IBM Philippines - News en-ph © Copyright IBM Corp. 2006, 2012. All rights reserved. See http://www.ibm.com/legal/ph/ for copyright and trademark information. askibm@vnet.ibm.com David KL Tan/Singapore/IBM@IBMSG Thu, 19 Apr 2012 04:00:00 GMT ibm.com http://www.ibm.com/news/ph/en/ http://www.ibm.com/i/ibm_logo_120x60.gif http://www.ibm.com/news/ph/en/ SINGAPORE – April 19, 2012 – IBM and the Institute of Systems Science of the National University of Singapore- (NUS-ISS) today announced a collaboration, supported by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (iDA) and the Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA), to create the Enterprise Social Business Centre of Excellence. This Centre will catalyse the transformation of Singapore’s workforce and ensure that Singapore is future-ready and able to leverage social media platforms to improve productivity, connect for innovation and create communities for competitive advantage. http://www.ibm.com/news/ph/en/2012/04/19/b491311q28473s23.html http://www.ibm.com/news/ph/en/2012/04/19/b491311q28473s23.html SINGAPORE – 5 April 2012: IBM [NYSE:IBM] today released the results of its X-Force 2011 Trend and Risk Report, which shows surprising improvements in several areas of Internet security such as a reduction in application security vulnerabilities, exploit code and spam. As a result, the report suggests attackers today are being forced to rethink their tactics by targeting more niche IT loopholes and emerging technologies such as social networks and mobile devices. http://www.ibm.com/news/ph/en/2012/04/05/g196858z32311l75.html http://www.ibm.com/news/ph/en/2012/04/05/g196858z32311l75.html March 23, 2012, SINGAPORE – The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), and IBM are pleased to announce that the Jurong Lake District has been selected as one of the recipients for the IBM Smarter Cities Challenge grant for 2012. http://www.ibm.com/news/ph/en/2012/03/23/x055920l57002t57.html http://www.ibm.com/news/ph/en/2012/03/23/x055920l57002t57.html SINGAPORE - 22 March 2012 - IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new consulting services and software that take the power of predictive analytics to new levels of impact for the highest-priority issues of C-suite decision makers. The new analytic offerings address the emerging opportunities of big data to manage financial operations, decrease fraud and nurture next-generation customer relationships. http://www.ibm.com/news/ph/en/2012/03/22/b625322g34146y98.html http://www.ibm.com/news/ph/en/2012/03/22/b625322g34146y98.html Singapore, 8 March 2012 – Citigroup (NYSE: C) announced it has entered into an agreement with IBM (NYSE: IBM) to explore possible uses for IBM Watson. Under the agreement, Citi will examine the use of deep content analysis and evidence based learning capabilities found in IBM Watson to help advance customer interactions, and improve and simplify the banking experience. http://www.ibm.com/news/ph/en/2012/03/08/h551342a23508j57.html http://www.ibm.com/news/ph/en/2012/03/08/h551342a23508j57.html SINGAPORE — 24 Feb 2012: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled new capabilities to its security intelligence platform that combines deep analytic capabilities with real-time data feeds from hundreds of different sources to give organisations, for the first time, the ability to help proactively protect themselves from increasingly sophisticated and complex security threats and attacks. http://www.ibm.com/news/ph/en/2012/02/24/g299928i08239n10.html http://www.ibm.com/news/ph/en/2012/02/24/g299928i08239n10.html SINGAPORE — January 12, 2012 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it set a new U.S. patent record in 2011, marking the 19th consecutive year that the company has led the annual list of patent recipients. IBM inventors earned a record 6,180 U.S. patents in 2011, more than quadrupling Hewlett-Packard’s issuances and exceeding the combined issuances of Apple, Amazon, Google, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and Oracle/Sun. http://www.ibm.com/news/ph/en/2012/01/12/j652542y52641t09.html http://www.ibm.com/news/ph/en/2012/01/12/j652542y52641t09.html SINGAPORE – 18 November 2011: An IBM (NYSE: IBM) study of more than 1,700 chief marketing officers (CMOs) from 64 countries and 19 industries, including 70 CMOs from ASEAN, reveals that the majority of the world’s top marketing executives recognise a critical and permanent shift occurring in the way they engage with their customers, but question whether their marketing organisations are prepared to manage the change. http://www.ibm.com/news/ph/en/2011/11/18/c695340o84406h16.html http://www.ibm.com/news/ph/en/2011/11/18/c695340o84406h16.html