News Home page Caribbean en-jm © Copyright IBM Corp. 2006, 2009. All rights reserved. See http://www.ibm.com/legal/jm/ for copyright and trademark information. askibm@vnet.ibm.com Andrew Linton/Markham/IBM Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:00:00 GMT ibm.com http://www.ibm.com/news/jm/en/ http://www.ibm.com/i/ibm_logo_120x60.gif http://www.ibm.com/news/jm/en/ ARMONK, NY - 15 Oct 2009:IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced third-quarter 2009 diluted earnings of $2.40 per share compared with diluted earnings of $2.04 per share in the third quarter of 2008, an increase of 18 percent. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28591.wss http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28591.wss ARMONK, N.Y. - 13 Oct 2009: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a new service aimed at helping businesses automate the flow of information across IT service desk operations, resulting in faster incident management and issue resolution, higher employee productivity and lower operational costs. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28618.wss http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28618.wss STOCKHOLM - 23 Sep 2009: The Stockholm Congestion Charging System, created by IBM (NYSE: IBM) has significantly improved access to the Swedish capital by halving queuing times on access roads to the city in the mornings. City traffic is down by 18% and CO2 emissions in the inner city have been cut by between 14 and 18 percent. These are the results of the latest study on the system by the Stockholm City Traffic authorities. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28463.wss http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28463.wss CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - 22 Sep 2009: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced an expanded set of social software tools and capabilities for enterprise collaboration that brings popular features like micro-blogging from the home into the business environment. Leading companies such as NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH and Sogeti are among the early adopters of IBM's collaboration platform, Lotus Connections 2.5. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28456.wss http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28456.wss ARMONK, NY - 10 Sep 2009: A new global study of more than 2,500 Chief Information Officers (CIOs), released by IBM (NYSE: IBM) today, reveals that leveraging analytics to gain a competitive advantage and improve business decision-making is now the top priority for CIOs. More than four out of five (83 percent) survey respondents identified business intelligence and analytics – the ability to see patterns in vast amounts of data and extract actionable insights – as the way they will enhance their organizations’ competitiveness. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28314.wss http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28314.wss ARMONK, N.Y. - 09 Sep 2009: Reducing the risk of counterfeit drugs and contaminated medications amidst the complexity of global manufacturing are among the top concerns of the pharmaceutical and life sciences industries today, according to a new IBM (NYSE: IBM) study. More than 50 percent of executives polled say their companies fail to respond quickly enough to pandemics and other emergencies because of lapses in their supply chain. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28352.wss http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28352.wss ARMONK, N.Y. - 25 Aug 2009: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Connected Work Place Solutions (CWPS) of Washington, D.C., the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA), and KARIN Technology Holdings, LTD of Hong Kong are using data protection and recovery systems powered by IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) FastBack software . The software restores critical information from almost any data loss, whether it is caused by human error, software error, virus, hacker attack, or local or regional disaster. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28248.wss http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28248.wss ARMONK, N.Y. - 20 Aug 2009: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that industry analyst firm IDC has ranked it the worldwide leader in the application management (AM) services market based on combined bundled and discrete services revenue in 2008. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28220.wss http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28220.wss http://www.ibm.com/legal/jm/en/ http://www.ibm.com/legal/jm/en/