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Immersion pays $20.75m to Microsoft
News Immersion makes touch feedback technology for devices ranging from video games and medical equipment to automotive controls and mobile phones, such as those from LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics. [27 Aug 2008]
VW Financial Services builds virtualised SAN
News The organisation, which employs 450 staff and offers financial services products to around 800 automotive outlets, including Audi, Bentley, SEAT, Skoda, Volkswagen and VW Commercial Vehicles, lent more than £1bn in... [21 May 2007]
Globalisation is a two-way street, says e-minister
News About 60 per cent of India's investment in Europe comes to the UK and more than 500 Indian companies have operations in the UK in sectors such as IT, automotive components and pharmaceuticals. Globalisation is a two-way... [05 Apr 2007]
Online advertising outstrips national newspapers
News A spokesman for the IAB put the growth in internet advertising down to the steady growth in broadband access, with the automotive, technology, property and retailing sectors being the areas where spending increased the... [28 Mar 2007]
Online ads skyrocket to $16.8bn
News A recent study by analyst house JupiterResearch found that media and entertainment, financial services, travel, and automotive advertisers will be the internet's big spenders in the coming years, contributing $11.5bn to... [08 Mar 2007]
Life-saving car tech plan stalls
News The Commission has said it will start negotiations with the automotive industry to encourage them to install eCall tech into new cars voluntarily. The EC has called on member states to buck up their ideas over eCall, the... [12 Dec 2006]
BA chief exec backs "lean" tech future
News British Airways (BA) is borrowing a manufacturing concept originally developed by Toyota for the automotive sector in the 1970s to make its technology more "lean" for the future. BA CEO Willie Walsh claims "lean"... [18 Oct 2006]
Web ads to beat telly by 2010
News The web's big spenders are the recruitment and finance industries, the organisation said, although petrolheads are catching up fast - the automotive sector is now making up nearly 14 per cent of all web advertising cash. [05 Oct 2006]
RFID boom time ahead
News Investment in RFID technologies in sectors such as the automotive, aerospace and manufacturing industries is set to skyrocket. Those sectors in Europe alone generated revenues of $23.7m in 2005, with analyst house Frost... [26 Sep 2006]
Microsoft severs Windows 98, ME security lifeline
News It is not the 'responsibility' of automotive manufacturers to have their customers acquire the latest technology. From today, Microsoft will no longer issue security updates or provide support for Windows 98 and Windows... [11 Jul 2006]
Darpa to hit the streets
News Last October, in a historic moment in both automotive and robotic history, Stanford University won the second Grand Challenge. The Darpa Grand Challenge is moving from desert to urban terrain. The Defense Advanced... [03 May 2006]
EU backs €2.7bn 'invisible computing' research
News The Advanced Research & Technology for Embedded Intelligence and Systems (Artemis) programme consists of 20 tech and automotive companies, including Daimler Chrysler, Nokia, STMicroelectronics and Thales, which claim... [07 Mar 2006]
Microsoft and Fiat get cars going mobile
News Fiat and Microsoft, who have been working together since 2004, are taking the wraps off a number of models sporting a new product known as Blue&Me, based on the Windows Mobile for Automotive operating system. [03 Feb 2006]
General Motors in $15bn IT outsourcing bonanza
News The re-sourcing initiative saw GM break down all its work into 40 segments including everything from computing operations to application support for areas such as automotive product development, manufacturing and supply... [03 Feb 2006]
India to exploit UK tech skills at Midlands car plant
News India's Tata group is to exploit UK technology skills in a new automotive engineering and technology development centre near Birmingham. The Tata group is one of India's largest conglomerates operating in various... [29 Nov 2005]
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