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Doctors on a call

Doctors on a call

A start-up created by two British medics combines social networks and cloud computing to make hospital staffing more efficient. More
Getting the mice out of the operating theatres

Getting the mice out of the operating theatres

If doctors could use natural user interfaces, like gestures, surgery could be quicker and safer. More
Who’s in charge here? Consumers driving corporate technology purchases

Who’s in charge here? Consumers driving corporate technology purchases

More than 100 million people in Western Europe will buy a smartphone this year. Within minutes of opening the package they will be setting up... More
Success story: At Kobojo virtual goods mean real money

Success story: At Kobojo virtual goods mean real money

Founded three years ago, Kobojo develops games for social media such as Facebook. Now it is developing a business model that transforms virtual... More
Into the cloud, a new way of doing business

Into the cloud, a new way of doing business

It’s nearly impossible for companies to stay on top of the explosion of useful information about markets, competitors and customers that crops... More
Going global in 60 minutes

Going global in 60 minutes

For Irish entrepreneur John Dennehy, the arrival of cloud computing offered a powerful argument to launch a new company. Dennehy was convinced... More
Facing up to the opportunities and challenges of cloud computing

Facing up to the opportunities and challenges of cloud computing

The discussion about cloud computing really has come out of nowhere, and yet everywhere in the information and communications and technology... More
Standards: all together now?

Standards: all together now?

If cloud computing is to reach its potential, it needs standards that ensure that different systems work together. But over-rigid standards could hold... More
Health for all, care for you: The promise of personalised healthcare in Europe

Health for all, care for you: The promise of personalised healthcare in Europe

Personalised healthcare stands at the confluence of the most powerful technologies in the history of the life sciences.   More
Barcelona, eScience and cloud computing

Barcelona, eScience and cloud computing

The Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC) is taking part in a pioneering EU Framework Programme 7 project on cloud computing , Venus-C - a... More
Microsoft's Barcelona Research Center

Microsoft's Barcelona Research Center

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and Microsoft joined forces in 2008 to create the BSC-Microsoft Research Centre. More
Keeping an eye on the environment

Keeping an eye on the environment

On June 20th 2012, in the presence of Prime Minister of Denmark Helle Thorning-Schmidt, sustainability legend Gro Harlem Brundtland, IPCC Chair... More
Barcelona and the future for the cloud

Barcelona and the future for the cloud

A converted chapel in Barcelona is the home for a supercomputing centre that is helping to revolutionise the way we will use cloud computing. More
Hungry? Reach for the cloud…

Hungry? Reach for the cloud…

Superbowl Sunday is big business in the US as people all over the nation tune in to watch the American football match of the year. Pizza deliveries... More
Personalised healthcare: the information challenge

Personalised healthcare: the information challenge

There is one game-changer that can turn the promise of personalised healthcare into a reality. It is healthcare IT, says Alan Davies from GE... More
Inside the cloud

Inside the cloud

The cloud is one of the most popular terms in IT today but perhaps also one of the least well defined. FUTURES guides you through the how and the why. More
Mundie spells out the challenges

Mundie spells out the challenges

Computer science can play a major role in fuelling scientific breakthroughs in other fields, but only if it can meet its own grand challenges, said... More
Albert II visits the Microsoft innovation centre in Mons

Albert II visits the Microsoft innovation centre in Mons

On 16 June 2009, the King of Belgium, Albert II, visited one of Belgium’s innovation hotspots, the Digital Innovation Valley in Mons. During the... More
That special spark: A helping hand for innovative start-ups

That special spark: A helping hand for innovative start-ups

Who would start a business development for start-ups in a slump? That’s precisely when it has to be done, says Microsoft. More
Constructive disruption

Constructive disruption

Microsoft’s Akhtar Badshah wants to be a disruptive influence More
Keep it cool: the greening of Microsoft’s data centers

Keep it cool: the greening of Microsoft’s data centers

Microsoft’s first European “mega data centre”, which opened recently on the western outskirts of Dublin, uses 50 per cent less... More
ICT - the way out of the economic crisis

ICT - the way out of the economic crisis

Viviane Reding, European commissioner for all things hi-tech, is known for telling it like it is. A passionate advocate for new technologies, she has... More
Windows Embedded collaborates with European businesses

Windows Embedded collaborates with European businesses

In February 2008, Microsoft launched the Microsoft Embedded Systems Development Centre (MESDC) in Aachen, Germany. The MESDC was created to foster... More
Collecting data on the environment

Collecting data on the environment

European Environment Agency and Microsoft Eye on Earth Observatory bring Europaan beach quality into sharp focus More
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