Robot doctors make hospital rounds
It might look like a Dalek with a TV jammed on its head but the robot prowling the wards at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington aims to medicate, rather than exterminate.
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Welsh NHS to save £6m with new Microsoft deal
Welsh NHS Trusts have signed a joint software licensing deal with Microsoft covering 35,000 desktop computers that will save NHS Wales an estimated £6.1m over the course ...
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Red Hat: '$100 laptop will drive desktop Linux
Open source software company Red Hat believes that the $100 laptop initiative could inject momentum in interest and take-up of open source desktop operating systems.
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Navy sinks £100m into battleship combat training system
The Royal Navy is spending £100m on a computerised training system to prepare sailors serving on aircraft carriers and destroyers for combat.
The contract covers procu...
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Tech "vital" to schools reforms, says government
The Secretary of State for Education and Skills, Ruth Kelly, has claimed that online applications will allow parents to become more fully involved with their child's educ...
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Should all your staff have a security qualification?
A leading IT training organisation is urging companies to train all their staff to a basic and certified level of understanding in IT security.
The intention is that e...
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Oracle Fortifies security
Oracle, recently under fire from security researchers for the state of its product security, is further automating its bug-checking process.
The Redwood Shores, Califo...
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McDonalds picks Microsoft for point-of-sale
McDonalds has announced it has picked Microsoft's retail-specific operating system, XP Embedded, for its new worldwide point-of-sale system.
The burger giant has alrea...
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Intel's Barrett slams $100 wind-up laptop
People in the developing world will not want a basic $100 hand-cranked laptop that's due to be rolled out in 2006 because it's nothing more than a "gadget", according to ...
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Ex-software CEO guilty of stealing trade secrets
A former software executive's guilty plea to charges of breaking into a rival's computers and stealing trade secrets has offered a rare glimpse into the world of corporat...
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