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Photos: Emerging tech from location-based services to social networking
Photo By connecting at-home medicine dispensing to their network, AT&T will facilitate the monitoring of health services by family and doctors. Using these shoe inserts, AT&T is working with Texas Tech University on a... [09 Nov 2009]
Photos: 10 of the best open source mobiles
Photo Three years on from the advent of Greenphone and mobile Linux is in rude health, thanks in large part to Google's Android OS. Smartphones have come a long way in the last few years. Not so long ago, a smartphone all too... [12 Oct 2009]
Underwater robots, Google Moon, edible beetles and ID cards
Photo Photo credit: Atos Origin silicon.com took a look at some interesting ways analytics is being used in some unusual situations, including helping the World Health Organisation predict and prepare for disease outbreaks and... [04 Aug 2009]
Photos: From Big Bang physics to F1 racing - how analytics is shaping the world's decisions
Photo All of these help us to understand better the health situation and in which direction a country is going. We try to measure what are the different factors that will influence the health of a population,... [27 Jul 2009]
Photos: How edible beetles snatched Microsoft's prize
Photo The team designed a mobile e-health system which can give rural communities real-time remote access to medical services. Last week saw Microsoft hold the final of its annual Imagine Cup competition, where student... [13 Jul 2009]
Photos: The future of mobile life - in the lab
Photo With the data at hand, users can see how their body reacted to different situations and thus spot patterns of behaviour which might have a positive or negative impact on their health. The data is then sent via Bluetooth... [26 Jun 2009]
Photos: Bing! Microsoft revamps its search
Photo Seen here, health queries on Kumo/Bing can include full articles. Microsoft is publicly detailing its upcoming search engine, now known officially as Bing. The revamped search tool has several new features, including a... [29 May 2009]
Photos: The top five UK supercomputing projects
Photo The university's health science and genetics department is using the HPC to pinpoint the genes linked to disease. Get yourself a supercomputer. Scientists across the UK are using the monsters of computing, thousands of... [18 May 2009]
Photos: Doctor, doctor - your receptionist looks like a touchscreen
Photo The kiosks will eventually take over more roles from receptionists and clinical staff, targeting patients with health messages on waiting room displays and showing reminders of essential information, such as not to eat... [23 Apr 2009]
Photos: F1 tech races into the real world
Photo It uses technology first pioneered by F1 to wirelessly communicate health data in real time back to doctors, allowing them to monitor how patients taking part in clinical trials are responding to treatment. [30 Mar 2009]
Photos: Scots are sQuids in with wave and pay
Photo The NEC scheme is designed to make it easier for Scottish citizens to use public services and benefits, such as health and public transport.million smartcards have been distributed to citizens around the country as a way... [23 Jan 2009]
Photos: Top 10 presents for a CIO this Christmas
Photo Computer Aid International delivers high quality professionally refurbished computers for reuse in education, health and not-for-profit organisations in developing countries. Charity donation: Christmas is a time for... [28 Nov 2008]
Photos: The best of Google Labs
Photo Although Google Trends has been around for a while it has recently been used in a new way to help tackle global health issues. Google Labs is where Google's latest tech innovations are made available to the public to... [19 Nov 2008]
Photos: Brain of Britain
Photo The computing centre is pushing the boundaries of cutting-edge research in areas including health, where it is helping Cardiff University Hospital of Wales' positron emission tomography scanner to detect cancers at a... [07 Nov 2008]
Photos: Tomorrow's tech showcased by inventors
Photo Within a year Health Enterprise East hopes to pair the system with a speech recognition engine to translate doctor's speech on the fly. Some of the UK's most promising tech entrepreneurs gathered at the Cambridge... [18 Sep 2008]
