Ghostbusters: The Video Game in development
Who ya gonna call? Atari have teamed up with developers Terminal Reality and Sony Pictures to bring gamers the eagerly awaited Ghostbusters: ... , Video Games, Wii, Xbox 360 Related Articles: Ubisoft plans expansion - 1,000 new jobs by 2013 Man ... RFID Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Review (Xbox 360) [more...]
Date: 2008-11-27 23:45:44
Blog posts
(76)
|
Videos
(53)
Risky Business #74 — HOWTO: Make your own Elvis bin Laden e-passport
This week’s Risky Business is brought to you by Microsoft and hosted, as always, by Vigabyte virtual hosting ... passports with embedded wireless RFIDs. The result was a rush job the likes of which you’ve never seen [more...]
Date: 2008-08-19 03:25:04
Robotic hospital porter doing his rounds
This is the 100th Aethon made robot to be deployed in US hospitals and the TUG seems to be doing a fine job in its new found medical ... members. Utilising an RFID tracking system it has no wireless control which studies have found ... on with its daily routine of delivering medicines and other supplies around hospitals and tracking usage [more...]
Date: 2008-07-18 12:33:34
The Energy to Rebuild
... The development of a "smart grid" for the US would provide thousands of jobs, and would position us to meet demand ... , sensors and RFID (radio frequency ID) tags providing real-time input to computers which can monitor [more...]
Date: 2008-11-24 07:58:26
Small Modification of a Java software "TagCentric" by analognut
I need someone to modify a JAVA open source software called tagCentric for me. This is a middleware program, as its name implies, the software is a bridge between RFID readers and database. This middleware… (Budget: $30-250, Jobs: J2EE, Java, Javascript, Linux) Original post [more...]
Date: 2009-01-01 08:01:48
Modify a Java open source software "TagCentric" by analognut
I need someone to modify a JAVA open source software called tagCentric for me. This is a middleware program, as its name imply, the software is a bridge between RFID readers and database. This middleware… (Budget: $30-250, Jobs: J2EE, Java, Javascript, JSP, Linux) Original [more...]
Date: 2008-11-17 10:38:12
Changing for the Better
Its been a couple of months since I last updated this blog so I wanted to do a quick post letting folks know what I've been up to and what is ... are positive. About six months ago I changed jobs. I'm now a senior consultant at SecureState where ... researching a number of topics including the security of RFID prox cards used in many access control [more...]
Date: 2008-09-19 03:29:00
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
Looking around me
All my 12+4 years of education are over now and here I stand with a job in Siemens ,which I am finding to be very interesting and challenging ... ,Visteon,Intruit,Sonycore,Norton,TI,HP,TVS,Ford,Nokia,Airtel,Microsoft,Siemens,Intel,Philips ... ,semiconductors,consumer electronics,RFID etc this list covers. Next is my favorite of medicine.I [more...]
Date: 2008-10-08 15:05:00
Pennsylvania Lawmaker Joins Movement To Ban Forced RFID Implants
State Rep. Babette Josephs, D-Phila., has introduced legislation that would make it illegal to implant any identification device on or under a ... RFID chart sourced from CNETJust Get There | The thought of any government or corporation forcing humans to take implantable RFID chips, sounds like an Orwellian sci-fi movie. In reality, it is in [more...]
Date: 2008-10-22 15:51:46
The NASCAR Experience Part One - What Does it Feel Like to go 175 MPH?
Last weekend I was invited to a NASCAR extravaganza weekend event by Mobil 1 Official NASCAR Sponsor to get up close ... from Motor Trend, writer for Muscle Car Magazine and car builder Jason Lewis , Road & Track and a few ... -frequency identification (RFID) tags installed at multiple locations all over the vehicles for [more...]
Date: 2008-10-16 15:31:07
10 Apple Patents to Keep Your Eyes On
Apple is on the cutting edge of technology innovation, and in order to properly protect themselves from copycats, they patent things like crazy ... of the concepts in these designs are patented. And while many of the products will forever remain a concept ... up or not. iPhone nano Considering Apple’s never-ending quest to make its products smaller, [more...]
Date: 2008-10-30 14:12:55
FRESHER BE JOBS PUNE BIOENABLE TECHNOLOGIES
About Company : BioEnable is India’s largest supplier and exporter of cutting edge technology products and services based on Biometrics, RFID, GPS & Wireless RF technologies. We have our customers [more...]
