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Volkswagen drives the automotive industry cloud forward

CIO Business Intelligence

The main purpose is to develop powerful software for our internal processes to improve performance in production and logistics, namely to enhance factory efficiencies and supply chain management,” Goeller explains. “If But as a spokesperson for VW told CIO.com, “The second goal is to open up new software business areas.

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Ray Ozzie’s cellular IoT startup Blues Wireless raises $22M from Bill Gates and others

GeekWire

He joined Microsoft after the Groove deal, ultimately succeeding Gates as the company’s chief software architect, and helping to lead the launch of Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform. Blues has many large enterprise customers across industries such as agriculture, automotive, construction, healthcare, retail, and transportation.

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Your car is about to go open source

Galido

. “Today, automakers are having a hard time getting their customers to buy informatics systems because they only can do 10% of what a mobile phone can do,” said Rudi Streif, who leads the Automotive Grade Linux workgroup for the Linux Foundation. By developing an open-source platform, carmakers can share upgrades as they arrive.

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Top 3 Cyber Predictions in 2023 and How You Can Prepare

ForAllSecure

Automotive cybersecurity is bad. Compounding the problem is how software for cars is made. The new generation of software security tools work differently and forgo the scanning approach all together. The US is now requiring a software bill of materials, which helps make explicit the quantity of OSS we depend on.

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Tech Moves: Leafly hires general counsel; Skilljar and LevelTen add execs; and more

GeekWire

She spent more than eight years at CarGurus, an online automotive marketplace, as SVP of business development. based financial management software company. She joins Skilljar a year after it closed a $33 million Series B round to grow its customer education software. million in grants and seed funding to date. Audere Photo).

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

ForAllSecure

.” The event, which was captured on video and also reported in Wired magazine, sent a message to the automotive industry. In fact, I remember starting a new job by flying to Auburn Hills, Michigan for the very first meeting of the Featherstone Group, a collection of automotive OEM executive and security professionals.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: DEF CON Villages

ForAllSecure

You can buy the stuff the problem going to eBay and buying a controller is a now you need the software. A lot of times it's software is not free. You're not going to find the software. Normally you don't need base you have to go back and find where the distributors are, how to buy that software. Can you help me set it up?