Society's Secrecy Fetish

A hot topic of conversation at last week's CRN/IEET seminar on Global Catastrophic Risks was the whole issue of privacy, ... , you're already using RFID. Your Speedpass contains a microchip and a small antenna that allows ... . The title was Privacy and Accountability: "You need not be paranoid to fear RFID," says an op-ed piece [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 17:57:10

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The NASCAR Experience Part One - What Does it Feel Like to go 175 MPH?

Last weekend I was invited to a NASCAR extravaganza weekend event by Mobil 1 Official NASCAR Sponsor to get up close ... from Motor Trend, writer for Muscle Car Magazine and car builder Jason Lewis , Road & Track and a few ... -frequency identification (RFID) tags installed at multiple locations all over the vehicles for [more...]

Date: 2008-10-16 15:31:07

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

Hack the Planet

You a fan of ’95 Angelina Jolie movies? Oh well.An 18-year-old college student in Canada – majoring in Chemistry, mind – built a small lab in his garage. Of course, the police decided he was making meth and arrested him. Then, after admitting several days later that the lab was not, in fact, used for making drugs, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 02:49:00

Walking the White Road: Stop 1.

Welcome to the first stop on Tania Hershman's magical (and virtual) book tour of several continents!Last Sunday I finished reading Tania's debut collection of short stories, THE WHITE ROAD, and enjoyed the experience very much. I wrote a short review here. There is further information here on Tania's page of her publisher's 'Cyclone' website [more...]

Date: 2008-10-28 14:55:00

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

"Enhanced" Licence May Enhance Privacy and Security Risks

This week the Ontario legislature will resume debate on Bill 85, proposed legislation that could lead to the creation of an "enhanced drivers licence" ... (RFID) within the card, is the outcome of that work. While the enhanced card will be optional ... as a photo card for non-drivers - has received little public attention despite the urgent concerns [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 09:25:14

Your Digital Trail and the New Big Brother

Your Digital Trail and the New Big Brother About 100 students at M.I.T. are trading privacy for a smartphone that tracks their calls, messages and movements. Photo by Jodi Hilton / NYT.Even its practitioners acknowledge that, if misused, collective intelligence tools could create an Orwellian future on a level Big Brother could only dream of [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 04:34:32

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

IBM is U.S. patent king in 2008; first to 4,000 patents

IBM is U.S. patent king in 2008; first to 4,000 patents Posted by Andrew Nusca @ 1:21 pm Categories: Offbeat news, Corporate news Tags: Patent, ... s presence in a baby car seat, a method for blind people to find their way around using radio frequency identification, and a cheaper way to build nanotechnology used to make chips. IBM said it plans [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 21:21:12

RFID and Digital Signage Integration

RFID tag integration for digital signage targeting and information display If we were to throw privacy out the window and just talk about the “far-out” technological possibilities of RFID and digital signage, we may well see how both ... ll certainly see more integration with other devices like mobile phones. In fact, RFID chips [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 19:29:14

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

Big Brother celebs not just being watched, but tracked

Housemates in the latest series of Celebrity Big Brother are already being watched by scores of cameras around the clock ... behind Big Brother, selected Wavetrend -- a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) specialist ... . But now their precise movements are being tracked thanks to RFID technology installed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 17:53:02

David Icke - Big Brother, the Big Picture

Jump to related videos, comments, books, and DVDs Quotes from this video The thing is about this big brother state, you see, is that it’s happening in country after country.. I had a German film crew come see me a few days ago… they were going on about the big brother state being introduces in Germany [more...]

Date: 2008-10-28 20:17:38

IBM endorses smart technology and a smarter planet

A while back when I was at the Idea Lab at the Design Exchange, I remember sitting over a coffee and exploring a thought exercise with some clients ... s population. Energy systems that waste more energy than they produce. Traffic in our cities that clogs [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 21:36:03

David Icke - Big Brother, the Big Picture July 6th 2008

Jump to related videos, comments, books, and DVDs Quotes from this video The thing is about this big brother state, you see, is that it’s happening in country after country.. I had a German film crew come see me a few days ago… they were going on about the big brother state being introduces in Germany [more...]