Date: 2008-11-17 23:07:23
Farmers See ‘Mark of the Beast’ in RFID Livestock Tags
The last seven and one half years has been an absolute disaster for the American Republic. Under Dubya’s reign, we have suffered with lethal wars of choice in both Iraq and Afghanistan, resulting in huge casualty numbers; a failing economy with a loss of hundreds of thousands of middle class jobs, [more...]
Date: 2008-09-10 22:00:31
Best of 2008: Top 25 Technology Blogs
And here stands our compilation of technology blogs doing justice to the tech-needs of the common man. Had they not been there, it would have been a demanding task to get oneself updated with the emerging development s in the technology industry. We wish good luck to all of them for performing so well and giving us the opportunity to be spotted [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 09:45:23
News 12/5/08
From Cheryl: "Re: low-cost IT projects. I have been starving to hear stories like these! Leonard and Larry shared common problems, not hospital-specific issues. I am always on the lookout for how others are doing things better, especially solutions that can become best practices [more...]
Date: 2008-12-05 02:51:20
INDIA has to find it's four STEVE JOBS : Guy Kawasaki
Times Of India had a very interesting interview with Guy Kawasaki when he was on a visit in Mumbai ... him wondering about the ‘business analytics’ involved. “How can you send a pair of jeans there and get the same one back,” he wondered.“And that too without RFID chips, no barcode scanner,” he said [more...]
Date: 2008-10-01 17:52:00
News 10/29/08
From Houndoggie: “Re: UCI. The Eclipsys install got pushed again at UC-Irvine Med Center and the first casualty was Joy Grosser, long-time CIO. No word yet on what is going to happen. Jim Murry was brought back in the interim spot.” Unverified. I’m happy to run either confirmation or correction, whichever is appropriate [more...]
Date: 2008-10-29 01:06:43
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
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
The hacker mindset: The Nashville MTA, ie taking the bus.
I have always been intrigued by public transportation particularly the ones that have technology involved. I also like walking, but anyway this is about the bus. Why would one ride the bus if they had the option of driving there own car. Well the upside is overall it is cheaper if you eliminate all the costs involved in owning a car including [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 01:25:00
On the Roof of the World
Our permit to travel Tibet was mailed from Lhasa the day before we were to leave and the wait was painful. We had decided to arrange our trip through a local Tibetan guide living in Lhasa, rather than supporting the government travel agency. The cost would be substantially less than the agency and we were promised to use only Tibetan-run hotels [more...]
Date: 2008-12-02 06:04:28
Scoring my 2008 Tech Predictions
I’m about the least unopinionated guy I know. 362 days ago, I made a whole bunch of predictions. Let’s see how I scored… TV Technology Every major cable company will increase it’s rates by more than 3%. Nobody will complain, and our government will (again) fail to protect us from them [more...]
Date: 2008-12-27 22:57:45
I really appreciate the links the MNN make in this transmission...
THE CAPITALIST PARTY IS OVER! DARK DAYS BEFORE CLEARING SKIESMNN. Oct. 11, 2008.The stock market crash could be the best thing that ever happened to save the planet. The pollution from the skies will clear so that we can see the horizon once more. The Wall Street bankers are surprised that people are not reacting yet or cracking up [more...]
Date: 2008-10-13 05:01:00
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
Resume Fraud Rampant in India
It appears that we in the US have exported yet another hot commodity to those in India: Resume Fraud ... are now starting to embed RFID chips in their diplomas to prevent fraud.” Read more How does ... and power) could do for their lives. Second, there are more people competing for fewer jobs [more...]
Date: 2008-11-18 15:02:08
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
TechCrunch Euro Tour 08: Yes, even Belgium has startups
A couple of weeks ago I headed over to Belgium as part of my ongoing TechCrunch Euro Tour, to get a taste of the local web/mobile entrepreneur community (BTW, come to the London and Helsinki events soon). I hooked-up with another TechCrunch writer, Robin Wauters, who had kindly arranged a TechCrunch Belgium meetup in Gent [more...]
Date: 2008-11-21 11:13:46
Amazon Rents Massive Data Sets
Several months ago, I wrote a piece titled Massive Data Sets about the potential for increased access to very large data sets that historically would ... to their services offering. From the Times,Amazon Web Services, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, has started offering ... of services Amazon already offers) significant expenses. Access to the Amazon [more...]
Date: 2008-12-05 10:47:00
Erie PA Today News, Events and Info for today, Monday, January 12, 2009
Rehrig Pacific Company closed their manufacturing facility in Raymond, New Hampshire and is moving the operations to their facility in Erie, PA at 1738 West 20th Street. Products made at New Hampshire include plastic milk crates, soda-bottle holders, garbage receptacles and recycling bins. Forty employees were laid-off [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 12:49:02
Mohawk Nation News: The Capitalist Party is Over!
