Better Java Web Frameworks

I have been doing web application framework development for a long time. In my first experience, we developed a “Web Application Framework“, to ease development so that even business user could make development. As the years passed, I never see any business user entered self development because of the fact that this job belongs to programmers [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 09:54:45

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Best of 2008: Top 25 Technology Blogs

And here stands our compilation of technology blogs doing justice to the tech-needs of the common man. Had they not been there, it would have been a demanding task to get oneself updated with the emerging development s in the technology industry. We wish good luck to all of them for performing so well and giving us the opportunity to be spotted [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 09:45:23

News 12/5/08

From Cheryl: "Re: low-cost IT projects. I have been starving to hear stories like these! Leonard and Larry shared common problems, not hospital-specific issues. I am always on the lookout for how others are doing things better, especially solutions that can become best practices [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 02:51:20

RFID Poker Table

This RFID Poker Table one hell of a cool project. You can now play your Sunday night poker game and invite spectators to watch on a big screen ... with a standard deck of KEM cards that have been tagged with 52 RFID ’smart labels’ - thin and flexible ... next is integration of RFID chips! "The inspiringly-named Video Poker Table makes this possible [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 12:43:48

Exposing Contact Patterns

SocioPatterns.org aims to shed light on patterns in social dynamics and coordinated human activity ... , emerging technologies such as active RFID devices offer previously unfeasible means for collecting ... small tags with integrated active RFID technology, henceforth called the beacons. These beacons [more...]

Date: 2008-07-21 22:59:35

BEAMS TOKYO CULTuART aggregates Tokyo urban culture & art

If you wanted to sum up your city in one room without making it cluttered, what would you put in there? This is precisely the challenge that TOKYO CULTuART, a new project and shop from BEAMS in Harajuku, is taking on since its opening two weeks ago. While their main business is design and apparel [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 05:46:39

Tikitag Turns Wal-Mart Inventory Tech into Fun

RFID and NFC aren’t really new, but up til now, the most exciting use for the tech ... , readers or packages containing both. Then it’s up to you to either use or create applications to take [more...]

Date: 2008-09-09 03:23:00

Erie PA Today News, Events and Info for today, Tuesday, January 13, 2009

The PA Department of Environment Protection and US Environmental Protection Agency began a thorough inspection of Erie Coke in Erie, ... Department was cut so there isn't enough people to work security at the 5th Street entrance. They didn't ... with a buzzer for the door used at other times. Erie PA native Charles R Walczak was named the new [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 12:34:30

User Data Preservation (UDP)

Ovi Sync and since then I refuse to go back to cables. Nokia Users were Born Free so it suits us to be able to sync, backup, update anything On The Go, Over The Air. This is also quite a unique feature - while Google’s Android is able to receive automatic OTA updates (but a manual update voids your guarantee on the G1) [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 10:46:24

TechCrunch Euro Tour 08: Yes, even Belgium has startups

A couple of weeks ago I headed over to Belgium as part of my ongoing TechCrunch Euro Tour, to get a taste of the local web/mobile entrepreneur community (BTW, come to the London and Helsinki events soon). I hooked-up with another TechCrunch writer, Robin Wauters, who had kindly arranged a TechCrunch Belgium meetup in Gent [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 11:13:46

Harnessing Dynamic Personal Social Network Applications

>Introduction In the past years, the capabilities of our mobiles phones have improved significantly. Modern, top end phones contain a host of sensing cabalities: accelerometer, proximity sensor, GPS, camera, microphone, etc. (Miluzzo, 2008) By using some of the technological features inherent in mobile phones, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 12:27:55

Erie PA Today News, Events and Info for today, Monday, January 12, 2009

Rehrig Pacific Company closed their manufacturing facility in Raymond, New Hampshire and is moving the operations to their facility in Erie, PA at 1738 West 20th Street. Products made at New Hampshire include plastic milk crates, soda-bottle holders, garbage receptacles and recycling bins. Forty employees were laid-off [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 12:49:02

RFID enalbed poker table!

