Automotive IT News and Facts
BMW has signed a patent licensing agreement that will allow it to use Microsoft’s extended file allocation table (exFAT), a file system that makes it easier to transport large amounts of data. The premium car maker is at the forefront of an auto-industry-wide trend toward the fully connected car. This connectivity will require systems that [...]
Dell has agreed to be acquired by the company’s founder, Michael Dell, and technology investment firm Silver Lake for a total of 24.4 billion dlrs. Michael Dell, who owns 14 pc of the shares in the company, will continue to run the computer maker. Dell shareholders will receive 13.65 dlrs a share, which is a [...]
Despite their dominant market share in ERP systems, the top three software providers are facing new competion that may erode their strong positions. According to a benchmarking study by ERP specialists Panorama Consulting, the three companies together have a 47 pc share of the global market. “But the market is shifting,” Panorama warned in the [...]
With the planned acquisition of the Yammer social-networking company, Microsoft plans to further expand its offering of cloud-based services. The US-based s0ftware group said it will pay 1.2 billion dlrs in cash for Yammer, which provides a business-oriented social networking service for communication between a company’s employees. “Yammer adds a best-in-class enterprise social networking service [...]
Nissan and Microsoft will jointly build a next-generation dealer management system for the Japanese carmaker. The two companies said they would cooperate to develop a system that would provide both dealer and customer relationship management and social collaboration tools. It will be based on the Microsoft Dynamics CRM software and use the Windows Azure platform. [...]
Microsoft said partner offerings of its Cloud-based computing solutions have more than doubled in the past year. The US software group said 41,000 partners are offering its Cloud solutions, employing 300,000 specialists. At its global partner conference in Los Angeles last month, Microsoft announced a beta version of its new System-Center software. It also unveiled [...]
Microsoft confirmed Tuesday it is buying Skype for 8.5 billion dlrs in cash. The agreement has been approved by the boards of directors of both companies. “Skype is a phenomenal service that is loved by millions of people around the world,” Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in a press release. “Together we will create the [...]
The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Microsoft is nearing a deal to buy internet telephone company Skype for between 7 billion and 8 billion dlrs. The newspaper, citing sources, said the takeover could be announced as early as Tuesday. Buying Skype could give Microsoft an extremely well-known internet brand at a time when the [...]
Microsoft said it had signed a patent licensing agreement with e.solutions, giving the Volkswagen group software supplier access to its new Extended File Allocation Table (exFAT) technology. The new file system will help automakers integrate enhanced consumer multimedia into cars, Microsoft said. The California-based software group said the agreement with e.solutions is the first of [...]
Toyota aims to build a “complete global cloud platform by 2015″ and it is soliciting Microsoft’s help to get there. The Japanese carmaker and the US-based software giant announced Thursday that they plan to jointly build a global platform for Toyota’s next-generation telematics services. The infrastructure will be based on the Windows Azure platform. As [...]
