Barker’s gift … funds chip research?
The Daily Progress has an rather odd article juxtaposing our RFID research with a donation from Bob Barker (”Price is Right” host) ... when implanting RFID tags in animals. … “Animal law is a growing area that is in much discussion ... for RFID chips, which are commonly found in remote car-locking systems and touchless debit cards [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 16:06:14
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Weekly Newswire November 7th, 2008
Access this week's industry, legal, and policy news.. ... the county has chosen RFID technology, Dupuis says. The system uses passive tags from RFID Global ... with the decrease in the price of tags and readers. Further, implementation of RFID technology by ... RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-11-07 17:50:58
5 no-frill tactics to improve in ‘09
You can go ahead and send your wish list to Santa, but you’ll be better off forwarding a copy to the budget writers at your own company ... aging technology. If your warehouse management system (WMS) is more than 4 years old, it’s worth ... technologies, such as bar-code scanning or RFID. Prices are dropping as use rises. Monitor best practices [more...]
Date: 2008-12-09 16:27:28
What I’ll be presenting at O’Reilly Money Tech 2009
I’ve been invited to speak at O’Reilly’s Money Tech conference this coming February 4-6th in New York City and thought I’d share the abstract for my ... , supply chain data (RFID data streams), online prices, and newsgroup content represent just a few ... its million-plus users are concentrated within academia, R is gaining currency within several high [more...]
Date: 2008-10-21 10:56:37
Tucson Realtor Extends Support to Home Buyers
Read More... | 3224 bytes more | Score: 0) Page 1 of 122 (1218 total stories) ... Destination · UHF GEN 2 RFID One Time Seal Tamper Proof Tag · Barn Wood Picture Frames, a Natural Choice ... ! · About UHF RFID Reader, What is the Lowest Price? · New Study: Continued Growth of the PVC Market [more...]
Date: 2008-11-22 02:05:12
Plexidor Electronic Dog Door
When you own a pet dog one of the first things you need to get done is fix up a doggie door ... to enter or exit the premises. The only difference is that your dog wears a waterproof RFID chip ... is available in bronze and white. Prices range from $129 to $800, depending on the size and model [more...]
Date: 2008-07-25 12:02:32
CES Bound
I’m headed to CES, typing this while flying to San Francisco for some meetings then over to lost wages. Here are some interesting tidbits on costs ... . Last year, somebody was showing off the 16gig min-SD card, quoting quantity pricing. Today ... I go are the theme spots (GPS or RFID or whatever) that the show’ [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 21:26:18
The mir:ror
Now, I’m a TikiTag kind of guy, but Violet finally released their addition to the Internet of things, their Mir:ror Unfortunately their price is really steep, and their only including 3 RFID stamps whereas ... . Keep an eye Tikitag/ideas for a heads up on new ideas and uses. [more...]
Date: 2008-12-15 21:26:58
Didn't see it coming
We think we're good at anticipating new developments in the things we use everyday. More often than not, we're blinded by what we're already using:When we looked on the package for the price tag, we assumed price tags we're here to stay. We did not foresee UPC scanners and RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 17:45:00
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
The Plexidor Electronic Pet Door
With today’s technology there are a lot of ways to make sure your pet is well taken care of and safe ... as a garage door would, only instead of hitting a button this has an RFID chip that clips to your pet’ ... in the closing door. The doors range in prices from $129 on up to $800 and come in both white [more...]
Date: 2008-07-27 15:00:34
Electric Duster
By Rob Einaudi Editor-in-Chief So if you're a Mopar Or No Car kind of guy and are sick of high gas prices, what do you do? ... body work, new paint, and even digital gauges and an RFID keyless ignition system. But Bruce didn't [more...]
