In this week’s Computer Weekly, we hear from executives at video game giant Ubisoft about how generative AI is being used to enhance the experience for gamers. Our latest buyer’s guide looks at the ways AI is changing network management. And we find out why bug bounty programmes are coming under scrutiny as cyber security experts question how best to report vulnerabilities. Read the issue now.
Architecture is often presented as the visible expression of its time, its desires, its faith in progress, its idea of order. Yet this reading tends to flatten the conditions under which buildings are produced. It suggests that architecture follows history when, in many cases, it actively participates in it. Few periods make this more evident than the twentieth century, when architecture became deeply entangled with political programs, economic systems, and competing visions of how collective life should be organized.
Conway Corp Telecom employees participated in April in the hands-on Broadband Skills Championship Training Challenge sponsored by the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) Razorback Chapter at the Mid-America Cable Show in Kansas City.
<p>Just weeks after launching an intelligent fleet assistant for commercial customers, the Ford Motor Company has set out a new vision for its future in Europe, with plans for a “comprehensive” product and technology roll-out for commercial and retail customers over the next three years.</p> <p>From an IT and comms perspective, the move will see the core Ford Pro brand – the <a href="https://www.fordpro.com/en-us/">commercial vehicle division within Ford Motor Company</a> – evolve from vehicle maker to productivity partner for European businesses.</p> <p>As part of its activities, Ford Pro develops solutions to deliver an always-on, connected customer experience through a suite that includes vehicles, charging, software, financing and servicing for commercial and government customers. It looks to pull connected vehicle data and integrate it into the Ford Pro Intelligence platform to arm fleet managers with a new level of insight about and control over vehicles on the road and when upfitted equipment is in use.</p> <p>Since 2019, every Ford Pro vehicle has been built with an embedded modem. Today, more than 1.2 million European customers are connected, generating close to six million health signals a day.</p> <p>The strategy will see Ford Pro transform from being a vehicle manufacturer to a “productivity partner” using software and services to maximise the return on every vehicle. It supports Ford’s global target to generate 25% of Ford Pro operating income from software and services. In the first quarter of 2026, worldwide paid software subscriptions rose by 30% to 879,000, with gross margins above 50%.</p> <p>“Ford Pro is the backbone of our European business. We don’t just sell vans and pickups, we deliver an integrated ecosystem of vehicles, software and services,” explained Jim Baumbick, president of Ford in Europe. “Our vehicles lead the market, and around them we’ve built a productivity accelerator our competition cannot match. For our customers, that’s not just transportation, it’s a better return on investment.”</p> <p>Ford Pro’s Uptime Services will use connected vehicle data and predictive intelligence to identify issues before they become problems. In 2025 alone, Ford’s connected services delivered nearly one million additional days of uptime for customers, and Ford Pro is now extending these capabilities to small businesses for the first time.</p> <p>Through a new Dealer Uptime Services offer, every Ford dealer will become a dedicated uptime manager – monitoring vehicle health, reaching out proactively, and prepping parts and workshops before the vehicle arrives. Ford calculations claim that early pilots show repair times reduced by up to 50%, with 80% of repairs identified proactively.</p> <p>The result for customers is said to be more uptime, more productive days and more revenue earned from every vehicle owned. For dealers, it is intended to mean more service leads, stronger customer loyalty and a “significant” uplift in revenue potential. Both types of benefits are said to have been unlocked by elevating dealers into data-enabled productivity partners equipped with the insight, tools and connectivity to keep their commercial customers earning.</p> <p>Ford Pro is also expanding the product range with two new vehicles – Ranger Super Duty and Transit City – which are designed for very different but equally demanding jobs. In addition, the company said that by the end of 2029, it will launch five all-new passenger vehicles, made in Europe for Europe.</p> <div class="extra-info"> <div class="extra-info-inner"> <h3 class="splash-heading">Read more about connected vehicles</h3> <ul class="default-list"> <li><a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366639902/Ford-accelerates-fleet-data-capability-with-Pro-AI">Ford accelerates fleet data capability with Pro AI</a>: Auto manufacturing giant introduces fleet management software aiming to help organisations manage their fleet operations more effectively and get daily tasks done.</li> <li><a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/CES-2026-Connected-vehicles-accelerate-the-pace-of-AI">CES 2026: Connected vehicles accelerate the pace of AI</a>: In a round-up of this year’s CES, we look at the rise of connected vehicles, robotics and artificial intelligence, with prototypes evolving into real deployments.</li> <li><a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366637420/Volvo-EX60-hits-accelerator-on-in-vehicle-connectivity-and-AI">Volvo EX60 hits accelerator on in-vehicle connectivity and AI</a>: Auto maker unveils comms, infotainment and artificial intelligence in all-electric vehicle, including a system on a chip said to deliver the highest level of processing power found in its cars to date.</li> <li><a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366624216/Google-gets-in-gear-with-Volvo-to-drive-connected-vehicle-AI">Google gets in gear with Volvo to drive connected vehicle AI</a>: Swedish car giant and IT behemoth expand partnership with integration of Gemini artificial intelligence to accelerate automotive innovation.</li> </ul> </div> </div>
A well-regarded family-run business near York selling mainly Italian-made clothing left debts approaching £1.5 million, according to a report by administrators.
I am not an economist, but I do have some personal experience with the principles of economics and the rules that allow especially Americans to prosper while becoming more self-reliant and less dependent on government.
NEW YORK — Oil prices swung Monday after a scare overnight where prices popped and then moderated, and the yo-yo moves kept stock markets worldwide unsettled.
A husband-and-wife team behind an indulgent treat business are opening a new shop in a town centre.
DUBAI, UAE, May 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Loyyal, the enterprise SaaS platform transforming loyalty and payments, today announced the launch of GiftOS Point, its Artificial Intelligence powered & blockchain secured digital gift card platform designed for retailers, malls, D2C brands,...
Despite being the region's largest coal producer and one of the world's biggest users of coal power, Indonesians are more supportive of a rapid coal phaseout than people in neighbouring Singapore and Malaysia, according to new research commissioned by climate campaign group Market Forces.
Government has asked large-scale gold miners to sell 30% of annual output to the central bank as part of a revamped reserve-building drive, up from 20%, a senior official told Reuters.