First Data’s GO-Tags — the first step toward mobile commerce?
The mobile industry has been WOEFULLY inept at dealing with mobile commerce. Appalling. There’s a heck of a lot of hesitation going on ... . THAT would be excellent. First Data have published a white paper about this — Contactless ... card (the RFID card system used for the London Underground train service). Swipe at a reader [more...]
Date: 2008-08-21 14:32:49
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Research says mobile money transfers may exceed $5 billion by 2013
Research says mobile money transfers may exceed $5 billion by 2013 (Aug 29, 2008) ... ) Add your press release or white paper to IT briefing: Click here Headlines ... · Mythbusters busted over RFID gagging · Video: History of British PCs · Email and web database plans slammed [more...]
Date: 2008-08-29 07:27:51
Apartment Marketing: Some Compelling Trends and a Platform to Match
This white paper is brought to us by Robert Sardary of Trusterra ... at the optimal times? I can. Can you imagine a system that embeds RFID technology for preventive and real ... . We have a chance to be a part of something larger than ourselves on this one. Take a look at the paper, introduce [more...]
Date: 2008-11-10 04:16:53
Delivering an Effective Backup and Recovery Service whitepaper
Delivering an Effective Backup and Recovery Service Rapid data growth and the need for greater data availability place a demand on organisations ... this approach is. This white paper helps organisations make the right decisions about how best ... Advisor news Google advertising deal blocked by Russia Passport RFID tags open to snooping Intel, IBM [more...]
Date: 2008-10-17 17:13:17
Survey finds disaster recovery is the top issue for organisations
Survey finds disaster recovery is the top issue for organisations (Aug 19, 2008) ... , 2008) Add your press release or white paper to IT briefing: Click here Headlines ... of charging New York sales tax · Microsoft taps RFID for Tech.Ed delegates · Desktop Linux proves its mettle [more...]
Date: 2008-08-19 06:58:23
BUSH'S UNFINISHED BUSINESS, AND HIS LEGACY
This post came about because, as I was scanning Google News, I notice the Dallas News (paper) ... the article and tainting my lily white consciousness with his Bushit, give MY list of Bush's ... . He did not get an RFID chip, and the numbers "666" implanted in the flesh of every American2. He did [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 16:18:00
Wim van Eck’s legacy
In 1985, Dutch computer researcher Wim van Eck authored a paper on EMR eavesdropping effective against CRT monitors ... ———————————————————————————————————- If you think worrying about RFID chips in your wallet is the height of security paranoia, you have a lot ... s paper, it was generally believed that such eavesdropping was prohibitively difficult for [more...]
Date: 2008-10-23 20:49:50
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
Mapreduce Leads The Way For Parallel Programming
We’re now entering what I call the “Industrial Revolution of Data,” where the majority of data will be stamped out by machines: software logs, cameras, microphones, RFID readers, wireless sensor networks and so on. These machines generate data a lot faster than people can, and their production rates will grow exponentially with Moore’s Law [more...]
Date: 2008-11-09 17:00:54
First Day of 2nd Grade
It's that time of year again! Time to send my kid back to school. Anxious. Shy. Curious. And with a bag full to overflowing with supplies ... at the place we went - 1 cent for bottles of white school glue; 20 cents for a box of crayons. We'll ... . I started thinking about RFID chips and sting operations until I thought about just what the repercussions [more...]
Date: 2008-08-19 17:23:55
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
Google and FCC Like White Space
The US is getting close to catching up with access-rich always-on Internet, as is available in several Asian countries ... the unused white-space portions of the electromagnetic spectrum between TV channels for a national ... with RFID and other technologies such as weight-sensing shelves, such fridges could be able to keep [more...]
Date: 2008-11-08 06:55:29
MRI's Colorful Future
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National Institutes of Health are working on technology that promises to ... can be thought of as microscopic RF identification (RFID) tags, similar to those used for identifying ... is flexible and could have other applications such as in enabling RFID-based microscopic fluid [more...]