Date: 2008-10-28 20:17:38

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

GAO Offers 134.2 kHz LF Animal Bio-Glass Tube RFID Tag with Injector

Toronto, Canada - GAO RFID Asset Tracking Inc. (www.GAORFIDAssetTracking.com) recommends its 134.2 kHz low frequency (LF) RFID Tag (GAO 112004) ... readers, RFID tags and enabling-RFID software. We have a wide variety of RFID readers, tags ... identification of animals that are registered in a database. Injection shape and size are based [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 09:20:17

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

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

FCW - Agency urges anti-cloning feature for passport cards

Federal Computer Week Agency urges anti-cloning feature for passport cards By Alice Lipowicz Published on November 12, ... . Unique identifier numbers can be put on those RFID tags by the manufacturer. Recent studies have shown that RFID tags put on the passport card and on state-produced enhanced drivers licenses [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 23:37:00

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

RFID chips in U.S. passport cards and some driver's licenses are at risk of being cou

RFID chips in U.S. passport cards and some driver's licenses are at risk of being counterfeited or tracked, researchers say. ID inside: The antenna in the new U.S. passport card, shown above, emits radio frequency ... identification (RFID) devices that can be read at a distance. If a traveler holds a card [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 10:48:48

GAO: DEFENSE LOGISTICS - Lack of Key Information May Impede DOD’s Ability to Improve Supply Chain Management

GAO: DEFENSE LOGISTICS - Lack of Key Information May Impede DOD’s Ability to Improve Supply Chain ManagementJanuary 12, ... improvements. DOD has identified two technologies included in this roadmap, item unique identification (IUID) and passive radio frequency identification (RFID), as having promise to address weaknesses in asset [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 01:29:00

Using LiveCycle Designer ES to create and print RFID labels

LiveCycle Designer ES lets you create and print RFID labels to capture data. RFID (radio-frequency identification) is an automatic identification technology whereby digital data that is encoded in an RFID tag ... . Using RFID does not require the tag or label to be seen in order to read its stored data. obtained [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 19:25:33

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

Election Day politics entries are in our Election 2008 blog

06:32 AM in Election | Comments (1) November 03, 2008 Tagging Taco Trucks What? ... , and no customer gets sick with food poisoning. The new system will use radio frequency identification technology. The tags will be stuck on each mobile food truck, and will register the daily [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 12:32:40

Microchipping Dogs

We've decided to microchip every pup that leaves here from now on. Why? First, it's an added benefit to our clients ... about, all microchips are basically the same. A little radio frequency identification (RFID) chip [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 20:25:09

OBAMA HEALTH PLAN POSES DANGER TO AMERICAN FREEDOMS

by NWV News director, Jim KouriJanuary 13, 2009 © 2008 NewsWithViews ... up at the emergency room without their card, the government will require that the rfid chips ... all the medical records. Next, control access to the records by use of a card containing [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 13:32:01

Amcom Software Adds RFID to Call Center Capabilities

Amcom Software has added radio frequency identification (RFID) capabilities to its call center suite. With this update, Amcom offers precise, automated, staff location and management using RFID. The RFID technology works with the Amcom system to automatically update where hospital staff [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 21:28:44

Weekly Newswire November 7th, 2008

Access this week's industry, legal, and policy news.. ... the county has chosen RFID technology, Dupuis says. The system uses passive tags from RFID Global ... with the decrease in the price of tags and readers. Further, implementation of RFID technology by ... RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 17:50:58

Tikitag: Real World Object Tagging, RFID based Service in India

Tikitag RFID based service Tikitag.com, which offers real world objects tagging through its RFID based tagging service that based on the concept of linking the online world with the offline ones, has now started its services in India along with its packages that includes RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) Readers and Tags that stick [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 17:38:47

GAO Offers Mini Metal Temperature Resistant RFID Tag

Toronto, Canada – GAO RFID Inc. (www.GAORFID.com) recommends its mini metal RFID tag (GAO116601).The passive RFID is temperature resistant and offers excellent data-transmission on metals, wood and plastic. The optimized mini metal RFID tag can be used for any applications where small form [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 06:43:23

WashingtonTechnology.Com - Feds see strong demand for border-crossing cards

From my archive of press clippings: Washington Technology Feds see strong demand for border-crossing cards 04/21/08 -- 04:51 PMFeds see strong demand for border-crossing cards By Alice Lipowicz Hundreds of thousands of Americans have applied voluntarily for new and expanded border-crossing identification cards that will serve as [more...]

