidate resources. Make information secure and available whenever and wherever it’s needed. With mandates like these, we have be smarter about accessing, processing and storing data.” [via A Smarter Planet]
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