The chairman of an Australian IT company has built an RFID enabled poker table that could bring the same level of detail seen in televised games to ... to televise it either. A cool application of RFID could be that we (in the audience) could know where ... Milner placed wireless RFID chips at the bottom of a table, fit RFID tags on a few deck of cards [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 23:17:16

Media Centers: Alternative, Open-Source, Cross-Platform Solutions - A FLOSS Comparison

Looking for an open-source alternative to proprietary media center solutions from big brand names like Microsoft and Apple? Tired of buying into their own closed and proprietary business strategies? Here is a report showcasing you all of the alternative open-source media centers available out there. [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 09:30:00

Panasonic Toughbook CF-H1 Mobile Clinical Assistant: Video Demos

Panasonic have officially announced the Toughbook CF-H1 Medical Tablet PC they demonstrated at the IDF in August ... for employee identification and an RFID reader. There’s also a GPS receiver, WiFi a/b/g/n, Bluetooth ... We say “primary” because there are other methods of input: a barcode reader, for instance, that allows [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 17:44:06

Incubation innovation

The timing of the depressed global economic outlook could not have come at a worse time for Alcatel-Lucent. The situation only confounds further the technology company’s efforts to turn the corner of a post-merger era that has resulted in an underperforming share price and integration challenges [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 05:00:00

HSBC: Banking on the Network

HSBC are pretty transparent these days about their strategies, as can be seen from their investor relations webcasts and presentation downloads ... Technology and Services Officer (CTSO) discussing the bank as a network. This is a presentation ... employees, a third of which work in HSBC Tech and Services (HTS) supporting 9,500 offices across 85 [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 17:59:49

Devoxx Antwerp 2008 - Impressions

University Monday 8th of December 2008 was the start of a week full of information. After attending the complete conference (including the University sessions) last year I felt it would be a good thing to do the same this year. The university sessions give me a change to get more in-depth knowledge on some of the subjects [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 11:11:12

Erie PA Today News, Events and Info for today, Friday, January 9, 2009

Ian at The People Demand It! reported that Richard Gibbons is out as CEO of EmergyCare and that William Haggerty is the new interim leader. EmergyCare is the non-profit ambulance service provider for the City of Erie. They have expanded their coverage are with operating divisions in Meadville, Titusville, Warren, Kane, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 12:37:06

General GWiR 12 December 2008 from IP Think Tank

IP Think Tank’s weekly selection of top intellectual property news breaking in the blogosphere and internet. Please join the discussion by adding your comments on any of these stories, and please do let us know if you think we’ve missed something important, or if there is a source you think should be monitored [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 09:00:00

Erie PA Today News, Events and Info for today, Sunday, January 11, 2009

The Erie area spent yesterday digging out of the snow. Representative Kathy Dahlkemper, now in Washington DC, hopefully spent the day learning the names of the other members of Congress - story. US Navy Seaman Alex McKelvey of Erie PA is serving as an aviation ordnanceman on the aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 13:04:14

Erie PA Today News, Events and Info for today, Wednesday, January 7, 2009

What a bizarre story. Robert Daniels apparently died in the fire he started at the home he lived in on the 1300 block of West 25th Street. Daniels got into a domestic dispute with the women he lived with. The woman went to the police station after being beaten by Daniels. She warned them that Daniels was armed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 12:50:07

Notes from CCC 2008

While attending CCC 2008, I was making notes, as usual (see DIMVA, DeepSec) ... the data Security Failures in Smart Card Payment systems UK process: card reports account #, … ... for a fall-back transaction with a cloned card = PIN entry device should be temper-proof, are certified [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 15:17:17

MW08 - Question #4: What is the future of proximity marketing?

With retailer’s becoming more technologically advanced (RFID, Bluetooth, wifi) what is the future of “proximity marketing” through a mobile device? ... bluetooth, SMS, mobile web, or qr codes represents real and near future opportunities ... through Bluetooth before starting their shopping. They download a widget or application [more...]

Date: 2008-11-08 22:15:09

DEMO: Meet Alcatel-Lucent’s Services Play

While DEMO is primarily a showcase platform for standalone startups, well-established companies launch products there too. This year Alcatel-Lucent has brought an internal startup pushing an RFID tag reading system ... , tikitag is a set of RFID- and Near Field Communication-enabled tags and a corresponding reader [more...]

