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Mythbusters Gagged: Credit Card Companies Kill Episode Exposing RFID Security Flaws ~The Consumerist Credit card companies successfully nixed a Mythbusters segment exposing RFID’s security flaws, according to Arbiter of Truth and Mythbusters co-host, Adam Savage. Texas Instruments comes on along with chief legal counsel [more...]
Date: 2008-09-01 14:19:59
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Investor Profile: HO2 Partners
Charles Humphreyson, General Partner, HO2 Partners In 1985 Charlie and two associates founded Contact Software, the developer of the ACT! ... firms, helping to build strong syndicates and cohesive portfolio company boards. HO2's first fund ... platform for RFID applications. The company offers a suite of software solutions that track products [more...]
Date: 2008-10-03 01:40:24
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
RFID Applications
RFID, Radio Frequency Identification is a technology, which includes wireless data capture and transaction processing. Proximity (short range) and Vicinity (long range) are two major application areas where RFID technology is used. Track ... value RFID solutions assisting companys track assets, people and documents. AgileSense provides robust [more...]
Date: 2008-06-26 20:15:04
12 examples of RFID across industries
Manufacturing - A major tire manufacturer is going to insert RFID tags into its tires ... from a tag on a driver's keychain, while Wal-Mart is requesting that all their suppliers apply RFID tags ... vehicle identification number. Pharmaceuticals - Pharmaceutical companies have embedded RFID chips [more...]
Date: 2008-12-04 20:12:52
RFID News Roundup
RFID News Roundup Academia RFID offers retail-specific training; Barcoding Inc. intros plug-and-play RFID reader; Savcor purchases RFID antenna company Intune Circuits; Pennsylvania hospital to deploy RTLS to track assets, patients; ODIN to help DHS implement RFID for customs [more...]
Date: 2008-07-25 01:32:06
Yvio: RFID Board Games (For Real)
The German company Public Solution has produced five RFID based games, published under the name Yvio, including Elefant, Tiger, and Co., Octago (by Reiner Knizia), Thinx, FreiBeuter Der Karibik, and Tarascon, with another game on the way. The games’ boards not only detect and identify pieces, but can generate random values and save game [more...]
Date: 2008-11-03 13:49:56
The World Has Gone Mad
I try. I try and try and try to educate people. But do you listen? No. Nobody listens. Some days I just want to cry.What am I talking about?This ... to know what is in our foods. Companies need to properly include and label all ingredients. Companies that mistakenly ... get RFID chips inserted in their lips that will ping if an offending food gets too [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 02:37:00
End Times Prophecy
Company develops Ink-based RFID Tags - first step to a RFID enabled Tattoo?(Increase in Knowledge/New Technologies) California-based Kovio Inc. has unveiled a silicon ink-based RFID tag and an accompanying RFID platform. The first products ... of printed read-only memory, which will serve as the foundation for a low-cost HF RFID tag family. Kovio [more...]
Date: 2008-10-28 19:30:03
End Times Prophecy
Company develops Ink-based RFID Tags - first step to a RFID enabled Tattoo?(Increase in Knowledge/New Technologies) California-based Kovio Inc. has unveiled a silicon ink-based RFID tag and an accompanying RFID platform. The first products ... of printed read-only memory, which will serve as the foundation for a low-cost HF RFID tag family. Kovio [more...]
Date: 2008-10-29 11:45:02
End Times Prophecy
Company develops Ink-based RFID Tags - first step to a RFID enabled Tattoo?(Increase in Knowledge/New Technologies) California-based Kovio Inc. has unveiled a silicon ink-based RFID tag and an accompanying RFID platform. The first products ... of printed read-only memory, which will serve as the foundation for a low-cost HF RFID tag family. Kovio [more...]
Date: 2008-10-30 23:15:10
SkyeTek Offers Web-based RFID Software Platform
SkyeTek Offers Web-based RFID Software Platform The company's MetaFi suite of hosted applications allows manufacturers to track high-value products ... Sensors Zero In on Crime Thirty communities use the ShotSpotter system to identify and locate gunfire ... › ADT Expects RFID Will Reduce False Alarms for Home Security › RFID News [more...]
Date: 2008-08-22 23:11:10
Violet launches smart RFID tagger [News]
Violet, the company behind the Nabaztag Wifi rabbit, has launched an RFID reader and sticker set that allows your PC to detect tagged objects and react ... this post / blog, buy me a BEER! Related EntriesMythbusters RFID episode banned News Airplanes [more...]