THE CAPITALIST PARTY IS OVER! DARK DAYS BEFORE CLEARING SKIESMohawk Nation NewsOct. 11, 2008. The stock market crash could be the best thing that ever happened to save the planet. The pollution from the skies will clear so that we can see the horizon once more. The Wall Street bankers are surprised that people are not reacting yet or cracking up [more...]
Date: 2008-10-15 04:46:00
Valley view
For San Francisco readers keeping up-to-date on celebrity news, we are pleased to provide this story from The BBC. By Maggie Shiels Technology reporter, BBC News, San Francisco [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 01:25:26
News 10/15/08
Reminder: Allscripts CEO Glen Tullman will be live here in an online chat at 7:00 ET Wednesday evening. Several folks have left comments on his article or weighed in on the merger, so why not let Glen answer your questions directly? I’ll be posting the chat thing right here on HIStalk like any other article [more...]
Date: 2008-10-15 01:22:27
Thankful for a Smaller, Flatter, Smarter Planet
Greg over at IBM Eye has a post that points to Gaurav Sabnis' article ... commenting on Mitt Romney's Op-Ed piece in the New York Times "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt" . Mitt Romney During the Republican primaries, Mitt Romney promised Michigan he would bring back [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 16:16:05
Wow. Just wow.
In reply to Super Giant: 1964: I, too, worked in a grocery store in the late-70s when I was in high school ... complicated but efficient label gun used to print and affix the prices to the products. As a stocker ... until the self checkout and then later RFID based systems (you just walk out of the store [more...]
Date: 2008-11-23 17:13:53
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
RFID Robot Terminals for the gadget savvy Japanese
RFID Robot Terminals for the gadget savvy Japanese Next time you visit Japan you might come across RFID robots on the streets out there ... and RFID reader terminals for collection of data from e-money phones which are a hit among the Japanese ... . These RFID Robots could be placed at places thronged by people such as theme parks, fairgrounds or [more...]
Date: 2008-11-18 14:35:47
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
Real Time Location Systems
Posted by: Paul DeBeasi Introduction Real-time location systems (RTLS) have been around for years ... of technology as described below: § RFID: Radio frequency identification (RFID) systems consist of low-cost electronic tags that can be interrogated by electronic readers. In most RFID environments [more...]
Date: 2008-12-05 18:37:02
5 Big Implications of YouTube's New Govt Channels
5 Big Implications of YouTube's New Govt Channels by Alvis Brigis | 2 Comments 4 Sentilla raises $7.5 million for 'smart' software-sensor solutions ... by Garry Golden | 0 Comments 3 Earth 2100 Game Imagines "Perfect Storm" Catastrophe Scenario by Adam Cutsinger | 0 Comments 3 Surge of Hybrid and Electric Cars in India, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 21:03:37
[Video] Visions of Future Urban Landscapes
Visions of Future Urban Landscapes by Garry Golden | 0 Comments 3 Surge of Hybrid and Electric Cars in India, China by amisampat | 0 Comments 2 Does the road to Electric Vehicles pass through China? EV Startup o... by Garry Golden | 2 Comments 2 Stanford launches $100 million global energy institute, as Californ.. [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 20:09:11
News 10/24/08
From rbsavage3: "Re: HealthVault. Microsoft scores with Aetna e-records pact. As a member of Aetna and an employee of a large hospital system, I’m not sure I like this. I wonder what the community thinks." Link. The deal connects Aetna’s PHR to HealthVault and adds a connection in the other direction next year [more...]
Date: 2008-10-24 02:13:07
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
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
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
The Day I Became An International Rider
There is nothing like the dog days of summer for heat in metropolitan New York City, and they really get to barking in the first few weeks of August. But you wouldn’t have known that on this August day, when I decided to become an international motorcycle rider [more...]
Date: 2008-12-26 18:06:00
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
News 12/17/08
From MM: "Re: EMR. $83 million for an EMR? Unbelievable! Who besides me thinks EMRs cost a little less than an order of magnitude too much? I don’t blame vendors entirely. I blame the conceptual model used in the industry (CDR-centric that duplicates data already available electronically) [more...]
Date: 2008-12-17 03:07:57
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
Global Problems can Hit Us; Why do We Create Our Own?
Ken Rogoff, former Chief Economist at the IMF, warned that 'the financial crisis is at the halfway stage. I would go further to state that the worst is yet to come'. His prediction that a large financial institution would collapse led to a fall in global markets [more...]
Date: 2008-08-23 20:03:08
