A team of fire-fighting robots has been unveiled by defence contractor QinetiQ at a demonstration in London. The display showcased a quartet of robots aimed at tackling the particular risk of fires involving cylinders of the industrial gas acetylene. The robots range from a nimble, stair-climbing reconnaissance unit to a diesel-powered robot with a large claw. To read...

A system that can deliver power to devices without the need for wires has been shown off at a hi-tech conference. The technique exploits simple physics and can be used to charge a range of electronic devices. Eric Giler, chief executive of US firm Witricity, showed mobile phones and televisions charging wirelessly at the TED Global conference in Oxford.He said the system...

The Nashville Metro Communications Center has launched a new campaign to get feedback from citizens.

The General who commanded relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina says that it would have been easier to treat patients if they had been better prepared with the help of technology.

As a growing number of states implement enhanced 911 laws dictating caller location details to emergency personnel, providers of the service continue to support the movement toward a national standard.

A third of young people regularly access Facebook and Twitter via their mobile, a new report has found. The study, published by mobile research firm CCS Insight, found that access to social networking sites was driving the take-up of mobile internet services. Facebook is more popular than Bebo, MySpace and Twitter combined, it found. To read more, click here.

As part of a strong drive towards the use of information technology as a means of improving emergency management in the región, the Systems and Communications Service in the Spanish city of Murcia is developing a range of new applications that come under the name of MirrorEyes. The genesis of this development occurred after an accident in the city of Murcia, in which,...