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

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Santa Clara Crime Lab Turns to RFID

Original article posted here. At the California facility, EPC Gen 2 tags will keep tabs on evidence as technicians perform DNA typing, ... Bacheldor Nov. 5, 2008—In a new California crime lab, passive RFID tags will help dozens ... an EPC Gen 2 RFID system consisting of Alien Technology’s Squiggle RFID tags, to be affixed [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 23:13:52

Pacemaker Wireless Power Off Exploit and Countermeasure

A recent study by Kevin Fu, an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and director of the Medical Device Security ... . After WISPer receives a sequence of wireless requests from the RFID reader, it emits constant ... generated by the Alien ALR-9640 nanoscanner, a UHF RFID reader running the EPC Class 1 Gen [more...]

Date: 2008-08-14 16:26:32

good day sunshine

Its 7:30am and I'm sitting in the parking lot of LGA waiting for my dad to get in so I can drive him home ... me to heaven post apocolypse. (i spent last night in bed watching videos about martial law, 2012, rfid chips ... crashing, alien invasions, putin the anti christ, the second coming christ, bible codes to predict [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 12:25:28

40% Productivity Gain for GEL-AL of Turkey

June 3, 2008, Morgan Hill, California – Alien Technology, a leader in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Ultra High Frequency (UHF) ... totes travel throughout the various production stations. STS, a leading RFID systems integrator in Turkey, equipped each tote with an Alien® high-performance UHF/EPC compliant M-tag (inlay), which [more...]

Date: 2008-07-08 19:48:08

Do you Poken?

Say hi to the Poken, a cutesy RFID reader, available in Voodoo, Bee, Alien or Panda form ... of each social network you choose is displayed as a link on your Poken Card, which shows only your most basic information. Your contacts can view your Poken Card on doyoupoken.com, but, if they want to see [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 15:04:14

Alien Technology Beams In $38M

Morgan Hills-based Alien Technology, a developer of RFID products and services, said Monday that it has raised $38M in a new funding round ... in for supply chain, logistics, and asset tracking applications. [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 21:14:00

Alien Squiggle

PingMag has a piece about RFID chips, but, of course, being PingMag, they are less concerned with the technological possibilities, say, or privacy concerns, than with the crazy designs of the chips [more...]

Date: 2008-07-05 20:29:24

Motorola Tops Newest RFID Reader Vendor Rankings

Analyst firm ABI Research produced its first ranking of passive UHF RFID reader vendors. Motorola was the overall highest-rated manufacturer, with Impinj leading in innovation and Alien Technology taking the top spot for implementations. ABI said it was impressed with the strength [more...]

Date: 2008-07-23 18:48:56

Alien Gets $38M in New Funding, Brings Total to $329M

Alien Technology announced it received $38 million in new investments, bringing its total to $329 million. The privately held maker of passive UHF RFID inlays and readers said it expects this is its final round of private financing. [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 20:52:54

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

Venture Firms Pull Back, But Not for Long

Venture firms are sounding the alarm over what this current downturn might mean for their portfolio companies — and it’s not pretty.  While it’s true that great companies are built during downturns, it’s also true that plenty of entrepreneurs are going to be shut out of any sort of financing for the foreseeable future, [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 04:01:04

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

News Briefs 11-09-2008

I've known for years that, no matter how good your firewall, there's no faster way to royally mess up your computer than to do a thorough search for '9-11 Truth' or conspiracy news. So it took quite a bit of doing, but in honor of the 7th anniversary of September 11, there's (finally) a wealth of both in today's news [more...]

