SGI and ESI Group solve scalability issues in car simulations

Mountain View, California, and Paris, France, 26 May 2005 —Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) and ESI Group (ISIN FR0004110310) today announced they have pushed scalability to new extremes, enabling users to run a crash simulation model eight times larger than today’s standard industry practice. This achievement represents a significant competitive advantage for automotive designers confronted with ever-growing model sizes and shrinking turnaround time: SGI Altix 3000 achieves the highest performance in crash simulation with PAM-CRASH 2004 models.

THE NEW PARTY: Road User Charging "Infantile"

The New Party considers that the New Labour plan to introduce road user charging is fundamentally flawed. We believe that the move to charge every car and lorry in the country according to the type of road, area and time of use will not only add create a massive amount of bureaucracy, the system itself will be hugely expensive.

Driving towards safer Driving Lessons

Why don’t driving schools and independent driving instructors have online reservation systems that their customers could use? Bookings could be made without the phone call to the office or the instructor, could be made at 1am in the morning if desired, just as a college assignment is finished or night out with friends is over (the perfect time to make a booking for most young people learning to drive).

(CORRECTED) Frost & Sullivan’s Conference on Working towards Global Competitiveness: Focus on Auto-c

Gurgaon, April 7th, 2005: One of the success stories of Indian manufacturing sector is that the auto components sector has been sailing on the tide of burgeoning export demand and increased demand on the domestic market. The conscious move towards reducing the cost of vehicle has greatly sharpened the competitive character of the auto component industry. The regional concentration of the sector in NCR, Pune & Chennai in India has paved the way for competition between companies across continents.

Frost & Sullivan’s Conference on Working towards Global Competitiveness: Focus on Auto-component ind

One of the success stories of Indian manufacturing sector is that the auto components sector has been sailing on the tide of burgeoning export demand and increased demand on the domestic market. The conscious move towards reducing the cost of vehicle has greatly sharpened the competitive character of the auto component industry. The regional concentration of the sector in NCR, Pune & Chennai in India has paved the way for competition between companies across continents.

TruckNet UK makes the next evolution.

TruckNet UK, ( www.TruckNetUK.com ) has taken the next step in it's ongoing commitment to remain the website of choice for the British Transport Industry. This weekend sees the official launch of "The Insider".

Lucky Truckers!

Two lucky Professional drivers will soon be experiencing life as a truck driver in the USA. David Phillips and Ray (Bob) White, both from London won a trip to America run jointly by Truck & Driver Magazine and www.TruckNetUK.com.

TruckNet UK busts the 500,000 mark

TruckNet UK ( www.TruckNetUK.com ), the biggest and highest used website for the professional driver achieved well in excess of half a million page views in February 2005, Visitor numbers also increased to over 40,000. individual visits during the month. Braking through the 500,000 mark was no surprise for the website, it has consistently improved viewing figures and visitor numbers every month since its inception 5 years ago"

Safety of Traffic-light Cameras Questioned

A recent report in the New York Times provides evidence that traffic accidents increase at intersections where a traffic-light camera is installed. The report also explains that many motorists are using a license plate spray to make the numbers on the plate unreadable to cameras.

Locate your vehicle 24/7

Northwest GPS announces affiliation with Network Car bringing affordable GPS technology to vehicles in the Northwest, including vehicle tracking and e-mail alerts.