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Walmart Foundation Aims to Increase c in Growing Retail Industry Through an Investment That Strengthens Career Services Programs Nationwide
Sep 28, 2016BENTONVILLE, Ark., Sept. 7, 2016 – As a next step in an effort to increase economic mobility of workers in retail and adjacent sectors in the U.S., the Walmart Foundation today announced 10 Workforce Development Boards (WDBs) across ...
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Fiat Chrysler Showcases Augmented Reality Car Configurator
Mar 2, 2016Fiat Chrysler has unveiled a prototype of immersive car sales application at Mobile World Congress designed and built by Accenture Digital using Google's Project Tango developer kit. The prototype demonstrates how augmented reality can ...
Tags: Fiat Chrysler, Reality Car
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Accenture and SEAT Build Proof of Concept to Connect Next Generation Cars
Mar 2, 2016Accenture and SEAT have agreed to collaborate to build a proof of concept for next generation cars with app that can connect appliances at home, provide car alerts and monitor driver behaviour. Accenture and SEAT have developed a proof of ...
Tags: next generation cars, car alerts
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Visa Were Showcasing Vehicles with All Sorts of Bells and Whistles
Mar 12, 2015Walking around the recent Mobile World Congress and its parallel show Four Years From Now, it was hard to miss all the cars parked in the show booths. Over the last few years, cars have had an increasingly noticeable presence at the ...
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Supply Chain Risk Management Is Seen as a Vital Tool
Aug 18, 2014As electronics and high tech companies pursue growth, supply chain risk management is seen as a vital tool they will further need to leverage in the future. In fact, 83% of electronics and high tech executives participating in a recent ...
Tags: Supply Chain, Electrical, Electronics
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Dollar General Corporation Announced The Appointment of Paula a. Price
Aug 15, 2014Dollar General Corporation announced the appointment of Paula A. Price, Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, to its board of directors effective August 26, 2014. "We are delighted to welcome Paula to the Dollar General board of ...
Tags: Dollar, Apparel, Accessories
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Strong Partnerships Will Be The Key for a Dynamic to Drive GCC Petrochem Industry
May 16, 2014Strong regional multi-stakeholder partnerships will be the key for a dynamic, flexible and growth-driven petrochemicals industry, said industry experts at the sixth Supply Chain conference, organized by the Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals ...
Tags: Petrochem, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
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FirstEnergy Has Selected Accenture to Manage The Roll-out of Smart Meters
Apr 10, 2014FirstEnergy has selected Accenture to manage the roll-out of smart meters to its customers across its four Pennsylvania-based utilities, including Met-Ed, Penelec, Penn Power and West Penn Power. Signed after approval from the ...
Tags: Smart Meters, West Penn Power
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Wearable Technology Mainly Concerns Devices and Apparel/ Textiles
Mar 9, 2014Wearable technology mainly concerns devices and apparel/ textiles. Devices are discrete electronic and electrical hardware sold on its own for bodywear. It may be utilised by being attached to apparel or by constituting worn accessories ...
Tags: Wearable Technology, Electronics
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Smartphone Makers Are Fighting for Space on Your Wrist and Your Head
Feb 28, 2014Smartphone makers are fighting for space on your wrist and your head, lucrative real estate for a new wave of high-tech devices if only they can persuade you to wear them. Manufacturers unleashed a battery of new wearable devices at the ...
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Tablets Were Supposed to Usher in a New World of Mobility
Feb 27, 2014Bigger than a telephone yet smaller than a personal computer, tablets were supposed to usher in a new world of mobility; yet they have hardly budged off the couch. Four years after their launch, tablets remain overwhelmingly stuck at home ...
Tags: Tablets, Consumer Electronics, telephone, computer
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Today's Headlines Include Stories About The Health Law's Coverage Gap
Feb 25, 2014Today's headlines include stories about the health law's coverage gap. Kaiser Health News: Arkansas' Medicaid Experiment, Key To Obamacare Expansion, On Ropes Kaiser Health News staff writer Phil Galewitz reports: "The Arkansas' ...
Tags: Kaiser Health, Health Law, ACA, CMS
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People Who Get Insurance Through High-Risk Insurance Pools Will Have an Extra Two Months
Jan 16, 2014Today's headlines include reports about the announcement by the Department of Health and Human Services that people who get their health insurance through high-risk insurance pools will have an extra two months before this program ends. ...
Tags: high-risk insurance, White House, Obamacare, Health Law
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HealthCare.Gov Famously Failed at Launch, Not Delivering What Was Promised.
Jan 14, 2014HealthCare.gov famously failed at launch, not delivering what was promised. Depending on whom you ask - and whom you believe - the cost to taxpayers ranges from $654 million to well over $1 billion. If, as Professor Van Helsing said in Bram ...
Tags: Fleet Software, Transportation
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GM's Recall of 370 000 of Its 2014 Model Year Chevrolet Silverado
Jan 14, 2014There were a wide-variety of errors, faults, and general IT-related ooftas to choose from last week. But GM’s recall of 370 000 of its 2014 model year Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra full-size pickup trucks, in order to update ...
Tags: GM, recall, Chevrolet Silverado, GMC Sierra full-size pickup trucks