Research says mobile money transfers may exceed $5 billion by 2013
Research says mobile money transfers may exceed $5 billion by 2013 (Aug 29, 2008) ... ) Add your press release or white paper to IT briefing: Click here Headlines ... · Mythbusters busted over RFID gagging · Video: History of British PCs · Email and web database plans slammed [more...]
Date: 2008-08-29 07:27:51
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A 3D Spime Gateway in Every Home
We noticed an interesting article on the Cisco blog, where author Dennis Mancini postulates the future of Spime technology. Spime? ... pervasive RFID and GPS tracking, can track its history of use and interact with the world," according ... : "Spimes are the logical output of a logistics infrastructure based on now affordable fabbers [more...]
Date: 2008-12-15 07:06:00
Intel Cash Register Knows Who You Are, What You Want (Wired)
(Wired.com) Asking the question: “Do you know who I am? ... you with ads and promotions. Flash an RFID store loyalty card, and your purchase history pops up — ... the counter screen to life with their badge; images of your items materialize. So do related products [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 16:14:34
Intel Cash Register Knows Who You Are, What You Want
By Andrew Blum Asking the question: “Do you know who I am? ... , baiting you with ads and promotions. Flash an RFID store loyalty card, and your purchase history pops up — [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 21:17:11
Intel Cash Register Knows Who You Are, What You Want
By Andrew Blum Epicenter | Asking the question: “Do you know who I am? ... , baiting you with ads and promotions. Flash an RFID store loyalty card, and your purchase history [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 12:04:32
Discovery Channel Pushing NWO Human RFID Chip Implant
Related conspiracies: civil rights, fascism, global surveillance, human databasing, human microchip, Intelligent Technology, population control, RFID Related posts Suspect Nation - High Tech Surveillance Conspiracy Tracking The Troops ... of Suppressed History Martial Law 9/11: Rise of the Police State [more...]
Date: 2008-11-22 00:54:01
Sniftag: The Internet of Things includes pets too
The SNIF website is intuitive and easy to use. When you log in, you’ll find all the information your dog’s SNIF Tag has recorded: the other dogs he met, his activities and exercise history, and all kinds of helpful tools to help ... The Sniftag is an RFID-enabled accelerometer, which uniquely identifies your pet, tracks [more...]
Date: 2008-11-13 22:19:49
not ready for spime-time pedagogy
I'm teaching Bruce Sterling's Shaping Things right now and thus thinking of his neologism, the spime ... with linking those two. In addition, the spime also tracks its own singular history. That is, this particular ... became a smart object. Rafael Macedo de la Concha had an RFID chip implanted in his arm that can track [more...]
Date: 2008-11-23 12:41:42
TIME’s Best Innovations Of 2008
TIME: From a genetic testing service to an invisibility cloak to an ingenious public bike system to the world’s first moving skyscraper — TIME’s ... with RFID tags so they’re easily trackable. The Memristor Scientists have known it was possible for 37 ... its history even when turned off. One possible application: a computer that flicks on instantly [more...]
Date: 2008-11-04 18:11:11
Welcome to The Ministry of Love
Tom Zoellner recently wrote an excellent article on the appointment of Janet Napolitano as Minister of The Ministry of Homeland Security under the ... we’re not headed to a police state, RFID chipping, presenting papers at checkpoints and a whisper away ... , below. Partners in Pink UnderwearJanet Napolitano’s embarrassing history with Sheriff Joe Arpaio [more...]
Date: 2008-12-01 16:59:39
RipoffReport.com for finding any negative before you buy Online!
Here’s an interesting site I came across today, it’s called RipoffReport ... in order to create a working history on the company or individual in question. better business bureau ... brings Web 2.0 Tagging to the Real World with RFID Tagging System! (1) rVita Launches ‘Nirvana’ [more...]
Date: 2008-11-26 23:54:41
links for 2008-09-20
History of Pizzy Packaging This article describes the often-ignored but high-potential world of pizza packaging ... , and the Controversial RFID Episode (tags: Interview Mythbusters) Teleportation Mishaps: The Sickest Teleportation [more...]
Date: 2008-09-20 18:07:15
More Government TWICS To Tickle My Funny Bone.
