Old people's homes in Japan are turning to technology to care for their residents. The Kourien care home, outside Osaka, has employed robot-teddy bears, designed by the Matsushita electronics company, to watch over and interact with its old people.
Cisco Systems is putting new emphasis on small and medium-sized businesses in a bid to shore up declining revenue in its traditional markets. By contrast, the company believes, small and medium-sized companies are still catching up to the...
Leeds City Council is to give 1,300 social care workers digital paper and pens in a bid to save £1.2m by 2008. The council said home-care workers are also able to leave a paper copy at a client's home, enabling other carers to have a detailed...
An experiment carried out within London's square mile has revealed that employees in some of the City's best known financial services companies don't care about basic security policy. CDs were handed out to commuters as they entered the City by...
A national database of adult social care employees is being developed by the skills council covering that sector. In a project worth more than £6m, Skills for Care is developing the National Minimum Data Set for Social Care (NMDS-SC) with tech...
In addition, the Group is sceptical about whether Enterprise Support is suitable for small and medium sized businesses. The UK and Ireland SAP User Group has expressed dissatisfaction with the changes SAP has made to its software support programme.