Date: 2008-10-27 23:10:00

Infinite Brings Thin-Film Batteries Closer to Mass Market - Earth2Tech

Infinite Brings Thin-Film Batteries Closer to Mass Market Earth2Tech, CA - 6 hours ago It didna t disclose its first customers but has said it is targeting makers of wireless sensors, radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, smart cards, ... [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 16:42:22

Global RFID: The Value of the EPCglobal Network for Supply Chain Management: Edmund W. Schuster, Stuart J. Allen, David L. Brock

Global RFID: The Value of the EPCglobal Network for Supply Chain Management: Edmund W. Schuster, Stuart J. Allen, David L. Brock ... for transforming business through the use of low-cost, radio frequency identification (RFID) tags ... The EPCglobal Network and RFID technology, initially developed by the Massachusetts Institute [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 22:31:51

GAO’s 2 Port UHF RFID Reader Identifies Objects Moving at 40km/h

GAO’s 2 Port UHF RFID Reader Identifies Objects Moving at 40km/h Toronto, Canada – GAO RFID Inc. (www.GAORFID.com) recommends its newly designed UHF RFID Reader Writer (GAO 236002). This modular unit provides easy ... and other applications. GAO RFID’s UHF RFID Reader/Writer has high accuracy and the capability [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 20:38:08

Erie PA Today News, Events and Info for today, Saturday, January 10, 2009

Erie received enough snow that Erie Mayor Joe Sinnott declared a snow emergency lasting until 8 am Monday ... , who now lives in Charlotte, NC, Spiegel joined the speedway staff in 2005. She works in the guest services [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 13:50:24

RFID World China to Host the First 2009 China International RFID Technologies and Applications Show

Shenzhen, China (January 08, 2009) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — Dedicated to create an first-ever RFID application show in China, UClink Media ( ... , RFID peripheral equipment and RFID system integration solutions, GPS, RTLS and wireless sensors ... RFID World China) along with GD-HK RFID Alliance, GS1 Hong Kong and EPCglobal Hong Kong [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 10:02:49

Erie PA Today News, Events and Info for today, Thursday, January 1, 2009

GE Transportation, the Erie PA based unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) ... from their cable systems. Time Warner Cable dropped the Lilly Broadcasting stations in the areas in and around [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 12:10:30

Wal-Mart To Adopt Radio Frequency Identification On Chinese Mainland

Wal-Mart To Adopt Radio Frequency Identification On Chinese Mainland China Retail News Writes: Retail giant Wal-Mart has announced plans to adopt radio frenquency identification for products ... is expected to be a heavy burden for Wal-Mart's 1,000 ... Tags for this Post: bar code, China, Wal Mart [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 21:55:54

Bush Administration: Dismiss RFID 'Mark of the Beast' Lawsuit

By David Kravets EmailNovember 13, 2008 | 6:20:32 PMCategories: ... by a group of Amish farmers in Michigan claiming RFID chips required on cattle "are a mark ... at Michigan, which adopted RFID requirements last year. The case should be dismissed [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 14:31:01

Seattle's KIRO Moves From News/Talk to Sports, Sports a New Logo

1861. Recently Seattle's KIRO radio, one of the biggies and the way-back-when stations, kind of on a par with our own KGW or KEX moved from News/Talk to Sports radio. KIRO 710 AM's logo ... ) is translated successfully into the entire logo. The letterforms in the frequency and the city [more...]

Date: 2008-11-15 17:30:30

Tikitag - your very own RFID kit

Tikitag - your very own RFID kit tikitag-starter-pack.jpg ... RFID - or radio frequency identification - is a technology that allows identification and tracking ... , but now a company called Tikitag is selling an RFID kit that you can use at home. The Tikitag starter kit [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 12:41:55

[Dbworld] CFP: The Third International Workshop on RFID Technology - Concepts, Applications, Challenges

From: “Yanbo WU” <yanbo.wu at student.adelaide.edu.au> The Third International Workshop on RFID Technology - Concepts, Applications, Challenges ... Background and Goals —————————– Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems are emerging [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 03:28:35

Microchip Implants Create Fast-Growing, Malignant Tumors – and a Planetary Prison

Microchip Implants Create Fast-Growing, Malignant Tumors – and a Planetary Prison Sunday, 28 December 2008 7: ... articles spanning more than a decade found that mice and rats injected with glass-encapsulated RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 10:22:07

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