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UK: more than a million drivers aged over 80

John Beckham — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:40:00 +0000

According to the Institute of Advanced motorists, the number of drivers on UK roads over the age of 80 has topped one million for the first time.

The group obtained the data from the UK's DVLA. The licence-issuing authority's files show that 1,012,399 drivers were aged over 80 on 31 January, of which 122 were over the age of 100. There are now three 105 year-olds out and about on Britain's roads, and one woman who is 106.

One of the IAM's more interesting findings is that the rate of deaths and serious injuries in crashes among drivers over 80 is three times lower than the rate for those aged 17-19.

The UK is one of the few European countries with a rising population but when it comes to the average age of its citizens, it remains in sync with other EU nations: the Office of National Statistics predicts that there will be 8.7 million people over the age of 75 living in these islands by 2033. This will represent an 81.1 percent surge in the number of over 75 year-olds since 2008 - some 4.8 million people.

DRX iPad App Aids Medicare Enrollment Process

Editor — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:37:47 +0000

The DRX iPad Mobile Field Enrollment application allows insurance agents to make comparisons of Medicare plans and avoid data errors when enrolling patients. - With the launch of the Apple iPad 3 around the corner, health insurance agents now have a way to sign up seniors with coverage using the popular tablet. DRX, a developer of health care comparison tools, has unveiled a new iPad app that enables health care sales agents to streamline the Medicare enr...

Intermec SG20 Bar-Code Scanner Keeps Track of Patients’ Data, Health

Editor — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:00:55 +0000

Intermec's new SG20 bar-code scanner allows hospitals to record patients' data and link with medical records. - From a driver's license to a knee replacement, bar-code scanners can now read almost anything. Intermec Technologies, a manufacturer of data warehousing and rugged mobile computing products, has introduced its SG20 bar-code scanner, which allows health care caregivers to keep track of patients' data...

ACS CEO Blodgett on Competition, Xerox Acquisition

Editor — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:52:45 +0000

ACS CEO Lynn Blodgett, now Xeroxs president of Services Business, sees the company growing its business-process outsourcing offerings. - With its $6.4 billion acquisition of Affiliated Computer Services in 2009, Xerox made a bold play in the business-process outsourcing market. And according to Lynn Blodgett, former CEO of ACS and now Xeroxs president of Services Business, the acquisition wasnt just good for Xerox: The latters consid...

ATandT Synaptic Compute as a Service Boasts VMware Features

Editor — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:32:25 +0000

The service allows users to provision and scale compute resources and shift workloads between their private clouds and AT&Ts network-based cloud. - Network operator AT amp;T announced the release of Synaptic Compute as a Service with VMware vCloud Datacenter Service, an enterprise-class cloud service combining technologies from AT amp;Ts virtual private networking (VPN) specialists and cloud infrastructure software industry provider VMware. ...

Multiple Cloud Formations Require New Security Approaches

Editor — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:20:05 +0000

New-generation service providers are filling gaps in private-public cloud security. - Reliable user authentication in deployment of a cloud service is of utmost importance. Even though a cloud service to which you subscribe may have two-factor or higher levels of secure authentication, certain protocols must be observed and rules must be followed to enter each session. Frequent ch...

Turning Mobile Devices Into University Dorm Keys

Editor — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:11:08 +0000

The consumerization of IT makes the case for mobile-based security and authentication. - Smartphones and tablets are capable of many things, from accessing Web applications and checking email to opening files and running apps. For some Arizona State University students participating in a recent pilot program, their smartphones also doubled as their dorm keys. While some IT departments ...

Is This the Year PaaS Goes Mainstream?

Editor — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:05:37 +0000

For years, the industry has readied itself for widespread adoption of PaaS. Is 2012 the year when this latest cloud technology gets the recognition it deserves? - Will 2012 be the year of platform as a service? If you let the vendors tell it, 2011 was to be the year PaaS offerings began to coalesce and take off. And the major market research firms have been watching the space carefully, predicting consolidation and more and more investment in PaaS. Whil...

Xerox CEO Ursula Burns, Focused on the Core

Editor — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:50:45 +0000

Xerox CEO Ursula Burns sees her companys transition to more of a services provider as an extension of its longtime mission: streamlining businesses processes. - It was the sort of Herculean task that makes or breaks chief executives: transform a stumbling giant of a company into a powerhouse entity, capable of battling toe-to-toe with some of the most recognizable rivals on the planet. Such was the challenge facing Xerox CEO Ursula Burns when she took the l...

iPad 3: What the Rumor Round Says About Apple’s Tablet

Editor — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:48:07 +0000

Apple has been tight-lipped as ever about the details of the iPad 3 which is widely expected to arrive in early March leaving the pundits with nothing to do but guess. - The Apple iPad 3, by all accounts but Apple's, will arrive in March, and there's no end to the speculations about what the industry-changing device's latest incarnation will feature. So far, educated guesses include: ? The inclusion of much faster chip. AllThingsD reported Feb. 9, citing un...