Mars
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CIO Profile Cobain started his IT career at the Mars Group after gaining a degree in Computational and Statistical Science at Liverpool University. What they say about him: "He is the classic 'new CIO' - an IT professional who has... [06 Jun 2007]
Nigel Underwood
CIO Profile A graduate of Nottingham University, Underwood spent his early IT career in the fast-moving consumer goods industry with big brands including Boots, Mars and Coca-Cola Schweppes. What they say about him: "A big man with... [06 Jun 2007]
Martin Taylor
CIO Profile Taylor started his varied IT career at British Airways in 1976 and then spent a decade at Mars during the 1980s - including a year in the US - where he drove materials resource planning-enabled change at the company's US... [06 Jun 2007]
Google Earth takes a dive
News As well as maps of the seabed, Google has produced interactive maps of the moon and Mars in a mash-up with Nasa's images. Google Earth maps of the seabed in UK waters have been released by the Maritime and Coastguard... [29 May 2007]
TechWise TV: Leveraging Security Intelligence
White Paper The attendee will also see how the Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis, and Response System (MARS) provide the system-level visibility needed to mitigate threats. The attendee of this webcast will learn how he or she can... [21 Apr 2007]
Virtual moon and Mars flights come to Google
News Want to take a virtual flight over the surface of the moon or through the canyons of Mars? A spokesman from the European Space Agency (ESA) - which also has many high resolution images of Mars and the... [19 Dec 2006]
UK techies want in on Nasa moon plans
News It will co-ordinate worldwide efforts to return to the Moon and to explore the solar system with robots, preparing for the historic first human mission to Mars. The UK wants to play a role in what could be the world's... [01 Dec 2006]
Profile: CIO from the business
Comment In 1994 she moved to Mars as sales and marketing systems director. As business-savvy becomes essential to the CIO role, candidates are coming from a wide variety of backgrounds - some more technical, some more... [18 Oct 2006]
Glitch mars Microsoft patch batch
News Microsoft on Tuesday released a slew of patches for Windows and Office but a glitch prevented the company from pushing the updates out automatically. The patches, which include critical fixes for both Office and Windows, can be manually... [11 Oct 2006]
MP3 players are the new Mars bars
News In the past, items such as Mars bars and a litre of gin have been staples of the list but in recent years items such as laptops and consumer electronics have been added. Such items belong in the basket just as much as... [20 Mar 2006]
Cisco bolsters security of networked apps
News In the area of managing the network, Cisco is also introducing a new version of the Cisco Security Manager and an upgraded version of its Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis, and Response System (Mars). [13 Feb 2006]
Flaw mars Kaspersky antivirus software
News A "critical" flaw in Kaspersky Labs' antivirus software could let an attacker commandeer systems that use the products, a security researcher warned on Monday. The problem lies in Kaspersky's antivirus library, security researcher Alex... [04 Oct 2005]
Nasa sends robot to seek for life in the desert
News It's been developed and tested by Carnegie Mellon University and Nasa's Ames Research Center, which expects to use the underlying technology in future Mars missions. A three-year Nasa project to test a "search-for-life"... [11 Aug 2005]
MSDN Webcast: ADO.NET 2.0 and MARS (Level 200)
White Paper This webcast focuses on using MARS from ADO.NET 2.0 with the SQLClient .NET Data Provider included with version 2.0 of the Microsoft .NET Framework. The webcast shows how to use MARS to execute multiple... [08 Jun 2005]
C++ programmers 'alive and well', says creator
News Sun Microsystems has touted the use of Java in the Mars Rover program, for example, but Stroustrup asserts that C++ was also used. For example, C++ was used for scene analysis and route planning in the... [25 Apr 2005]
