IBM Creates a New I.O.T. Unit

[jackwynne]

IBM has just announced that they are going to invest $3 billion over four years to create a new internet of things unit to solidify their efforts in the IOT space.

For those who do not know what the internet of things is the general idea is to place sensors in everyday objects and to network them together so that everything becomes smarter and responds to the users needs.

 

 

For IBM, the formation of the Internet of things unit follows a familiar playbook. IBM targets a high value growth area, invests at least a $1 billion to get the effort rolling and throws its hardware, software and consultants at the issue. In this respect, the formation of the Internet of things unit rhymes with what IBM did with e-commerce, analytics, cloud and cognitive computing.

 

In the past these billion dollar units have grown into substantial platforms that continue to grow such as Watson analytics.

 

The unit will include 2,000 consultants, researchers and developers who will be working on both the hardware and the software that powers it.

The aims of the unit are to build:

- A cloud platform for industries aimed at verticals. IBM will offer dynamic pricing models and cloud delivery to various verticals.
- Bluemix IoT platform as a service so developers can create and deploy applications for asset tracking, facilities management and engineering tools.
- An ecosystem of partners ranging from AT&T to ARM to The Weather Company.

 

As reported by ZDNet IBM's move may be in response to other companies such as Cisco and General Electric making large investments into internet of things devices.

 

For instance, General Electric, which happens to make many of the things that will be networked, has an IoT platform called Predix. GE has invested $1 billion in industrial software development. Although GE calls the Internet of things the industrial Internet, the concept of networking things and layering analytics on top is the same.

IBM may have an advantage in the internet of things space over other competitors due to their highly powerful analytics and cognitive computing services which would allow IBM to analyse all of the information that is coming from the IOT devices more effectively. This in turn would allow IBM to attract more partners for their ecosystem.

 

Source:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-creates-internet-of-things-division/

[Syntaxvgm]

so....in 2015 more IBM commercials saying they will "build a smarter planet" and "that's what I'm working on, because I'm an IBMer"? kay

 

 

But now with the internet of things more often

 

[qwertywarrior]

cool

[Toddskins]

Really?  A smarter planet?  Doesn't that require smarter people, rather than programmable objects and devices?  Do we have less discontent, less wars, less terror, less murder, less rape, less sexual crimes?  

 

No, actually there is more.

More? Of which one?

All of them.

Do we have more freedom, less surveillance, greater advocacy for individuals, less government, fewer people in prison?

No again. 

How can this be?

 

[jackwynne]

First off between the growing population and the internet of course it seems like there is more crime ect in the world.

 

Secondly IOT devices and cognitive computing could actually help to solve some of these problems.

 

For example with Watson paired with IOT devices illness and diseases could be treated before they become a serious problem. Improving peoples quality of life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBFZZxAyOzc

 

Could also be incredibly useful in solving crimes and connecting the dots. Decreasing crime rates ect

 

 

[FakezZ]

Really?  A smarter planet?  Doesn't that require smarter people, rather than programmable objects and devices?  Do we have less discontent, less wars, less terror, less murder, less rape, less sexual crimes?  

 

No, actually there is more.

More? Of which one?

All of them.

Do we have more freedom, less surveillance, greater advocacy for individuals, less government, fewer people in prison?

No again. 

How can this be?

 

Uhmm actually there are less wars now...

[wpirobotbuilder]

If IoT is done right, the future will be even more awesome.

 

I'm picturing a house/apartment that knows when you're away on vacation, and accordingly turns off all your electronics and turns down your heating/air conditioning. It then knows when you fly back home, and turns everything back on just before you get home, so you walk in the door with everything ready to go.

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DID WE LEARN NOTHING FROM TERMINATOR

[Toddskins]

No, there are more wars now.  America leads the way!  Let me count the ways.  

 

Iran (1980, 1987-1988), Libya (1981, 1986, 1989, 2011), Lebanon (1983), Kuwait (1991), Iraq (1991-2011, 2014-), Somalia (1992-1993, 2007-), Bosnia (1995), Saudi Arabia (1991, 1996), Afghanistan (1998, 2001-), Sudan (1998), Kosovo (1999), Yemen (2000, 2002-), Pakistan (2004-) and now Syria.

