All Digital Leaders articles – Page 30
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ArticleContinental hires Google exec for new Silicon Valley unit
Former Google executive Seval Oz will head Continental's new Silicon Valley unit (Photo: ContinentalContinental is setting up a beachhead in Silicon Valley, in a move to make sure it is part of a growing automotive and IT community in California mapping out the future of personal transportation.The Hanover-based automotive ...
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ArticleNewspaper: Russia mulls car import restrictions
Expanded sanctions may depend on new western moves, Moscow officials say (Photo: Azov/Wikimedia)Russia may impose import restrictions on foreign-made cars if European and US sanctions are expanded further, according to a local newspaper.The newspaper, Vedomosti, said it had been told by two government officials that Moscow could resort to ...
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ArticleCisco: cyber-security threats require high-level attention
Cisco's mid-year report looks at the state of cyber security in the 1st half of 2014 (Photo: Cisco)As companies look to defend themselves against high-profile digital threats, cyber criminals are exploiting other, less obvious weaknesses in companies' IT landscape, according to a new report published by Cisco.A focus on ...
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ArticleLamborghini CIO returns to Audi
Schlapp was at Lamborghini for four-and-a-half years (Photo: Claus Dick)Lamborghini CIO Matthias Schlapp is moving back to Audi, the luxury sports car maker's parent company within the Volkswagen Group.Schlapp is assuming responsibility for pre-production, readiness and production planning at Audi. He will be succeeded at Lamborghini by Federico Boni, ...
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ArticlecarIT Congress - Hanover
The annual carIT Congress, organized by the automotiveIT Group, will take place September 30 at the Hanover fairgrounds during the IAA truck fair.The event, which has as its theme "Connected Car; the Future of Mobility," will bring together around 500 decision makers from the automotive and IT industries.Speakers include Audi ...
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ArticleDreamforce - San Francisco
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff hosts the annual Dreamforce convention (Photo: Salesforce)Salesforce.com will host its Dreamforce convention in San Francisco October 13 through 16.The annual gathering, which brings together more than 100,000 IT professionals and users of Salesforce software, is a forum for discussions about the latest IT trends, the ...
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ArticleLos Angeles auto show
The Los Angeles auto show, which will start Nov. 18, will feature nearly 60 world and North American vehicle debuts, the organizers said.The annual event will, once again, kick off with a Connected Car Expo, which will be enhanced with a "Connected City Summit."The connected-car event, which will take place ...
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ArticleNewspaper: Bosch insures against cybercrime
Robert Bosch has taken out a 100 million euro insurance policy to safeguard its operations against cybercrime, according to a report in the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung.The policy was issued by a consortium led by German insurer Allianz, according to the report. It also includes industrial insurance specialist Ace ad ...
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ArticleInfosys, Daimler in data-center partnership
Daimler's connected cars rely on information channeled through its data centers (Photo: Daimler)Infosys will manage Daimler's global data centers as part of a multi-year agreement between the Indian IT service provider and the German premium car group.Infosys said in a press release that the agreement covers data center and ...
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ArticleStudy: Dealers need IT upgrades
Sales and service reps are seen to need better tools to play key role in dealerships (Photo: Renault)Car dealers need to do more on the IT side to improve service and focus more clearly on the customer, according to a new study conducted by Germany's Autohaus magazine and consultants ...
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ArticleautomotiveIT Congress marks progress on road to connectivity
The congress featured a panel discussion on big data in the auto industry (Photo: Sylvia Steinbach)LONDON -- The auto industry is coming to grips with the broad implications of connectivity, but it will be a while before carmakers and drivers will start reaping the full benefits of new information ...
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ArticleCIO change at BMW: Straub said to succeed Probst
BMW CIO Probst is retiring, sources say (Photo: Claus Dick)Klaus Straub is expected to succeed  Karl-Erich Probst as CIO of BMW Group at the end of August, industry sources say.Probst took over as head of BMW's central IT department in 2006. He is leaving the company of his ...
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ArticleNokia to invest in connected-car technology
Nokia HERE is a mapping and location services provider (Photo: Nokia)Nokia will invest 100 million dollars in connected car technology as the Finnish group focuses its business on networks, mapping and location intelligence and general mobility.Once the world's leading maker of mobile phones, Nokia earlier this year completed the ...
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ArticleIn BMW plant, gesture control is on trial
In BMW's test, a worker can register a problem by pointing to a faulty section of a part (Photo: BMW)BMW, in a test of so-called "Industry 4.0" car manufacturing, is using camera-based gesture detection in a pilot project at its plant in Landshut, Germany. The premium car maker is ...
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ArticleNetherlands wants to approve large-scale self-driving car test
Dutch Cabinet Minister Schultz wants her country to be ready for self-driving cars (Photo: Dutch government)The Netherlands will introduce legislation in early 2015 to make autonomous driving on public roads possible in the near  to medium term. The government will send a proposal to parliament outlining the legislative ...
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ArticleT-Systems to offer more SAP Hana cloud solutions
T-Systems is expanding its partnership with SAP to make it easier for customers to try out the business software maker's SAP Hana in-memory database products before full-scale implementation.The business services division of Germany's Deutsche Telekom said customers can conduct "proof of concept" deployments of SAP Hana to see what benefits ...
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ArticleSAP Automotive Forum - Leipzig
SAP will hold its 14th annual Automotive Forum in Leipzig July 1 and 2. The focus of the two-day event is on speeding up time-to-market, increasing customer focus, improving business models to boost margins and improving strategies to attack new markets.The world's biggest business software group is hosting a gathering ...
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ArticleParis auto show
The Paris auto show, which is held every second year in the French capital, will open its doors to the public October 4. The opening will be preceded by two press days, October 2 and 3.The gathering, which is spread out over 96,000 square meters of exhibition space at the ...
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ArticleSalesforce1 World Tour, Munich
Salesforce is staging a large customer event in Munich July 3 to provide further details of its new Salesforce1 customer platform.The one-day conference will hear keynote addresses from Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff and various European executives from companies using the cloud-based software.Salesforce is the world's biggest cloud-based CRM ...
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ArticleTesla opens up patents to give boost to electric-vehicle market
The Tesla Model S is one of the best-selling electric sports sedans (Photo: Tesla)Electric-vehicle maker Tesla is giving away all its patents in a move to accelerate the global electric-car revolution."Technology leadership is not defined by patents, which history has repeatedly shown to be small protection indeed against a ...
