Modern technology of RFID
Yesterday I have written an article related to online learning. Now I would like to write similar posting regarding online learning. Today I will talk about RFID (Radio Frequency Identification). According to Wikipedia definitions RFID is an automatic identification method, relying on storing and remotely retrieving data using [more...]
Date: 2008-11-02 13:42:16
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Touch interface with or without RFID
Where the first picture only requires to gently caress the button, the second is strikingly more aggressive and requires the presence of an RFID tag to open ... reveals the different context definitely more oriented towards car drivers who want to enter a parking [more...]
Date: 2008-07-12 08:44:17
Texas Hold’em
While I enjoy playing Texas Hold’em, which I haven’t played in a while, Andrew Milner of Perth, ... built poker table & then modded by him is pretty expensive. His poker table uses RFID technology ... all the action in glorious high definition video on the big screen. You can read the rest [more...]
Date: 2008-09-05 21:34:14
Expanding Wi-Fi Uses at Nationals Park
Expanding Wi-Fi Uses at Nationals Park Posted by: Kristen in New Nationals Park, News on October 21st, 2008 2: ... -foot high-definition scoreboard. Plans also include using RFID tags to track cash bags over the Wi [more...]
Date: 2008-10-21 21:48:09
Vancouver Canucks Upgrade... off-ice
The Vancouver Canucks are outfitting GM Place with a unified communications system aimed at improving the fan experience and boosting staff ... productivity? Enhancements in their ticket scanning system, RFID capabilities, security management ... equipment supplier for Vancouver’s 2010 Winter Olympic Games definitely played a factor as this new in-house [more...]
Date: 2008-08-29 05:41:01
Links for 2008-10-01
Links for 2008-10-01 October 1, 2008 at 10:05 pm Tech Bubble 1.0 Stars: Where Are They Now? : wow, who the hell are these people? ... Statement on Freedom and Network Services : a definition of a “Free Service”, an open-source form ... fsf freedom free-software) The Risk of ePassports and RFID - THC Blog : hacker group THC release [more...]
Date: 2008-10-01 22:05:03
Virtual currencies stifled by regulation?
(via panGloss, The Register and Out-Law) Roll back the time to 1999 ... with a combination of smart cards, RFID chips and mobile phones. The European Commission, in a characteristic ... that the current directive lacks legal certainty. First of all the definition of electronic money [more...]
Date: 2008-10-17 09:01:54
Whence the universal tag?
With another E-metrics Summit over (sans me, sadly), it’s clear that interest in web analytics and online measurement remains high, even ( ... analytics continue to merge and overlap, one urgent question remains unanswered: what are we going ... now – ad servers and web analytics products still collect their data entirely separately, leading [more...]
Date: 2008-10-29 22:22:23
New Uses for 5 Old Pests
Doctors, criminologists and even manicurists have been busy putting smaller, less cuddly members of the animal kingdom to work. From monitoring the water supply to treating callused feet, here are some examples. 1. Bluegill Fish Enlisted in War on Terror During a meeting in 1960, Chicago Mayor Richard J [more...]
Date: 2008-08-26 21:29:09
Roots
I've been getting some stick from Blair and others over my love-hate relationship with Act. So, by way of partial explanation, let me provide a reference point. Be prepared. This is going to take the scenic route. The short answer is that I am a moderate libertarian, and I have the Facebook application to prove it [more...]
Date: 2008-10-03 22:38:00
short introduction on RFID technology.
Here is a short introduction on RFID technology. You will discover the fundamental concepts and the various components of this fascinating ... is received from a reader Type of tags : RFID Tag also called a transponder is a device attached ... - not at the SKU) Can operate in harsh environment Access card : equipped with HF (High frequency) passive RF [more...]
Date: 2008-12-24 11:14:24
Why Entrepreneurs Should Pay Attention to Crowdsourcing
So you’re planning to do business either on the Internet or to use it as an important part of your operations. ( ... up processing cycles on their computers at times of day that they can specify. The hub application communicates with a desktop application on each computer, each of which get assigned small bites [more...]
Date: 2008-12-12 14:43:25
The Fed's Web Takeover
What is the definition of “your data”? The answer may determine the future of the Internet – and, more broadly, of communications media, the users that derive value from them, and the marketers that depend on them. The combination of the word “data” or “information” with a personal possessive pronoun lies at the heart of the current debate [more...]
Date: 2008-08-20 14:15:25
The End is Near, but is IPv6?
As of this blog posting, exactly 900 days remain until the end of the Internet, or at least the exhaustion of IPv4 registry allocations. And you don’t have to take my word for it, even the normally staid London Times and Fox News proclaimed, “Internet meltdown… The world is heading for a digital doomsday”. Heady stuff. Of course, IPv6 ( [more...]
Date: 2008-08-18 10:00:19
Interview With Lori Evans, CEO of Abrige Corp and C-Secure Systems, Global Volunteer
(www.bizchicksrule.com) — When I heard about CEO Lori Evans’ work to help business owners in Africa — while running two successful companies in the US! — I had to learn more about this amazing woman. Lori was kind enough to answer a slew of questions about her life, her experience, and her contributions to improving the global economy [more...]