 

The count excludes the bombing and occupation of still other predominantly Muslim countries by key U.S. allies such as Israel and Saudi Arabia, carried out with crucial American support. It excludes coups against democratically elected governments, torture, and imprisonment of people with no charges. It also, of course, excludes all the other bombing and invading and occupying that the U.S. has carried out during this time period in other parts of the world, including in Central America and the Caribbean, as well as various proxy wars in Africa.

 

And more.  Story  here:  https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/11/06/many-countries-islamic-world-u-s-bombed-occupied-since-1980/ 

 

Oh, let me not forget Nigeria, and Libya where we had Ghaddafi assassinated (the NATO forces led by the good ol' USA) and then stole his $6Billion in gold dinars, which was the true cause of the attack on our embassy when their people discovered their gold was stolen.  I know I'm forgetting some other territories we have put our armed forces. 

But you guys would make great loyalists to the NAZI party.  Great propagandists "to use new technologies to help mankind", when in fact every trace of evidence demonstrates its opposite. 

But there's no helping people like you to see.  You're brainwashed and not until you find yourself at the end of a gun pointed at you by BIG BROTHER, or your personal information used to blackmail you, will you ever awaken.

And with regard to technology helping people in hospitals, well okay... but did you know that there are not less diseases in the world now, but more!  They keep inventing new ones for which we MUST find a cure.  Countless it seems.

 

And to JACKWYNNE, it does not SEEM like there are more wars, there actually are more.  And your naivete is unable to see other types of wars because they are done by corporations who outright own and blackmail politicians.  That list would be too long for this website, but it would be a worthwhile list to construct.

No matter... I'm just wasting my time with you. 

[Trik'Stari]

Really?  A smarter planet?  Doesn't that require smarter people, rather than programmable objects and devices?  Do we have less discontent, less wars, less terror, less murder, less rape, less sexual crimes?  

 

No, actually there is more.

More? Of which one?

All of them.

Do we have more freedom, less surveillance, greater advocacy for individuals, less government, fewer people in prison?

No again. 

How can this be?

 

You get a like and a slow clap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAryFIuRxmQ

 

No, there are more wars now.  America leads the way!  Let me count the ways.  

 

Iran (1980, 1987-1988), Libya (1981, 1986, 1989, 2011), Lebanon (1983), Kuwait (1991), Iraq (1991-2011, 2014-), Somalia (1992-1993, 2007-), Bosnia (1995), Saudi Arabia (1991, 1996), Afghanistan (1998, 2001-), Sudan (1998), Kosovo (1999), Yemen (2000, 2002-), Pakistan (2004-) and now Syria.

 

The count excludes the bombing and occupation of still other predominantly Muslim countries by key U.S. allies such as Israel and Saudi Arabia, carried out with crucial American support. It excludes coups against democratically elected governments, torture, and imprisonment of people with no charges. It also, of course, excludes all the other bombing and invading and occupying that the U.S. has carried out during this time period in other parts of the world, including in Central America and the Caribbean, as well as various proxy wars in Africa.

 

And more.  Story  here:  https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/11/06/many-countries-islamic-world-u-s-bombed-occupied-since-1980/ 

 

Oh, let me not forget Nigeria, and Libya where we had Ghaddafi assassinated (the NATO forces led by the good ol' USA) and then stole his $6Billion in gold dinars, which was the true cause of the attack on our embassy when their people discovered their gold was stolen.  I know I'm forgetting some other territories we have put our armed forces. 

But you guys would make great loyalists to the NAZI party.  Great propagandists "to use new technologies to help mankind", when in fact every trace of evidence demonstrates its opposite. 

But there's no helping people like you to see.  You're brainwashed and not until you find yourself at the end of a gun pointed at you by BIG BROTHER, or your personal information used to blackmail you, will you ever awaken.

And with regard to technology helping people in hospitals, well okay... but did you know that there are not less diseases in the world now, but more!  They keep inventing new ones for which we MUST find a cure.  Countless it seems.

 

And to JACKWYNNE, it does not SEEM like there are more wars, there actually are more.  And your naivete is unable to see other types of wars because they are done by corporations who outright own and blackmail politicians.  That list would be too long for this website, but it would be a worthwhile list to construct.

