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IBM prepares for cognitive Wimbledon
IBM continues its partnership with ALTEC this year with innovative cognitive solutions to help the visitor and media. The Wimbledon Open Tennis Championships are overseen by ALTEC, the operating company for the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club. They look after the only tennis grand slam destination on grass. IBM’s press-release say they are…
Watsonfinds uses IBM’s Watson to gauge audience reaction to WordPress posts
Watsonfinds uses the power of IBM‘s Watson APIs natural language processing to gauge audience connection to your posts. Watson is IBM’s cognitive suite built to answer questions in Jeopardy demonstrated in the video below. Forming an emotional connection with your readers (of the right sort) should provide more engagement with your blog. Posts are analysed…
IBM/Cisco Edge Analytics
IBM and Cisco are working together on the Internet of Things. Their latest collaboration is on the use of Edge Analytics. (IBM’s announcement, on partnering with Cisco, and Cisco’s covering the links between cognitive computing and edge analytics., and IBM’s developerWorks blog entry introducing edge analytics.) Now a single sensor may not send that much…
IBM buys The Weather Company..
After announcing a partnership earlier this year, IBM now announces it’s intent to acquire the business and prediction elements of the Weather Company. The Weather Channel, the TV presence that started the business, remains a separate organisation, licensing the weather data from IBM. The deal will close in the first quarter of 2016. It represents…
IBM partners for Weather Company datastream
You might think that the weather is important. Certainly, here in the UK, I do, every time I step outside the office. But did you know that ice-cream manufacturers need to know when there might be a hot spell due, so they can take full advantage of the potential sales? Or that electricity companies can…