Date: 2008-09-11 22:05:55

Zoomius Takes Motorsports Timing on a New Course

Zoomius Takes Motorsports Timing on a New Course The Northern Californian startup company is one of several that have recently launched race-timing ... › Cosmetics and Liquor Companies Assess Toppan Printing's Holographic RFID Labels › RFID ... solutions involving passive RFID EPC Gen 2 tags and interrogators. DOD Needs to Enforce [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 09:18:21

DOD Needs to Enforce Its Own RFID Mandate, Says Inspector General

DOD Needs to Enforce Its Own RFID Mandate, Says Inspector General Many suppliers and contracting officers are failing to comply with the U.S ... Holographic RFID Labels › RFID News Roundup › Google India Uses RFID to Locate ... . Defense Department's directive for applying passive RFID tags to certain shipments, according [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 20:03:29

General GWiR 12 December 2008 from IP Think Tank

IP Think Tank’s weekly selection of top intellectual property news breaking in the blogosphere and internet. Please join the discussion by adding your comments on any of these stories, and please do let us know if you think we’ve missed something important, or if there is a source you think should be monitored [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 09:00:00

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

Taiwanese Agency Tests a Broad Range of RFID Uses

Taiwanese Agency Tests a Broad Range of RFID Uses The Initiative Office for Government RFID Applications is presently studying RFID's ability to ... of mangos and the injection of medication. RFID News Roundup GE Healthcare buys RTLS vendor Agility ... compliance is still primary driver for RFID adoption. SUBSCRIBE [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 00:55:50

RFID Excellence in Business awards announced

As part of RFID World 2008, TechInsights and RFID Revolution have announced their selections as winners of the second annual RFID Excellence in ... for their iREAD Platform for item level retail. The RFID Visionary of the Year: Victor Vega, Alien ... or implementations demonstrate the benefits of RFID. The awards this year were offered in six [more...]

Date: 2008-09-11 20:17:00

Happy Halloween! Have Some Way Weird Recordings

I love Halloween. I was bummed that I didn’t get to celebrate it as festively as I wanted to this year.  I was really interested in executing this awesome jack-o-latern idea (it involved the carving of a backwards B, that’s all I’m gonna say) [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 17:10:23

Alien Technology Closes $38 Million in Funding

Alien Technology Closes $38 Million in Funding The RFID tag and reader vendor says its investors were heartened by the company's product revenue, ... Holographic RFID Labels › RFID News Roundup › Google India Uses RFID to Locate Shared ... RTLS at EPC Connection 2008 The company, a startup with a revolutionary approach to RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 10:17:13

Alien Technology: Yet Another Failure For Government-Run Economic Development

I read in the Fargo Forum that yet another much-touted economic development project here in North Dakota is failing. Alien Technologies, a company that opened up shop in Fargo to make RFID tags, projected a payroll of 319 employed Fargo-area workers. To date, the company has only managed to employ 35. FARGO [more...]

Date: 2008-09-29 16:38:05

How world-changing are the culture and politics of free software?

Geert Lovink interviews Christopher Kelty on the issues covered by his book Two Bits, before Kelty’s joining of the UCLA staff in August 2008 ... that ‘geeks’ can be studied as an ‘alien tribe’. Much like the Australian aboriginals once, ordinary [more...]

Date: 2008-08-23 08:07:01

On the Culture of Free Software

On the Culture of Free Software: Interview with Christopher Kelty by Geert Lovink - It is still rare that anthropologists study modern technology, let alone the politics of free software. The Houston-based scholar Christopher Kelty, who just moved from Rice University to UCLA, has done precisely that [more...]

Date: 2008-08-25 20:05:08

AGDC: Bruce Sterling keynote

Again, sorry for typos. Bruce Sterling, Future of Entertainment Hello, thanks for having me into your event today, and thanks for that intro. Though there is a problem with that, I am not Bruce Sterling. He couldn’t make it, he sent me instead. The reason he couldn’t make it is that in 2043, Bruce is 89. Dr [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 16:58:39

RFID - More Interesting Than You Realised

RFID - More Interesting Than You Realised By Samantha Gilmartin on Sep 11, 2008 in Hardware | comments(0) RFID technology is something that most people would claim to know nothing about. The technology ... of an RFID device right now. RFID, short for Radio Frequency Identification, is a umbrella term [more...]

