News sector

Robotics

• A drug-delivering robot in a hospital – Matsushita has built an autonomous robot, capable of delivering drugs anywhere in a hospital, even by taking an elevator, if necessary … …

ERP

• Consona buys cloud ERP vendor Compiere – Consona has purchased on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor Compiere, a move that gives it a place at the cloud-computing table … …

Cloud

• Thoughts on cloudcomputing – One of the more prominent trends in IT over the pastyear or sois the emergence of cloudcomputing … …