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Too much Skin: Beijing Auto Show Organizers Reprimanded for Scantily Clad Models

Top Speed — Fri, 18 May 2012 11:00:00 +0000

Anonymous Takes Down F1's Site in Protest

Top Speed — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:00:00 +0000

Busted: Convicted of Trying to Sell a Cloned Chevelle Z16

Top Speed — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:00:00 +0000

In the Army Now: Ford Set to Power New Military Vehicles

Top Speed — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:00:00 +0000

Italian tax police cracks down on non-tax paying supercar owners with interesting tactics

Top Speed — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:00:00 +0000

IBM Names Worldwide Recipients of 2012 Smarter Cities Challenge Grants to Improve Urban Life

IBM Press Releases - Government - United States — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:01:56 +0000

IBM today selected 33 cities worldwide to receive IBM Smarter Cities Challenge (#smartercities) grants during 2012. E-mail this page Save to del.icio.us Digg this ...

U.S. Air Force Taps IBM for Mission to Improve Building Performance

IBM Press Releases - Government - United States — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:46:57 +0000

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that the U.S. Air Force (USAF) has selected IBM smarter buildings software to help its civil engineers maximize energy efficiency and automate the management of its physical infrastructure portfolio—from...

Las Vegas Metro Police Department Expands Public Safety Operations with IBM Crime Analytics Software

IBM Press Releases - Government - United States — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:13:52 +0000

IBM today announced that it is working with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) to help improve the city's public safety and secure information sharing with the agency's regional partners. Used by more than 3,000 law enf...

City Of Philadelphia, IBM Announce Efforts To Improve Workforce Development

IBM Press Releases - Government - United States — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:03:43 +0000

Today, Mayor Michael A. Nutter and IBM announced a partnered effort to support workforce development by increasing the accessibility and functionality of the Digital On-Ramps initiative, a City-wide collaborative aimed at providing “anytime, a...

Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo wants to be president of Italy

Top Speed — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:00:00 +0000

IBM Contributes Data to the National Institutes of Health to Speed Drug Discovery and Cancer Research Innovation

IBM Press Releases - Government - United States — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:13:09 +0000

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it is contributing a massive database of chemical data extracted from millions of patents and scientific literature to the National Institutes of Health. This contribution will allow researchers to more easily vis...

IBM Helps India’s Wave Inc Build Smarter Township

IBM Press Releases - Government - United States — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:44:48 +0000

IBM today announced that Wave Inc, one of India’s leading diversified business groups, has engaged IBM to provide a roadmap to make its green-field township, Wave City, a Smarter Township. Located in Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh State), Wave City ...

Leaders Debate Nairobi’s Course to Becoming a Smarter City

IBM Press Releases - Government - United States — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:55:35 +0000

Leaders from across public and private sector and civil society organizations came together in Nairobi today to discuss how advanced technologies can help the city to deal with some of the most pressing issues of urbanization – such as traffic...

Mayor Emanuel Announces IBM Grant to Reinvigorate Chicago’s K-12 Schools and City Colleges, Help Increase Student Readiness for 21st Century Jobs

IBM Press Releases - Government - United States — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 08:06:21 +0000

Mayor Rahm Emanuel today announced that Chicago has won a highly competitive grant from IBM (NYSE: IBM) that will help raise Chicago's high school and community college graduation rates and better prepare graduates to enter the 21st century ...

IBM Expands Advanced Water Management Capabilities With Dublin Centre of Excellence

IBM Press Releases - Government - United States — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 08:53:05 +0000

Today IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the Industrial Development Agency of Ireland (IDA Ireland) announced the establishment of an IBM Centre of Excellence for Water Management. E-mail this page Save to...

IBM to Acquire i2 to Accelerate Big Data Analytics to Transform Global Cities

IBM Press Releases - Government - United States — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 01:26:34 +0000

IBM today announced a definitive agreement to acquire i2 to accelerate its business analytics initiatives and help clients in the public and private sectors address crime, fraud and security threats. Financial terms were not disclosed. ...

