Federal Lawmaker Targets RFID In Privacy Push
I just wrote yesterday about the new RFID law that went into effect in California on January 1st that bans “skimming” information from RFID-enabled ... all products containing RFID chips to be marked clearly so consumers know which products contain them ... protections against various privacy threats that RFID technology poses (still to be determined).The [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 19:23:00
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WHTI: Another Link in the Control and Surveillance Grid By Kurt Nimmo~Infowars In the PSA here, happy young people tote their Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) RFID cards as America ... specifically RFID. “The RFID component stores the traveler’s relevant information. Card readers that Unisys [more...]
Date: 2008-10-16 16:05:56
Prevention Measures and Instructions for Identity Theft
by Landon McGehee The theft of names, addresses, social security numbers (SSN) ... frequency identification (RFID) reader gathers information ... , bank account information, credit card numbers and other personal information, commonly known [more...]
Date: 2008-07-20 05:20:00
Prevention Measures and Instructions for Identity Theft
by Landon McGehee The theft of names, addresses, social security numbers (SSN) ... frequency identification (RFID) reader gathers information ... , bank account information, credit card numbers and other personal information, commonly known [more...]
Date: 2008-07-19 21:12:00
Prevention Measures and Instructions for Identity Theft
by Landon McGehee The theft of names, addresses, social security numbers (SSN) ... frequency identification (RFID) reader gathers information ... , bank account information, credit card numbers and other personal information, commonly known [more...]
Date: 2008-07-19 20:56:04
Prevention Measures and Instructions for Identity Theft
by Landon McGehee The theft of names, addresses, social security numbers (SSN) ... frequency identification (RFID) reader gathers information ... , bank account information, credit card numbers and other personal information, commonly known [more...]
Date: 2008-07-19 21:09:33
IBM IOD/Gold - Sensors Galore
The next Gold session is Real World Visibility and Process Innovation by Scott Burroughs, Product Mgr of Sensors & Actuators, and Daniel Hernandez, Mgt of RFID Information Center. Scott painted the overview of sensor ... applying RFID to transport and warehouse logistics for asset tracking and supply chain optimization [more...]
Date: 2008-10-28 18:09:58
Daily news beat for August 20, 2008
RFID's new utility in the datacenter. The No. 1 growth category for RFID tags is IT asset management ... information security. Related: Four exotic uses of RFID that just might surprise you. CRM host Salesforce.com scoops up InStranet, the maker of knowledge-based management products for call centers in a deal [more...]
Date: 2008-08-20 17:40:07
Faces As Brands / Data Containers
Consider the placement of sticker graph for call girl ads on the handle of a Perdizes phone booth, in a Tokyo club bathroom, ... ? And to whom? The future perfect of stickers will include more digitally readable information - RFID, QR codes, faces, ..., and naturally the tools to read them. Mismatched life cycle expectations [more...]
Date: 2008-10-26 00:28:34
IBM events: not the whole story
(Philip Howard) A couple of months ago I reported on the announcement of IBM InfoSphere Streams as the company's high end (complex) ... , that turns not to be the case: I have subsequently unearthed further products that fit within ... (ITS, previously the WebSphere RFID Information Center), neither of which were mentioned in Boston. [more...]
Date: 2008-12-17 06:45:36
The future of Data Warehouses
An article caught my eye in the Teradata Magazine this month - Steve Brobst, CTO of Teradata, outlined 4 areas he thinks will drive data warehousing: ... , strike me as having broader impact. While non-traditional data and in-database analytics (further ... , such as RFID information, will dramatically increase the volume of data and the need for timely [more...]
Date: 2008-12-10 04:29:40
Tagged and tracked at the toll booth
Are you one of those folks who loves the convenience of zipping through the toll plaza with one of those electronic toll-paying systems like FasTrak ... toll devices use Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology to broadcast information ... booth can receive it. Strangers with the right transponder reader walking through a parking lot [more...]
Date: 2008-08-07 19:20:38
Sneak peek: an excerpt from "Human Suffrage"
Regardless of who wins, the 2016 elections will finally bring an end to the so-called "third and fourth Bush terms in office ... an early lunch break and strolls down to City Hall, only a few blocks from his firm's office. The RFID ... , considering the information it has just listed. It consults with the central server in Green, Ohio [more...]
