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IBM Business Analytics: 20 Ways Big Blue Rules

August 23rd, 2010 | No Comments

IBM has become a major proponent of business analytics. The emergence of smarter systems that are interconnected and streaming real-time information is presenting enterprises with a unique opportunity to transform decision making. New opportunities to use this data to predict business outcomes, optimize old systems and spot trends before they happen have become a reality. Overall, IBM views analytics as a strategic directive for the company, coming from its top management. The company’s strategy includes a team of 5,000 consultants and a network of analytics solution centers, and it is backed by an overall investment of more than $11 billion in acquisitions in the last five years.Â This slide show shows 20 ways IBM is pushing the analytics envelope, including several industry-specific and customer examples. – …

Watch The Superbowl Game Online – Do This So You Don’t Miss The Big Game Posted By : Paddy Chang

August 19th, 2010 | No Comments

Live Internet TV | Online TV technology allows you to watch over 4,500 HD channels right on your PC.

Big ambitions

August 18th, 2010 | No Comments

This from a programme in the UK called Dragons Den, which although I’ve hardly seen, colleagues assure me is a runaway success.

Two chaps – Gary and Faizal – presented their tiny car wheeze to the Dragons – who appear to have come down particularly harshly on the duo maintaining there’s no specific business plan.

Looking at the cars, I can’t imagine anyone driving them without frankly, attracting incredulous looks from passers-by or hoots of derision.

They remind me of Sir Clive Sinclair’s C5 idea in the 1980s that attracted some of the worst press in years.

Apparently Gary and Faizal bought Peel Engineering, which makes the world’s smallest working car.

Good luck with the idea lads, but do you genuinely think there will be a massive uptake for the midget motor?

IBM Teams with NC State to Push Big Data, Tech Transfer

August 11th, 2010 | No Comments

IBM and NC State are teaming up to promote technological transfer from the university to the marketplace using IBM’s analytics technology. – IBM and North Carolina State University have announced what they
described Aug. 11 as quot;a new project that matches university-invented
technologies … with global business opportunities. quot;
An IBM statement said:

quot;The project is designed to
encourage economic growth and get new …

STI off 0.9% at 2:47 p.m.; Risk of big dip near-term: Broker

August 11th, 2010 | No Comments

Selling pressure on Singapore shares not letting up, with US stock futures sharply lower, most Asian markets down, according to Dow Jones.

STI off 0.9% at 2,956.54 at 2:47 p.m.; support expected at 2,926 (July 21 low). With caution ahead of tomorrow’s June-quarter results from 5 component companies, including index heavyweight SingTel (Z74.SG), STI expected to remain depressed for rest of session.

Market breadth widens to 2.5 decliners for every gainer vs about 2 for 1 at midday.

Big Gigantic: A Place Behind the Moon

August 10th, 2010 | No Comments

OUT SEPTEMBER 1 ON 1320 RECORDS

Big Gigantic

STS9′s boutique record label, 1320 Records, proudly presents A Place Behind the
Moon, the new full-length studio release from Big Gigantic, out
September 1 on 1320 Records.

A Place Behind the Moon will be available for free download September 1 on www.1320records.com. Get a sneak peak of
the single, “Limelight”, in this video.

Big Gigantic will hit the road this Fall for dates with STS9, Alex B, and Ana Sia, including
headlining shows from the Mid-West to the South. Click here for the dates.

Tracklist:

1. “Looking Back”

2. “Sky High”

3. “Lucid Dreams”

4. “Limelight”

5. “Solitude”

6. “Step Up”

7. “Driftin”

8. “High And Rising”

9. “Shine”

10. “Cloud Nine”

11. “Breaking Point”

12. “A Place Behind The Moon” (bonus track feat. STS9)

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Consciencefood +38.6%; Big market potential: DMG

August 5th, 2010 | No Comments

Consciencefood Holding (L1D.SG) in high demand on SGX debut, last at $0.305 vs $0.22 IPO price, off early high of $0.35, says Dow Jones.

Shares most active in market, benefiting from recent keen interest in new listings. Orderbook quotes suggest price may still head above $0.35.

JamBase Questionnaire: Big Light

July 29th, 2010 | No Comments

Welcome back to JamBase’s friendly inquisition of the bright lights of the music world.
Last time we heard from Big Head Todd.

To look at Big
Light‘s Fred Torphy on the street you might not see what a natural born rocker
he is. But, stick him beneath hot stage lights with an electric guitar and he looks just
too right. Surround him with three equally primed-for-launch guys overflowing with talent
- Bradley Bifulco (drums), Jeremy Korpas (guitar) and Steve Adams
(bass) – and you’ve got a classic four-piece that off-handedly reminds one what a joyful,
enriching thing rock ‘n’ roll can be.

