A Summary of the National Research Council Report on Healthcare IT

The full text of the report is available free here. I’ve gone through the report and will summarize it loosely below (the most interesting parts, anyway). A couple of industry experts have volunteered to provide their interpretation. Bill Stead, chair of the group, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 04:46:31

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Michael Faraday 22 September 1791 %u2013 25 August 1867

image page: universe-review.ca/F15-particle.htm "No wonder that my remembrance fails me, for I shall complete my 70 years next Sunday (the 22); -- and during these 70 years I have had a happy life; which still remains happy because of hope and content" Faraday in later life (22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) [more...]

Date: 2008-09-22 12:43:00

Keeping tabs on schoolkids

Keeping tabs on schoolkids by Roger Sinasohn Jun 25th 2008 4:03PM Kids 5-7, Kids 8-11, EducationRadio-Frequency Identification (RFID) technology has been used for years to track inventory; now, one school district in Rhode Island is planning to use the technology to track students. RFID chips will be put into the kids' schoolbags [more...]

Date: 2008-06-25 20:15:35

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

University of Albany NanoCollege and Commerce Technologies Create Joint Information Technology Workforce Development Program

The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering ("CNSE") of the University at Albany and Commerce Technologies Inc. ("CTI") ... , utilization and management of emerging computing technologies to enable radio frequency identification devices ("RFID"), global positioning systems ("GPS"), biometrics and other emerging fields. Dr [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 14:23:00

Failed Predictions

Failed Predictions Predicting the future is a notoriously difficult endeavor and yet there is never a shortage of people willing to play the game, especially at the end of a year.  Many of the predictions for 2009 seem to involve world politics.  For example, over at Psychic World, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 23:28:47

Handheld Learning, Day 3, Research Strand

An overview of the research strand I moderated this morning. We saw and heard about a lot of interesting and innovative projects related to mobile learning. Mobile Matters Mark Kramer, Vienna, AustriaMobile learning foresight: Examining learning now and in the near future [more...]

Date: 2008-10-15 20:12:34

The Flavors of Las Vegas in 55 Hours

I've written about Las Vegas on several occasions, largely around trips to this glittery city for industry conventions. I just came back from BlogWorldExpo, which reminded me a bit like Comdex meets SXSW but for the blogosphere. Held at the Convention Center's south hall, [more...]

Date: 2008-09-26 19:46:00

Sun Microsystems to Lay Off 350

Nortel is likely to cut about 10 percent of its work force. The malaise has started to spread to component makers. For instance, JDSU cut 400 jobs, shut down seven R&D centers and three plants. Anadigics, a Warren, N.J.-based broadband wireless and wireline chip maker cut 15 percent of its work force [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 17:02:09

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

Rajkamal Bar Scan Systems Pvt. Ltd. Hiring Software Developer

HTML clipboard Rajkamal Bar Scan Systems Pvt. Ltd. Hiring Software Developer Experience : 1 - 2 Years Location : Mumbai, ... & Data Capture and Banking Automation products and services. We are partners with Intermec Inc., USA ... , Barcode printers and scanners, Data Capture units, RF based hand held data capture devices [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 01:44:00

END OF YEAR WRAP-UP: Stories We Missed in 2008

By no means comprehensive, the following is a wrap up to the year with stories that we missed in 2008. Many of these weren't really missed. They were just not narrowly specific to circumcision and HIV [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 00:55:43

World Economic Forum 2009 Technology Pioneers

The World Economic Forum has announced 34 visionary companies selected as Technology Pioneers 2009 for their accomplishments as innovators of the highest calibre, and whose technologies will have a deep impact on business and society. Company Profiles Biotech/Health AC Immune S.A. http://www.acimmune.com/ Prof [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 10:36:44

Interview with Nokia SA’s General Manager

Fleishman-Hillard invited me to meet with and interview Mathia Nalappan, Nokia South Africa’s General Manager, last week. I sat down for an hour with Mathia and Tania Steenkamp, Nokia South Africa and Southern Africa’s Communications Manager and chatted about topics ranging from models for rural areas to Nokia’s environmental efforts [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 13:40:38

