Cisco Systems Inc. is proud to be joining the Dow Jones Industrial Average on Monday, but Cisco CEO John Chambers said that did not come without mixed feelings given the company was replacing General Motors.
Former General Motors CIO Ralph Szygenda spoke to CIO.com Editor-in-Chief Brian Carlson in this interview about his new role with iRise and the innovation he anticipates from enterprise IT over the next decade.
Struggling General Motors Corp. is hoping that one answer to people's green transportation needs lies in a two-wheeled, two-seat electric vehicle it jointly developed with Segway Inc.
A couple of decades ago, there was a saying: “What’s good for General Motors is good for the country.” The implication was that GM led the manufacturing sector in the U.S., and whatever GM did to make life better for its employees and customers, other people were bound to benefit as well.
Last week, Getronics, a company that specializes in IT workspace management services, announced it had won a contract with Ford for IP-based unified communications and collaboration. Under the terms of the contract Getronics will “install, deploy, and manage a voicemail, audio conferencing, and Web collaboration solution to 42,000 Ford employees in the U.S.” according to the Getronics prepared statement.
Some of the most oft-repeated comments attributed to Bill Gates through the years were not uttered by Bill Gates. Take for instance "640K ought to be enough for anybody," which he supposedly said in 1981 to note that the 640K bytes of memory in IBM's PC was a significant breakthrough. Or his alleged comment that if General Motors "had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving [US]$25 cars that got 1,000 miles per gallon."
Last week I provided an overview of Capgemini, one of the winners of a multimillion-dollar systems integration contract with General Motors. I recently spoke to Chris Carrington, Capgemini president of Americas Outsourcing, who gave me an overview of the company (see last week's newsletter). This week, I will share Carrington's thoughts on trends in outsourcing. Here is our Q&A:
Several weeks ago I wrote about the major resourcing going on at General Motors with the impending expiration of a 10-year EDS contract this June. Last week, the winners for half of that work were announced. While EDS retained approximately half of the business awarded, several firms made big strides with GM. One of those was Capgemini, which picked up $560 million in new contracts.
A caretaker robot developed in Japan has been equipped with powerful motors in its hips and advanced feedback sensors so that it can bend over and gently lift infirm patients from the ground.
Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk has raised the ante on the rest of the automobile industry, declaring in a recent interview with the Financial Times that his company's self-driving car will be street-ready by 2016.
It's official: General Motors is off the Dow, and Cisco Systems takes its place. The transition is more than just a dry Wall Street accounting maneuver: From a cultural, economic, and societal perspective, it marks a seismic shift in how our world is organized.
General Motors' CIO Ralph Szygenda talked with Network World senior editor Denise Pappalardo about what AT&T is doing for GM and how that fits in with GM’s overall globalization plan.
In eight years General Motors has managed to trim a cool billion from its annual IT budget, mainly through efforts to consolidate systems and standardize equipment across a very diverse organization. I recently had a great interview with Tony Scott, CTO for GM's Information Systems & Services group, where he told me more about how GM did it. Here’s the Q&A.
How GM saved a billion dollars
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It’s not every day that the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at the world’s largest automaker gets to present a keynote talk at a hacker convention. So when General Motors CISO Eric Litt was asked to do precisely that at the European Black Hat Convention in Amsterdam earlier this year, he used the chance to reach out to the hacker community. His goal: present to the hackers his look at the problems large corporations face when dealing with software vulnerabilities -- and the manner in which th
Not long ago, network products for small and midsize businesses were nothing more than enterprise products with lower port densities and perhaps a partial lobotomy. After all, if it's good for Citibank or General Motors, it has to be good for you, right? Not really - but it sounds good, if that's what you're selling.
New General Motors CIO Terry Kline looks to continue the progressive IT ways of predecessor Ralph Szygenda by adopting the consumer technologies used by new car buyers as well as cloud computing techniques and "PCs on a stick."
General Motors has long used collaboration tools and services to set up online meetings and share business data related to vehicle sales, legal and buyer financing issues and vehicle design around the world. Now GM is seeking to standardize on a single collaboration package with appropriate security controls that GM will use on the Internet with suppliers as well as internal employees.
I always thought that I was lucky to be born in Brazil, but the real value of my ancestry became apparent to me only after I became CIO of General Motors Europe. As you can imagine, a lot of my energy was consumed by the process of managing a large, decentralized team that was both multinational and multicultural.
Canonical has high hopes for its latest release: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Long Term Support). Also known as Lucid Lynx, this new version is the one that, from many indications, the company hopes will take Ubuntu from being a fan favorite to a commercial success. Based on my first look at the release candidate, Canonical's hopes may be realized.
Transduction is common in many military and commercial areas, such as communications antennas (radio waves to electrical signals), thermoelectric generators (heat to electricity) and electric motors (electromagnetic to kinetic energy).