And while their off-the-books tangents work great – they are jam band scholars – it’s the
bare bones and killer smile inside their songwriting that snags you. It also doesn’t hurt
that they stoke memories of Wilco, Big Star and Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians.
Perhaps more than anything else, one picks up on a hunger in this group often missing from
today’s too-cool-for-school bands. Big Light positively salivates at the chance to wreck
and ride rock for all it’s worth. And they ain’t half bad at pretty stuff, too. 2010 has
been a banner year for this young San Francisco-based band, with regular touring on both
coasts, a flurry of new composing and the release of their bang-up debut album, Animals
In Bloom (JamBase review). Yet, this all feels
like the tip of the iceberg with Big Light, whose potential may well surpass even their
wide, eager eyes ability to envision just yet. (Dennis Cook)

Here’s what Fred had to say to our inquiries.

Fred Torphy – Big Light by Dave Vann

Nicknames: Torph, Tiz, Vortex

Instrument of choice: Gibson SG standard

1. Great music rarely happens withoutÂ…
Lots of hard work

2. The first album I bought wasÂ…
Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy

3. The last song or album to really flip my wig wasÂ…
Dawes’ North Hills (JamBase review)

4. When I was a kid I wanted to grow up to beÂ…
A musician or archaeologist

5. My favorite sort of gig isÂ…
Intimate, DIY, party/guerrilla festival set

6. One thing I wish people knew about me isÂ…
I dislike capers (as in the food) intensely.

7. I love the sound ofÂ…
Ukulele

8. One day I hope to make an album as fantastic asÂ…
The Slip’s Eisenhower

9. The best meal I ever had on tour was atÂ…
At our guitar player Jeremy’s parents’ house on tour in New Jersey, March 2010. Best
home-cooked Italian food I’ve ever had. Thank you, Dianne & Tom Korpas.

10. I always find the coolest audiences inÂ…
California

11. The worst habit I’ve picked up being on the road all the time isÂ…
Not eating well

12. The Beatles or the Stones? Por que?
The Beatles. They wrote better songs and made better albums.

13. The craziest thing I ever saw wasÂ…
A friend do a perfect double back flip off of a 60-plus-foot cliff into Lake Champlain in
Burlington, VT.

Big Light plays the grand re-opening of SF’s The Independent next
Wednesday, August 4, with kissin’ cousins Apollo Sunshine
before winging it back east later in the month for a string of shows in Boston, NYC,
Asbury Park, Rockville and Baltimore.

Big Light Tour Dates ::
Big Light News :: Big Light Concert
Reviews

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Next Big Nashville: Yeasayer, Wavves, Javelin

July 28th, 2010 | No Comments

BRIGHTEST MINDS IN MUSIC & TECHNOLOGY WILL CONVERGE ON NASHVILLE SEPTEMBER 29-OCTOBER
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Next Big Nashville and Leadership Music Digital Summit recently joined forces to become
Nashville’s most
progressive music event: combining a four day multi-genre music festival with a two-day digital summit engaging
industry leaders, innovators and instigators in lively conversations and presentations. Rounding out this inspiring
week will be films, parties and special events, all making this a must-attend event.

The initial NBN music lineup:

Yeasayer

Wavves

A Place to Bury Strangers

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone

The Ponys

David Bazan
Javelin

The Hood Internet
Garotas Suecas
Moon Duo
The Mynabirds
Otouto

Peelander-Z

Elf Power
Madi Diaz

Kyle Andrews

Keegan DeWitt
Futurebirds

Andrew Belle
Katie Herzig
Megan McCormick

Kopecky Family Band
The Apache Relay
Mikky Ekko

The Protomen
The Non Commissioned Officers
Roman Candle

The Silver Seas
and more.

Record labels, organizations and brands will also present showcases, VIP events and exclusive after parties.

The Leadership Music Digital Summit continues to position Nashville directly in the epicenter of the evolving music
business by bringing together thought provoking panelists and presenters to discuss what’s working, what’s not and
what’s next. Click here to see a list of this years speakers.

Earlybird festival wristbands and conference/festival VIP badges are available at a significantly reduced price for a
limited time. Get ‘em now! All tickets available via nbnsummit.eventbrite.com.

STS9 & Disco Biscuits Add Big Boi For 8/28 Show

July 27th, 2010 | No Comments

TOUR STARTS AUGUST 11 IN NYC

STS9

LiveMusicBlog.com reports that STS9 has added Big Boi to their August 28
performance with The Disco
Biscuits at the Verizon Wireless Ampitheatre in Alpharetta, GA. The show’s lineup also features Big Gigantic and John Hughes. Mos Def will be
performing with STS9 in Chicago on August 21, alongside Bassnectar, Big Gigantic and others. Check out the rest of
the
dates here (Thanks to Consequence of Sound).

