USB-enabled smart transit card to trial in France
Smart cards that combine RFID contactless transaction capability with USB connectivity will be trialed by French public transportation company SNCF ... with a mind of its own Instant EPC Hotspot RFID Visualization Software Solar Powered RFID tracking ... according to a report from RFID Journal. As well as working with existing RFID transaction [more...]
Date: 2008-09-11 07:17:15
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RFID Sewn In
We’ve started to see the introduction of RFID to track things like store inventory, travelers in airports and passport holders - and next, ... a trackable RFID tag that can be sewn into garments and withstand washing machines and ironing. We’re ... you wonder how connected our clothes will be in the future. RFID Journal reports: Another of RFID Lab’ [more...]
Date: 2008-08-14 15:02:36
Picking nits
I'm getting tired of thesis editing. I decided to take a break when one of comments was that I should change " ... , "radiating" is better. But that's just my opinion. My crankiness was not helped by reading the RFID Journal article on the recent brouhaha over RFID-generated EMI to medical equipment. If you aren't aware [more...]
Date: 2008-07-11 20:40:31
Yes Bank Uses RFID to Personalize Service
Yes Bank Uses RFID to Personalize Service The Indian bank is issuing RFID-enabled cards to wealthy clients so they can be recognized and promptly served when they enter its branches. DOD Awards Passive RFID Contract to Six Vendors ... at RFID Journal LIVE! Europe › Zoomius Takes Motorsports Timing on a New Course › DOD [more...]
Date: 2008-10-13 17:47:16
MICROCHIP ANYONE - IT WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE, REALLY
http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=5488EXCERPTED FROM ABOVE LINK:Microsoft's HealthVault, the medical records database, ... and their families safe," says Sean Nolan, the chief architect for HealthVault, quoted in RFID Journal ... is to be integrated with VeriMed's human-embedded RFID tags, allowing doctors to access [more...]
Date: 2008-12-27 22:46:00
Australia’s Woolworths Abandons RFID Plan To Trace Produce Crates
Australia’s Woolworths, which runs the country’s largest supermarket chain, has given thumbs up to one RFID trial and thumbs down to another, according to a wonderfully detailed story in RFID Journal. “The retail giant tested UHF EPC Gen 2 tags at selected supermarkets and supplier distribution centers to determine the economic viability [more...]
Date: 2008-10-21 07:01:39
Would You Like to Carry Your Medical Records…under your skin?
What are you visioning for your health? Medical records embedded in your arm. Is this the future of health? Read on. ... and their families safe,” says Sean Nolan, the chief architect for HealthVault, quoted in RFID Journal. If you’ ... . Microsoft wants to get under your skin HealthVault links up with VeriMed RFID chips Bill Ray [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 20:40:18
RFID Works For Big Brother
RFID Works For Big Brother British reality program Celebrity Big Brother is using Wavetrend active RFID tags to track the movements of the show's participants. By Claire Swedberg, RFID Journal Smart Bottles Reduce Glass Breakage Inventory Management Helps Build A Bridge: Glidewell... Case Study: Whiteman Airforce Base Keeps The B-2 Bomber [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 14:51:45
Welcome to Parallelnormal
more about “Welcome to Parallelnormal“, posted with vodpod Posted in Big Brother, Globalism, Homeland Security, Personal tech, Privacy, Propaganda, Psyops, RFID, Surveillance, Ubiquitous computing, Uncategorized Tagged: animations, Journalism, technologists, technology, Videos [more...]
Date: 2008-11-24 19:40:26
SF uses wireless sensors to enable smart parking
This fall, San Francisco will test 6,000 of its 24, ... without returning to the car. Read full article New York Times Technical article RFID Journal ... [more...]
Date: 2008-07-13 18:24:00
Katherine Albrecht Gleefully Hammers Nails into Verichip's Coffin
(((She can't repeal the RFID revolution singlehanded, but she can pick 'em off out of the herd ... reveals how news outlets like Time Magazine, Business Week, and the RFID Journal (((tremble [more...]
Date: 2008-06-06 12:16:00
Arphid Watch: RFID tags, the Amish weigh in
(((Hey, good one, Threat Level.))) (((Congrats for the "award for innovation in journalism," too.))) http://blog.wired ... the tagging of livestock with RFID chips, saying the devices are a "mark of the beast." Michigan and federal authorities say the radio frequency identification devices (RFID) will help monitor the travels [more...]
Date: 2008-09-12 06:58:15
SWF to Video Converter Series V 3.3 Released
Read More... | 4273 bytes more | Score: 0) GAO Offers 125kHz (LF) Handheld RFID Reader W / LC ... Technology - Electronics - Hardware gaorfidinc writes: This portable reader is a Data Collection Terminal designed to scan RFID tags and store their ID-codes in journal memory based together [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 15:44:09
Nokia RFID Phones And Cashless Payments Are Ready *
Wise Up Journal 06.11.2008 The text below is from Nokia’s European site and it speaks for it’s self: credit cards, loyalty cards, and travel card details stored in your mobile phone allowing for “touch” purchases and file transfers. Convenient RFID tracking conveniently accessed by outside devices. Radio Frequency [more...]
