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Bill Gates' legacy: A modern day Henry Ford
News Rob Horwitz, co-founder of analyst firm, Directions on Microsoft, compares Gates to car manufacturing pioneer Henry Ford. Bill Gates is arguably the individual who has had the biggest impact on the world of technology and his departure from... [25 Jun 2008]
IBM puts money on solar power
News IBM will contribute its expertise in manufacturing cells, while TOK will bring its technology used in the semiconductor industry and for coating LCD panels. The move is the latest by large technology companies to enter the burgeoning field of... [16 Jun 2008]
Mobile market booming: But there's room for all
News The cost is driven down by manufacturing economies of scale and integrating different components onto semiconductors, which helps reduce supply chain complexity, said Pulskamp. One is the increased consumer demand for creating and sharing... [06 Jun 2008]
Cisco revamps mobility strategy
News The Context-Aware Software service relays location or environmental information to the engine, ranging from temperature in manufacturing environments to motion and pressure. The networking company Cisco has launched a new architecture for unifying... [29 May 2008]
Corus hammers out £26m IT deal with Capgemini
News Under the terms of the new contracts Capgemini will retain responsibility for managing the mainframe computers that support core steel production, supply chain, stockholding, purchasing, sales ordering and invoicing at Corus' main UK manufacturing... [17 Apr 2008]
Greggs tucks into centralised accounting model
News The product will interface to our existing manufacturing and Epos applications helping us to further automate our accounting processes. Get the latest retail and leisure news straight to your inbox. The software will be used by 100 finance staff... [10 Apr 2008]
Reuters CIO joins Royal Bank of Scotland
News RBS does not use the CIO title for executives and Lister will join as chief architect, reporting in to the bank's group manufacturing unit, which provides centralised back-office services such as IT for other RBS banking and insurance brands... [01 Apr 2008]
Motorola to split in two
News Motorola is currently in third place worldwide in the handset-manufacturing business, behind Nokia and Samsung. Subject to "further financial, tax and legal analysis", the US communications giant will next year spin off its mobile-devices business... [27 Mar 2008]
Windows Vista SP1 finally a go
News The pack was released to manufacturing on 4 February. Standalone installers for both versions of Vista, 32-bit and 64-bit, have been made available. According to web retailer Amazon, boxed copies of Windows Vista with SP1 will be available today in... [19 Mar 2008]
Budget 2008: Tech companies fight for contract windfall
News Darling said that the UK was second only to the US for the strength of its knowledge-based industries and that high tech manufacturing had grown by 30 per cent in the last decade. A £10m boost to the science and innovation teaching budget over the... [12 Mar 2008]
Sun breaks through supercomputer haze with Constellation
News Manufacturing these cables, and then snaking them around the Tacc to link up computers, proved tougher than expected, he said. The linchpin of Constellation is the switch, the piece of hardware that conducts traffic among the servers, memory and... [14 Feb 2008]
UK tech has 12 years to help save the planet
News Developing a programme of guidance for its members on improving the energy efficiency of their business and manufacturing process. The IT and consumer electronics sector needs to act now by keeping tabs on its CO2 emissions, pushing customers... [12 Feb 2008]
Vista SP1 finally ready for manufacture
News Ballmer said: "Both products have released to manufacturing today [Monday], which is good news. Microsoft has wrapped up development of two major products, Windows Server 2008 and the Service Pack 1 update to Windows Vista, CEO Steve Ballmer told... [05 Feb 2008]
India top choice for UK outsourcing
News We are seeing a kind of Industrial Revolution sweep through the services landscape in the same way it did with manufacturing. India is now outstripping competitors worldwide for cost and service quality and is riding the crest of a revolution in... [11 Jan 2008]
One Laptop Per Child gets a boost from Peru
News In November, the OLPC charity contracted Taiwan's Quanta Computer to start producing the green-and-white computer in its new Changshu manufacturing centre, which is located northwest of Shanghai. Nicholas Negroponte, a Massachusetts Institute of... [03 Dec 2007]
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