Date: 2008-09-30 03:34:52
Since it is that time of year when people start asking what you want for Xmas/Yule/Birthdays/Groundhog Day I am putting my list online ... are far out of gift price range, but this is a easy way to keep the list up to date. At least ... --------------- MyKey RFID Door Lock - ~350 ------------------ Mathmos Light - ~90 ---------------- Neat [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 22:31:51
Ep. 49 - 9-03-08 - Take 2 Edition
Take 2 - Labor Day - Work work work - Congrats on Pay the Fan Winners - RSS change Try GoToMeeting free for 30 days - No CC needed: GoToMeeting ... Drops Price Magazine on iPhone Marriage Made in Computer How Viagra Saves Life 3rd Gen Zune ... Up / Page Down RFID Myth Apple - get an iMac Listeners’ Notes: Are You A Weblebrity PA [more...]
Date: 2008-09-03 04:19:05
Thursday Evening Links -
Phorm delays internet trial ft.com Wireless Access: What Price Speed zdnet.com Plan rolling to improve vehicle-based Wi-Fi nets networkworld ... Is King lightreading.com RFID leakage is hushed up - claim theinquirer.net read comment(s) [more...]
Date: 2008-09-04 23:20:14
Boston Tea Party 2008
The Boston Tea Party 2008 is happening this weekend in Boston.Tickets prices are $17.76 (what else?) ... and last year’s key note speakerDr. Katherine Albrecht who is leading the fight to stop RFID tagging and chipping. A new consumer goods tracking system called Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is poised [more...]
Date: 2008-12-09 15:31:00
Salty dogs watch fish prices online
Salty dogs watch fish prices online Trawler bosses direct boats at behest of mobile phone website Mobile phones | 6 hours ago More tech news Japanese RFID phones ready to battle for WestBlow your own trumpet with bizarre phoneCasio phones coming soon to pockets near youiPod nanos blow up in Japan. Apple respondsGet [more...]
Date: 2008-08-20 08:41:41
Permalink to As Gas Prices Soar, So Does Zipcar
As Gas Prices Soar, So Does Zipcar Posted by Alex Harris If you haven’t yet heard of Zipcar, you soon will ... Zipcar utilizes RFID, gas card, and tracking technology to allow their vehicles to be maintained [more...]
Date: 2008-06-18 13:29:02
Going Green Means Going R
By Robert Atkinson President, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Cross-posted as part of our Breakthrough Special Innovation Issue Global warming may finally get the political attention and action it deserves. Indeed, it’s hard to go a single day without reading something about the crisis and what we should do about it [more...]
Date: 2008-12-15 23:52:16
Hold Onto Your Seats, Sports Fans: SF Giants to Try Airline-Style Pricing
Passengers find no shortage of befuddling experiences in the air travel industry. But perhaps nothing confounds customers as much as airlines’ approach to pricing, in which the fare two people pay for the exact same service can swing wildly based on — from a customer’s perspective — a labyrinthe [more...]
Date: 2008-12-09 11:32:00
Hold Onto Your Seats, Sports Fans: SF Giants to Try Airline-Style Pricing
Passengers find no shortage of befuddling experiences in the air travel industry. But perhaps nothing confounds customers as much as airlines’ approach to pricing, in which the fare two people pay for the exact same service can swing wildly based on — from a customer’s perspective — a labyrinthe [more...]
Date: 2008-12-09 10:50:00
Military challenge: Make spy data more accessible
Here’s an idea: Predator drones have no business being in Washington state. What they are talking about here is a total surveillance society ... analysts to detect and access sensors from different sources.” “Let’s say you’re an analyst, and you want (to find) out what’s going on in Bellingham, Wash., and you don’t know what sensors are available [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 17:34:06
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
Fuel prices causing companies to “Move West”
I lived in Los Angeles during the early 2000’s and had the opportunity to tour various inland logistics centers based in the Fontana/Ontario area ... including inventory, returns, distribution, etc. and was even in the preliminary stages of RFID development for the warehouse. At that time, I was also responsible for two large tech firms that were [more...]
