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Photos: Medical tech of the future, from robo-pills to cyber-surgeons
Photo In this way, surgeons can avoid making external incisions in the body which helps minimise pain and shortens recovery time. It is hoped this kind of device will be more comfortable for a patient than the more traditional... [15 Sep 2009]
Journal of Management Excellence - Organizing for Manage Excellence
White Paper We have captured and codified a body of knowledge from these successful organizations that provides the foundation for an emerging professional function focused on the management of strategy. An Office of Strategy... [15 Sep 2009]
Douglas Coupland: "To say the machines have won over people, is like saying people won over people..."
Comment Coupland describes his attitude towards technology as "McLuhanesque" after Canadian thinker, Marshall McLuhan, who came up with the view that communication technology is merely an extension of the human senses, body and... [08 Sep 2009]
Time for businesses to open up - or else
Comment Today, the web hosts an ever-increasing range of open informational resources - from the growing body of content licensed under Creative Commons, to the collaboratively produced online encyclopaedia, Wikipedia - the... [03 Sep 2009]
Innovation Network Lecture Series: The eXtensible Access Method (XAM) Standard and Its Role in Digital Curation
White Paper The Digital Curation Centre defines digital curation as "Maintaining and adding value to a trusted body of digital information for current and future use. The presenter of this webcast will relate his experience with the... [29 Aug 2009]
Accurate and Efficient Mode Acceleration Data Recovery for Superelement Models
White Paper Special provisions are provided for solving the steady state portion of the response for structures with rigid body modes. Procedures are described for accurate and efficient mode acceleration data recovery of transient... [29 Aug 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Can tech end bloody wars?
Comment Just a tap on any part of the body with a real weapon eliminated a player from the war. Compiled on the M6 driving to Birmingham, edited later in my hotel, and dispatched to silicon.com from Leeds via a free wi-fi... [28 Aug 2009]
Online banking: Which bank is the most secure?
News According to payments industry body Apacs, online banking fraud is on the rise reaching £52.5m last year - more than double 2007's £22.6m figure. Not all online banks' security was created equal, according to new research. [28 Aug 2009]
E-crime victims confused on where to go for help
News E-crime victims in the UK are confused as to where they should report such crimes. According to a report by the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), the UK lacks a central reporting point for online crime, leaving victims "often... [28 Aug 2009]
Photos: The robot fish that swim like the real thing
Photo The motor creates a wave in the fish's body, moving it forward - effectively mimicking the movements a real fish makes when swimming. All the electrical components inside the fish are housed in a flexible polymer... [26 Aug 2009]
Future of the NHS: Medical records online could transform healthcare
News The amount of healthcare information available online will only increase as society becomes tech savvy, according to Frances Blunden, senior policy manager with the NHS Confederation, the membership body for the National... [21 Aug 2009]
£50,000: The cost of unlicensed software for four businesses
News Software industry body the Business Software Alliance (BSA) took action against the four companies who were unable to produce licences for all the software installed on their PCs. Four manufacturing companies have... [18 Aug 2009]
Tories plan to revamp NHS IT gets grim diagnosis
News But at the moment the strength of regulatory oversight for a public sector body is stronger than within the private sector. The Conservative Party has today revealed its plans to reform what it calls Labour's "shambolic"... [10 Aug 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Microsoft's Project Natal
Cheat Sheet Natal does away with all that, and turns the user's body into the controller, analysing movements and gestures and translating them into system commands. Project Natal. Sounds very James Bond Sorry to disappoint, but... [10 Aug 2009]
Mahindra Satyam's new CEO on the road ahead for the outsourcing giant
News In its Satyam incarnation, the company provided services to 185 Fortune 500 companies, including helping to provide a common technology platform to food giant Nestle and striking a deal with football's international governing... [10 Aug 2009]