Ha, Ha, I ain't laughing, motherfuckers.TWICS is the Latest and Greatest way for the government to track my ass.First I had to give up smoking weed because what I do is considered to be Safety Related in the Transportation Industry,I am subject to Random Piss Tests,that alone pissed me clear the fuck off, now this.I am NOT a Happy Camper right now [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 02:12:00
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
Military challenge: Make spy data more accessible
Here’s an idea: Predator drones have no business being in Washington state. What they are talking about here is a total surveillance society ... analysts to detect and access sensors from different sources.” “Let’s say you’re an analyst, and you want (to find) out what’s going on in Bellingham, Wash., and you don’t know what sensors are available [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 17:34:06
The way the brain buys
Retailers are making breakthroughs in understanding their customers’ minds. Here is what they know about youIT MAY have occurred to you, during the course of a dismal trawl round a supermarket indistinguishable from every other supermarket you have ever been into, to wonder why they are all the same. The answer is more sinister than depressing [more...]
Date: 2009-01-01 13:14:00
Private firm may administer UK surveillance database
We’re living in a Twilight Zone episode. It’s time to roll back this global police state insanity now ... like these are worthless in the long run. In the first security crisis the locks would loosen.” ... , has been used as important evidence in 95% of serious crime cases and almost all security service [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 15:21:09
Erie PA Today News, Events and Info for today, Tuesday, January 6, 2009
A large portion of the westside in Erie PA has been shutdown since 4:30 am this morning when a guy with a rifle went postal. Baur Lane to Brown Ave, 25th to 21st Streets have been barricaded. The suspect fired a number of shots including at police officers. He also has set fire to at least one home and there are reports of up to 3 homes burning [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 12:22:49
Erie PA Today News, Events and Info for today, Sunday, January 4, 2009
Disturbing story on GoErie.com about Kevin J Feyas, a teacher that resigned amid allegations of sexual misconduct with students. Feyas will not be prosecuted as the statute of limitations has expired. Good teams always come through in the clutch, in times of adversity, and when its top players are not at the top of their games [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 13:27:06
Erie PA Today News, Events and Info for today, Friday, January 2, 2009
A man was beat to death near East 38th and Ash on New Year's morning. Jermaine Vaughn was arrested for the murder. The name of the victim was not released. Both men were at a Mercyhurst College party and apparently argued over a woman. Mia and Adrian Spracklen of Erie PA are on their way to Ethiopia to bring home the 6 month baby boy they adopted [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 12:33:21
Eye Scans and Fingerprints=Future of Payment?
Scientists at UK based Barclaycard are developing futuristic biometric technologies that will make paying with body part scans mainstream. Contactless payment has gained in popularity recently, with RFID cards and key fobs leading ... to plastic in the next five to 10 years with new technologies to take its place emerging now. It could [more...]
Date: 2008-09-10 15:53:47
Baghdad’s Post-Blast Wall Bibliothèque
As I kept flipping through the images in this gallery of Baghdad’s incredible blast wall murals, recalling fairly recent news of how the U.S. military had begun dismantling some of the barricades in Dora (a district in Baghdad), and even more recently how control of the Green Zone was just handed over to the Iraqi government, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 01:01:00
ALA2008 Privacy Revolution Panel
does anyone care if their library records are being tracked? should they? ALA OIF has received a grant from the Open Society Institute/Soros Foundation to explore the issue of privacy in the digital age Panelists: Dan Roth (Wired), Cory Doctorow (CrapHound), and Beth Givens (Privacy Rights Clearinghouse) [more...]