Date: 2008-11-06 13:44:30
Fox News: Bill O’Reilly and Roger Ebert Promote Benefits Of Insane RFID Brain-Chips (Video) *
Wise Up Journal 29.10.2008 by Gabriel O’Hara drawFlash("movie001","425","355","http://www.youtube.com/v/arUMVF2kYIc","#ffffff",false) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arUMVF2kYIc O’Reilly (2:55) said [more...]
Date: 2008-10-29 11:22:45
Busy Bees Get Workshy When Times are Good
The stereotypical image of the hard-working bumblebee has been shattered by new research published in the journal Behavioural Ecology and Social ... transmitters (Radio Frequency Identification or RFIDs) to the bees, to determine the frequency [more...]
Date: 2008-11-17 11:02:00
In-Store Retail Advertising Causes as Many Woes as Wows
The Wall Street Journal’s Emily Steel describes the latest in in-store video advertising and RFID ... now is to figure out how to use them most effectively: Procter & Gamble is placing radio-frequency identification tags on products at a Metro Extra retail store in Germany so that when a customer pulls [more...]
Date: 2008-08-25 08:49:18
New RFID Chips Could Pose Threat To Data Protection
(Crealis) -- A research article published in the current issue of the International Journal of Intellectual Property Management suggests that Big ... regarding data protection are not addressed in the design of new RFID applications. Radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips can be found tagging everything from groceries and clothing [more...]
Date: 2008-11-18 17:27:11
EETimes focuses on patent buying activities of RPX Corp.
Shortly after the Wall Street Journal did a story on Intellectual Ventures and Nathan Myhrvold, ... communications and Internet search and another on RFID and distribution of goods."They have important ... , president of IPotential (San Mateo, Calif.), a patent consulting and brokering firm said RPX could [more...]
Date: 2008-09-18 07:39:00
My afternoon at PICNIC08
Talk one of four at PICNIC was a small seminar for the European Journalism Center ... - metal posts that rise out of the ground to block spaces to unauthorized traffic. When an RFID ... and tags for your content. The media suggestions appear in a window, and you can drag and drop them [more...]
Date: 2008-09-25 22:02:24
[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
My afternoon at PICNIC08
Talk one of four at PICNIC was a small seminar for the European Journalism Center ... - metal posts that rise out of the ground to block spaces to unauthorized traffic. When an RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-09-25 22:02:24
My afternoon at PICNIC08
Talk one of four at PICNIC was a small seminar for the European Journalism Center ... bollards - metal posts that rise out of the ground to block spaces to unauthorized traffic. When an RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-09-25 14:19:08
Local Startups Pitch Investors at Grubstake Breakfast
I was cruising around the interwebs this evening and came across an interesting article at Tech Journal South about the Grubstake Breakfast helpd in ... ) utilizes an array of patent-pending techbnology and proprietary software platforms to inlay RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-06-12 23:52:59
Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/13/2009
Check out tonight’s “behavioral sink” stories from the UK. Every night there are at least a few, but tonight seems to have more than its share ... Europe and the EUEurope Develops RFID License Plate TrackingItaly: WWII Supreme Court Explains Why ... : Threatened Algerian Writer One Year in ItalyTunisia: Emigrant Revenue Grows by 10% in 2008 Israel [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 04:58:00
Motorola Creates New Divisions in Advance of Split
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Motorola has divided itself into three units, rather than two ... s not happening anytime soon — despite cool services such as Apple TV or Amazon’s streaming service ... its growing RFID and corporate radio assets might fall within this new organizational structure [more...]
Date: 2008-07-28 14:14:50
The Future Has Arrived: Notable Technological Achievements in 2008 and What They Mean for the Future
The Future Has Arrived: Notable… Articles Listed by Industry Health Care Manufacturing Computer/Semiconductor Telecommunications Energy ... Nanotechnology Retail/Marketing Automobile/Aerospace Defense Aging Services Other Articles ... , 2007 Tracking Future Technology: nanotechnology, robotics, biotechnology, rfid [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 16:31:15
2008 Medical Sci-Fi Contest: Please Meet the Stories!
We are excited to announce the results of this year's medical sci-fi contest, and to present to all our readers the top three stories, ... that he is a Senior Writer for Exhibitor and Corporate Event magazines, was also Yahoo Internet Life's ... , It's a Bitter Little World, an ode to film noir, was published in 2005 by Writer's Digest Books. Please [more...]
Date: 2008-11-28 04:51:14
State of the AmLaw 200 Blogosphere, November 2008
Law firm marketing and business development professionals have been politely getting after Kevin McKeown, our VP of Client Development, for an updated report on large law's use of blogs. Innovators, such as Gloria Fox at Blank Rome, are looking for hard data for their law firm's management that their competition has effectively addressed any [more...]
