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Thursday, January 29, 2009

Putting business intelligence tools to work; IBM confirms job cuts

Whirlpool chooses IBM for IT services; IBM out of the online services gate with mixed reviews
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Putting business intelligence tools to work
Don Campbell, CTO of for business intelligence and performance management at IBM, talks with Jason Meserve about how business intelligence (BI) tools can be used to dig deeper into organization's operations. Who is BI right for and could it have been used to help avert the current economic crisis? Campell explains. (15:19) Listen now.

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IBM confirms job cuts A union that is trying to organize workers at IBM is reporting that the company cut more than 2,800 jobs recently, but an IBM spokesman would only confirm that some layoffs have occurred.

Whirlpool chooses IBM for IT services IBM Global Services contracted to provide mainframe, server, storage, network, desk-side support and help desk services in multi-year outsourcing contract with Whirlpool.

IBM CEO urges support of $825B stimulus bill President Barack Obama's $825 billion economic stimulus package got the enthusiastic endorsement Wednesday of IBM CEO and Chairman Sam Palmisano and other business leaders.

Union: IBM layoffs now 4,200 - may go higher IBM's not-so-secret layoffs may have reached 4,200 Tuesday, according to Alliance@IBM, which believes that thousands of other employees will be loosing their jobs as well before the cuts end.

IBM out of the online services gate with mixed reviews Seeking to break out from behind the firewall, IBM/Lotus is cloning its collaboration family for the cloud and embarking on a direction that could define the future of its applications.

Apple and IBM settle legal dispute over hiring of Mark Papermaster iOnApple blogger Yoni Heisler reports that the legal tussles over Apple's hiring away of IBM top talent have been resolved.

Former IBM exec gets green light to work for Apple Mark Papermaster, the former IBM executive who was blocked last year by a federal court from working at Apple, will be able to start his new job April 24, six months after he left IBM, according to terms of a settlement made public Tuesday.

IBM confirms layoffs Despite releasing stronger than expected earnings on Tuesday and at the time expressing optimism for 2009, a round of job cuts is underway at IBM and it looks like Big Blue's Canadian operations have not been ...

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