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Fiat To Launch Microsoft-equipped Cars
Talkback My car already has one of these smart, computer controlled nav/radio/climate/tea maker centres in it and it used to crash a lot, unfortunately closing all the windows didn't help, I had to reboot my car.
[February 6, 2006, 12:59]
PC Vendors Snub Antitrust Altered Windows
Talkback In the last 10 years they've managed to bring security to an all time low (oh right, their sponsored for FUD says the opposite, duh), cripple markets, stiffle innovation, increased prices and only added extra bloat in return, turned whole...
[June 18, 2005, 0:10]
Thursday
Blog That's a device that monitors your car at all times, and transmits information about a crash -- who's in the car, what's happened and where it is -- to the emergency services. They only really got accepted with promises of proper confidentiality...
[August 5, 2002, 11:18]
McLaren Shifts IT Security Up A Gear
News One of the cars in front had exploded in a crash, blocking part of the road with burning debris. Instead, the driver known as the Ice Man calmly enquired over his helmet intercom which side of the road the crash was on.
[December 29, 2004, 13:55]
How IT Drives Ferrari's Success
News Can a Ferrari system "crash"? A crash will be only temporarily because as usual in embedded software, there are plenty of watchdogs in the control software that will reboot the controller after a short period of inactivity.
[September 6, 2004, 12:35]
Ireland Kicks Off Wireless 'black Boxes' For Cars
News The Irish government on Thursday launched a plan to improve driving safety by implementing a nationwide automobile-crash information network, a system which could ultimately be extended across the European Union.
[November 6, 2003, 15:50]
Photos: Formula One's Villeneuve Puts Spin On Intel
News To have a big crash you have to be very unlucky. But you have to pay attention to every detail in the cockpit, so you are ready for a crash if it happens," he said. Kirk Skaugen, general manager of Intel’s Server Platforms Group, took the stage...
[June 13, 2006, 17:40]
Crash Test Penguin: Chrysler Meets Linux
News DaimlerChrysler has purchased 108 dual-processor Linux workstations from IBM to run car-crash simulations, highlighting the spread of the low-cost "cluster" supercomputer technique beyond the academic domain.
[October 21, 2002, 8:19]
Biscit - Is The End Nigh?
Blog This is starting to be a bit like watching a car crash in slow motion. I'm not even going to retread the long, increasingly ugly saga that surrounds Biscit, but you can catch up if necessary by clicking here to read up on the ISP's recent...
[March 1, 2007, 10:36]
Five Years Ago: Seymour Cray Dies Aged 71
News Cray, who is widely recognised as the man largely responsible for modern supercomputing, died after a car crash several weeks ago. Seymour Cray, designer of the Cray-1 supercomputer, died on 5 October 1996 aged 71.
[October 7, 2001, 7:30]
Life After Microsoft - One Firm's Complete Conversion To Open Source
Talkback Chrysler uses Linux for car crash testing. Car Sales Guy who-doesn't-know-what-he-is-talking-about: Hey, Mr. Ferrari has been using Linux for 5 years for its email. There is a bank in Brazil with 12 million customers and 78,000 employees using...
[August 28, 2003, 2:17]
Apple's Patent Bending
Talkback "we would all be driving $25 cars that get 1,000 to the gallon" and a car manufacturer CEO answered that such a car sure would "crash" daily. As a "suspected" reporter you're extremely biased. Just my two cents.
[April 1, 2004, 1:18]
FlatOut 2 Demo
Downloads Tracks are filled with crash hotspots, thousands of dynamics objects, risky but rewarding alternative routes and designed with battle racing in mind. Putting action squarely in to racing, FlatOut 2 is a 8-car, close-pack racing game full of...
[December 5, 2006, 17:00]
Smash Up Derby
Downloads In this game, like in no other, you will face competition with expanded, heavily tuned cars who, apart from aiming to win, will do all to crash your car and get you out of the race. Play through two arenas in two different cars in a demo of Smash...
[November 13, 2003, 13:02]
Novell Case Study: Audi
White Papers To accelerate design cycles and minimise physical prototyping costs, Audi makes intensive use of Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE), including crash simulation, virtual wind tunnels and other Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) models.
[April 4, 2007, 0:00]
SEAT Shortens Its Vehicle Development Cycle By 15% Thanks To PAM-CRASH 2G On Intel Itanium 2 Based HP Integrity Servers SEAT
White Papers In order to bring safe, light and sport-oriented vehicles to the market, SEAT performs multiple realistic crash test scenarios with PAM-CRASH 2G, ESI Group's virtual crash test simulation solution. SEAT, the Spanish car company member of the...
[July 24, 2006, 0:00]
New Car Technology Worries US Privacy Advocates
News But the SDM, which receives information from sensors embedded in front car seats, could also determine that no one was in the passenger seat at the time of the crash. For instance, could a crash victim get the data to prove that he or she was...
[August 1, 2002, 13:59]
Hot Wheels Crash Demo
Downloads Features include: 12 Hot Wheels vehicles to smash and crash;14 different movie-lot environments--construction site, donut shop, fireworks factory, and more; 25 challenging levels; additional levels from the Internet; and a special Hot Wheels Car.
[November 18, 1999, 1:56]
Bad Planet
Downloads When asteroids full of nasty spider-like aliens crash into Earth, the human race is quickly added to the endangered species list. Co-creator/co-writer Thomas Jane, best known in comics circles for his role as the title character in the 2004 film...
[November 1, 2007, 3:31]
Text Message Kills Policeman
News An inquest today heard that a policeman died in a car crash after reading a text message on his mobile phone. Seconds later, his car left the road and hit a tree. PC Darren Riley was driving to work in heavy rain when the message arrived.
[August 24, 2000, 16:24]
