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RSS fordHow Google Apps helped Jaguar Land Rover keep motoring after Ford sale
News Following its sale by parent company Ford last year, car maker Jaguar Land Rover has had to face the thorny problem of cutting itself loose from Ford's web of business applications. JLR is spending £200m... [26 Oct 2009]
Open source? No good for cost cutting, say CIOs
News Chris Ford, IT director, Nottingham City Council Despite tough economic conditions, CIOs have not turned to open source software as a way of making their IT budgets go further, according to silicon.com's latest exclusive... [23 Oct 2009]
Photos: Computer history goes under the hammer
Photo Just 13 of the Leo II devices were built and it was one of the first commercially sold computers, used by the Ford Motor Company among others. This is the Lyons Electronic Office - LEOII/3 electronic programmable storage... [29 Sep 2009]
Apple's Snow Leopard won't make us move to Macs, say CIOs
News Chris Ford, IT director, Nottingham City Council According to silicon.com's CIO Jury, the release late last month of Apple's latest OS, Snow Leopard, won't signal the company's entry into the business market. [21 Sep 2009]
Ford Motor Company Drives Down Telco and IT Costs With MBG
White Paper As part of an overall initiative to streamline its internal businesses using the Web, Ford wanted a solution that could simplify the reallocation of IT and telecom costs. As with most large companies, due to their sheer... [19 Sep 2009]
IT graduates failing to make the business grade, say UK tech chiefs
News Chris Ford, IT director, Nottingham City Council The majority of the jury said they believe universities are not producing IT graduates with the right skills for their businesses - bad news for graduates competing for... [02 Sep 2009]
Heat wave? No sweat for CIOs
News Chris Ford, IT Director, Nottingham City Council The latest silicon.com CIO Jury poll asked tech chiefs whether they'd taken any extra steps to protect their technology infrastructure during this week's heat wave, with... [03 Jul 2009]
Epicor Software Case Study: TEAM Industries
White Paper Other industries served by TEAM solutions include agricultural, automotive and lawn care, with blue-chip customers such as John Deere, Ford, Dana, Ingersoll-Rand and Textron. TEAM Industries helps make the outdoor... [30 May 2009]
Henry Ford Health System Improves Patient Safety by Relieving User Woes With Imprivata OneSign
White Paper Seconds matter at Michigan's world-class Henry Ford Health System, where delays caused by mistyped passwords and application lockouts are antithetical to quality patient outcomes. Given the patient safety risks and the... [23 Apr 2009]
BMW, Peugeot put a penguin in the tank with Linux for cars
News At the same time, Microsoft announces version 4.0 of its own automotive platform, on which Ford's Sync and Fiat's Blue & Me systems are based. Microsoft developed its Automotive Platform on its own, but it counts... [04 Mar 2009]
Apple is not lost without Steve Jobs
News Chris Ford, IT director, Nottingham City Council IT leaders are confident Apple will remain successful following Steve Jobs' decision to step down as CEO for six months in order to deal with health issues. [27 Jan 2009]
Ford's Microsoft tech coming to UK cars
News Car maker Ford has announced that its Sync communications and entertainment system - jointly developed with Microsoft - will come to Europe next year. Ford Motor Company president and CEO Alan Mulally... [09 Jan 2009]
Revolution Software Drives Customer Service and Savings for Harrigan & Keira Ford
White Paper Australia's oldest Ford dealership, Harrigan Ford at Wollongong wanted to improve the standard of customer care while streamlining administration processes and increasing the effectiveness of marketing... [09 Jan 2009]
Gates, open source, Azure and the cloud
News Bill Gates' legacy: A modern day Henry Ford In June, Bill Gates stepped down as chairman of Microsoft - the company he founded and made into the juggernaut we know today - after more than thirty years.silicon.com's... [30 Dec 2008]
Women in IT: Positive discrimination not the key, say CIOs
News Chris Ford, IT ddirector, Nottingham City Council Despite only one in five tech workers being female, silicon.com's CIO Jury says that positive discrimination is not the right way to boost the number of women in the IT... [08 Dec 2008]
