For the site, IBM focused on three distinct groups of users:
line of business (LoB) managers, developers and IT administrators.
LoB managers will have more than 100 SaaS choices from different domains of expertise,
including marketing, procurement, customer service, finance and legal.
via IBM puts all its cloud services in one place – Techworld.com.
“SureView is a proven solution specifically built to address human behavior and provide the insight necessary to recognize both malicious and non-malicious insider threats”
A disposal of most of Rolls-Royce’s energy portfolio, which had revenue of 1.05 billion pounds ($1.8 billion) last year,
would further retool the European energy-generation landscape,
as Siemens and General Electric Co. (GE:US) work on competing offers to Alstom SA (ALO),
the French maker of power-transmission and transportation equipment.
via Siemens Said to Consider Purchase of Rolls-Royce Energy Assets – Businessweek.
The idea of net neutrality (or the Open Internet) has been discussed for a decade with no lasting results.
via Finding the Best Path Forward to Protect the Open Internet | FCC.gov.
FCC Commissioner Tom Wheeler is inviting the public to send comments and feedback directly to him<
What could you make from a single piece of cardboard?
via Italy’s Economic Design in Times of Crisis – NYTimes.com.
First, the good news.
We are unlikely to have another bank-led, debt-fueled crisis anytime soon, simply because the 2008 financial crisis slammed the brakes on the rapid increase in leverage that preceded it.
The economy hasn’t prospered enough for banks—or any other financial institutions—to take on the kinds of enormous risk with debt to spur a renewed crisis of confidence.
via CNBC at 25: Are We on the Edge of Another Financial Crisis? – NBC News.com.
.. total private and public U.S R&D investments in 2011 was $429 billion.
In second place was China, which spent $208 billion.
But China is increasing its investments rapidly, and China will pass the U.S. “in a matter of a few years.”
via White House sees 'real danger' China will soon take R&D lead – Computerworld.