Date: 2008-10-22 10:44:22
ALA2008 Privacy Revolution Panel
does anyone care if their library records are being tracked? should they? ALA OIF has received a grant from the Open Society Institute/Soros Foundation to explore the issue of privacy in the digital age Panelists: Dan Roth (Wired), Cory Doctorow (CrapHound), and Beth Givens (Privacy Rights Clearinghouse) [more...]
Date: 2008-06-30 07:27:11
Reader Mail #62
I liked this thread on the Mental Militia. Heller (from Heller vs. DC) applied for a gun permit. His application was rejected. That is really weird, since the Supreme Court specifically ordered that he be granted a gun permit. He didn't bring his gun with him when he applied for the permit, lest he be arrested for illegal possession of a gun [more...]
Date: 2008-08-12 16:25:07
Walmart: Sacrifice is for suckers.
I got this slightly old but rather interesting link from my friend Jill ... definition of local food it’s already there. This kind of fake reform really is just par for the course ... mandates on waste and even RFID. And of course, every single green remodeling step the company takes [more...]
Date: 2008-11-17 15:28:50
User Data Preservation (UDP)
Ovi Sync and since then I refuse to go back to cables. Nokia Users were Born Free so it suits us to be able to sync, backup, update anything On The Go, Over The Air. This is also quite a unique feature - while Google’s Android is able to receive automatic OTA updates (but a manual update voids your guarantee on the G1) [more...]
Date: 2008-12-09 10:46:24
Cell 3.0
Current wisdom suggests that blogs are much like fences: the best supported of each has frequent posts at regular intervals. We confess that the interests of Team Mambo have recently been focused on other creative endeavors, one of which is the indulgence noted in the sidebar, KultureKat [more...]
Date: 2008-11-05 20:04:00
How are we going to solve the multiple data set issues?
As the technology sets for online advertising and web analytics continue to merge and overlap, one urgent question remains unanswered: what are we going to do about data collection? Some interesting ideas from Ian Thomas’s Blog…. With another E-metrics Summit over (sans me, sadly) [more...]
Date: 2008-10-31 06:38:33
Technology predictions from 20 years ago
We recently moved from Atlanta, Georgia to Mountain View, California and during the move I had a chance to go through some old boxes I’ve had for years — twenty years to be exact. Tonight, I decided to open up some of the boxes and try and see if I could find some old pictures after seeing some of my high school friend’s pictures on Facebook [more...]
Date: 2008-10-26 07:51:09
Most Technically Advanced Hotel
Most Technically Advanced HotelHotel Name: ARIA Resorts & CasinoCity: Las VegasUpon opening in late 2009, ... -up calls, draperies and requests for services through a single, easy-to-use remote control. Each ... will incorporate keyless locks utilizing RFID technology, which enables guests to unlock the door [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 07:55:00
Harnessing Dynamic Personal Social Network Applications
>Introduction In the past years, the capabilities of our mobiles phones have improved significantly. Modern, top end phones contain a host of sensing cabalities: accelerometer, proximity sensor, GPS, camera, microphone, etc. (Miluzzo, 2008) By using some of the technological features inherent in mobile phones, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 12:27:55
From Sentient to Responsive Cities, Long Version
Last week at Visualizar’08, I presented the long version of my talk From Sentient to Responsive Cities (slides with notes) ... when actively or passively interacting with new urban actors such as wireless networks or RFID systems ... activity to the definition of indicators to measure the evolution of the attractiveness of places [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 03:00:03
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
Incubation innovation
The timing of the depressed global economic outlook could not have come at a worse time for Alcatel-Lucent. The situation only confounds further the technology company’s efforts to turn the corner of a post-merger era that has resulted in an underperforming share price and integration challenges [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 05:00:00
Types of Label Printers
by Mary Bush Label printers use a wide range of label materials, including paper and synthetic polymer materials ... variety of materials. Thermal label printers are mostly used for bar code printing because ... has the ability to produce exact bar widths that successful bar code printing and scanning require. Each [more...]
Date: 2009-01-01 14:00:06
Nats to Expand WiFi Offerings at the Ballpark
From PC World (and also a ton of other places via press release): "After a first successful season running 802 ... RFID (radio frequency identification) tags to track cash bags over the Wi-Fi network as they are carried from a concession stand to the safe, Zachariah added. The tags could also be distributed [more...]
Date: 2008-10-22 15:36:24
Chapter Fifteen Excerpts: Peer Production and the Crisis of Value
Sometime in the next few weeks, I expect to have drafts of the last two chapters of my organization theory manuscript, Fifteen and Sixteen, online. From there, it will simply be a matter of working through the backlog of reading to fill in the gaps in the earlier chapters, polishing them up, [more...]
Date: 2008-09-25 22:04:00
Traffic work research
Your mobile will proactively advise you that you are meeting so-and-so at 10 a.m. and that traffic is picking up, so you should leave right now. It will than route you based on real-time traffic flow data to avoid jams. This is the promise, which Nokia is making on it’s current research regarding traffic data [more...]
