Scoring my 2008 Tech Predictions

I’m about the least unopinionated guy I know.  362 days ago, I made a whole bunch of predictions.  Let’s see how I scored… TV Technology Every major cable company will increase it’s rates by more than 3%. Nobody will complain, and our government will (again) fail to protect us from them [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 22:57:45

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Microsoft Tags

It would seem that Microsoft wants to find a cheap replacement for RFID tags and create a way for consumers to get information on a product with just ... me to what they are calling Microsoft Tag. The tag which will be appearing on Microsoft products this quarter ... for it to work. While these tags will not replace RFID technology in general, it will in [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 23:32:29

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

Your Antivirus Can Be A Door For Hackers

/India PRwire/ - iViZ, an information security company that offers "Green Cloud Security", the world's only on-demand penetration testing for applications, networks and compliance, has announced that it has discovered new classes of vulnerabilities in many popular commercial and open source antivirus software [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 10:02:14

Case Study: Johnson Controls Is Getting A Charge Out Of CribMaster

Case Study: Johnson Controls Is Getting A Charge Out Of... The Battery Group is the largest supplier of automotive batteries in North America ... Department Uses RFID To... Microsoft Partners With Implantable RFID Chip Maker VeriChip Industry Brief: RFID Technology In Action: The Retail Sector... Do You Know Where Your Assets Are? Maximizing [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 07:27:52

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

RFID's new utility in the datacenter

When you think of RFID, you likely think of the radio tags being used to track items in a warehouse or verify prescriptions in a hospital -- two long-time uses of the radio frequency identification tags. But today, RFID's biggest growth ... is now found in the RFID tagging of IT assets, especially those deemed high-value, says Michael [more...]

Date: 2008-08-20 18:47:09

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

Home of the future

Today I had the privilege of visiting the Microsoft HQ at Redwood where were were taken on a tour of the Microsoft Home of ... part in how the home operates - with family members recognised by their mobile devices, and RFID (radio-frequency-identification) technology embedded in virtually everything in the home. So, if family [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 02:08:28

The Daily Buzz - John McCain Says That He Will Not Support Sarah Palin In Her Bid For The 2012 Republican Nomination

-John McCain says that he will not support his former running mate Sarah Palin if she runs for president in 2012 ... in the history of Wall Street?-The Federal Reserve will vote on sweeping reform of the credit card industry ... in one very populated region of India.-Microsoft has now invested in the RFID human chipping business [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 17:15:00

Signposts for the Week Ending Oct. 17, 2008

UX designers aren’t the only one who look to Starbucks for inspiration in their work ... s just pretty! RFID might finally get the kick in the pants it needs to start living up to it’s potential with GE’s battery-free sensor breakthrough. The new platform uses a conventional RFID tag coated [more...]

Date: 2008-10-18 04:20:43

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

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

police state international: false flags & the strategy of tension

german intel agents caught staging false flag terrorfrom paul joseph watons: German intelligence agents have been caught staging a false flag terror attack against an EU building in Kosovo, apparently in an attempt to create a pretext for EU police to be deployed in Kosovo after government leaders rejected the UN-mandated proposal [more...]

Date: 2008-11-28 07:11:00

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

The Future of Clinical Computing: A Vision from Panasonic

This week, Panasonic quietly gathered some of the bigger brains in medical technology and introduced them to the company's upcoming Mobile Clinical ... . Not surprisingly, we spent time discussing Panasonic's family of mobile healthcare products, including [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 14:56:22

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

Week in Review for 11/23/2008

Quick News Links Released docs show feds can tap cells without help Documents received under a FOIA request show that a previously known technology, ... , such as JSON and AJAX currently rule. Nabaztag maker launches a home RFID reader The initial [more...]

Date: 2008-11-23 16:58:59

Posts about Mobile Internet as of January 10, 2009

PROTOTYPE: Mio shows Windows Mobile powered MID at CES - theunwired.net 01/10/2009 jkOnTheRun just reported about a Mio Technology MID (Mobile Internet Device) … to Intel’s MID definition, this device class is mostly running on Linux and designed for mobile Internet access and use. However Mio’s MID prototype (which hasn’t has a name yet) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 18:48:33

The State of the CEP

Another year has passed in the world of Complex Event Processing and everything looks great, or does it? The CEP Market I have followed the CEP business for a while now. In 2001, the early days of CEP, when we started with ruleCore there were basically nothing called CEP [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 10:30:36

Microsoft Partners With Implantable RFID Chip Maker VeriChip

Microsoft Partners With Implantable RFID Chip Maker VeriChip Microsoft plans to make VeriChip's VeriMed Health Link system accessible through ... to manage ... Industry Brief: RFID Technology In Action: The Retail Sector... Do You Know Where Your Assets Are? Maximizing ROI With RFID... RFID-Enabled Pharmacy Asset Tracking With Nauter [more...]

