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News With the MoD, EDS is the primary contractor in the ATLAS consortium, which is delivering the £7.1bn Defence Information Infrastructure programme to provide a single information infrastructure serving the Army, Navy,... [09 Oct 2008]
Are sat-navs causing havoc on the roads?
News Rory Choudhuri asked: "Would those drivers hesitating on a busy road, making a late turn, etc, have been any more or less distracted if they'd had an old-fashioned road atlas open on their knees, or across the steering... [24 Jul 2008]
MoD IT - late and over budget
News The EDS-led Atlas consortium won the 10-year contract to install and manage the DII in March 2005. The £7.1bn cost breaks down into a £4.9bn contract with Atlas, £1.2bn to deliver related IT programmes... [04 Jul 2008]
Google gets map happy with Tele Atlas
News Google and mapping company Tele Atlas have tied up a five-year deal to share mapping data across more than 200 countries. Google will have access to maps and dynamic content from Tele Atlas to use on... [30 Jun 2008]
Sat-nav tackles congested HGV 'rat runs'
News Digital road routing information from the Ordnance Survey (OS) is being used by sat-nav mapping company Tele Atlas on its map database to help prevent lorries getting stuck down small roads and villages. [21 Dec 2007]
MoD shells out on data transfer tech
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) tech supplier the ATLAS Consortium has awarded software company Infonic an £8.3m contract to provide the MoD with data transfer technology and support. The EDS-led ATLAS... [05 Nov 2007]
MoD deploys more PCs for military ops
News The hardware rollout will cost an extra £270m on top of the original £2.3bn contract with the Atlas consortium for the provision of the Defence Information Infrastructure (Future) (DII(F)) programme to provide around... [10 Oct 2007]
Nokia maps $8.1bn Navteq buy
News Navteq has been viewed as a takeover target since this summer, when navigation device maker TomTom said it would pay €1.8bn for Navteq's top rival in the mapping market, Tele Atlas. Tele Atlas... [02 Oct 2007]
Microsoft splurges $6bn to boost ad clout
News Microsoft said the deal will help it support more-advanced advertising products and technologies across areas including media planning, video-on-demand and IPTV.aQuantive produces the Atlas Media Console and Drive PM... [18 May 2007]
Microsoft to arm developers with Vista toolkits
News Microsoft is also scheduled to release the second beta to its web development tool kit, called ASP.NET Ajax and code-named Atlas. The Atlas Ajax tool is designed to speed up development of web... [07 Nov 2006]
Gates: Let's talk about web apps
News On Monday, Microsoft released several product updates, including a "refresh" of the IE 7 Beta 2 preview, and Microsoft's Atlas Ajax web development kit will have an updated licence allowing customers to run web... [21 Mar 2006]
Skype backers walk away with awards
News Atlas Venture Index Ventures, the venture capital company that backed voice over IP phenomenon Skype and saw it sold to eBay in a deal worth up to $4.1bn last year, walked away with the VC of the Year and the Deal of the... [22 Feb 2006]
Re:Viewing 2005: The year in outsourcing
News Elsewhere the trend towards numerous, smaller outsourcing contracts meant a continued decline in the so-called 'megadeal' but other notable contract wins in the UK included the EDS-led Atlas consortium beating stiff... [20 Dec 2005]
Gates: The "software as a service" age is here
News The company also presented developers with an early version of the Atlas toolkit, which will include software called MSN Frameworks designed to help build these online web applications. Microsoft intends to expand its... [14 Sep 2005]
MoD parades £1.5bn networking deal
News The first part of the £4bn DII outsourcing contract was awarded to the EDS-led Atlas consortium last month. The Ministry of Defence has signed a five-year, £1.5bn contract extension which will see BT providing voice,... [01 Apr 2005]