Date: 2008-11-17 04:09:21
The Matrix is Expanding
Homeland Security is now using a RFID Scanning device that will allow border patrol agents to scan your papers from at least 50 feet away ... on their own RFID scanners and "skim" your information from afar; effectively picking your pocket ... . These scanners are powerful enough to gather your passport and other identification through [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 15:37:39
Create an RFID blocking Copper Wallet
The reasons I decided to build this wallet are because of my new credit card, an AMEX Clear (amazing), which has an RFID tag, my school ID, and some research I did on how easily these really ... , and plugging it into your computer, then collecting all the credit card RFID information that goes [more...]
Date: 2008-09-13 05:20:46
More ways for you Identity to be Stolen
From NewsMax… The devices, called Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) machines, allow officials to read remotely any passports, pass cards, and driver’s licenses that contain special chips with personal information. The RFIDs are so sensitive that, even before [more...]
Date: 2008-12-07 16:52:04
Bar Codes In Healthcare
Bar Codes In Healthcare A recent article that cited a report conducted by University of Pensylvania School of Medicine concluded that bar codes were ... For A Wireless, Mobility, And... The Advantages Of FRAM-Based Smart ICs For Next Generation... Is All Personally Identifiable Information Really Personal? By... RFID: Finding An Active ROI By Bert [more...]
Date: 2008-08-21 14:55:07
MEDITEL- 2008
The Medical computer society of India (MCSI) leads in organizing an International conference-MEDITEL2008(www.meditel2008.com) ... , healthcare educators and researchers, health administrators, health technologists and IT vendors The event will feature use of ICT for medical education, touch-screen patient information facilities, RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 11:43:20
Pervasive Open Infrastructure
Pervasive computing provides a means of broadening and deepening the reach of information technology (IT) in society ... for pervasive systems. They are collected together into a middleware platform, an intermediary between sensors ... the same information. Location may be sensed directly from RFID (radio frequency identification [more...]
Date: 2008-10-07 18:01:00
TAKE Solutions partners with LIBA to launch Center of Excellence for Supply Chain Management
TAKE Solutions Ltd. and Loyola Institute of Business Administration have today signed a Memorandum of Understanding to launch the Centre of ... , extending Newsvendor models, unlocking the value of RFID, leveraging the value of information ... . We wish to increase collaboration with the Industry and Academia and this COE will be a great [more...]
Date: 2008-07-14 17:07:45
Printed Circuit Board Tracking with RFID
Omnitrol Networks and Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) developed a radio frequency identification (RFID) ... integration appliance, Gen 2 RFID readers and Texas Instruments' RFID Gen 2 UHF chips. The off-the-shelf ... -floor management. The manufacturing pedigree information is automatically programmed into the RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-06-19 11:49:28
ASIS&T 2008 - Whither LIS Education
Panelists Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information Ann Prentice, ... has an impact on information, ramifications of RFID, and understanding everything from impact [more...]
Date: 2008-10-31 16:20:55
ASIS&T 2008 - Whither LIS Education
Panelists Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information Ann Prentice, ... has an impact on information, ramifications of RFID, and understanding everything from impact [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 04:45:01
Pervasive ICT
ONE THING VISITORS to my blogs continue to tell me is the era of pervasive information and communications technology (PICT) ... meetings, RFID, satnav, free wifi, and smart phones. Put them all together and you have a PICT cocktail ... actually work to help me register the tag because it's actually powered by RFID. I'm looking at ways [more...]
Date: 2008-11-17 15:49:00
Governor Signs SB 31 - A Modest RFID Regulatory Law
I'm not going to lie, I'm still a bit steamed the Governor vetoed SB 29.. ... be "chipped" with an RFID tag grinds me the wrong way. I mean really, parents, not schools, should decide ... information from an RFID without the consent of the ID holder. The prohibition does not apply to law [more...]
Date: 2008-10-01 15:36:00
December 20 SOA News
Five fearless predictions for SOA 2009ZDNet - USASOA seemed to become more and more pervasive across companies, ... to drive down those costs. ... SOA for the greatest logisitical night of allZDNet - USA Dave suggests RFID-tagging all goods, with information flowing real-time across an SOA-enabled system. SOA can also [more...]
Date: 2008-12-20 14:21:00
Three + Three = Three? Does Security Lose Out?
Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher I received a notice from the event production firm, Worldwide Business Research (WBR) ... to improve packaging and labeling and guarantee patient safety and pedigree compliance. In response ... around Procurement, Information Management, Warehouse Management, Supply Chain Security, RFID, Anti [more...]
Date: 2008-11-20 17:05:30
Cooktop concept could help College crowd
Designer Matthias Pinkert has created a very interesting electrical stove concept which promises to help college students and those just starting ... . Another interesting feature is the RFID reader which will glean information on food packaging to manage [more...]
Date: 2008-09-19 16:52:50
Radiator 09: Exploits in the Wireless City
I’m bound for Nottingham later this week for the Raditor Festival and Symposium, ... will be networked in a complex system of information exchange. Based on technologies such as RFID (radio frequency identification tags), our environment would turn into a space of “ambient intelligence” [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 15:39:09
Pirelli Cyber Tire adds some smarts to your slicks
Pirelli Cyber Tire adds some smarts to your slicks by Nilay Patel, posted Aug 28th 2008 at 8:28PMTire monitors are nothing new, ... load, sending the information along using RFID. The self-powered Cyber Tire Lean, which will hit ... , and is being billed as an "intelligent tire" that will interface with vehicle systems like ABS [more...]
Date: 2008-08-29 00:35:09
Mobility@Your Library - #6 Productivity Tools
Here is #6 of 10 categories of how libraries use mobile devices.#6 Productivity Tools ... eWorksheetsEXAMPLES: When I asked for examples of library mobile or wireless tools, I heard from Jaye ... , allows a library staff to store scanned barcode (or RFID) information on a handheld device [more...]
Date: 2008-11-30 18:17:00
Video: an everywhere world (RFIDs, tracking, the Internet of Things)
Some good snippets here - and some of some quite scary, too: "An "Everyware" world, as Adam Greenfield calls it, is a world in which computers are embedded and merged seamlessly everywhere in the environment. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags communicate their position and other information constantly in a vast network [more...]
Date: 2008-09-28 11:27:15
SecureRF receives SBIR grant to develop a secure, satellite-enabled, RFID system
Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher SecureRF Corporation has been awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) ... identification (RFID) system. The secure global RFID system is intended to verify the actual location ... protocol within an active RFID tag with GPS functions. For more information, see the press release [more...]
Date: 2008-12-05 22:08:19
Alien Technology RFID
As RFID expands into more applications, the simple knowledge that a given tag was seen at a certain read point is sometimes inadequate ... information about the tag. This capability enables the RFID system to enhance a number of fundamental applications of passive, Gen 2 RFID, and will open up many new applications and sources of ROI [more...]
Date: 2008-11-18 15:00:00
360 Spin Launches All Virtual Tours in Flash!
Read More... | 3571 bytes more | Score: 0) Page 1 of 141 (1406 total stories) ... for Quality Used Cars Online · GAO Recommends its 433MHz Active RFID Reader · Latest RFID Wrsitbands ... Long Range RFID Reader · Modern Bathrooms and Showers are Greatly Related · Informative Graphics [more...]
Date: 2008-12-13 00:50:09
The Mir:ror Is A Consumer Level RFID Reader For Your Home
The makers of the Nabaztag Rabbit are at it again. This time around they’re offering a device called the Mir:ror. It plugs into your computer via USB and displays information associated with objects ... :ror package includes RFID stickers that you place on the object and once you’ve associated an item [more...]
Date: 2008-10-27 20:39:00
The Internet of Things: More from CNN -Internetting every thing, everywhere, all the time; Sensor networks for the elderly
The Internet of Things has gone mainstream. Yesterday I posted about David Orban's recent presentation at SHiFT 08: ... , and includes links to additional information about concepts, such as RFID, or Radio Frequency Identity [more...]
Date: 2008-11-02 19:05:12
Microchip Additions to Clothing Possible
Link to Video Microchip Additions to Clothing Possible CHAN: Ever feel like big brother is watching you sometimes? ... a conference on Wednesday to confer upon the usage of Radio Frequency Identification in garments. This technology otherwise known as RFID employs tiny devices which can respond with identifying information [more...]