Date: 2008-12-06 00:47:40

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

Week in Review for 12/7/2008

Quick News Links Reality mining and the privacy debate This is an incremental step beyond the existing privacy threats, driven by the same concerns, largely the tension between convenience and the desire to use this data, these tools to improve revenue [more...]

Date: 2008-12-07 12:25:06

Top 10 IT headlines for June 26: Chrysler brings Wi-Fi to 2009 models, IT talent crunch is fault of CIOs

Report shows healthy job growth in U.S. tech sector (TechRepublic) Chrysler takes Wi-Fi on the road (CNET) Microsoft’s big switch to server/client computing (CNET) The IT talent crunch and why it’s the CIO’s fault (TechRepublic) The new geek chic: Data centers (CNET) Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization [more...]

Date: 2008-06-26 18:10:04

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009 Beta

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009 Beta21st 2008f December 2008 The company Microsoft has released another public beta version of its package BizTalk ... enhanced support of the Service-Oreinted Architecture, support of RFID, improved integration ... modules BizTalk RFID Mobile and BizTalk RFID Standards Pa... Software news Archives » [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 18:59:41

Tools of the Trade - 4002 Edition

Hey everyone, Technocrat here. Things have been super crazy around my parts, so I didn't even notice that this is post number 4002 ... RFID devices. It currently drives a couple of RFID readers made by ACG, called the HF Dual ISO [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 01:06:00

Ten technologies to look forward to in 2009

2008 was a great new year for killer new tech. But 2009 is set to be even better, ... lappies that make the MacBook Air look positively huge. RFID payments O2’s wireless wallet trial ... paying for sweets and ciggies thanks to RFID, as well as using [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 10:00:24

News 11/19/08

From Jamie Sommers: "Re: Payerpath. Word is that Art Glasgow, the Payerpath president, resigned from Allscripts-Misys today on a town hall conference call. He was a good guy and the reason why Misys bought Payerpath in the first place." Unverified. From The PACS Designer: "Re: federated identify [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 02:51:37

The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same

Posted on October 10, 2008 at 12:30 PM • 18 Comments • View Blog Reactions Data Mining for Terrorists Doesn't Work According to a massive report ... more Americans live their lives online, using everything from VoIP phones to Facebook to RFID tags in automobiles [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 18:30:19

Integration Story: Laredo's Water Department Uses RFID To Maintain Law And Order

Integration Story: Laredo's Water Department Uses RFID To.. ... Pharmacy Asset Tracking With Nauter Technologies The RFID-Enabled Airport more... ... . Thanks to active RFID tags embedded in seals, combined with motion detectors and video cameras [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 19:04:06

RFID Presentations

Recently I gave two presentations on Microsoft BizTalk RFID, the new module for interfacing with RFID modules ... . It is was very similar to the Tech-Ed one but without the introduction to RFID I gave at the Tech-Ed and more emphasis on the new BizTalk module. You can download it here. . [more...]

Date: 2008-06-06 02:45:00

New Darien Library

LJ highlights some features of the new Darien Library: New  technology, new design RFID for self-check and materials handling is just a tip of the technology infused throughout the building. There are also 21 wireless access points, large LCD flat displays [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 19:44:15

David Rakoff Visits Disney's Dream Home

0711dreamhome.jpg An interesting foray into the world of design by popular writer/essayist/NPR-regular David Rakoff in his piece, " ... , all triggered by small RFID tags. It's exactly like visiting the House of Tomorrow at the World's [more...]

Date: 2008-07-11 11:03:07

Microsoft wants to get under your skin

Microsoft wants to get under your skin The Register | Microsoft’s HealthVault, the medical records database, is to be integrated with VeriMed’s human-embedded RFID tags, allowing doctors to access the medical records of unconscious patients with a quick scan of the arm. [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 02:23:39

TikiTag brings tagging to Real Life!

Here’s TikiTag, a real-life RFID tag that can be used to tag anything in real life.  Think of it as del.icio.us for physical things ... , Gadgets, real life, rfid, rfid-tags, tag, tagging, tikitag, Web, WebApp, World records, Zedomax Related posts Blogger’s tool - use Turbo tagger for Technorati tags Smalled RFID tags are smaller than human [more...]