Date: 2008-12-01 16:14:23
Hospital hazards, "Holy Crap" Department
We take for it granted that technology can be used to tag objects in various ways, useful and otherwise. The anti-theft devices used on retail clothing stores are a familiar example. Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFID) are used for this purpose as well as for security access. I have a device [more...]
Date: 2008-06-29 19:49:32
NanoNews
David RejeskiDirectorProject on Emerging Nanotechnologies Abstract:The National Research Council (NRC), which carries out studies for the U.S. National Academies, released a report in December that highlights the significant shortfalls of the Bush administration in identifying and addressing the environment, health and safety (EHS) [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 11:33:00
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
City Eco Labs and other compelling reasons to go on living
(((My residency at Sandberg Instituut has ended gracefully and I am in transit for the next few days. Please console yourselves with the brilliant outpourings of the mighty John Thackara.))) Doors of Perception Report By John Thackara November 2008 City Eco Lab - from Open Money to VeloWalas CITY ECO LAB ENCOUNTERS If you know of another [more...]
Date: 2008-11-01 08:37:52
Picnic08: Connected rabbits, running shoes and cable providers…
Kara Swisher of the Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital converses with - grill, perhaps - Mike Fries of Liberty Global, the world’s second largest cable operator. The focus is on the future of television, and Fries feels very, very strongly that the future is professional, random-access content [more...]
Date: 2008-09-25 11:32:58
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
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
Second Batch Of Vulgar Websites Exposed In China
Second Batch Of Vulgar Websites Exposed In China Other China News China Hospitality News: ... : Colorful Oriental Omelet Emergency Chinese: Buying Airline Tickets China Trivia: Who Is Not A Writer ... Travel Fair to be held again next March RFID World China to Host the First 2009 China International [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 02:27:37
The End of A World
“Many will find it difficult to hear beyond the deafening roar of the engines of deceit.” -Surfing the Tao: A Revolution of Free Will The Phoenix returned to its ashes recently, both literally and symbolically. A new son is rising, and the world is prepared for change [more...]
Date: 2008-11-16 08:44:22
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
5 Big Implications of YouTube's New Govt Channels
5 Big Implications of YouTube's New Govt Channels by Alvis Brigis | 2 Comments 4 Sentilla raises $7.5 million for 'smart' software-sensor solutions ... by Garry Golden | 0 Comments 3 Earth 2100 Game Imagines "Perfect Storm" Catastrophe Scenario by Adam Cutsinger | 0 Comments 3 Surge of Hybrid and Electric Cars in India, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 21:03:37
[Video] Visions of Future Urban Landscapes
Visions of Future Urban Landscapes by Garry Golden | 0 Comments 3 Surge of Hybrid and Electric Cars in India, China by amisampat | 0 Comments 2 Does the road to Electric Vehicles pass through China? EV Startup o... by Garry Golden | 2 Comments 2 Stanford launches $100 million global energy institute, as Californ.. [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 20:09:11
Blog Proud v. Blog Tolerant - How Are Big Firms Presenting Their Blogs?
Well, the visits to 3 Geeks and a Law Blog shot into the stratosphere this week with our posting of Monday's List of Large Law Firm's "Officially Sanctioned Blogs". With help from the ABA Journal Online and Above the Law, we've had thousands (yes, thousands!) of visits to what we believe to be the best Legal Blog covering Technology [more...]
Date: 2008-12-03 11:00:00
Roland’s Sunday Smart Trends #235
D-Day for RFID-based transit card systems Want to ride the subway for free without having to jump the turnstiles? ... is showing the VitOL project, a technological platform for the realization of logistical information ... out of the equation When people working on a project get together [more...]
Date: 2008-10-12 10:23:32
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
MORNING INTELL: Aging Reversed, Thanksgiving Thanks, Obama Citizenship
‘’ ‘′ ‘′ ‘’ ‘’ BLOGOSPHERE NEWS: November 27 2008 THE SCOOP: * THANKSGIVING is for Thanks, Right? * New Drug Reverses the Effects of Aging? * 100s injured, dead in INDIAN Terrorist Attack * Obama Citizenship Questions Continue * Big Brother Alert * Brainy Obama? HAPPY THANKSGIVING! [more...]
Date: 2008-11-27 16:53:17
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
News 12/17/08
From MM: "Re: EMR. $83 million for an EMR? Unbelievable! Who besides me thinks EMRs cost a little less than an order of magnitude too much? I don’t blame vendors entirely. I blame the conceptual model used in the industry (CDR-centric that duplicates data already available electronically) [more...]
Date: 2008-12-17 03:07:57
Converging digital and physical infrastructures: instrumented, interconnected, intelligent
I was listening to Sam Palmisano’s talk on “A Smarter Planet” as part of the Technology and Foreign Policy discussion at the Council for Foreign ... million RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags within 2 years. The world is becoming [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 20:20:42
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
Study: RFID Tags May Scramble Hospital Equipment
A new study is raising questions over how radio frequency identification chips could be interacting with hospital equipment ... . They also power many cities' transit payment systems and are used for animal identification and store theft [more...]
Date: 2008-06-25 18:49:31