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

Way Odd News

Funny News and Pictures at WayOdd Australian High School Boys Caught With Real Life Fight Club On YouTube YouTube postings of real life fights among Australian high school students from the John Forrest Senior High School in Perth alerted federal education officials, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 08:00:18

Targeting The 21st-Century Consumer, Part Two Of Three

Targeting The 21st-Century Consumer, Part Two Of Three With the promise of the Internet Protocol television on the horizon, ... Implementing Item-Level RFID Intelligence Solutions On The... Solving The Holiday Revenue Shortfall: Tips ... Touchmonitor Elo TouchSystems 3 Arigo Private Label & Sourcing Arigo 4 Wal-Mart [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 04:21:57

Logan's Prox Talker AAC Device

Logan's Prox Talker is an AAC device designed for students who efficiently use PECS (Picture Exchange Communication). The basic idea is that the device replaces a sentence strip at the bottom of a PECS book. The symbols in the PECS book have embedded RFID (radio frequency ID). The device automatically detects [more...]

Date: 2008-10-19 02:03:36

Internet of things book presentation at the Waag

Internet of things book presentation by Rob van Kranenburg. 28th of october, Theatrum Anatomicum, the Waag, Amsterdam intro by Geert Lovink (INC) ... it is a ” RFID debate”. Luckily, Rob has broadened the subject. He looked into the social side of RFID and an internet of things, as well as interventions dealing with this internet of things [more...]

Date: 2008-10-28 20:03:03

Afilias Joins the Internet Watch Foundation

In preparation for IWF Awareness Day on October 24, 2008, Afilias has announced that it has become a member of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). This will increase Afilias’ ability to be proactive in eliminating child sexual abuse content from the .INFO domain [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 12:31:48

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

Sustainable Energy Fund Elects New Board and Officers

Sustainable Energy Fund Elects New Board and Officers Link November 25, ... . Stein commented, “his extensive experience in education and business leadership, combined ... solar education initiative that promotes the adoption and integration of renewable energy concepts [more...]

Date: 2008-11-29 06:35:00

» Daily Design Snacks

» Daily Design Snacks Latest Posts: » Birds, Bats and Bees at Phillips » Creating the garden of globalisation » Seven cities that influenced design » Design flops » The art of the RFID transponder Categories: Book Reviews Broadcasts [more...]

Date: 2008-06-23 13:51:04

Assessing the Bush Legacy: The Measure of the Man and His Administration

Assessing the Bush Legacy: The Measure of the Man and His Administration - by Stephen LendmanGeorge W. Bush. US president: January 20, 2001 - January 19, 2009. Born of privilege. Unimpressive by every measure. A history of underachievement. Chosen by big money. Arranged through electoral fraud. Installed by the Supreme Court [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 02:41:00

Assessing the Bush Legacy: The Measure of the Man and His Administration

Assessing the Bush Legacy: The Measure of the Man and His Administration - by Stephen LendmanGeorge W. Bush. US president: January 20, 2001 - January 19, 2009. Born of privilege. Unimpressive by every measure. A history of underachievement. Chosen by big money. Arranged through electoral fraud. Installed by the Supreme Court [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 11:26:00

Unscientific

The current issue of Scientific American has a special section about privacy (there's a podcast with the editor here) ... of RFID tags be regulated. This seemed both too specific and somewhat out of place [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 11:56:43

Contactless Payment: Try it, You'll Like It

Nine Percent of Consumers Are Using Contactless Payment and Loving It, Smart Card Alliance Reports PRINCETON JUNCTION, N.J., September 17, 2008–After two years of fast growth in contactless payments, the verdict is in: Once consumers try contactless, they like it! [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 13:37:00

New Kennedy Health Plan in the Works for 2009

This information doesn't tell me much that I'd get excited about in terms of a really effective health care plan ... all the hacking that's going on these days, and the proof that the felonious Real ID RFID chips are without any [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 17:41:00

» Core77 Calendar Highlight : Re-Sampling Ornament

» Core77 Calendar Highlight : Re-Sampling Ornament Latest Posts: » Creating the garden of globalisation » Seven cities that influenced design » Design flops » The art of the RFID transponder » Dell trying to design their way out of the box Categories [more...]