Date: 2008-09-11 19:03:34

IR glass level detection

’s colleague has done some interesting work using interactive tables ... in a more efficient manner. Paul has worked on another project that uses RFID and capacitive sensing [more...]

Date: 2008-11-08 00:10:49

S3Edge Ushers in a New-Generation of RFID 2.0 Applications With ... - MarketWatch

S3Edge Ushers in a New-Generation of RFID 2.0 Applications With ... MarketWatch - 45 minutes ago Reduced time to market for delivering new value added services ... and RFID Reader Deployment ... Business Wire (press release) Microsoft Continues Innovation [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 15:42:16

[Mycolleagues] 1st CfP: MMEDIA 2009 | July 20-25, 2009 - Colmar, France

Happy Holidays!===========INVITATION=================Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groupsthe following opportunity to submit and publish original scientificresults.=============================== MMEDIA 2009 | Call for Papers ===============CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELSMMEDIA 2009, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 16:48:00

Monday Morning Update 12/1/08

From Jane Grierson: "Re: Whitwell Middle School’s paper clip site. This noteworthy school project has been in existence for a few years. However, the recent magnanimous contributions of MEDSEEK [more...]

Date: 2008-11-30 02:20:42

Microsoft Links Up With Human-embedded RFID Chips

The Register By Bill Ray 04.12.2008 Microsoft wants to get under your skin HealthVault links up with VeriMed RFID chips Microsoft’s HealthVault, the medical records database, is to be integrated with VeriMed’s human-embedded RFID tags ... . VeriMed consists of an RFID tag that is embedded ... [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 17:00:47

Nova Mobile to Present Its SideArm 2 UMPC Handheld Mobile Computer at 2009 CES

Nova Mobile Systems will present its SideArm 2 UMPC Handheld Mobile Computer at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Nevada. The device is an always on Ultra Mobile PC providing full computing and cellular capabilities in a lightweight mobile computing form factor [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 00:46:00

Stealth.Com LPC-450M compact embedded or in-car PC

Stealth.Com have announced a new small-form-factor PC intended for embedded, in-car or industrial applications ... Toronto, November, 2008 - Stealth.Com Inc., a market leader in the industrial computer and peripherals [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 16:10:29

Nova Mobile to Present Its SideArm 2 UMPC Handheld Mobile Computer at 2009 CES

Nova Mobile Systems will present its SideArm 2 UMPC Handheld Mobile Computer at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Nevada. The device is an always on Ultra Mobile PC providing full computing and cellular capabilities in a lightweight mobile computing form factor [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 08:46:00

Data Mining for Terrorists Doesn't Work

According to a massive report from the National Research Council, data mining for terrorists doesn't work ... to RFID tags in automobiles, than a decade ago, and the databases created by those activities [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 12:35:43

Many bots

Computer bot All these APIs for all these excellent vertical web services ... . If you already fool around with Yahoo Pipes and Tarpipe, know about Microsoft’s Live Mesh and “the cloud” [more...]

Date: 2008-12-21 02:02:01

Gateway TechnoLabs (GTL) Becomes a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner in the Microsoft Partner Program

Gateway TechnoLabs (GTL) Becomes a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner in the Microsoft Partner Program December 26th, 2008 Ahmedabad, ... , has announced that they have achieved the Microsoft Gold Certified Partnership in the Microsoft Partner Program ... IT has demonstrated expertise with Microsoft Technologies and a proven ... Posted in Software [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 09:43:04

A Passage to India

In 1605 Joseph Jacobs wrote a story titled Dick Whittington’s Cat, ... is such that many universities are now starting to embed RFID chips in their diplomas to prevent [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 10:22:49

[Dbworld] CFP - APWEB/WAIM’2009 Workshop on Real-Time Business Intelligence (RTBI’09)

From: “Kasim Selcuk Candan ” <candan at asu.edu> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% First Workshop on Real-Time Business Intelligence (RTBI’09) Suzhou, China, April 1, 2009 http://www.sap.com/china/company/sapresearch/en/rtbi09/index.htm (Collocated with 2009 APWEB/WAIM Joint Conference) [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 18:53:14

BizTalk Server 2006 R3 renamed, to be called BizTalk Server 2009

BizTalk Server 2006 R3 renamed, to be called BizTalk Server 2009 By Emil Protalinski | Published: September 08, 2008 - 12: ... services registry, new and enhanced LOB adapters (Oracle E-Business Suite, SQL Server), enhanced host systems integration (updates to MQ, CICS, IMS, CICS), a new Mobile RFID platform and management [more...]

Date: 2008-09-08 00:47:45

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