Date: 2008-06-30 07:27:11
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
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
Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Industries Face RFID / SCM Challenges and Opportunities in 2009
An increase in government activity affecting the use of RFID and other related SCM technologies in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries ... . The U.S. Department of Commerce and the European Commission are eager to promote RFID in Europe ... U.S./EU RFID symposium last fall, both sides have committed to jointly pursue frameworks for advancing [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 19:10:50
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
IF YOU LOVE FREEDOM, PLEASE READ THIS POST
I did not write this. It was posted by a member of Silicon Investor. But, I wish I had. It is one of the best rants I've read and everyone who cares about their country and their freedom should read it. We could lose it all if we don't wake up as a nation. No matter where you live on this planet you should read it [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 14:11:00
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
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
Tories versus loan companies
Tory Housing Spokesman Grant Shapps recently published a report entitled Pay-Day for Loan Sharks which complains that companies lending small sums of money for short periods of time to poor people charge excessive interest rates. Iain Dale quotes Shapps as saying: [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 12:08:03
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
Chapter XIV: The Cost of Government
So What's Wrong with Big Government?Taxes at all levels currently consume about $5 trillion out of a $14 trillion economy, or more tan a third of the Gross Domestic Product. The federal budget alone consumes about 20% of the GDP. There are of course great debates about the effects of such large expenditures [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 18:01:00
2008 Terrorism
As 2008 comes to a close we must look back at America's security and terrorism in general around the world ... , gaping holes in our security. Dave Gaubatz* comments on the recent Department of Homeland Security's ... the report itself to be a national security threat for America ??? more importantly for the children [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 01:13:07
Prophetic Trends We Monitor
1. Where is the United States in Bible Prophecy? One of the most common questions regarding Bible prophecy is where is the United States in scripture? Many nations of the world are not mentioned in scripture, however it is hard to understand how the world's most powerful nation would not be. At least not in a way that we recognize it clearly [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 19:05:09
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
Internet-of-things on CNN
(((Soon to rename itself "Cloud News Network," I reckon.))) http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/11/02/digitalbiz ... ) technology, which allows things to be "read" by an NFC (Near Field Communication) scanner, bar-code ... , over time. The reason why RFID is often called next-generation bar code is that the technology [more...]
Date: 2008-11-02 13:10:23
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
The Implanted Radio-Frequency Identification Chip: “Smart Cards” in a Surveillance Society
Dandelion Salad by Tom Burghardt Global Research, September 6, ... when a RFID reader emits a radio signal. The chips are divided into two categories, passive or active. A “ ... 2008Antifascist Calling… RFID tags implanted in physical objects or human beings If incorporating [more...]
Date: 2008-09-07 17:29:50
BUSH'S UNFINISHED BUSINESS, AND HIS LEGACY
This post came about because, as I was scanning Google News, I notice the Dallas News (paper) ... the article and tainting my lily white consciousness with his Bushit, give MY list of Bush's ... . He did not get an RFID chip, and the numbers "666" implanted in the flesh of every American2. He did [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 16:18:00
Heise Security: Microsoft - Customers play "Russian roulette" with their systems
# Info World: Researchers hack into Intel's vPro Posted: 07 Jan 2009 08:58:38 # Threat Level: Weak Password Brings 'Happiness' to Twitter Hacker "An 18-year-old hacker with a history of celebrity pranks has admitted to Monday's hijacking of multiple high-profile Twitter accounts" Posted: 07 Jan 2009 08:58:21 # IAIK TU Graz: RFID Tag Emulators [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 19:41:31
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
Spime! Internetting every thing, everywhere, all the time
Internetting every thing, everywhere, all the time @ CNN... It's called "The Internet of Things" -- at least for now ... " by an NFC (Near Field Communication) scanner, bar-code-style, as well as to store information ... called next-generation bar code is that the technology is more accurate, scanners can read [more...]
Date: 2008-11-05 16:46:44
Failed Predictions
Failed Predictions Predicting the future is a notoriously difficult endeavor and yet there is never a shortage of people willing to play the game, especially at the end of a year. Many of the predictions for 2009 seem to involve world politics. For example, over at Psychic World, [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 23:28:47
Erie PA Today News, Events and Info for today, Saturday, January 3, 2009
Brent Carey was the name of the man beaten to death by Jemaine Vaughn near East 38th and Ash Streets in Erie, PA. The two knew each other and were at a party at a Meryhurst College apartment. Neither attended the school - Carey was 27 and Vaughn is 31, and they were believed to have argued about a woman [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 04:25:57
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
Zeitgeist - The Movie: Federal Reserve
After watching what has happened over the last year, ... American Union that uses a single currency, the Amero, without the ratification of Congress ... . The movie concludes that under such a government, every human could be implanted with a RFID microchip [more...]
Date: 2008-11-01 18:05:00