Date: 2008-09-06 08:19:40

SY SAJJAD: Tracking prisoners inside correctional facilities, and when they leave

January 13, 2009- Sy Sajjad, CEO of AiRISTA, presents a platform approach to deliver a strategic advantage through integration of passive, active and semi-active RFID technologies. I understand that AiRISTA has experience in asset ... active RFID technology. What frequency does the monitoring use? SAJJAD: In our case [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 16:37:30

What Is A Domain Name

By John BlanchardDomain Name Get the stability and reliability you deserve when you keep your domain name with the global leader in domain name registration and Web hosting. Domain Name ServicesCommKal Hosting Solutions provides domain name services which allow you to register, transfer, manage, protect, search, renew, and reserve any [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 20:37:00

Erie PA Today News, Events and Info for today, Monday, January 5, 2009

If you were driving across West 12th Street Sunday evening and wondered what the heck was going on with all the police cars, there was a break in at a warehouse. City of Erie Police officers spent hours searching but the criminal got away before police apparently got away before police arrived [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 12:35:03

A Summary of the National Research Council Report on Healthcare IT

The full text of the report is available free here. I’ve gone through the report and will summarize it loosely below (the most interesting parts, anyway). A couple of industry experts have volunteered to provide their interpretation. Bill Stead, chair of the group, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 04:46:31

Tikitag will bring RFID tagging to all objects

Tikitag hasn’t been in prominence lately but the Alcatel-Lucent company made a pretty significant debut at DemoFall. In fact, the RFID tagging system will go into public beta soon and it’s looking promising ... of things,” and that assertion is pretty close to the truth. In fact, it will allow you to add an RFID tag [more...]

Date: 2008-09-09 07:35:15

Do-It-Yourself RFID Service Tikitag Launches In India; The Market, The Timing?

  tikitag Tikitag, a service that enables the launching of online applications by touching a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) or (NFC) ... to a computer and 10 RFID tags to stick to devices. So you just need to swipe the tag over the reader ... lies if the fact that it is interoperable, and can be used (apparently) with any NFC or RFID reader [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 03:02:16

Roland’s Sunday Smart Trends #233

Americans text more than they talk American cell phone users are sending more text messages than they are making phone calls, ... of a brand-new technology for screening and even diagnosing sleep disorders. The first application ... . It is the first health-promoting mobile phone application [more...]

Date: 2008-09-28 10:48:12

Erie PA Today News, Events and Info for today, Thursday, January 8, 2009

Catholic education in Erie PA in 2009 will soon look more like 1959. There must be enrollment problems at Erie Villa Maria Academy and Erie Cathedral Prep [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 12:42:23

LEGIC moves forward in India gaining credential manufacturer APK-ID as new license partner

Zurich, November 2008–LEGIC Identsystems Ltd, leading provider of contactless Smart Card Technology for personal identification, ... gains the largest manufacturer of RFID products in India as a new licence partner. In future, APK-ID ... technology. With the partnership, APK-ID is reacting to the growing demand for contactless LEGIC advant cards [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 15:45:46

Video: RFID Inventory Tracking For Food Manufacturing

Video: RFID Inventory Tracking For Food Manufacturing See how Nancy's Specialty Foods, the world's largest manufacturer of quiche, ... is the world's cutting edge antenna technology manufacturer for RFID applications and is dedicated to providing antenna solution to any RFID application, including: portal near field, handheld, forklift [more...]

Date: 2008-12-21 02:55:41

"Never Events" Prevented With SurgiCount Safety-Sponge System

A surgeon's nightmare is an event that should never happen ... (in this instance, a 2-D data matrix label) and a scanning SurgiCounter is used to read the labels. Unlike other ... in a hands-free mode. By scanning in the unique labels, the system builds a database of items used [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 20:37:12

Facebook App Keeps Danish Cyclists Green and In Touch

Just in time for next year's U.N ... Blog, Smart Biking relies on "smart tags" which work similarly to RFID technology. In bike-friendly ... agreement in exchange for monies for sustainable city services. Tracking could also benefit riders [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 13:30:14

Sun Microsystems to Lay Off 350

Nortel is likely to cut about 10 percent of its work force. The malaise has started to spread to component makers. For instance, JDSU cut 400 jobs, shut down seven R&D centers and three plants. Anadigics, a Warren, N.J.-based broadband wireless and wireline chip maker cut 15 percent of its work force [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 17:02:09

