IBM Be/Lux - News - The latest announcements, events, and research breakthroughs from IBM and our subsidiaries worldwide. en-be Copyright (c) IBM Corporation 2001, 2008. All rights reserved. See http://www.ibm.com/legal/be/ for copyright and trademark information. askibm@vnet.ibm.com webmaste@us.ibm.com Mon, 5 May 2008 14:47:43 GMT ibm.com http://www.ibm.com/news/be/en/ http://www.ibm.com/i/ibm_logo_120x60.gif http://www.ibm.com/news/be/en/ Brussels, May 10, 2007 – IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it is redirecting $1 billion per year across its businesses, mobilizing the company’s resources to dramatically increase the level of energy efficiency in IT. The plan includes new products and services for IBM and its clients to sharply reduce data center energy consumption, transforming the world’s business and public technology infrastructures into “green” data centers. http://www.ibm.com/news/be/en/2007/05/10.html http://www.ibm.com/news/be/en/2007/05/10.html Brussels, March 15, 2007 – IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that customers, partners and users can now download and try IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8, a next generation email and collaboration platform that helps users streamline daily business tasks that run across a variety of computing platforms and technology software systems. http://www.ibm.com/news/be/en/2007/03/15.html http://www.ibm.com/news/be/en/2007/03/15.html Brussels, February 27, 2007 – IBM today announced plans to collaborate with the Original Equipment Suppliers Association (OESA) to hold the first-ever Automotive Supplier Jam – an unprecedented online dialogue on the North American automobile industry’s general strategy, future, and opportunities for innovation. The OESA collaboration highlights a new Jam Consulting Service unveiled today by IBM Global Business Services, designed to help organizations drive innovation by initiating dynamic new forms of collaboration among employees, stakeholders, customers, partners and others. The new IBM Jam Consulting Service is available globally. http://www.ibm.com/news/be/en/2007/02/27_3.html http://www.ibm.com/news/be/en/2007/02/27_3.html Brussels, February 27, 2007 - IBM today announced it is combining its industry leading expertise in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and information management to help clients more easily share data and deliver better service by freeing information from individual applications and reusing it throughout their enterprise. http://www.ibm.com/news/be/en/2007/02/27_2.html http://www.ibm.com/news/be/en/2007/02/27_2.html Brussels, February 26, 2007 - IBM (NYSE:IBM) researchers today announced an advancement in computer-based simulations that is helping to drive chip technologies to new heights of performance and function. As reported in the scientific journal Physical Review Letters, a team of scientists at IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory for the first time used advanced supercomputer-based models to more deeply understand and master the complex behavior of a promising new material—hafnium dioxide—in silicon transistors, the fundamental building blocks of computer chips. http://www.ibm.com/news/be/en/2007/02/26_2.html http://www.ibm.com/news/be/en/2007/02/26_2.html Brussels, February 14, 2007 - IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it is teaming with AMD and Novell to create an integrated Linux offering built around IBM’s next generation Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) data server, code-named “Cheetah.” IBM also revealed that Cheetah has now entered an open beta testing for customers and business partners. http://www.ibm.com/news/be/en/2007/02/14.html http://www.ibm.com/news/be/en/2007/02/14.html Brussels, February 13, 2007 At the SHARE User Event - an annual gathering of mainframe users - IBM today announced software to enable professionals to more easily program,manage and administer a mainframe system - as well as to increasingly automate the development and deployment of applications for the mainframe environment. http://www.ibm.com/news/be/en/2007/02/13.html http://www.ibm.com/news/be/en/2007/02/13.html Brussels, February 12, 2007 -IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled a new Open Client Solution for customers of any size or industry so they can help their employees better collaborate, improve productivity, and lower the total cost of information technology ownership. http://www.ibm.com/news/be/en/2007/02/12.html http://www.ibm.com/news/be/en/2007/02/12.html Brussels - Jan 27, 2007 - IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has developed a long-sought improvement to the transistor – the tiny on/off switch that serves as the basic building block of virtually all microchips made today. http://www.ibm.com/news/be/en/2007/01/20070127.html http://www.ibm.com/news/be/en/2007/01/20070127.html Brussel, 27 januari, 2007 IBM (NYSE: IBM) kondigt vandaag aan dat zij eenlangverwachte verbetering heeft ontwikkeld voor detransistor – de kleine on/off-schakelaar die alsbouwblok dient voor bijna alle microchips dievandaag worden gefabriceerd. http://www.ibm.com/news/be/en/2007/01/20070127b.html http://www.ibm.com/news/be/en/2007/01/20070127b.html Brussels, January 26, 2007 - IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced software that allows people to hide or anonymize their personal information on the Web, ensuring protection from identity theft and other misuse. Developed by researchers at IBM's laboratory in Zurich, Switzerland, the software - code named IdentityMixer, or "Idemix" for short - will enable consumers to purchase goods and services on the Internet without disclosing personal information. http://www.ibm.com/news/be/en/2007/01/20070126.html http://www.ibm.com/news/be/en/2007/01/20070126.html Brussels, January 25, 2007 Ricoh and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced formationof a joint venture company based on IBM's PrintingSystems Division as Ricoh, a global leader indigital office solutions, strengthens itscapabilities in output solutions, includingproduction printing. http://www.ibm.com/news/be/en/2007/02/20070125.html http://www.ibm.com/news/be/en/2007/02/20070125.html Brussels, January 11, 2007 - IBM announced today that it will develop and hostthe "Inventors’ Forum," an online initiative toshare and debate ideas on how smaller enterprisesview patent systems and can contribute to reformefforts such as improved patent quality. http://www.ibm.com/news/be/en/2007/02/20070111_2.html http://www.ibm.com/news/be/en/2007/02/20070111_2.html http://www.ibm.com/legal/be/ http://www.ibm.com/legal/be/