Date: 2008-06-23 13:51:04

» Staple x Lomo Colorsplash Camera Launch Party

» Staple x Lomo Colorsplash Camera Launch Party Latest Posts: » Seven cities that influenced design » Design flops » The art of the RFID transponder » Dell trying to design their way out of the box » USB Flash Drive by CINA Categories: Book Reviews [more...]

Date: 2008-06-23 13:39:17

Libercard, ViVOtech and Inteligensa Collaborate on First Transit & Retail Combination Contactless Payment Deployment in Latin America

Libercard lets Brazilians ride transit and make contactless payments, top-ups at retailers using a single prepaid contactless card Fortaleza, Brazil, October 7th, 2008–Libercard, ViVOtech and Inteligensa today announced that they have collaborated to develop the first Transit & [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 20:21:51

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

Images of Virtuality: Conceptualizations and Applications in Everyday Life

Images of Virtuality: Conceptualizations and Applications in Everyday LifeAn IFIP WG9 ... of virtuality make use of various technologies such as WEB2.0 & 3.0, ubiquitous computing with RFID ... of the discussion on virtuality and society, by focusing more on the technologies, arts, and practices [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 12:00:00

CISE-Certified Information Security Expert Exam......CEH-Certified Ethical Hacker ~ CBSE

CISE stands for Certified Information Security Expert. It is a certification provided after an individual who successfully clears both the levels of ISAT.A Certified Information Security Expert has in-depth knowledge of the internet, networking & online threats [more...]

Date: 2008-12-04 17:44:00

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

A Passage to India

In 1605 Joseph Jacobs wrote a story titled Dick Whittington’s Cat, ... is such that many universities are now starting to embed RFID chips in their diplomas to prevent [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 10:22:49

Opinionist: Inside Games: What the Beijing Olympics is really about

Lately, the Olympics has started to remind us of the kind of conversation wherein someone is prepared to reveal a secret, ... to credit card services, with the omnipresent five Fuwa [more...]

Date: 2008-07-27 02:36:42

Current Facts 29

Wal-MartWhen Bush cut taxes in 2004, the family that owns Wal-Mart increased their wealth by $91,500 per hour ... employee per year. One assessment states that for every two jobs created by Wal-Mart, three jobs [more...]

Date: 2008-12-14 15:22:00

TRAVEL - fresh news by plazoo.com

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Date: 2008-12-30 04:51:00

Don’t Blink: BusRadio Comes and Goes in 72 hours

Things can move fast here in MoCo.  So much to blog about this week.  First off, BusRadio ... to the school district. The system also has GPS and RFID capabilities as well as a panic button [more...]

Date: 2008-12-14 23:16:00

Importance Of E-health Application At The Point Of Care

As the Ministry of Health announced last week, with the implementation of Wareed, the new health information system, ... , "said Raj Singh, healthcare solutions consultant EMEA, Hitachi Data Systems. The key [more...]

Date: 2008-10-20 12:28:58

RFIDs Few people consider the crimes being committed to the Jews by the Jews

There is a rumour going round the internet, that an Israeli paper has said everyone in Israel is to be microchipped with an RFID. Rumours like this are often ‘planted’ as a way to prepare [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 12:36:40

(PN) EOMAS 2009 CFP and Journal Special Issue

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Date: 2009-01-08 04:58:12

[Dbworld] [CFP] UC-Sec 09 Call for Paper

From: “Deok Gyu Lee” <deokgyulee at sersc.org> ... in the use of smart cards and RFID systems - Role of RFID, sensors and biometrics to enable security [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 07:53:45

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