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'Star Trek' communicators free up doctors' time
News Belfast Health and Social Care Trust has saved the equivalent of 4,000 emergency department staff hours per year with an internal 'Star Trek'-style wireless voice communicator. Wireless from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more… [29 Jul 2008]
Headsets Make a Difference in Voice Recognition Accuracy
White Paper Dataquest2 indicates that at least 50% of VR purchasers abandon the software shortly after buying it, due to the fact that unrealistic expectations, which were formed from years of exposure to science fiction shows such as Star Trek, are simply... [03 Jul 2008]
Photos: Flying robots, Colossus codebreaker, virus art
Photo The Ice Warrior team is embarking on a 500-mile Arctic trek using high tech planning tools to pick their way through the unforgiving terrain. Former Seinfeld star and Celebrity Poker Showdown winner, Jason Alexander, checks out Microsoft's Surface... [27 Mar 2008]
Photos: The future of videoconferencing
Photo Ease of use to me meant like Star Trek not only 'beam me up, Scotty' but I don't need Scotty to beam it up, I need to be able to do it myself. Videoconferencing has had many false dawns over the last couple of decades because of issues with video... [26 Jul 2007]
Redmond research lab shows what's cooking
News I love the idea of being able to just sit at my home and explore space, since I am unlikely to get there any other way," said Rashid, a self-confessed massive Star Trek fan. Departing from tradition, Microsoft this year opened up the first day of... [07 Mar 2007]
A Heavenly View of the Customer With Technology
White Paper Sound like Star Trek and science fiction? Far from it! But it could be a 60-second commercial for a phenomenal growth industry known as Location-Based Services (LBS), and it's custom made for the CRM environment. [23 Jan 2007]
Handsfree communicators speed up hospital work
News Star Trek-style communicators are being used to help hospital staff work smarter at an NHS trust in Cornwall. The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust in Truro is using handsfree BT Managed Vocera VoIP communicators (see below for a photo of the... [16 Nov 2006]
Leader: The good of IT in healthcare
Leader The trust is even handing out Star Trek-style wireless communicators to staff to facilitate finding and communicating with doctors and nurses when they're needed. The NHS IT modernisation programme has received its fair share of criticism. [17 Aug 2006]
Hospital puts wireless at heart of tech plans
Case Study More from this In Focus Hospital beams down 'Star Trek' communicators One project the network has enabled is the roll out of Star Trek-style wireless communicators. A hospital trust is using its new wireless network to support a number of... [17 Aug 2006]
Hospital beams down 'Star Trek' communicators
News Nurses press a button, Star Trek-style, on the device (pictured below) and then use voice commands to find where other staff are and talk to them. A hospital trust in Northern Ireland is rolling out wireless voice communicators to replace the... [17 Aug 2006]
Leader: Technology with a human face
Leader Tests of remote-controlled robots at a London hospital might be more Star Trek than Quincy. But some of the tests they are putting these robots through will strike a chord with anybody who has tried to make an IT project work. [09 Feb 2006]
Google Video Store goes live online
News At one point they were: Star Trek Voyager-Tattoo, on sale for $1.99; the 4 January Heat-Hornets basketball game for $3.95; an ITV news segment of the Christmas dinner held by British troops in Bosnia in 1995; and a video that teaches youngsters... [11 Jan 2006]
Photos: What's inside France Telecom's Paris R&D Labs
Photo This isn't a photo from a Star Trek: Next Generation conference or a picture of a wannabe X-Man - it's a look inside France Telecom's R&D Labs. The telco, which owns mobile operator Orange and ISP Wanadoo, took silicon.com for a sneaky peak at the... [09 Sep 2005]
Science fiction to become science fact?
There are a lot of things which sound like "Star Trek" or science fiction, and some of them will actually happen. Just think of a "Star Trek" DVD at the store, and you'll see all sorts of stuff on there that we don't have. [01 Apr 2005]
Dr Who 'leaker' gets the sack
News TV piracy, driven by the boom in se of BitTorrent software in particular is becoming a major concern for television studios with shows such as 24 and Star Trek among those most commonly cracked and distributed online. [29 Mar 2005]