Date: 2008-07-29 02:26:46
Erie PA Today News, Events and Info for today, Tuesday, January 6, 2009
A large portion of the westside in Erie PA has been shutdown since 4:30 am this morning when a guy with a rifle went postal. Baur Lane to Brown Ave, 25th to 21st Streets have been barricaded. The suspect fired a number of shots including at police officers. He also has set fire to at least one home and there are reports of up to 3 homes burning [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 12:22:49
Erie PA Today News, Events and Info for today, Sunday, January 4, 2009
Disturbing story on GoErie.com about Kevin J Feyas, a teacher that resigned amid allegations of sexual misconduct with students. Feyas will not be prosecuted as the statute of limitations has expired. Good teams always come through in the clutch, in times of adversity, and when its top players are not at the top of their games [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 13:27:06
Can You Be a Good Parent and a Good Blogger?
That’s my personal struggle, but you could insert many all-consuming tasks — such as starting up a company, ... me, a professional news writer who’s passionate about technology — but not to the point where I want ... that I love. So my passions are pretty much destined to never meet — unless I want to implant an RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-11-27 23:09:57
Oyster on mobiles
Building Oyster technology into mobile phones seems like a good idea. Just about everyone is permanently wedded to their phone ... their wallet or purse and an Oyster card - the size of a normal credit card - is hardly an onerous burden ... , but not negligible. I’m not an expert, but shielding the RFID chip from the signals put out by mobiles [more...]
Date: 2008-09-24 18:49:46
“World’s Smallest” Active Asset RFID Tag
Orizin Technologies Pvt Ltd of Bangalore has launched what it claims is the world’s smallest active RFID tag — used to track assets over long-range ... . Active RFID tags have their own internal power source and are more effective in RF challenged environments. The company has solved the size and pricing issues with the prevailing technology. The ... [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 09:15:20
Industry experts weigh in on Wal-Mart TV 2.0
The online discussion forum Retail Wire attracts a very knowledgeable crowd — what it calls a Brain Trust — to comment on various issues of the day, including recent news that Wal-Mart is taking its in-store video network in a new direction. This is a site requiring registration, but it’s free, [more...]
Date: 2008-07-30 11:10:29
The Pursuit Of Efficiency: Automation In Health Care
The Pursuit Of Efficiency: Automation In Health Care Everyone is talking about “living green” – taking whatever steps we can as individuals to ... to the EMR, RFID, CPOE, or to any of the hot-topic technologies we always read ... , data accuracy and overall cost savings. Let’s take a look at the areas in a hospital where automation [more...]
Date: 2008-12-04 20:15:05
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
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
If sameness is a recipe for losing, how do you win?
If sameness is a recipe for losing, how do you win? Posted by Paul Murphy @ 12:15 am Categories: General, Applications, Enterprise Policy, ... coming into your inventory and final packaging to meet Walmart’s rather predatory pricing expectations ... , you can load RFID tags and customize packaging; yes, yes, and yes - and it all looks great until you [more...]
Date: 2008-07-21 07:15:30
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
Grocery Store Prices
Since my local Farmer Jack closed and went out of business I've been paying attention to different groceries stores and prices. I didn't pay as much attention to pricing as I should since my mother worked at a Farmer Jack's ... smarter with RFID this will probably be a breeze. It'll know what I need and tell me it's time [more...]
Date: 2008-07-01 03:48:16
Panasonic Toughbook CF-H1 Mobile Clinical Assistant: Video Demos
Panasonic have officially announced the Toughbook CF-H1 Medical Tablet PC they demonstrated at the IDF in August ... for employee identification and an RFID reader. There’s also a GPS receiver, WiFi a/b/g/n, Bluetooth ... We say “primary” because there are other methods of input: a barcode reader, for instance, that allows [more...]