Date: 2008-06-20 12:11:26
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
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
Compliance Remains King Among Consumer Goods Manufacturers, But Other Benefits Begin to Prompt RFID Adoption
Consumer goods manufacturers and retailers continue to adopt RFID largely for the sake of compliance with mandates from the likes of Wal-Mart, ... that RFID can deliver are growing in importance and will eventually overtake compliance as the leading market driver for RFID uptake in this vertical. According to research director Michael Liard, “ [more...]
Date: 2008-10-05 19:46:49
[Video] Behind Delhi’s World Health Organization Headquarters
My Saturday lunch with Amit, Ashish, Abhishkek, and Ajay was postponed until Sunday. So I decided to get on Delhi’s new(ish) ... token which I assume uses RFID to automatically open the gates. From Rajiv Chowk (Connaught Place ... things immediately catch your eye. One is a giant blue and white building, which it turns [more...]
Date: 2008-08-11 08:56:56
Drug Industry Adopts UHF While Politicians Debate ePedigree
Issue #172 | Dec. 5, 2008 | by Andy Kowl The health industry calls them ADEs – Adverse Drug Events – and in hospitals, "preventable ADE's" ... ADE deaths are just a small part of that scary number. Using RFID and barcodes, Concord Hospital ... , and RFID the silver bullet, raise your hand if you think RFID may be a passing phase in medicine [more...]
Date: 2008-12-05 17:10:43
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
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
Print is Not Dead: 2D Bar Codes Will Lead to More Offline and Print Advertising
Scanning a Matrix or 2D code with a smart phone camera will allow you to access websites, get real time information, ... reading: White paper on Mobile codes 2008 (pdf. Open Mobile Alliance) Choosing the best 2D bar code format for mobile applications (pdf. semacide 2006) US Patent Office reject all 95 NeoMedia code [more...]
Date: 2008-07-26 18:41:24
RFID White Paper: UHF Gen 2 Interoperability
RFID White Paper: UHF Gen 2 Interoperability RFID hardware interoperability determines the ability of tags and readers manufactured by different suppliers to work interchangeably—to be, in fact, plug-and-play. This is critically... RFID Powered By Impinj: Getting Up To Speed Integration Story: Google India Uses RFID To Locate Shared [more...]
Date: 2008-10-13 11:43:42
Notes from CCC 2008
While attending CCC 2008, I was making notes, as usual (see DIMVA, DeepSec) ... the data Security Failures in Smart Card Payment systems UK process: card reports account #, … ... for a fall-back transaction with a cloned card = PIN entry device should be temper-proof, are certified [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 15:17:17
My Labels
The pic is of a boy fishing in a canal. The text below is my entire collection of blog labels. (This ought to be interesting to see what kind of blog hits that this entry gets. Everything is an experiment, but this is a real eye-glazer for most readers.)All Labels:$5 cheeseburger 177 passengers [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 02:33:00
Smart Card Alliance Identity Council Raises Awareness of Security and Privacy in Government and Enterprise Identity Initiatives
Announces new officers and steering committee, upcoming projects PRINCETON JUNCTION, N.J ... . These benefits were outlined in the white paper, Smart Card Technology: The Right Choice for REAL ID ... paper, The Consequences to Citizen Privacy and National Security in Adopting RFID Technology for Border [more...]
Date: 2008-09-23 18:16:00
Embedded RFID: Transforming The Management Of Medical Devices & Supplies
Embedded RFID: Transforming The Management Of Medical Devices &... RFID is not just for supply chain applications anymore1 ... 2: The Definitive, Myth-busting, Item-level Solution RFID White Paper: UHF Gen 2 Interoperability more... ... -to-use, especially in embedded... Unlock Unique Capabilities Of Mobile RFID In Your Applications [more...]
Date: 2008-10-23 07:45:13
ISIKOFF for Newsweek on THOMAS TAMM...aka DEEPTHROAT ON NSA WIRETAPPING SCANDAL
The Fed Who Blew the Whistle Is he a hero or a criminal? By Michael Isikoff | NEWSWEEK Published Dec 13, 2008 From the magazine issue dated Dec 22, 2008 Thomas M. Tamm was entrusted with some of the government's most important secrets. He had a Sensitive Compartmented Information security clearance, a level above Top Secret [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 22:18:14
Coral8 5.5: Snapshot Queries with Live Updates
Last week we announced the release of version 5.5 of Coral8 Engine, which has a number of very cool features. The biggest and the most exciting of them must surely be Snapshot Queries with Live Updates. Here is why: History lesson: Continuous and Snapshot Queries First generation CEP engines started with the concept of Continuous Queries [more...]