Date: 2008-10-28 07:56:48
Manitowoc Completes Enodis Buyout
Manitowoc Co. said Monday it has closed on its $2.7 billion buyout of Enodis PLC, a maker of food service equipment, ... Garment Dispenser System Coupled with RFID — retail | RFID | robotics | technology taktik(z) Overview — ... Boeing Company News & Info — aerospace | boeing | Defense | maps [more...]
Date: 2008-10-27 15:20:01
Impinj Chips
Impinj Chips Monza tag silicon has the absolute guarantee of Gen 2 compliance, industry-leading read/write ranges and write-times, ... , A Division Of Jamison Door Company: Conveyor ... Domino EIS RFID Compliance 1st Program For CPG Intermec RFID Tag And Media Products Psion Teklogix 8525 G2 Vehicle-Mount Computer RF-LoopTag From bielomatik more... [more...]
Date: 2008-10-25 05:01:23
Manitowoc Completes Enodis Buyout
Manitowoc Co. said Monday it has closed on its $2.7 billion buyout of Enodis PLC, a maker of food service equipment, ... Garment Dispenser System Coupled with RFID — retail | RFID | robotics | technology taktik(z) Overview — ... Boeing Company News & Info — aerospace | boeing | Defense | maps [more...]
Date: 2008-10-27 15:20:01
The sad future of learning?
A rather gloomy vision of the technology-enhanced future is already emerging. School children in Japan are apparently being tagged with RFID devices to prevent them ... such developments to detect snipers in urban warfare. And why, a hygiene company has created an RFID soap [more...]
Date: 2008-11-02 09:01:55
Walgreens' DC Deploys RFID Without a Safety Net
Walgreens has fully integrated radio frequency identification (RFID) technology into its warehouse operations at the company's distribution facility in Anderson, S.C., according to RFID Update. Walgreens has been running the system since last year but only recently [more...]
Date: 2008-09-19 15:00:00
Links of the day
Event Summary: The Future of the Social Web Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect - nice Japan site recommendation from Dirk Trends in Japan » Taspo rules bring retail back to tobacco - really interesting on two levels. Japanese smokers resisting an RFID payment system and tabacco companies making lemonade out of lemons by enjoying a way [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 00:01:49
CC Companies Scotch Mythbusters Show On RFID Security
mathfeel passes along a video in which Mythbusters co-host Adam Savage recounts how credit card companies lawyered up to make sure the Discovery ... channel never, ever airs a segment on the flaws in RFID security. "Texas Instruments comes on a scheduled conference call along with chief legal counsel for American Express, Visa, Discover [more...]
Date: 2008-08-30 22:40:00
SO ENTERTAINING TO WANDER
SO ENTERTAINING TO WANDER Filed Under (Electronics) by philip ... frugal, but I’d like to think we’re economical. I bought a Character Display for my latest project, and a RFID Components for my company. Anyway, it’s not like you should stop shopping at Electronics [more...]
Date: 2008-12-12 12:12:05
Advertisers kill Mythbusters spy-chip story
p2pnet news view Cool | Advertising:- “Credit-card companies killed Mythbusters segment on RFID vulnerabilities,” says a Boing Boing headline ... out of airing a program about how crappy the security in RFID tags is,” suggests the text, in turn linking ... outgunned …’ In the video, “We were gonna do RFID and on several levels how hackable, how [more...]
Date: 2008-09-01 13:32:04
The Data-Centric Gambit
Things always change fast in computing. But the rate of change seems to be on a major uptick recently ... out by machines: software logs, cameras, microphones, GPS transceivers, sensor networks, RFID readers ... and data analytics companies. The Crisis of the Three C’s: Coders, Clouds and Cores. Meanwhile, it’ [more...]
Date: 2008-10-21 01:07:45
Advanced ID Acquires Chinese RFID Firm
Advanced ID's Hong Kong subsidiary, Advanced ID Asia Pacific, says it will acquire Shenzhen DDCT Technology, which specializes in development, production, and sales of RFID/UHF hardware, including UHF readers, and antenna tags throughout Asia. Following a letter of intent signed last month, both RFID-related companies have completed [more...]
