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• Audi Selects Voltaire to Help Advance Auto Safety Standards with HP Supercomputer

  - 2008-06-25

  Auto Industry's Fastest Supercomputer Increases Safety Simulation Throughput and Helps Speed up Design Time of Vehicle Development BILLERICA, Mass. & HERZELIYA, Israel -- Voltaire Ltd. (NASDAQ: VOLT), a leading provider of grid backbone solutions for data centers, today announced that Audi has implemented Voltaire's Grid Director[TM] switches as part...

  Tags: Audi AG, Hewlett-Packard Co., Leadership, NETWORKING, standards, supercomputer, Voltaire Inc.

• REAR VIEW Mirror: AUDI'S HOT CROSS FUN

  - 2007-11-25

  AUDI'S new Cross Cabriolet Quattro concept car is really a preview of the new Audi Q5 SUV which is due to go on sale in 2008. The new Q5 uses the A4/A5's platform but boasts an off-road function, which softens the suspension and raises the car's ride...

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• Express Composites Group in the UK has acquired Racing Technologies Norfolk from Audi for an undisclosed sum

  - 2007-04-01

  Express Composites Group in the UK has acquired Racing Technologies Norfolk RTN from Audi for an undisclosed sum. A new facility for the expanded group is already under construction in Norfolk, near the Express site. Express has a range of clients in the aerospace and automotive industries including Airbus...

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• Staff foil chip shop raider

  - 2007-02-14

  A masked robber fled empty-handed from a raid at a fish and chip shop. The man went into West Street Fisheries on West Street in Lindley at 8.15pm last night armed with a crowbar. He demanded cash, but staff refused to hand any over. He fled into a black Audi...

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• Bungling Latvian crooks smash car into shop, drop looted ATM on way out

  - 2006-08-30

  RIGA AFP — Police in Latvia were hunting for clumsy thieves who smashed their way into a supermarket in the western city of Liepaja, stole a cash machine ATM and then dropped it in their get-away, a police spokeswoman has said. "The thieves drove an Audi through the glass doors...

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• Four major German automakers standardize on Profinet.(NEWS)(Brief Article)

  - 2005-01-01

  Nuremburg, Germany -- Four of Germany's leading automotive companies recently agreed to support the Profinet industrial Ethernet standard. Profinet was developed and is administered by Profibus International, which is also responsible for the Profibus and Profisafe automation network technologies. Speaking jointly...

  Tags: Audi AG, Ethernet, Germany, Manufacturing, NETWORKING

• Speed merchants say thanks Stuart!

  - 2004-06-24

  Microwave technology cooked up by Holmfirth man Stuart Hepworth pictured helped Audi win this year's Le Mans 24-Hour car race. Just as microwaves revolutionised cooking, his invention - used for the first time in last weekend's race - could change the face of motor racing by heating tyres in...

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• Quentin Willson motoring column: This Audi limousine is simply Gr8

  - 2004-05-23

  I SPENT some time being chauffeured around in a long wheelbase Audi A8 and thoroughly enjoyed its street presence, gravitas and refinement, not to mention the exquisite interior detailing. The A8 is a forgotten limousine choice and, sitting in its impressive rear, you feel as uplifted as in any of...

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• Mann+Hummel Produces World's First Plastic Oil Filter Module - CORRECTION.

  - 2003-09-01

  In the last issue of CeN we reported incorrectly on this item - August 6, 2003 - Mann+Hummel, a major automotive parts supplier, has begun production on the first oil filter module in the world with a completely plastic composite housing, for the new FSI four-cylinder ...

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• Stars break records for sponsorship.

  - 2003-07-15

  Jul 15, 2003 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) According to Sponsorships Solutions, a 12-month sponsorship of Australian swimming champion Ian Thorpe costs an estimated $A480,000. A national survey of sports sponsorship lists Thorpe and tennis players Lleyton Hewitt and Pat Rafter...

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