accidents
RSS accidentsMoD inks £231m deal to boost comms
News Back in 2007, the comms system was criticised for being outdated, too heavy for troops to carry and ineffective in preventing 'friendly fire' accidents - after the system capabilities set out in the original contract had... [03 Jul 2009]
Virginia DMV Enhances Decisions, Boosts Safety, Through Integration With Other Agencies
White Paper The Commonwealth of Virginia's Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) wanted to see its data better used to help reduce the number and severity of traffic accidents in the state. But that idea required integrating its... [30 May 2009]
Epicor Software Case Study: The Good Shepherd Nursing Home
White Paper They also wanted to improve its waiting list management system and incident and accidents reporting, currently in an Excel spreadsheet. The Good Shepherd Nursing Home operates a co-located nursing home and hostel in... [30 May 2009]
Privacy Management for Medical Service Application Using Mobile Phone Collaborated With RFID Reader
White Paper Most of medical accidents around patients are depended on misidentification of patient or medical papers. The accidents can be reduced, if information about the patient is managed automatically. The RFID... [15 Apr 2009]
Winning Personal Injury Lawsuits With SmartDraw Calendars & Timelines
White Paper Debra Haarsager works as a paralegal for Lee Hagen Law Office LTD, a leading personal injury law firm specializing in automobile accidents and equipment injuries. Haarsager was asked to prepare a trial exhibit visually... [15 Apr 2009]
Creating Police Accident and Crime Scene Diagrams Using SmartDraw
White Paper In addition to overseeing day-to-day operations and police work, Rob Crespy was responsible for creating numerous diagrams for accidents and crime scenes. Pulling double duty as Police Supervisor and Training Officer for... [15 Apr 2009]
Airwave heads out on the Highways Agency
News The deployment will help the incident support unit communicate with traffic officers within the Highways Agency, who help limit disruption after accidents or breakdowns through measures such as removing debris and... [10 Mar 2009]
Transportation Incident Management: Using 3D Virtual Worlds to Train First Responders
White Paper The I-95 Corridor Coalition, representing agencies at all levels of government in the 15 states through which I-95 passes, recognized the need to develop "Best practices" for first responders to traffic incidents to reduce response time,... [10 Mar 2009]
Goldsmith Williams Solicitors Accelerates Business Processes With Personalized Portal
White Paper For many years, Goldsmith Williams Solicitors, a niche legal practice in the United Kingdom focused on remortgages, conveyancing, and traffic accidents, used a fax/mail system for processing new applications. [31 Jan 2009]
Crash cops get plumbed into national computer
News The Crash system will allow police officers at the scene of car accidents to file reports directly to the Police National Computer using PDAs and smartphones, as well as automatically copying information to the... [28 Jan 2009]
PC breathalysers, green Linux and offshore pretenders
News Roasted laptops, fighting panthers and fishing accidents During December, silicon.com took a look at high-tech crime starting with a story about how UK police are one day hoping to develop a 'breathalyser'-type device... [18 Dec 2008]
Roasted laptops, fighting panthers and fishing accidents
News Roasted laptops, panthers savaging memory sticks and angry fishermen throwing computers overboard top the list of the year's weirdest computing disasters. The top 10 data blunders of 2008, compiled by data recovery firm Kroll Ontrack,... [04 Dec 2008]
Lorry driver monitoring system hits London
News A driver monitoring system could help cut accidents and reduce fuel consumption for freight operators working in London. Transport for London (TfL) is offering the in-vehicle driver profiling system to members of its... [03 Dec 2008]
BlackBerry twice as likely to fail as an iPhone
News It's likely that any iPhone owner can guess the reason iPhone accidents are so common," the authors wrote. Apple's iPhone has half the failure rate of RIM's BlackBerry in the first year of use, a study carried out by a... [11 Nov 2008]
Photos: Honda kick starts motorcycle safety tech
Photo Honda cites an EU funded research project called the Motorcycle In-Depth Study published in 1999, which found of the 88 per cent of motorcycle accidents caused by human error, 38 per cent were due to the motorcyclist and... [29 Oct 2008]