Date: 2008-12-09 14:00:17
5 Great Gifts For Travelers
The electronic gadgets we travel with just keep getting more sophisticated and plentiful. Here are some tech savvy gifts all travelers will love ... all our sensitive and private information. It’s time for everyone to invest in a RFID blocking wallet to prevent hackers and techno thieves from grabbing our identification with scanners as they pass [more...]
Date: 2008-12-15 12:10:20
RF Code Announces Wireless Environmental Monitoring Solution
AUSTIN, Texas & DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–RF Code, Inc ... the Active RFID in Asset Tracking track, along with IBM. For more information click here ... . , a leader in automating physical asset management using RFID enabled solutions, today announced [more...]
Date: 2008-11-06 20:03:41
WARNING BILL 85: The Ontario Government is secretly pushing through “big brother” legislation - using RFID tags in Drivers Licenses to track your movements unencrypted
“The introduction of enhanced driver’s licenses, which appears to be a central focus of Bill 85, ... by the Government, Businesses and other organizations. RFID tags So what is Bill 85? Yes ... or information to the public, however soon ALL drivers licenses will have a new RFID tag embedded within [more...]
Date: 2008-10-29 10:58:07
Mythbusters gagged by credit card companies over RFID episode
Remember back in March, when I posted instructions on how to hack RFID credit cards and get all their information from a distance of up to 40' or more? Apparently Mythbusters was going [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 15:51:00
Students, Bluetooth Light the Way for Blind Pedestrians
Imagine yourself walking through the streets of a strange city ... doing it while blind. A team of students at the University of Michigan has not only imagined ... identification (RFID), transmitted between a hand-held receiver and an information transmitter [more...]
Date: 2008-10-31 12:22:44
Two Historic RFID Regulation Bills—Important to Our Privacy and Safety--Await Governor Schwarzenegger’s Decision
Zack-Kaldveer.gif By Zack Kaldveer Consumer Federation of California Tiny computer chips called Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) ... and other government issued cards without our knowledge. These “human identification systems” pose clear information security risks that can threaten individual privacy and public safety. RFID chips allow [more...]
Date: 2008-09-25 12:06:05
Now, a device to find you best bargains
Now, a device to find you best bargains 28 Dec 2008, 0000 hrs IST, ... radio frequency identification (RFID) to identify their location, and gives them information [more...]
Date: 2008-12-28 16:02:40
Motorola VC6096 WWAN In-Vehicle/Fixed Mount Mobile Computer
Motorola VC6096 WWAN In-Vehicle/Fixed Mount Mobile Computer Simultaneous support for GPS and telematics applications provides the information you ... ... Psion Teklogix 7530 G2 Handheld Computer Domino RFID-Enabled Data Center Management Intellitag 915 MHz Intelligent ID Cards MIKOH Smart&Secure: Retail RFID Tag Venture Research: RFID Antennas [more...]
Date: 2008-11-07 18:31:15
Eyewear Retailer applies RFID to eliminate shoplifting
Santa Fe Optical applies EPC tags to all of the frames it sells, helping it to eliminate shoplifting and streamline inventory management ... has a number printed on it—the same number encoded to the RFID chip inside the tag. At that time, employees manually input the RFID tag number into the store’s inventory database, along with other information [more...]
Date: 2008-09-12 10:10:46
Wavemark-Lumedx RFID technology helps Florida Hospital reduce costs
HealthCare Management was recently informed of a product launch that could potentially, help hospitals lower their inventory costs, improve tracking of medical devices, and positively impact patient care. The new RFID technology enabled system is being launched jointly by Wavemark: a market leader in real-time inventory [more...]
Date: 2008-12-13 07:12:05
Location + Business Intelligence = Business Value
Here are several excerpts from an informative article by Jessica Tsai, Editorial Assistant for CRM Magazine, Locating Intelligence: ... (RFID) or the global positioning system (GPS). In addition, an individual’s location ... this past June. Previously, the two vendors supported a partnership that allowed customers [more...]
Date: 2008-09-23 14:46:09
RFID for Safer CT Contrast Agent Delivery
Covidien Imaging, a subsidiary of Mallinckrodt, is releasing a new RFID (radio frequency identification) ... of an RFID tracker chip within the injection syringe, and a communication system that writes dosing information into the chip during fill-ups. From the press release: The RFID-enabled system creates [more...]
Date: 2008-07-30 21:34:29
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