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...released "stream computing" applications that allow businesses to look at and analyze huge amounts of data in real time. Describing the product, IBM said "System S is built for perpetual analytics - utilizing a new streaming architecture and breakthrough mathematical algorithms, to create a forward-looking analysis of data from any source - narrowing down precisely what people are looking for and continuously refining the answer as additional data is made available." The ability to have access to that kind of information will undoubtedly be valuable to governments, the financial industry, and large multinationals with thousands of retail outlets. The new software...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Google and IBM Are Ahead of the Competition | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

...huge population of red ants has bedeviled Texas farmers for years. By some estimates the insects cost state businesses close to $1 billion a year due to crop and machinery destruction. Killing the ants and their nests has not proven easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Google and IBM Are Ahead of the Competition | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

...fire ant problem never goes away. Unsolved problems in every industry cost companies money. Sometimes companies do not even know that their problems can be solved. The phorid fly is an obscure species. So is software that can analyze huge amounts of data in real time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Google and IBM Are Ahead of the Competition | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

...informed, the right to supervise and other human rights." It's a sentiment that Ai himself echoes when he talks about what might happen in the coming years in China. "I have an illusion that maybe I'll quit all my art and other things and just build a huge office that can contain 5,000 people doing nothing but investigations," he says. "We'll have to clean out all the garbage to have a cleaner world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Year After Sichuan Quake, Citizens Press for Answers | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

Humanitarian agencies have been warning for months that there would be huge civilian casualties if the Sri Lankan Army and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam continued their fight to the death with thousands of unarmed people caught between them. No one paid much heed to the desperate warnings except for the relief agencies themselves, and on Sunday, they appeared to prove correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sri Lankans Caught in Hospital Cross Fire | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

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