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Facebook goes all chocolaty
News The Celebrate platform has been launched by mobile marketing company, The Light Agency, in conjunction with Mars Snackfood UK. Facebook users add the application to their profile then choose the gift - such as a... [14 Feb 2008]
Unified Communications Delivers 'Convergence Innovation' and the Foundation for Success
White Paper The MaRS Discovery District is a 700,000-square-foot next-generation research facility, bringing together academic, business, capital and scientific research communities to collaborate on and commercialize new scientific... [11 Jan 2008]
Technical Exploration of MARS
White Paper This is a "Deep dive" exploration of the deployment realities of Cisco's MARS, Monitoring Analysis and Response System. As a product, MARS promises to help find the "Needle in the haystack" as it... [15 Nov 2007]
Tesco IT chief steps down
News Cobain started his IT career at the Mars Group after gaining a degree in Computational and Statistical Science at Liverpool University. Group IT director Colin Cobain is leaving at the end of November after leading the... [14 Nov 2007]
ING Direct Opens New Frontiers Via Mars Project for Mortgages in the UK
White Paper Three years ago, ING Direct launched a highly successful savings product in the UK. Key tenets of the product were keen pricing, excellent customer service and high levels of automation. The bank wanted to repeat the success on a much... [06 Nov 2007]
Post Office COO moves on
News Francis' previous roles include CIO and member of the executive board at TI Group/Smiths Group, international CIO at PepsiCo in New York and business systems director at Mars. The Post Office director of operations Ric... [05 Nov 2007]
Vint Cerf gazes at interplanetary web
News The search engine has teamed with Nasa Ames Reseach Center on various development programmes, such as making Nasa lunar and Mars data available online. Internet visionary Vint Cerf has predicted that in the coming... [25 Oct 2007]
Blog standard
AS Analysis In case you've been living on Mars for the past couple of years, a blog - or weblog as they were called back in the day - is a regularly updated online journal, on the subject of pretty much anything. [12 Oct 2007]
Royal Mail hires new CIO from Diageo
News His early career includes stints at Mars and Logica Financial Systems and he went on to become IS director at UDV, which became part of Guiness and then part of Diageo. Royal Mail has hired the Diageo CIO to replace the... [11 Oct 2007]
Software gets Nasa back to the moon and Mars
Case Study Nasa has launched a software system to help its scientists work together more effectively as they design and build vehicles for the agency's Constellation Program - George Bush's brainchild to get the US back to the moon and to... [22 Jun 2007]
Leader: Why celebrate the CIO?
Leader For example, a notable number of those on the CIO50 list have benefited from the excellent training and mentorship at Marks & Spencer and Mars during the 1980s and 90s. Is there a need to single out the UK's top 50 CIOs? [07 Jun 2007]
Leader: Why celebrate the CIO?
CIO Analysis For example, a notable number of those on the CIO50 list have benefited from the excellent training and mentorship at Marks & Spencer and Mars during the 1980s and 90s. Is there a need to single out the UK's top 50 CIOs? [07 Jun 2007]
Rod Angwin
CIO Profile What they say about him: "One of the many Mars IT guys who's used that excellent all-round training as a springboard for great things. Angwin's 26-year career in IT began in 1981 as a trainee with BT and he also worked... [06 Jun 2007]
Robin Dargue
CIO Profile Dargue's earlier career includes stints at Mars and Logica Financial Systems. Robin Dargue is a young, high-flying rising star of the profession and took over the role of CIO and business process director at drinks giant... [06 Jun 2007]
Darrell Stein
CIO Profile Stein's 16-year IT career has covered a wide variety of roles and experience, starting when he left M&S in 1994 to work as a project manager on data warehousing and financial systems for Mars. A rising young star in his... [06 Jun 2007]