Date: 2008-09-12 06:21:38

Interview with Geert Lovink

Internet-famous activist and media theorist Geert Lovink just did an email interview with me about Two Bits. The questions were sharp and some of the very best ones I’ve been asked.   The original is at Networked Cultures, but I’ve reposted it here as well [more...]

Date: 2008-08-24 16:08:23

DOD Awards Passive RFID Contract to Six Vendors

DOD Awards Passive RFID Contract to Six Vendors The contracts have the potential to provide the military with $75 ... a Broad Range of RFID Uses The Initiative Office for Government RFID Applications is presently studying RFID's ability to track the whereabouts of hikers, the harvesting and shipment of mushrooms [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 22:12:00

Video: ADASA Tag Anything Tag Anywhere

Video: ADASA Tag Anything Tag Anywhere During in-process tagging the "the last foot" is the most expensive phase of the RFID tagging process ... , And Impinj Top New Passive UHF RFID Reader Vendor... 5 TransCore Completes Initial Deployment ... RFID Reader Chip Operation Impinj, Inc. toptenright RFID Special Features [more...]

Date: 2008-07-29 15:15:41

Alien Technology® Demonstrates RFID Technology Advances At RFID World Conference

Alien Technology® Demonstrates RFID Technology Advances At... Alien Technology, a leader in passive Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) products and services, today announced its platinum sponsorship of RFID WORLD. Alien ... New "Choctaw" Stock RFID For Box And Pallet... WaveMark And Mercy Medical Center Selected [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 21:35:24

Poken: Another social networking tool

Poken: Another social networking tool Title: Poken: Another social networking tool PermaLink: http://www.rfid-weblog ... looking RFID readers but for a change here are some cute looking readers which will pep up your mood if you are feeling low. Dubbed as Poken, this adorable RFID reader is available in Alien, Bee [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 15:50:46

Chertoff on the No-Match Rule

Remarks by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on the State of Immigration and the No Match Rule Release Date: October 23, 2008 Washington, D.C. Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center Secretary Chertoff: Good morning everybody [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 03:59:49

Metalcraft introduces enhanced windshield tag

Iowa-based Metalcraft, a specialist in property identification solutions, has launched a series of five RFID labels with expanded memory capabilities, including a windshield tag with a 512-bit memory. Metalcraft’s new RFID Windshield Tag features a 512-bit memory [more...]

Date: 2008-09-11 20:15:00

Taiwan RFID Technology, Applications Showcased at International Exhibit

Taiwan RFID Technology, Applications Showcased at International Exhibit The TAITRA exhibit draws 60, ... Toppan Printing's Holographic RFID Labels › RFID News Roundup More News › FEATURED ... 000 potential buyers of RFID technology and includes 50 vendors sharing RFID technology [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 23:19:12

Get your poke on with party Poken

Get your poke on with party Poken Remember the old days? ... , and now there's an invention to stop even the slightest desire to exchange vowel sounds. Say hi to the Poken, a cutesy RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 13:43:14

Improve your interaction with technology with DIY Tilt Sensitive RFID Tag and RFID Reader Detector

Improve your interaction with technology with DIY Tilt Sensitive RFID Tag and RFID Reader Detector ... to its inner workings but with the DIY RFID reader detector and tilt sensitive RFID tag the technology ... in which you can create your own DIY Tilt-Sensitive RFID Tag and RFID Reader Detector!! See full article [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 03:17:50

GAO RFID Adds Alien Portfolio to Its RFID Product Line

GAO RFID Inc., the leading Canadian provider of RFID solutions has added Alien Technology Inc.¡¯s to its extensive and ever-expanding solutions portfolio. [more...]

Date: 2008-07-27 20:01:21

Testking comptia vce dumps

CompTIA exams The files are group by the exam number ... HTI+ CompTIA i-NET+ CompTIA Linux+ CompTIA Network+ CompTIA Project+ CompTIA RFID+ CompTIA [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 15:24:23

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