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By Michael Moore NHS chiefs have backed new plans which would see patients able to gain access to their medical records using their smartphone or laptop. The NHS aims to be able to provide access to GP records through dedicated apps and specially designed digital platforms by early 2015, with access to all health records—held […]

By Tom Jowitt Scientists have come up with a potentially very useful development for parents to help make batteries safer if they are accidentally swallowed or ingested. In the United States alone, it is estimated that nearly 4,000 children a year have to go to the hospital after swallowing the flat disc-like batteries commonly found […]

By Tom Jowitt Researchers have developed a tiny robot that could, in theory, swim through the bloodstream of a human being in order to deliver medicine to the problem area. The development was made by a team of researchers led by Prof. Peer Fischer at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart. Engineered […]

By Steve McCaskill Speed will not be the key differentiator of 5G networks, according to the head of the 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC) at the University of Surrey, who says the next generation of mobile connectivity will be user-centric, offer low latency and offer an impression of “infinite capacity.” Professor Rahim Tafazolli outlined the center’s […]

By Jim O’Reilly Google Glass, essentially a personal heads-up display in a lightweight headset, has been in use for around 18 months. Experimental work to use it during surgery and other uses has made this a well-followed item to even the nontechnical public, but the very visible head-band and the tapping method to activate the […]

By Jim O’Reilly Andy Rubin, who led the Android division of Google, and more recently its robotics programs, is leaving the company. The Wall Street Journal reports he plans to launch his own incubator for robotics hardware startups. Rubin joined Google in 2005 with the acquisition of Android Inc., where he was a co-founder. He […]

By Duncan Macrae Samsung has smacked down claims that a major vulnerability has been discovered in Samsung KNOX security for Android, just days after it received approval from the U.S. government. Samsung KNOX is an Android-based solution specifically designed to enhance security of the current open-source Android platform. The NSA, under the agency’s Commercial Solutions […]

By Tom Jowitt A common wisecrack about the Apple iPhone (and indeed many smartphones) is that users always need to be close to a power source due to the limited battery life. But now a new chip could dramatically extend the battery life of the smartphone and even save energy for mobile phone base stations. […]

By Steve McCaskill Cisco has invited startups and SMBs to come up with machine-to-machine (M2M) applications that can help improve the U.K.’s transport network in a bid to demonstrate the power of the Internet of things (IoT). The Connected Transport Challenge will task entrants with submitting proof-of-concept Station-as-a-Service (StaaS) applications that solve a number of […]

By Steve McCaskill New government research claims that half of Brits have fallen victim to cyber-crime, with 53 percent viewing online offenses as serious as those committed in the physical world, but just 32 percent have reported such incidents to the authorities, masking the true financial impact, which is currently calculated at £670 million a […]