Product Demonstration Video: CribMaster ModuLock

Product Demonstration Video: CribMaster ModuLock CribMaster ModuLock Electronic Lockers by WinWare "Product Demonstration Video: ... is the world's cutting edge antenna technology manufacturer for RFID applications and is dedicated to providing antenna solution to any RFID application, including: portal near field, handheld, forklift [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 16:01:21

Arphid Watch: Amsterdam, arphids and Elvis

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081002-rfid-passport-hack-has-scanners-seeing-visions-of-elvis (((In a word, "huh? ... RFID behavior, apparently written by van Beek, is uploaded onto a blank card. Using a free Python ... cheese. The sleep of reason brings forth Elvis.))) Link: RFID passport hack has scanner seeing [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 22:25:52

BETA: Biztalk Server 2009 releases Beta 1

clip_image001 4 We recently released the first public beta of the BizTalk Server 2009 and made available RFID mobile features for the current ... to utilize the integrated source control, bug tracking, team development support, Project Server ... experience. BizTalk RFID Mobile also extends the power of BizTalk Server RFID to mobile devices [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 22:28:29

MIT and the City of Copenhagen

I've had a few links about this sent to me, but I haven't figured out how to blog about it. So I'll just chuck up a link and summarise... :-) ... a smart tag that functions a lot like RFID (radio frequency identification) technology. The tag, which [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 08:14:25

Connecting online and off with rfid for the masses

The online and offline worlds are becoming increasingly interconnected, as our sister site trendwatching.com recently noted ... tikitag and Amazon.com for USD 49.95, contains one USB-enabled RFID reader and 10 RFID tag smart ... . Now, a new venture from Alcatel-Lucent is using a version of RFID to give consumers the ability [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 16:25:01

Vangard voice cross enterprise mobile applications -can you add voice to a mobile barcode?

Vangard Voice Systems, Inc. (Vangard), the innovator of AccuSpeech(R) ... not replacing existing services. From the press release “Like the global adoption of RFID and barcode ... a barcode? That my be a question for NeoMedia –but it does certainly make for interesting thinking [more...]

Date: 2008-10-27 17:58:29

Why The Software As A Service Business Model Makes Sense For e-Commerce

Why The Software As A Service Business Model Makes Sense For... Software as a service (SaaS) ... To Mobility Leading Domestic Logistics Provider SingPost Streamlines Express ... Do You Know Where Your Assets Are? Maximizing ROI With RFID... HDNL Adopts Intermec CN3 Technology To Improve Productivity [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 10:17:47

Lifestyle - I Crossed Your Path: at the Intersection of Biking and Social Networking for the Greater Green

Bicyclists in Copenhagen will soon be able to take part in a project that will allow them to track the roads they've traveled, ... , which formally gets underway in 2009, will work through a smart tag that functions a lot like RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 12:05:00

How-to: Read a FedEx Kinko’s smart card (SLE4442)

overview Our wallets are filling up with SIM and RFID cards that contain hidden information ... s completely documented in the datasheet (PDF), and you can buy blank cards on the web. The card ... the SLE4442 datasheet (PDF) if you haven’t already. The pinout is shown in the picture above. If you’re [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 01:29:43

[Dbworld] New Journal (JAL) Announcement and Call for Paper

From: “Zongwei Luo ” <zwluo at eti.hku.hk> International Journal of Applied Logistics (IJAL) ... and Web technologies Knowledge discovery and data mining Mobile and ubiquitous computing RFID and automation Security, vulnerability, and risk management Sensors and measurement technologies [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 02:25:48

Mir:ror By Violet - The First Home RFID-Reader

Mir:ror By Violet - The First Home RFID-Reader Friday, December 19th, 2008 Mirror By Violet The First Consumer Home RFID-Reader ... an object equipped with an RFID-tag. Intuitive and easy-to-use with fully customisable ... remotely controlled services; these once inert now living and communicative objects, just speak [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 07:30:37

INC2009: Call for Papers, Workshops and Invited Sessions

INC2009: Call for Papers, Workshops and Invited Sessions 5th International Conference on Networked Computing (http://www.aicit.org/inc) Multidisciplinary and Hybrid/Convergent research in the Theory, Development, Applications, Experiences, and Evaluation of Networked/Ubiquitous Computing INC 2009: August 25-27, 2009 - Seoul, Korea [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 08:37:00

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