News Home page Caribbean en-ms © Copyright IBM Corp. 2006, 2009. All rights reserved. See http://www.ibm.com/legal/ms/ for copyright and trademark information. askibm@vnet.ibm.com Andrew Linton/Markham/IBM Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT ibm.com http://www.ibm.com/news/ms/en/ http://www.ibm.com/i/ibm_logo_120x60.gif http://www.ibm.com/news/ms/en/ ARMONK, N.Y. - 24 Nov 2009: IBM (NYSE: IBM) is being recognized as the No. 1 Global Company for Leaders, in a study released this month by Fortune magazine and to be featured in its December issue. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28897.wss http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28897.wss ARMONK, N.Y. - 23 Nov 2009: IBM (NYSE: IBM) Researchers are helping to break the language barrier with the advent of technology dubbed "n.Fluent" -- smart software that translates text between English and 11 other languages. IBM employees use it to instantaneously translate electronic documents and Web pages -- even live, instant messages exchanged on smartphones. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28887.wss http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28887.wss ARMONK, N.Y. - 11 Nov 2009: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new software that delivers a personalized and more interactive shopping experience for the exploding population of mobile users worldwide. The software incorporates new social networking capabilities and the ability for retailers to reach consumers with personalized promotions, coupons and other content, regardless of how or where the customer chooses to shop with them. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28795.wss http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28795.wss ARMONK, N.Y. - 10 Nov 2009: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled new software that will enable businesses and governments to extract new business information from sensors to determine the whereabouts and conditions of millions of returnable shipping containers used to transport goods around the world. Using the software, massive amounts of sensor data can be gathered in real-time, providing supply chain transparency and reducing inventory costs by as much as 40 percent. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28785.wss http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28785.wss 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