Date: 2008-11-04 17:44:06
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
Erie PA Today News, Events and Info for today, Friday, January 9, 2009
Ian at The People Demand It! reported that Richard Gibbons is out as CEO of EmergyCare and that William Haggerty is the new interim leader. EmergyCare is the non-profit ambulance service provider for the City of Erie. They have expanded their coverage are with operating divisions in Meadville, Titusville, Warren, Kane, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 12:37:06
Erie PA Today News, Events and Info for today, Sunday, January 11, 2009
The Erie area spent yesterday digging out of the snow. Representative Kathy Dahlkemper, now in Washington DC, hopefully spent the day learning the names of the other members of Congress - story. US Navy Seaman Alex McKelvey of Erie PA is serving as an aviation ordnanceman on the aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 13:04:14
Erie PA Today News, Events and Info for today, Wednesday, January 7, 2009
What a bizarre story. Robert Daniels apparently died in the fire he started at the home he lived in on the 1300 block of West 25th Street. Daniels got into a domestic dispute with the women he lived with. The woman went to the police station after being beaten by Daniels. She warned them that Daniels was armed [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 12:50:07
Panasonic Toughbook CF-U1 rugged UMPC official specs, price confirmed
As expected, Panasonic have released spec details for its upcoming Toughbook UMPC, the CF-U1. Based around a daylight-viewable 5 ... , barcode or RFID readers and, later in the year, a magnetic stripe reader and serial/ethernet ... s 5100-Series WiFi card, offering a, g and draft-n, together with standard Bluetooth 2.0+EDR. There’ [more...]
Date: 2008-06-25 18:24:14
Will Voice Prints Work For Payment Authorization?
Will Voice Prints Work For Payment Authorization? A UK company is pushing retailers to use voice-recognition to authenticate purchases over the phone and online. The Voice Commerce Group (VCG)'s Voice Transact package has consumers call the service, quote a pre-arranged product code and then a series of digits dictated by the automated system [more...]
Date: 2008-06-27 05:19:04
Oracle BEA Strategy Briefing
http://www.column2.com/2008/07/oracle-bea-strategy-briefing/. Not only did Oracle schedule this briefing on Canada Day, the biggest holiday in Canada, but they forced me to download the Real Player plug-in in order to participate. The good part, however, is that it was full streaming audio and video alongside the slides [more...]
Date: 2008-07-01 17:57:20
Is "dual supplier" a good strategy?
Is dual supplier a good strategy? Based on industry experience in the recent years, ... to the extra effort needed to properly schedule supplier deliveries. You also give up some of the quantity ... -sourcing from an available base of 2-5 supplier candidates through competitive bidding [more...]
Date: 2008-09-09 21:24:48
Erie PA Today News, Events and Info for today, Monday, January 5, 2009
If you were driving across West 12th Street Sunday evening and wondered what the heck was going on with all the police cars, there was a break in at a warehouse. City of Erie Police officers spent hours searching but the criminal got away before police apparently got away before police arrived [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 12:35:03
GAO RFID Announces Q3 Sales Growth
Toronto, Canada – GAO RFID Inc. (www.GAORFID.com) reports that its sales revenues in the third quarter increased by 185 ... for this year and next. “Naturally, GAO RFID is very glad to see this significant growth in sales ... immobilization, ABI, a market research firm, predicts that the RFID market will experience a 15% compound [more...]
Date: 2008-11-17 11:01:31
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
Syon Bluetooth Access Control
Syon have just announced their release on a bluetooth access control system that can be used for a number of different switching applications ... . Syon allows you to have RFID keys too. With Syon you can access if you have no battery ... Garage Office Factories Where you can imagine…” Pricing starts from around the 150 Euro for the single [more...]
Date: 2008-10-28 14:47:10
Stanford Business, Entry 14: Nike, PACCAR, Boeing, Amazon and Costco: Our Northwest Study Trip
Keeping up with our breakneck pace, we had our first out-of-town study trip last week, followed by the Stanford Thanksgiving break. I think I like the Stanford thanksgiving break a lot better than I liked the MIT break during my undergrad days; at Stanford, we got the whole week off. This was (no doubt) [more...]
Date: 2008-12-01 05:01:08
