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The Government's telemedicine drive is likely to push up costs and has less than a 40% chance of being cost-effective, researchers leading a flagship Department of Health pilot study have admitted. Revealing unpublished cost-effectiveness data from the Whole Systems Demonstrator Project today, researchers said it had had little effect on quality of life and had shown a cost per QALY of £88,000.

British households download about 17 gigabytes of data on average every month over their home broadband connections, suggests a report.

The UCL Centre for Digital Humanities brings together people from a wide range of disciplines to develop research and teaching in a vibrant multidisciplinary field. Digital humanities research takes place at the intersection of digital technologies and humanities. It aims to produce applications and models that make possible new kinds of research, both in the humanities disciplines and in computer science and its allied technologies. It also studies the impact of these techniques on cultural heritage, memory institutions, libraries, archives and digital culture. The Centre for Digital Humanities is able to capitalise on UCL's world-leading strength in information studies, computing science, and the arts and humanities. It brings together work being done in many different departments and centres, including the university's library services, museums and collections. The centre's location in central London, close to the British Museum and British Library, also makes it an ideal base for collaboration with organisations outside UCL, such as museums, galleries, libraries and archives.

La société britannique Tep Wireless vient de lancer une offre d'accès Internet mobile low-cost qui fonctionne dans 38 pays d'Europe et permet aux voyageurs de disposer d'une connexion permanente sans se ruiner en frais de roaming.

"Students may now spend more time on Facebook than down the pub, but research seen by Marketing Week suggests that brands wanting to connect with 16- to 24-year-olds should reassess their f-commerce strategies."

Intel announced plans to partner with two leading universities in London to launch the Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Sustainable Connected Cities. Announced at No. 10 Downing St., the Institute will explore how technology can help support and sustain social and economic development in cities around the world. This will include research into how technology can help solve problems like drought, long commute times and wasteful uses of energy.

La technologie mobile est de plus en plus adoptée par les offices de tourisme et l'industrie du voyage en général comme un moyen d'offrir aux voyageurs une nouvelle façon de se déplacer sur le territoire (lire aussi: La révolution du tourisme mobile est enclenchée). Alors que les utilisations mobiles liées aux destinations peuvent être utiles à toutes les étapes d'un voyage, c'est souvent pendant le séjour qu'elles révèlent le plus de valeur ajoutée. Lorsque la problématique des frais d'itinérance ne s'applique pas, les appareils mobiles peuvent s'avérer de véritables merveilles pour s'informer sur la destination en temps réel, optimiser sa visite et garder contact avec les proches.

Digital literacy in higher education is more than learning how to Google better - it needs new thinking around online engagement

Once a select forum of the great and good, the Technology Entertainment and Design (TED) conference now has millions of avid online fans. How did an elite ideas-sharing gathering go mainstream?

he Flame virus went undetected for two years by every online security firm. Now they need to find a new way to protect the world's PCs from malware

A project exploring openness in city development. Cities are where creativity and culture flourish. They are home to many of our proudest achievements - great libraries and hospitals, schools and parks, art and culture. Cities are synonymous with civilisation, civic governance and progress. The diversity, bustle and trade of civic life makes cities dynamic, surprising and exciting. But cities are arguably where we are also at our worst. It is in cities that our biggest challenges are to be faced - inequality, poverty, crime, violence, environmental degradation, exploitation, corruption. These all thrive in cities as much as learning and culture. In many modern cities the good and the bad live alongside one another, as neighbours. Cities encourage mass innovation as people learn new habits from one another, observing what their fellow citizens are doing. Everything propagates faster in cities: fashion, ideas, disease.