"MARKETS: Healthcare, wireless may still thrive in 2009"
While almost all segments of the electronics industry will be flat or decline in 2009, a few exceptions are possible, according to ABI Research, ... year. Likewise, the use of Wi-Fi technology for healthcare will continue to expand and RFID technology could even benefit from the tough economic times, since RFID tags increase operational efficiency [more...]
Date: 2008-12-17 18:52:00
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RFID Keeps Police Operations Safe And Secure
RFID Keeps Police Operations Safe And Secure In April of 2008 Prince William County in Virginia implemented the Compass system to provide increased ... Retail Pilot Quantifies RFID's Many Benefits more... ... Ordering With RFID ILR® Brings Visibility To Container Flow For Volkswagen Elby Gifts: The Gift of Giving [more...]
Date: 2008-11-14 16:18:26
Compliance Remains King Among Consumer Goods Manufacturers, But Other Benefits Begin to Prompt RFID Adoption
Consumer goods manufacturers and retailers continue to adopt RFID largely for the sake of compliance with mandates from the likes of Wal-Mart, ... that RFID can deliver are growing in importance and will eventually overtake compliance as the leading market driver for RFID uptake in this vertical. According to research director Michael Liard, “ [more...]
Date: 2008-10-05 19:46:49
Warehouse Technology - from the old to the new
by Graham Mawdsley, Senior Consultant I first set foot in a retail distribution centre 30 years ago as a management trainee, ... flexibility, but even a small-to-medium size (and cost) example will often offer considerable ... of setbacks and ‘false dawns’, RFID still promises opportunities and benefits for introduction [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 11:08:23
Users Report RFID Value in Integrated Data
Issue #169 | Nov. 7, 2008 | by Michael Dortch RFID is already delivering significant business benefits to the supply chains of multiple types and sizes of businesses. However, the business value of RFID and related technologies can extend ... from Aberdeen Group seeks your help in identifying new opportunities for RFID business value [more...]
Date: 2008-11-07 16:15:05
Nike’s USA Track and Field uniforms unveiled
Shaving milliseconds of personal best times could mean the difference between gold and silver at the forthcoming Beijing Olympics - and once again ... activity Washable RFID tags to benefit clothing logistics Sporting gloves and boots with 16X times [more...]
Date: 2008-07-03 07:54:19
Automate MRO Material Ordering With RFID
Automate MRO Material Ordering With RFID Oil States International (OSI) is a $2 ... For Volkswagen Elby Gifts: The Gift of Giving - Increased Sales, Better... Wood Companies Look To RFID To Raise Yield, Reduce Carbon... Italian Retail Pilot Quantifies RFID's Many Benefits Retail Giant [more...]
Date: 2008-11-14 15:17:14
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
The Five Stages of RFID
As manufacturers come to accept the inevitability of RFID, they are also discovering some tangible benefits. [more...]
Date: 2008-12-17 09:21:22
Weekly Newswire October 9th, 2008
Access this week's industry, legal, and policy news... Radio-Frequency Tags Cut Specimen Bottle Errors U.S ... , is proposing that busy labs add radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags to track and ... Compliance Remains Top Reason , But Other Benefits Begin to Prompt ... SDA Asia Magazine Consumer goods [more...]
Date: 2008-10-09 20:41:06
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
Taspo rules bring retail back to tobacco
Last summer, the Japanese tobacco industry imposed a rather large burden on itself by requiring the use of Taspo (tobacco passport), an RFID identification and payment card, for adults to purchase tobacco from vending machines ... campaigns, free gifts, and other benefits are simple with small retail spaces. Of course [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 04:54:35
Facebook App Keeps Danish Cyclists Green and In Touch
Just in time for next year's U.N ... Blog, Smart Biking relies on "smart tags" which work similarly to RFID technology. In bike-friendly ... agreement in exchange for monies for sustainable city services. Tracking could also benefit riders [more...]
Date: 2008-11-21 13:30:14
Future Technology Trends
Its that time of the year. Yes this is when we start looking at the future. According to Future of IT study by CIOInsight ... in many different flavors (wireless, wired, etc.) and have benefited from lowered costs. 7. Sensors/Smart ... , is still flexing its muscles. IT executives show the same level of interest in RFID as in 2007, which [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 17:05:32
PAUL FOWLER: Sensors increase value of RFID in pharma supply chain
Nov. 13, 2008 – Paul Fowler of Axway discusses how sensors add to the integrity of pharmaceutical distribution, adding benefits way beyond ePedigree. Does that mean they are working with sensors, certainly in the case of temperature? FOWLER: Absolutely. Our products can track and analyze data from sensors for temperature, shock and location [more...]
Date: 2008-11-12 23:19:05
Sonic's Sonolator processing systems offer a wide range of benefits including Reduced Processing Time
Sonic's Sonolator processing systems offer a wide range of.. ... Sulfide Oxidation System PRINTRONIX SL4M MP2 RFID Printer Mobile Vacuum Conveyors ... together to deliver world-changing products. The next time you develop a new material, consider how [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 05:02:11
Get an exclusive identity at Geek Terminal Singapore - Singapore’s Premier Business Lounge in the Heart of the CBDwith FREE Hi - SPEED wifi and FREE ... Terminal gave themselves 3 criteria to meet;a. The members must not carry another card. Everyone knows ... to carry another card or anything extra to what they already have for that matter.b. Without a car [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 13:38:54
Designing product packages? How it’s made?
