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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]
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 Tacc system will provide a peak performance of around 500 teraflops, or 500 trillion operations per second, and can... [14 Feb 2008]
CIOs drive innovation - but lack business brains
News For the communications, transport and utilities sector, more than half of business managers surveyed spend more than 25 per cent of their time dealing with IT and in the manufacturing sector this increased to more than 40 per cent. [19 Jul 2007]
Give IT managers incentive to go green, says HP
News HP also announced it has set itself an ambitious target for reducing its energy use over the next three years by 20 per cent, which will affect its manufacturing and day-to-day operations. Pat Tiernan, vice president, corporate, social and... [02 Apr 2007]
Microsoft shuffles its security deck
News DeVaan said on Thursday: "It is going to take effect after Vista RTMs [releases to manufacturing]. As part of that shift, which reordered operations into three units, Microsoft named its sales chief, Kevin Johnson, to head a new unit combining... [13 Oct 2006]
Dell to open Polish facility
News Dell has announced plans to build a manufacturing facility in Poland as part of an effort to meet growing demand in central and Eastern Europe. Dell already employs 100 people in its sales, marketing and technical support operations in Poland... [18 Sep 2006]
Unilever trials RFID standard
News The Pot-Noodle-to-Persil consumer packaged goods giant plans to conduct a trial to collect and access information from within its own manufacturing operation and from trading partners. He said as RFID begins to proliferate, Epcis will serve as the... [28 Jul 2006]
IT salaries on the up in the Far East
News Respondents hail from companies in six industry segments: IT&T; banking and professional services; consumer; healthcare and life sciences; manufacturing; and media, public relations and advertising. In the report, Hudson attributed this to... [20 Jul 2006]
Mexico sells itself as 'nearshore' outsourcing hub for US
News Mexico's contract-manufacturing industry was hit hard when China ramped up as a manufacturing powerhouse. Freescale also has development operations. While Europe looks to India as its offshoring destination of choice, Mexico has launched an... [18 May 2006]
Wipro: India will increase its share of the R&D pie
News China has a better manufacturing base and national infrastructure but it has nowhere near the IP protection that is needed for higher-end work, he said. Premji predicted that India is about to invest heavily in new roads, airports and ports that... [16 May 2006]
Dorma bedding in Lawson ERP software
News Bed linen-maker Dorma has chosen enterprise resource planning (ERP) software from Lawson to streamline its operations, especially its supply chain links with manufacturing facilities in China and other countries. [11 May 2006]
What will the office of the future look like?
News Previously, CIW dealt with a fictitious widget-manufacturing company and illustrated multiplatform operations within one enterprise. CIW's new scenario is a pharmaceutical company that interacts with many "beyond the firewall" components, such as... [10 May 2006]
Nokia, MIT hook up for research purposes
News Although Nokia is a giant in handset manufacturing, many of the advances in mobile usage will increasingly come from software, said Bob Iannucci, senior vice president and head of Nokia's research operations worldwide. [24 Apr 2006]
Thales snaps up Alcatel's satellite operations
News As a result of the deal, Thales will now hold Alcatel's 67 per cent stake in Alcatel Alenia Space, a satellite manufacturing joint venture, and its 33 per cent stake in Telespazio, a satellite services company. [05 Apr 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 chain on a global basis as... [03 Feb 2006]
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