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MoogFest Adds Big Boi, Jonsi, Caribou

July 26th, 2010 | No Comments

NEW ASHEVILLE FEST ADDS THREE MORE ACTS

Big Boi

The full lineup announcement for MoogFest 2010, a three-day festival celebrating the innovative vision of sonic pioneer Robert Moog to be held in Asheville, NC during Halloween weekend, October 29-31, has been postponed to August 10th, with tickets now going on sale three days later, Friday, August 13. But festival producers AC Entertainment have announced that Big Boi, Jonsi and Caribou are among the many acts joining Massive Attack, Thievery Corporation, and MGMT on the bill for the weekend festival.

“MoogFest 2010 is going to be an extraordinary experience,” says Ashley Capps, AC Entertainment’s founder. “We’ve had a tremendous response already – and from that, some unique opportunities have emerged. We still need a little more time to put it all together, so we thought it best to wait so that we can share with everyone the full scope of the event before actually putting tickets on sale. It’s worth the wait. It really is going to be a special weekend.”

Facebook, Twitter Use Big in Enterprise Travel Management

July 23rd, 2010 | No Comments

American Express polled corporate travel agents and found half use social media tools such as Facebook and Twitter to connect with corporate travelers or learn and share more information about the travel sector. – Half of travel management professionals surveyed are using social
media tools such as Facebook and Twitter to keep in touch with their corporate
travelers.
New research by American Express Business Travel also found that
44 percent of corporate travel professionals are also using social media to…

Drive-By Truckers: NYE Show

July 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

THE BIG TO-DO OUT NOW

Drive-By Truckers

Drive-By Truckers have
announced a New Years Eve performance at Terminal 5 in New York.
Special guests and more information will be announced soon. Click here to get
tickets.

Click here to check out the JamBase review of The Big To-Do.

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K. Albanians hail ICJ decision as big victory

July 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

The Kosovo Albanian authorities in PriÅ¡tina today welcomed the ICJ ruling with champagne, and said it was their big victory.
The top UN court said in its advisory opinion that the ethnic Albanian unilateral declaration made in early 2008, considered to be an illegal attempt of secession by Belgrade, was not breaching international law, as international law “has no active provision that limits independence declarations”.

Big Storm to Hit Gulf of Mexico … All Oil Relief Operations Will Be Suspended … Cap Will Stay On, Unattended

July 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

As oil industry expert Bob Cavnar writes:The National Hurricane Center this morning forecasted a 70% chance that Invest 97, now just south of the Bahamas, would form into a tropical cyclone. Destination? The central Gulf. In his McBriefing yesterd…

JamBase Questionnaire: Big Head Todd

July 21st, 2010 | No Comments

Welcome back to JamBase’s baker’s dozen to the bright lights of the music world. Last time we heard from Nathan Moore.

“Open me up and turn my life around/ Let the sun shine in and shook me off the ground/ Fallen apart, somehow you kept it together/ Kept me from drifting into stormy weather.”

Thus begins the new album from Big Head Todd and the Monsters entitled Rocksteady (released July 20). It’s another pretty seamless mix of adult pop, blues riffs and smooth grooves from the long-lived Colorado band, which has survived and even thrived as a unit well past their string of 90s hits. With a lineup that’s remained steady while their peers played musical compatriots, Todd Park Mohr (vocals, guitar), Rob Squires (bass, vocals), Brian Nevin (drums, vocals) and Jeremy Lawton (keyboards, steel guitars, vocals) exhibit an overlapping, communicative energy on Rocksteady, which frequently explores the things that build up and shake our faith, offering hope and harmony at a time when both are in short supply. It’s the work of pros that sound like they’re enjoying making music now as much as ever. And they spank Howlin’ Wolf’s “Smokestack Lightning,” too, so one’s blues get a workout as well, not to mention a sauntering, wistful cover of the Stones’ “Beast of Burden.” (Dennis Cook)

Here’s what Todd Park Mohr had to say to our inquiries.

Todd Park Mohr by David Boothroy

Nicknames: “Big Head” or simply “Big”

Instrument of choice: Telecaster guitar

1. Great music rarely happens withoutÂ…
Musicians listening to each other, and an appreciative audience listening to musicians

2. The first album I bought wasÂ…
The Grease soundtrack, followed by Aretha Franklin’s Live at the Fillmore West

3. The last song or album to really flip my wig wasÂ…
Radiohead OK Computer

4. When I was a kid I wanted to grow up to beÂ…
A doctor or any kind of athlete

5. My favorite sort of gig isÂ…
A mid-sized theater with good sound, and an audience that doesn’t have much knowledge of the band so they need to be won over.

6. One thing I wish people knew about me isÂ…
That I really prefer to be left alone and to not be known at all…but oh well, I am an entertainer after all.