No matter... I'm just wasting my time with you. 

 

Ghaddafi was killed by his own people, the video was uploaded to youtube dude.

 

Not saying our idiot president hasn't been doing stupid shit, but still.

[Toddskins]

You get a like and a slow clap.

 

 

Ghaddafi was killed by his own people, the video was uploaded to youtube dude.

 

Not saying our idiot president hasn't been doing stupid shit, but still.

 

Yes, I saw what they did to him, but at the support, instigation, and encouragement of the US led NATO.

This is worth looking at, regarding Libya:

http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2015/01/gaddafi-the-facts-3094596.html 

Ghaddafi was uniting Africa to begin using the gold dinar for trading amongst themselves, in order to stop being stolen from and taken advantage of by the US dollar being the reserve currency of the world.  The USA has a stranglehold on the world and has been stealing and taking advantage of the world by the use of our US Dollar Reserve Currency  for decades.  Ghaddafi was trying his best to help his neighboring African countries get off the Petro Dollar and to start using the Gold Dinar.

Sure, me and my fellow USA citizens have been benefitting by this, but it's immoral.  The Federal Reserve (PRIVATELY OWNED bank) prints money out of thin air, and trades with it for real goods & services the world over.

Oh no, the world bank elitists could not allow the Gold Dinar deal to happen, that Ghaddafi was close to bringing about.

Everything painted in the NEWS is false, twisted, skewed, lies.  Investigative Journalism as a profession is and has been dead for at least 30 years.

[Toddskins]

IBM Fanboys, please read a little of history.  This one reported in Forbes, Februay, 2001, http://www.forbes.com/2001/02/12/0212global.html 

or just do your own search on "IBM and WW2".  
 

IBM Gets An Ugly History Lesson

 

Like any efficiency-driven organization, the Nazis were big on technology. It wasn’t just to order and track office supplies–they had to keep track of all the Jews in concentration camps. And to do that, they used IBM equipment.

According to a new book, IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation, by Edwin Black, IBM not only provided its technology* to the Third Reich, IBM also formed a “strategic alliance” with the Nazis. A class action lawsuit was also filed over the weekend against IBM on behalf of all Holocaust concentration camp survivors.

The lawsuit alleges that IBM aided the Nazis during World War II and then later tried to cover up its actions. Aiding genocide demonstrates poor business ethics in general, but beyond that, it’s even uglier given the possibility that IBM may have made a nice profit off the Nazis. Exactly how much IBM profited is far from certain.

The immediate question that rises is, who cares if the Nazis used IBM technology? The Nazis also used pencils and pens, but should those manufacturers also be held responsible for their roles in the Holocaust?

Suzette Malveaux, an attorney with Washington, D.C.-based Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll , the law firm responsible for filing the suit, says that IBM’s role was slightly more complicated. In order for the Nazis to successfully use IBM punch-card systems, they needed to first be consulted by an IBM technician, Malveaux says. The IBM technician was often privy to how an organization would use the technology.

“The IBM technician would have to consult the client to figure out what kind of information needs to be gathered, and how the information is used. In the case of the Nazis, that meant sorting people by how they left the camp, whether they were exterminated, escaped and so on. The [iBM] technology was used to collect data about what sort of people were in the camps, what ethnicities they were, what types of professions, etc.”

But couldn’t that have just been tracked on paper in files? Does that really make IBM the bad guy?

“We have evidence that IBM [New York] knew that its [technology was] being used in concentration camps; we also know there was communication between the two subsidiaries even after the U.S. entered the war,” Malveaux says. “The German subsidiary flourished during the war, it made more money during that time than any other IBM subsidiary, and after 1941, it was clear that there was a genocide going on.”

IBM was not available to comment. But if indeed Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll can prove its case against IBM, it may not cost the company much, seeing how limited IBM’s German business was at the time. The real price will probably be the PR disaster that’s building as we speak. Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll has brought the claim for unjust enrichment.

“We feel IBM should give back the money it gained during the Holocaust to a fund for survivors,” Malveaux says. As it stands now, the firm estimates profits may have been about $10 million in today’s currency. While it’s a substantial number, it doesn’t amount to much for a company that reported $2.7 billion in net income during the fourth quarter of 2000 alone.