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The annual Call for Code challenge. launched by IBM with support from the Linux Foundation and United Nations, invites the world's software developers and innovators to address climate change with open-source technology. This year four Australian teams are in the finals and one of these projects may well be the winner.

IBM has announced a new five-year deal with SpinTel, an independent Australian telecommunications and internet service provider. The deal will use IBM’s hybrid cloud and Watson AI to improve customer experience, including reducing waiting times.

IBM has reported another quarter of falling sales and profits, with a 4.7% drop in quarterly revenue to US$19.3 billion for the second quarter of the current financial year.

An informatics expert says that humanity has nothing to fear from smart machines but the real threat comes from incompetent machines that can screw up things.

IBM has set the famous Dr. Watson on the trail of cybercriminals. What will this legendary subordinate sleuth snoop?

IBM’s cognitive technology solution – Watson – is now directly available to businesses and organisations in Victoria, and others throughout Australia, with the opening in Melbourne of a new Watson Client Experience Centre, one of only six such centres in the world outside the Watson Group’s headquarters in New York.

IBM’s cognitive computing system Watson will be deployed by oil and gas company Woodside as part of the resource giant’s strategy to use predictive data science to leverage more than 30 years of collective knowledge and experience as a leading liquefied natural gas operator.

IBM’s Watson cognitive computing tool has come to Australia. Melbourne’s Deakin University will be the first in the world to use a system powered by Watson to develop an online student engagement advisor. ANZ Bank is also using the technology to help financial advisors.

IBM's Australian R&D efforts could bring us better medical care and improve our chances of surviving a natural disaster.

Author of Upcoming Book on IBM's Watson Computer to Speak April 20 at DBTechCon