automotive in comment and analysis
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Mobile users break free
Comment Didn't this, or something very similar, happen to the automotive, camera, hi-fi, radio, TV and recording industries of the West before? Written on the Ipswich to London train and dispatched via a free wi-fi service in London. [05 Feb 2008]
Motorola gets serious about the enterprise
Comment He says: "If you look at it, [Motorola] is divesting a lot of things - automotive, their semiconductors unit - and it's good in that it allows focus but they've lost a lot of market share - the wheels have come off their networking business. [21 Sep 2006]
Radioactive: Today a jam, tomorrow the open road?
Comment The next step in automotive engineering is using radar and ultrasound to detect other objects and traffic flow characteristics. If car-to-car technology comes through, waiting in jams and skidding on ice patches could be a thing of the past. [21 Jun 2006]
The McCue Interview: Highways Agency information director Denise Plumpton
Comment We do work closely with the automotive sector in terms of where they are thinking and where their developments are going and I really think that is a hugely exciting opportunity for us," she says. It's a little over six months into her role as the... [21 Sep 2005]
The Vegas CIO: Tim Stanley, Harrah's Entertainment
Comment And in the automotive industry it's really not easy to get excited about what you do. It's 37°c outside and I'm in the back of taxi heading down Las Vegas Boulevard, travelling north, past the airport, past the most photographed highway 'Welcome... [11 Jul 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Abrupt change
Comment This has wrong-footed the American automotive industry, which continues to produce engines of huge dimension with about 50 to 60 per cent of the efficiency of the more modern EU and Japanese designs. Abrupt change [20 Apr 2005]
Leader: E-procurement - remember it, it's now with us
Leader Remember how industry-wide e-hubs such as Covisint for automotive - distinct from e-procurement in general - were going to revolutionise supply chains? In the late 1990s, this writer found himself penning a fair amount about e-procurement. [18 Aug 2004]
Leader: Mobile's changing landscape
Leader This publication's key area of expertise isn't the automotive sector but certain business principles apply across sectors. If you're a company that makes cars, would you rather be a mass market producer or a seller of more expensive, luxury vehicles? [08 Jun 2004]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Outsourcing and offshoring
Comment Despite the losses in steel production, automotive and white and brown goods manufacturing in the UK and US both nations have grown wealthier by migrating to areas where they are more skilled and productive. [25 Mar 2004]
"Centrino, Nokia, come here this instant your dinner's ready"
Comment Here we have a well-known, bright-as-they-come man whose love for most things automotive stretches to naming his sons after models of cars. Today we published a story about the very real possibility that we are to see a surge in infants named after... [05 Jan 2004]
Through the fog... Automated speech recognition
Comment ART, along with other embedded systems vendors like IBM and Scansoft, are also working with automotive manufacturers to put similar capability into cars, where the safety and convenience of hands free control of climate, entertainment and... [21 Feb 2003]
The Ovum View: IT's all over now?
Comment If you study any sector which is based on an engineering or technological development (railways, automotive sector, airlines, telecoms, TV, radio etc.you will find growth goes through four phases: Richard Holway presented his annual industry... [08 Jan 2003]
Ebusiness Despatches: Don't put customers first
Comment From aviation to automotive to high-tech demand is thin on the ground and supply is piling up in the corner. Look at any industry you care to mention and it's suffering from a common symptom, over capacity. [11 Sep 2002]
ARM Factfile
Comment The company's ARM1026EJ-S microprocessor core with Jazelle (Java) enhancement technology is targeted at applications such as next-generation hand-held products, digital consumer products and automotive control systems. [19 Jul 2002]
A dot-com silver lining?
Comment Covisint, the automotive B2B exchange set up by the world's biggest car manufacturers, today told us it will be in profit by the middle of next year and will IPO, providing things continue to go well. [12 Nov 2001]
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