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Leader in Automotive Auctions Shifts Into Higher Gear With New Desktop Standards

whitepaper Carmel, Indiana-based ADESA Car Auctions is a leading automobile auction provider, employing nearly 11,000 people in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. With a variety of computing environments in its geographically dispersed offices, the...

Tags: erp

[11 May 2008]

SAP ERP Helps Tata Motors to Serve Their Customers Better and Faster

whitepaper Tata Motors Limited, India's largest automobile company, is the leader by far in commercial vehicles in each segment, and the second largest in the passenger vehicles market with winning products in the compact, mid-size car and utility vehicle...

Tags: erp

[11 May 2008]

Green dream fuels shift in Whitehall

News Plumpton added the HA was in talks with sat-nav providers about allowing drivers to access its latest information on the road network through the in-car devices, helping to reduce CO2 emissions from motorists.

Tags: energy, climate change, green

[09 May 2008]

Tech not to blame for Terminal 5 fiasco

News He added the situation was exacerbated by a number of problems occurring at the same time, including car park access and staff security search delays. The opening day problems at Heathrow's Terminal 5 (T5) were largely down to a lack of staff...

Tags: problem, baa, ba, heathrow

[08 May 2008]

Tomorrow's wireless world: Healthcare to wear

News Outside healthcare, the report points to many future applications of wireless tech in the transport sector, including road-to-vehicle and car-to-car comms technology to alert drivers to traffic jams to help reduce congestion; intelligent transport...

Tags: e-health, ofcom, wireless

[08 May 2008]

The tech behind the Beijing 2008 Olympics

News With other projects like launching a rocket to the moon or a new car you can always delay. Getting the technology behind the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games up and running has been more of a marathon rather than a 100m sprint.

Tags: infrastructure, servers, olympic

[08 May 2008]

Photos: Robot warriors engage in battle

Photo While many teams have opted for large, durable units (the biggest entry is the size of a small car), Team Locust, from Ant Scientific and Portsmouth University, has gone the opposite way and opted for miniaturisation.

Tags: military, sensor, robot

[06 May 2008]

Company Improves Data Analysis and Reporting With Business Intelligence Solution

whitepaper Large automotive manufacturers, as well as individual car and truck buyers, use the Kelley Blue Book Web site to find in-depth pricing information. Kelley Blue Book analyzes and publishes data on new and used vehicles.

Tags: data mining - analysis

[04 May 2008]

AutoNation Achieves Backups 12 Times Faster, Cuts Costs With New Backup Software

whitepaper Leading automotive retailer AutoNation watched its data expand as rapidly as its car sales. When its data stores hit 15 terabytes, the company could no longer back up all of its data in a 24-hour period.

Tags: network disaster recovery, backup, file, backups

[03 May 2008]

Photos: India 999

Photo As well as the usual essential medical equipment such as defibrillators, the vehicles also carry provisions such as insulated gloves to deal with live wires and cutting tools to release victims of car crashes.

Tags: satyam, india, ambulance

[01 May 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Instant delays

Comment What fascinates me is that all this new equipment, including the trunk mechanism of my car, seems to involve a two- to four-second delay. Never before in the history of mankind has so much processing been deployed to do such simple jobs as...

Tags: operating systems, software, design

[16 Apr 2008]

Surf's up with ferry wi-fi

News Wightlink Isle of Wight Ferries will offer 3.6Mbps wireless broadband access on its eight car ferries that run between the island and the mainland. Wi-fi is to take to the waves as a cross-channel ferry company offers wireless internet access.

Tags: wireless, broadband, wi-fi

[15 Apr 2008]

PayPal wages war on phishing

News Barrett equated the current situation in educating consumers to the early years of the car industry when the benefits of rules of the road and safety had not been fully realised. Speaking at the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week...

Tags: certification, education, isps, paypal

[11 Apr 2008]

Brainboxes' Use of Wireless Technology Increases Productivity and Lets Staff Work on the Move

whitepaper Previously spending a large amount of working time outside the office meant many wasted hours travelling but now, with the help of Bluetooth technology, the passenger in the car can work on their laptop on a presentation or processing e-mails...

Tags: bluetooth, bluetooth, car, specialist

[10 Apr 2008]

MySQL Keeps mobile.de in the Fast Lane

whitepaper With more than 315 million page impressions and over 10 million visits a month, Hamburg-based mobile.de GmbH is one of Europe's biggest online car companies.mobile.de's one central server with over 600,000 used vehicles is replicated on two...

Tags: database management, mysql server, installed, developers

[10 Apr 2008]

Service-Enabling the Network Edge with Cisco 12000 Series IP Services Engine Technology

whitepaper Cisco ISE technology brings powerful adaptive network processing to the Cisco 12000 Series, which, when coupled with its modular, distributed architecture, can cost-effectively deliver high-touch services (Committed Access Rate (CAR), MPLS VPN...

Tags: switching, cisco, rate, infrastructures

[10 Apr 2008]

Heathrow T5: The end in sight for first day blues?

News So far 299 flights have been cancelled due to the problems which first emerged on Thursday when a number of issues - including car parking, baggage system problems and staff familiarisation - blighted the first operational day of the terminal.

Tags: systems, baa, ba, airport

[31 Mar 2008]

How did the Heathrow T5 launch go so wrong?

Comment The exact reasons for the problems over the last few days aren't entirely clear but they seem to have stemmed from a combination of issues such as car parking and staff getting to grips with new systems, rather than the actual technology itself.

Tags: airport, testing, baa, ba

[28 Mar 2008]

BA CEO: Heathrow T5 chaos 'not our finest hour'

News The airline attributed yesterday's problems to a combination of factors including staff car parking and security and log on problems for baggage handlers. The problems at Heathrow's new £4.3bn Terminal 5 (T5) have continued into a second day...

Tags: luggage, airport, baa, heathrow

[28 Mar 2008]

Heathrow Terminal 5 suffers first day baggage chaos

News The airline attributed the problems to car parking, delays in staff security screening and staff familiarisation with the terminal. On opening day of Heathrow's £4.3bn Terminal 5 (T5), passengers have been hit by delays and flight cancellations as...

Tags: airport, heathrow

[27 Mar 2008]

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