A designed product’s package fulfills several different functions it provides a protective shell for transportation and storage, acts as a vital source of information to the product’s user in today’s heavily manufactured world, and performs an important marketing role to make it stand out amid a flood of similar articles [more...]
Date: 2008-06-07 01:42:50
Yet Another Healthbolt Carnival.
Welcome once again to the Healthbolt Carnival. There’s lots of great reading, so just jump on in… Want to know How To Double Your Weight Loss? Joshua from the Joshua Seth Blog might have the answer, saying “A study came out yesterday that discovered a key difference between people who are successful at losing weight and those who are [more...]
Date: 2008-07-23 06:22:59
Laminar Batteries Power Next-Generation Products
Issue #175 | Jan. 9, 2009 | by Dr. Peter Harrop Writing about printed electronics often as I do, the dynamics of the marketplace keep coming fast ... every year, the choice is coin cells. Coin cells are the favoured power source not just for active RFID ... based on old advances in color, shape and mechanical function are rapidly being overtaken. [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 16:08:43
Federal Lawmaker Targets RFID In Privacy Push
I just wrote yesterday about the new RFID law that went into effect in California on January 1st that bans “skimming” information from RFID-enabled ... all products containing RFID chips to be marked clearly so consumers know which products contain them ... protections against various privacy threats that RFID technology poses (still to be determined).The [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 19:23:00
Jive: Social Networking for Seniors
Concerned that your grandparents won’t make it to your party because they didn’t get your facebook invitation? Fear not, sort-of. Introducing Jive. Designed by Ben Arent for his senior design project, Jive is a platform that aims to bring ... . To add one another as “friends,” users exchange friend-pass cards, which contains an RFID chip [more...]
Date: 2008-11-16 16:48:06
MRI's Colorful Future
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National Institutes of Health are working on technology that promises to ... can be thought of as microscopic RF identification (RFID) tags, similar to those used for identifying ... is flexible and could have other applications such as in enabling RFID-based microscopic fluid [more...]
Date: 2008-06-20 12:11:26
SDRNews SDR2008-11-25 Network of Everything
BLOCKBUSTER Total Access click to activate coupon for $10 off your first month. Layoffs at Google ? ... and while other nodes on the network link to RFID chips in prescription drug pillbottles in the medicine ... of sensors surrounding an individual in daily roles as father, husband, home owner, patient, employee [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 04:43:34
Montreal's high-tech public bicycle system
June 23, 2008 Public bike systems are an environmentally friendly and practical urban transport solution, and in theory they benefit everyone in town, but sadly, most programs quickly fold when the bikes are routinely stolen or smashed by vandals. Montreal's solar-powered Public Bike System plans to use clever design, RFID and a membership system [more...]
Date: 2008-06-23 07:42:05
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
Still Walking Around With Labels?
MOBILITY: Less walking around - more productivity at POA If you find users are walking around your warehouse, manufacturing facility, from department to department, hospital or blood lab with labels in their hands, you may ... to this station, must walk back and forth if label are for items located elsewhere in the operation, labels [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 20:16:39
25c3: The future is already here - it is just unevenly distributed
25C3: Nothing to hide 25th Chaos Communication Congress December 27th to 30th, 2008 bcc Berliner Congress Center, Berlin, Germany This year, ... enables us to identify devices from same manufacturing run. Watch RF fingerprinting of RFID to find out how that works for 802.11 devices and RFID passports. While we are on security topics [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 21:30:32
Carsharing Technology Overview
One of the first questions most start up companies ask is about technology for carsharing. The two major tasks for technology are: reservation system and car computer - for access to the vehicle and trip tracking. My position has always been to consider the technology that's appropriate for the size of operation you have in mind and grow into it [more...]
Date: 2008-12-13 00:08:00
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
Area Manufacturers benefit from UTSA laboratory
By Kris Rodriguez (photo) Public Affairs SpecialistUTSA 1604 Campus The UTSA Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Lean Systems (CAMLS), housed in the College of Engineering, recently partnered with the San Antonio Manufacturers Association to conduct a radio frequency identification (RFID) workshop. Click on the link for the rest [more...]
Date: 2008-11-07 11:11:29
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
Kevin Huang Ph.D. Defense (Mon Dec. 15, 2pm, CIS-X 101)
Come for some food if still around next Monday!--------------------------------------------------------------------------Title: Expandable Monolithic Silicon Network For Cost-Effective Large Area ElectronicsUniversity Oral Examination Kevin Huang Department of Electrical Engineering Stanford University Advisor: Peter Peumans Date: Monday, [more...]
Date: 2008-12-12 17:50:00
Kevin Huang Ph.D. Defense (Mon Dec. 15, 2pm, CIS-X 101)
Come for some food if still around next Monday!--------------------------------------------------------------------------Title: Expandable Monolithic Silicon Network For Cost-Effective Large Area ElectronicsUniversity Oral Examination Kevin Huang Department of Electrical Engineering Stanford University Advisor: Peter Peumans Date: Monday, [more...]