7. I love the sound ofÂ…
Wind and water running through a canyon

8. One day I hope to make an album as fantastic asÂ…
Well, as fantastic as Elton John’s Captain Fantastic of course!

9. The best meal I ever had on tour was atÂ…
Grits and shrimp in Oxford, Mississippi

10. I always find the coolest audiences inÂ…
Colorado at Red Rocks Amphitheatre

11. The worst habit I’ve picked up being on the road all the time isÂ…
Sleeping at all times of the day and night

12. The Beatles or the Stones? Por que?
Rolling Stones for me because of the roughshod blues influence of Muddy Waters and Howlin Wolf! The Beatles are more well, Chubby Checker.

13. The craziest thing I ever saw wasÂ…
A large herd of elk, maybe 50 head, running right through the middle of the road I was driving on.

Big Head Todd and the Monsters Tour Dates :: Big Head Todd and the Monsters News :: Big Head Todd and the Monsters Concert Reviews

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Big Star’s Andy Hummel R.I.P.

July 20th, 2010 | No Comments

BIG STAR BASSIST PASSES AWAY

Andy Hummel, a co-founder of ultra influential Big Star, has died of cancer at age 59. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Hummel’s family and friends, and JamBase offers up our heartfelt thanks for Andy’s contribution to rock ‘n’ roll. Hummel’s death falls just four months after Alex Chilton‘s sudden passing, leaving drummer Jody Stephens as the last living member of the original Big Star lineup.

We offer up this clip of Big Star in their youthful prime in remembrance and celebration of Andy Hummel and the music he helped create.

Big High: Live Clips, Debut with Screaming Tree’s Barrett Martin

July 20th, 2010 | No Comments

SEATTLE’S GOT ANOTHER GREAT ROCK BAND

After being blown away by Big High at last year’s Summer Meltdown (see rave here), our expectations were high for the band’s debut record and their newly minted self-titled album more than lives up to anything we were thinking!

Grounded in all the stuff that makes classic rock classic, yet tempered with an immediacy and intelligence that feels very modern, Big High is the kind of album one plays on repeat and keeps finding new things to like over & over. Singer Mesa belts it out like a controlled blast furnace, melding the grit of Clutch’s Neil Fallon with the lover man glide of vintage Robert Plant – seriously, he’s that good. The band is a lean yet expansive combination of guitarist Ari Joshua, bassist Sandy and drummer Barrett Martin of Screaming Trees, Tuatara and Mad Season fame. The album also features longtime Seattle-ite Peter Buck (R.E.M.) as guest guitarist on four stellar tracks.

Big High embarks on their first West Coast tour in August (dates below) and here’s a couple recent clips of them in action.

Big High West Coast Dates

August 21st – Hempfest Mainstage, Seattle, WA
August 26th – Dante’s, Portland, OR
August 28th – The Bouquet, Boise, ID
September 1st – The Viper Room, Los Angeles, CA
September 2nd-3rd – Recording Sessions, Joshua Tree, CA
September 4th – The Hemlock, San Francisco, CA
September 18th – The Tractor, Seattle, WA

Big High Tour Dates :: Big High News :: Big High Concert Reviews

Tall Tree Lake Fest: Emmitt-Nershi, Alex B, Big G

July 15th, 2010 | No Comments

TALL TREE LAKE MUSIC AND CAMPING FESTIVAL TO TAKE PLACE THIS SEPTEMBER 24 – 25, EMMITT-
NERSHI BAND AND BIG GIGANTIC TO HEADLINE

Emmitt-Nershi Band

The second annual Tall Tree Lake Music and Camping Festival is set to take place this September 24 – 25
in beautiful Southern Illinois. Surrounded by the Shawnee National Forest and only a stone throw away from some of
the region’s finest parks and wildlife preserves, the festival site features over 250 acres of privately owned land.
Dotted with native oaks and evergreens spread out over rolling vistas, Tall Tree Lake brings many of your favorite
bands together in a natural and intimate setting.

Lineup:

Emmitt-Nershi Band
Big Gigantic
Alex B.
Ana Sia
Emancipator
Eliot Lipp
Gift of Gab (of Blackalicious)

Family Groove Company
Mountain Sprout
Mathien
Whistle Pigs
Spread
J Wail (live band)

Spankalicious

Zmick
Thinner Teed

Brother Bagman
Root Hog
Mouth
LFDC Funk
Sam West Trio
Moon Buggy Kids
The Floozies
Herbert Wiser Band

Reelfoot
…along with more bands to be announced in the coming weeks!

Tall Tree Lake offers full event passes starting at only $40 when purchased before August 15. Full event passes
include camping as well as access to every show throughout the weekend and can be purchased online at etix.com,
or with no service fees at John Brown’s located in Marion, IL, Tres Hombres located in Carbondale, IL with more
regional box offices being added soon.

More information on the festival is available at www.talltreelakefestival.com.

Also check out pictures and other cool stuff on our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/talltreelake.