Date: 2008-11-29 14:20:34
The End of A World
“Many will find it difficult to hear beyond the deafening roar of the engines of deceit.” -Surfing the Tao: A Revolution of Free Will The Phoenix returned to its ashes recently, both literally and symbolically. A new son is rising, and the world is prepared for change [more...]
Date: 2008-11-16 08:44:22
Bluray Dis Player NAD T 587, Canon X XH A1S AND XH G1S HD camcorders, Toughbook H1 Mobile Clinical Assistant from Panasonic
Blu-ray Disc Player NAD T 587 has been released. This product looks to be exciting and is one of a handful of brands to bring a Profile 2.0 Blu-ray Disc Player to market at this time. It also has the latest features like BD Live Network connectivity and also offers a true High definition source for digital Home Theatre systems. BD [more...]
Date: 2008-11-06 05:04:59
What’s nobody’s business is everybody’s
by Lady Liberty It seems that some people - in fact, most people - will give up all sorts of things if they think they’re getting something desirable in return. Lately, the thing we all seem to be giving up the most of is privacy. We think we’re exchanging it for cost savings or security, [more...]
Date: 2008-12-02 05:00:23
Types of Label Printers
by Mary Bush Label printers use a wide range of label materials, including paper and synthetic polymer materials ... Printers, Industrial Portable Label Printers, RFID readers, Label printer applicators, Label software ... for many common bar code printing applications like shipping labels, patient and visitor identification [more...]
Date: 2008-12-28 08:56:20
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
Europe in a digital world and Web 3.0 - The European Union vision
I am going to post a series of blogs relating to the role of Europe in a Digital world in 2025 with an emphasis on Mobile, Web 3.0 (EU vision) and Seamless / converged infrastructures. This coincides with a session I am speaking at the European parliament in Brussels at EIF called Towards the Digital World in 2025 Any comments on [more...]
Date: 2008-10-19 16:35:52
What to do about RFID chips in your wallet
Have you wondered about the security implications of RFID chips in your driver’s license, credit cards, and passport? ... RFID policies that can affect you right now. Between the RFID chips in new US passports and similar ... The growing prevalence of RFID transponders in these items, and others, can raise security [more...]
Date: 2008-10-07 18:19:17
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
De-Institutionalizing Monoculture: Adding Biophysical and Political Checks and Balances for the Corrupt Monocultures of the Mind
Echoing themes from a previous post on the issue of monocultures, the bioregional state is designed to maintain long term forms of biodiversity. Monocultures, instead of providing us with cheap food plant and animal products provide us with massive long term externalities that are incredibly costly [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 01:03:00
Converging digital and physical infrastructures: instrumented, interconnected, intelligent
I was listening to Sam Palmisano’s talk on “A Smarter Planet” as part of the Technology and Foreign Policy discussion at the Council for Foreign ... million RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags within 2 years. The world is becoming [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 20:20:42
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
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
links for 2008-12-26
2pie: Snow Prints Self portraits made by pushing faces into fresh powder snow. Genius. (tags: snow pictures picture image creative idea ideas) ... images pictures progress science) Tinker it! : RFID Arduino / RFID reader / Processing tutorial (tags: arduino rfid hacks hacking hack hardware processing code tutorial examples electronics) HTTP [more...]
Date: 2008-12-27 00:03:16
Softbank Sharp Aquos Fulltouch 931SH is impressive
This cell phone is definitely worth talking about ... , so this is really a cut above. It is also outfitted with a 5.2-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, a music player, 3G connectivity, RFID and a 1-Seg TV Tuner. The latter allows you to watch live TV right [more...]
Date: 2008-10-31 19:39:37
China's national IP strategy 2008
By Danny Friedmann China's State Council promulgated a national intellectual property strategy . In the policy document there is a lot of talk about doing everything more efficient and more effective. Great, but how to achieve these laudable goals? [more...]
Date: 2008-09-11 12:00:00
My back pages: Whatever happened to serendipity?
31 October 2008 – 05.10 UTC Posted in Design, Everyware, Interactions and experiences, Services, Space and place, Technology, Urban computing, ... always had a more specific definition in mind. I think moblogs are what happen at the intersection of… [more...]
Date: 2008-10-31 09:10:18
December 1 SOA News
<!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:1; mso-generic-font-family: ... Decisions with BizTalk RFID ... SYS-CON Media - Montvale,NJ,USA BizTalk Server 2006 R2, Microsoft's core SOA and BPM technology included advancements for fixed RFID readers including device management [more...]
Date: 2008-12-01 16:48:53
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
China's National IP Strategy 2008: Feasible Commitments or Road to Nowhere Paved With Good Intentions
This article by Danny Friedmann is also published at the site of Duncan Bucknell Company, the consulting firm that specialises in global intellectual property strategy, see here.China's State Council promulgated a National Intellectual Property Strategy [more...]
Date: 2008-09-11 15:25:00