Date: 2008-12-12 17:50:00
"Oslo" and the future of BizTalk Server
“Oslo” is a new modeling platform being developed by Microsoft that promises to simplify the way we design, build, and manage systems on Windows. Check out my last post on Introducing "Oslo" for more details. Because CSD also includes the teams responsible for Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) [more...]
Date: 2008-11-04 21:34:57
REAL I.D.
Want to fight this National ID card? More informations at:Click to join How_To_Face_This_New_World_Orderhttp://groups.yahoo ... _opinion/guest128.htm * RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Chips) will be in all Real I.D. cards. Learn about RFID ... .com/group/How_To_Face_This_New_World_Order/joinREAL I.D. Act was passed into law and signed [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 23:32:00
Week in Review for 11/2/2008
Quick News Links PHP gets namespace separator Committing to adding namespaces will make code re-use and maitainability better. The criteria for the new separator seem good on the surface but I have to side with the critics on this one in terms of how poor a choice the back slash really is. RFID deployment moving forward [more...]
Date: 2008-11-02 18:58:07
HSBC: Banking on the Network
HSBC are pretty transparent these days about their strategies, as can be seen from their investor relations webcasts and presentation downloads ... Technology and Services Officer (CTSO) discussing the bank as a network. This is a presentation ... employees, a third of which work in HSBC Tech and Services (HTS) supporting 9,500 offices across 85 [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 17:59:49
Eight Strategies To Transform The Economics Of Retailing
Eight Strategies To Transform The Economics Of Retailing Retailers now have unprecedented opportunities to transform the economics of their business ... -of-Sale Solution To Gain ... Industry Brief: RFID Technology In Action: The Retail Sector... The Benefits Of Integrating Back-Office Systems The Method Behind PCI's Madness more... Labor [more...]
Date: 2008-12-15 21:13:09
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
An Overview of the Battlespace
UPDATED 1354 est 1 Dec 2008: Link and site disappeared overnight after creation of this post; just found this cached version. Read this essay slowly, click on the embedded links, especially this one, and make sure to read the comments as well. Use your bravo-sierra detector to sort the wheat from the chaff, [more...]
Date: 2008-11-30 21:47:29
F-Secure and Nokia to protect and manage TeliaSonera’s corporate handsets
Two renowned Finnish companies, Nokia and F-Secure, have joined forces to protect the enterprise mobile users of TeliaSonera, ... of TeliaSonera’s enterprise clients can benefit from the new services, but all of the carrier’s handsets in use ... gets first full review, looks like a phone for the ladies RFID Tags for Apple devices. Wi-Fi [more...]
Date: 2008-09-17 21:24:55
SY SAJJAD: Tracking prisoners inside correctional facilities, and when they leave
January 13, 2009- Sy Sajjad, CEO of AiRISTA, presents a platform approach to deliver a strategic advantage through integration of passive, active and semi-active RFID technologies. I understand that AiRISTA has experience in asset ... active RFID technology. What frequency does the monitoring use? SAJJAD: In our case [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 16:37:30
The Benefits Of Integrating Back-Office Systems
The Benefits Of Integrating Back-Office Systems Back-office systems run the business administration processes ... Model Makes Sense For... Building A Bridge From Legacy To Mobility Leading Domestic Logistics Provider SingPost Streamlines Express ... Do You Know Where Your Assets Are? Maximizing ROI With RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-12-03 11:50:21
The Nation
The Nation 20-Nov-08 Senate sends Bush expanded jobless benefits bill WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Thursday passed and sent to President George W. Bush legislation to extend jobless benefits for those who have been unemployed for a prolonged period in an economy that has been shedding jobs [more...]
Date: 2008-11-20 21:14:42
RFID Jewelry
RFID Jewelry Designed by artist Amy Johnston, Hidden Agendas is an open mesh collar constructed from 45 RFID tags. Each tag, which can be read by an RFID reader, is programmed to display an image, quote ... . Hidden Agenda's specifically addresses the pervasive threat of RFID technology specifically related [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 05:24:34
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
Off-Page SEO Case Study
I haven’t done a case study in a while now, so I thought I’d do another one ... s a double whammy of benefits in doing on-page SEO. At some point, though, you can’t do anything ... ), and I’m going to focus on three of them: SQL Anywhere, RFID Anywhere, and Mobile Office. I’ve worked [more...]
Date: 2008-11-14 10:58:25
Rethinking the Sales Channel: A condition of disruptive technology
It is great to be back on the leader’s blog for the start of 2009 ... and deliver a whole product. In my case, the disruption I was harnessing was an emerging application of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in the supply chain as an alternative solution to bar [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 20:05:30
ITAA Cautions Against Over-Regulation of the 'Internet of Things'
On December 2, 2008, ITAA issued a press release (see below) on regulation and the "Internet of Things" ... in the RFID sector. EU regulatory decisions will impact US policy and vice-versa. Companies ... of Things” assumes an unlikely deployment scenario for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-12-12 17:08:53