Huge Growth In Turbocharged Cars Expected

Top Speed — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 20:00:00 +0000

The U.S. Treasury has less cash on hand than Apple Inc.

Philip Elmer-DeWitt — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:38:48 +0000

How the world's richest nation and the most valuable tech company stack up

Souces: Apple Inc., U.S. Treasury Daily Report

Unless the debt ceiling is raised by Tuesday Aug. 2, the White House keeps reminding us, the U.S. government will no longer be able to pay its bills.

But the U.S. Treasury is already running low. Its closing balance as of Wednesday, July 27, was $73.768 billion.

To put that in perspective, Apple (AAPL) MORE

State of Vermont Transforms Business Operations with Cloud Technology from IBM and Silanis

IBM Press Releases - Government - United States — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:18:11 +0000

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Silanis Technology today announced that the State of Vermont is using cloud computing to transform its business operations to improve efficiencies, boost profits and more cost effectively collaborate with vendors. ...

IBM Federal Community Cloud to Speed Agency Adoption of Social Collaboration Technologies

IBM Press Releases - Government - United States — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 03:52:54 +0000

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new cloud-based collaboration services to help U.S. Federal government organizations reap the benefits of social computing. E-mail this page Save to del.icio....

Joint Border Management System Contract Signed

IBM Press Releases - Government - United States — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 05:07:54 +0000

A joint border management system (JBMS) designed to significantly improve border processing for New Zealand traders and travellers, and to make border agencies more efficient, will be the result of a contract signed today by New Zealand Customs ...

Car Infographics: Obama's Cadillac One is a Tank!

Top Speed — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:00:00 +0000

IBM Applies Analytics to City Operations; Helps Build Smarter Cities

IBM Press Releases - Government - United States — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 06:41:43 +0000

ARMONK, N.Y., June 6, 2011 -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the IBM Intelligent Operations Center for Smarter Cities, a new solution designed to help cities of all sizes gain a holistic view of information across city departments and agencies....

Speeding Sucks When You Get the Bill: Here's a Breakdown

Top Speed — Mon, 16 May 2011 11:00:00 +0000

IBM Commemorates NASA’s 50th Anniversary of First U.S. Manned Space Flight and the IBMers Who Supported It

IBM Press Releases - Government - United States — Fri, 06 May 2011 02:27:05 +0000

Today, as NASA celebrates the 50th anniversary of the first U.S. manned spaceflight at an event at the Kennedy Space Center, IBM is commemorating its team of mathematicians and technologists who supported the Project Mercury missions in the 1960...

Volvo buying Saab: Sweden to play major role

Top Speed — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:00:00 +0000

IBM to deliver essential business and operational support systems for NBN Co

IBM Press Releases - Government - United States — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 07:01:25 +0000

IBM Australia (NYSE: IBM) has been awarded a multimillion dollar contract with NBN Co Limited to implement and manage the core business and operational support systems required to operate Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN). ...

UK Border Agency Signs IBM as Strategic Systems Integration Partner for Immigration Case Work Program

IBM Press Releases - Government - United States — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 04:04:35 +0000

The UK Border Agency (UKBA), responsible for securing the United Kingdom borders and controlling migration in the United Kingdom, today announced it has signed IBM (NYSE: IBM) as the Strategic Systems Integration Partner for its Immigration Case...

IBM and Palace Museum Announce Opening of The Forbidden City Virtual World Celebrating 600 years of Chinese Culture

IBM Press Releases - Government - United States — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 03:41:31 +0000

Today, some 600 years after construction began on the 178-acre site that would become the center of unrivalled imperial power known as China's Forbidden City, the Palace Museum and IBM will open the walled fortress -- and hundreds of years o...

Hybrid, Electric, Plug-In; What’s the difference?

topspeed.com — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 22:00:00 +0000