Date: 2008-09-18 21:48:22
French Train Tickets Get USB Treatment
All sorts of stuff is going to USB, even things we might not ever think would end up with USB connections built-in. Among the things that I never expected to see go USB are train tickets. Yet in some regions of France, that is exactly what it happening. The French National Railway Company (SNCF) is trialing RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-09-05 03:01:15
Nabaztag's Violet debuts "Mirror" general-purpose home RFID reader
Filed under: Peripherals While we'll always know Violet for its iconic bunnies, the company is branching out into a more direct RFID application. The Mirror RFID reader is a USB-pluggable little platter that can read RFID tags and launch ... card of Vegas launching a corresponding picture on the computer (lame), a tagged toy car bringing [more...]
Date: 2008-08-30 13:10:00
Nabaztag's Violet debuts "Mirror" general-purpose home RFID reader
Filed under: Peripherals While we’ll always know Violet for its iconic bunnies, the company is branching out into a more direct RFID application. The Mirror RFID reader is a USB-pluggable little platter that can read RFID tags and launch ... electronics new medical technologies free gizmo project video games imac microsoft gadgets gaming usb [more...]
Date: 2008-08-30 08:36:22
French Train System Using RFID-enabled USB Drives
If any of our francophone readers happen to be in France soon, be sure to let us know how your trip was. More specifically, we want to know if French transit company SNCF has expanded it’s trial RFID program. Passengers will receive a USB drive with an RFID chip inside it. You can add money [more...]
Date: 2008-08-29 14:50:08
How New Technology Can Change the Customer's Decision Maker
Hello, Brad Jarvis signing on again to continue our discussion on the impact disruptive technology can have on your sales channel ... that Radio Frequency is absorbed by liquid, but reflected by metal. I am sure you can imagine way ... in the market. We found with RFID that our customers (consumer packaged goods companies) were being [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 21:03:43
Bumblebots and Verichips
From Koinonia House Men with brilliant minds and determination have given us some wonderful inventions, ... Force Base in Dayton, Ohio plan to develop insect-sized flying robots that can zip in through ... , the company that gave us injectable RFID tags for humans [more...]
Date: 2008-11-27 08:50:01
Infuriating, but unsurprising
I've been talking about RFID as a security risk for a long time now.. ... to NOT have this "feature"....So I have an RFID blocking wallet, and passport folio.Labels: Geek, Money, Mythbusting ... . Now, my card companies have sent me two cards that have RFID tags in them, without my requesting [more...]
Date: 2008-09-01 01:05:00
RFID company sues college researchers for exposing defects
This another ugly trend in big business: www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId= 9109139 Chip maker sues to quash research on RFID smart card security flaws Researcher says chip hack could crack open 2 billion cards, By Sharon Gaudin [more...]
Date: 2008-07-25 10:24:00
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
PAUL FOWLER: RFID will help move 7 million items nightly, Pt. 1
Nov. 12, 2008 – VP of Healthcare Innovations for Axway, a leading pharmaceutical supply chain solution company, ... of our readers are cheering on RFID; but, could you tell us what technologies you are currently ... the enabling middleware. We collect information, make sense of it, rationalize it, track it, trace [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 15:56:10
Mythbusters RFID hacking episode canned by credit card company lawyers
Filed under: Misc. GadgetsAlthough it's no secret that RFID is easily hacked (see: train passes, passports, credit cards, one billion other cards, etc.) it's still ... most RFID implementations but was shut down by lawyers from "American Express, Visa, Discover [more...]
Date: 2008-09-02 16:08:52
Mythbusters Gagged: Credit Card Companies Kill Episode Exposing RFID Security Flaws
This is our 6,000th post on Wilson's Blogmanac. Thanks to Baz le Tuff for tipping me off about this story about RFID, ... before. The IDTechEx report Active RFID predicts that sales of active RFID systems, including tags ... s boom times ahead Sales of technologies based on RFID (Radio Frequency Identification, the automatic [more...]
Date: 2008-09-03 21:45:34
Key2SafeDriving Makes Sure You Don’t Use Your Phone While Driving
Most recent laws on driver behavior when behind the wheel forbid the use of cellphones for texting and chatting ... is more of a “driving mode” for your phone, that connects via Bluetooth or RFID to that above ... software company finally came up with... [more...]
Date: 2008-12-14 07:52:10
Top Posts Of The Week [MythBusters]
Mythbusters Gagged: Credit Card Companies Kill Episode Exposing RFID Security Flaws This Apology Letter From Southwest Is Refreshingly Honest And Informative What To Do When A Store Sells You Box [more...]
