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The ultimate backseat driver
Comment The only sign of my electronic taskmaster once I settled behind the wheel of the VW Golf was a tiny set of tiny led lights resting on the dashboard. Are you a safe driver? Not sure? Nick Heath puts an electronic driving... [05 Nov 2008]
Volkswagen slashes IT costs
News Europe's biggest car manufacturer Volkswagen (VW) has ditched thousands of IT systems and reduced IT headcount by a fifth as part of a drive to overhaul the group's business processes and cut the time it takes to bring... [12 Jun 2007]
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]
VW Case Study
White Paper The Volkswagen Group Customer Success Story With a mission to provide all parties involved with centralized, policy-based access to information assets, The Volkswagen Group evaluated alternative Identity Management solutions and... [15 May 2007]
Editor's Blog: Sat-nav driving me crazy
Comment Most weekends that don't feature horse racing mean all sorts of shows and exhibitions and it was nice to see an event whose content I'd mostly understand - unlike, say, the frequent VW enthusiast get-togethers or gem shows. [24 Apr 2007]
Photos: Make vroom for your iPod
Photo Photo credit: VW Group In-car tech is changing rapidly with satellite navigation systems, DVD players and even in-car broadband now available. A growing number of car manufacturers are now offering iPod or MP3... [01 Feb 2007]
Musical chairs in Germany - VW sells Gedas to T-Systems
News While Siemens is going through a period of rejigging its many subsidiaries - tech has hurt the conglomerate's bottom line of late and, also this year, it sold its mobile handsets unit to Taiwan's BenQ - the VW deal is... [22 Dec 2005]
Inside SAP: A vendor dossier
Comment If you never visit SAP's global headquarters, at Walldorf, just outside Heidelberg, don't expect a lot of dull Germans, caricatures from a VW advert. SAP is Europe's biggest success story in software. [10 Sep 2004]
Siemens: Why the smartphone world doesn't need Microsoft
News He compared this thinking to the way Audi and VW cars use the same chassis, driving costs down, but are marketed to completely different buyers. The one who is buying a VW thinks he has reliable... [02 May 2003]
Best of Reader Comments: silicon.com's Mr Average vs. the World
News My wife and I are both 30-somethings, living in the SE, both work in IT, have mobiles, 4 laptops, 5 TV's, she drives a VW and I pick up my BMW next week! He banks online and if he drives a car - as he most likely does -... [10 May 2002]
Revealed: silicon.com's Mr Not So Average
News He banks online and if he drives a car - as he most likely does - he wants his next one to be a Mercedes, VW, BMW or Audi. He's a homeowner, a PC owner - definitely a mobile phone owner - and probably a laptop owner. [08 May 2002]
Psion becomes driving force for VW
News Psion's supply chain logistics division, Psion Teklogix, has secured a deal to supply the Volkswagen Group with a wireless local area network (LAN). Supply chain specialists, TNT Logistics, will manage the LAN, which will provide data... [08 Aug 2001]
VW gives Covisint the cold shoulder
News The VW organisation, which includes brands such as Audi and Skoda has extended a deal with EDS company eBreviate. Volkswagen has snubbed automotive e-marketplace Covisint in a deal to increase the automotive company's... [12 Jul 2001]
E-learning: satisfactory, but could do better
Comment However, small and medium-sized firms are still just waiting in the wings. At a recent workshop in Germany for the insurance sector, three quarters of all participants (mainly personnel managers) confessed they are simply not interested... [26 Feb 2001]
GM, Toyota and VW debate linking parts online
News Three of the world's largest car dealers are currently in talks to standardise their computer systems for designing and developing car parts. US-based General Motors, Japan's Toyota and German manufacturer Volkswagen could link up their... [02 Feb 2000]