Date: 2008-09-05 20:35:00
links for 2008-08-31 (delicious broke, fixed themselves, so this is several days’ links)
2008 September 1 Links TECHNOLOGY WAR/CORPORATIONS/CENSORSIHP: Credit-card companies killed Mythbusters segment on RFID vulnerabilities Nice to know that our “capitalist” system involves lawyers ensuring that the public has no clue that RFID is very insecure [more...]
Date: 2008-09-01 06:01:11
SUJATHA BODAPATI: Tracking water supply chain with active RFID
Nov. 4, 2008 – We asked Sujatha Bodapati, founder of Asset Pulse, if what we heard was true: that her company is involved with an RFID water tracking project. We were close. I hear that you have been using RFID with water facilities. It sounds so incongruous, could you tell [more...]
Date: 2008-11-04 16:27:18
nEUROn UCAV Project Rolling Down the Runway
The Neuron project joins Britain’s Taranis UCAV, and the USA’s sort-of-cancelled J/N-UCAS program that includes the Boeing X-45C and ... grumman | uav | ucav RFID to Help Reduce Aircraft Turnaround — iata | Manufacturing | RFID ... | Supply Chain | wikipedia Boeing Company News & Info — aerospace | boeing | Defense | Locations [more...]
Date: 2008-07-22 19:38:45
nEUROn UCAV Project Rolling Down the Runway
The Neuron project joins Britain’s Taranis UCAV, and the USA’s sort-of-cancelled J/N-UCAS program that includes the Boeing X-45C and ... grumman | uav | ucav RFID to Help Reduce Aircraft Turnaround — iata | Manufacturing | RFID | security | sita | technology Boeing Company News & Info — aerospace | boeing | Defense | Locations [more...]
Date: 2008-07-22 19:38:45
Psion Teklogix 8525 G2 Vehicle-Mount Computer
Psion Teklogix 8525 G2 Vehicle-Mount Computer The 8525 G2 is a Windows CE ... Chips Industrial Portals, A Division Of Jamison Door Company: Conveyor ... Domino EIS RFID Compliance 1st Program For CPG Intermec RFID Tag And Media Products more... [more...]
Date: 2008-10-30 10:48:23
Shipcom Continues to Surpass Milestones for Customer Wins New Customers, Strategic Partners and Innovative Solutions Fuel Growth
HOUSTON, Feb. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Shipcom Wireless Inc ... : Deployments include an RFID enabled real-time asset monitoring, refinery turnarounds, disconnected ... ., a leading global provider of RFID and Mobility solutions that help companies ensure efficient [more...]
Date: 2008-06-12 14:26:13
Mythbusters gagged by credit card companies over RFID episode
Remember back in March, when I posted instructions on how to hack RFID credit cards and get all their information from a distance of up to 40' or more? Apparently Mythbusters was going [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 15:51:00
RFID News Roundup
RFID News Roundup Turkey's GarantiBank issues contactless credit card; Idesco unveils EPC Gen 2 reader with long read range; ... Effectiveness for Tracking IT Assets The company scientifically tested seven EPC Gen 2 RFID tags suitable for IT asset tracking, and analyzed five use cases, including employing the technology to manage [more...]
Date: 2008-09-25 19:04:26
Verayo RFID Chips Use "Electronic DNA" to Make Them "Unclonable" [RFID]
Here's a challenge to hackers everywhere if I've ever heard one—a company named Verayo claims to have created an RFID chip that's completely ... ). Unlike basic passive RFID chips, where data can be easily copied from one chip to another, Verayo's PUF-fy RFID chips use a series of challenge-and-response pairs to make counterfeiting nigh [more...]
Date: 2008-09-06 03:46:33
Chip Implants To Avoid Identity Frauds? By Mary Wise
Chip Implants To Avoid Identity Frauds? By Mary Wise Posted by: admin In: ... . However it is said that its pay system, based on radio frequency identification (RFID) technology ... of the owner’s interests? Not So New RFID tags are becoming popular, especially with those companies [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 04:55:12
Mythbusters RFID hacking episode canned by credit card company lawyers
Filed under: Misc. GadgetsAlthough it’s no secret that RFID is easily hacked ( ... reviews tech toys new apple products new technology high high tech modern electronics tv technology [more...]
Date: 2008-09-02 11:11:17
Google + P&G = RFID + data mining
Parallelnormal is not encouraged by the companies’ new innovation-idea-swapping agreement. All in it together. CC/Kenneth Lu This item ( ... to bear RFID tags, which for the first time will match each of us to the individual items ... Media Info Center Posted in Big Brother, Globalism, Homeland Security, Personal tech, Privacy, RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-11-29 22:43:56
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