Date: 2008-11-04 04:33:04
FBI--BUSH--CHENEY PEDERAST CONNECTION: illuminati scum...in Obama's cabinet
http://www.voxfux.com/features/bush_world_class_criminal.html#fnB45 CLICK BLOGPOST TITLE to get link to "VOXNEWS...the news before news happens": ..."President George Herbert Walker Bush continuously lauded himself before the public as the “family values” president. Bush should know about family values [more...]
Date: 2008-12-05 21:32:29
Video: RFID Inventory Tracking For Food Manufacturing
Video: RFID Inventory Tracking For Food Manufacturing See how Nancy's Specialty Foods, the world's largest manufacturer of quiche, ... is the world's cutting edge antenna technology manufacturer for RFID applications and is dedicated to providing antenna solution to any RFID application, including: portal near field, handheld, forklift [more...]
Date: 2008-12-21 02:55:41
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
Unlock Unique Capabilities Of Mobile RFID In Your Applications
Unlock Unique Capabilities Of Mobile RFID In Your Applications Mobile RFID enables unique RFID use-cases not possible with fixed readers. Mobile data collection devices such as scanners tethered to mobile computers, integrated handheld readers,... Metro Group's Galeria Kaufhof - Item-Level, Near-Field RFID... Deep And Wide, Near [more...]
Date: 2008-10-14 05:01:03
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
Daily Briefs: Large Hadron Collider fails to destroy Earth, damn it.
By CHRIS PACKHAM Hey, Science! Gather observable, empirical and measurable evidence about THIS! Scientists in Geneva activated the Large Hadron Collider without actually destroying the Earth. Maybe it's, like, broken or something? [more...]
Date: 2008-09-10 01:18:53
RFID Fears and Myths
rfid chip In an effort to dispel some of the privacy concerns surrounding radio frequency identification technology (RFID), the Information Technology Association of America has issued a white paper covering ... regarding the technology. The ITAA white paper is a useful resource to counter some of these concerns [more...]
Date: 2008-06-26 20:19:20
Product Demonstration Video: CribMaster ModuLock
Product Demonstration Video: CribMaster ModuLock CribMaster ModuLock Electronic Lockers by WinWare "Product Demonstration Video: ... is the world's cutting edge antenna technology manufacturer for RFID applications and is dedicated to providing antenna solution to any RFID application, including: portal near field, handheld, forklift [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 16:01:21
Think AES is Unbreakable? RSA Security's Shamir Debunks that Notion
The 2008 Crypto Conference provided a lot to talk about this year ... . The presentation was general as to the details it revealed but the recently published white paper called "Cube ... than the white paper itself, this attack provides an order of magnitude improvement for capturing [more...]
Date: 2008-10-16 10:00:00
Putting Visual Intelligence on the Map
thincVIew™: Putting Visual Intelligence on the Map Stephen G ... , the positions of emergency personnel with active RFID badges in a hospital, customer purchases through time ... -based mapping applications, these platforms do not permit rich analysis. The problem is that these web [more...]
Date: 2008-11-01 20:30:21
Deep And Wide, Near And Far
Deep And Wide, Near And Far EPCglobal ratified the UHF Gen 2 Protocol, creating the first world-wide standard for RFID ... 2: The Definitive, Myth-busting, Item-level Solution RFID White Paper: UHF Gen 2 Interoperability RFID Powered By Impinj: Getting Up To Speed Integration Story: Google India Uses RFID To Locate Shared [more...]
Date: 2008-10-13 12:48:39
Jim Sterne, the Godfather of Web Analytics
In 2007 when Eric Enge asked Google’s Avinash Kaushik about me I was humbled when Avinash responded, ... analytics and marketing optimization, and a co-founder of the Web Analytics Association. And did ... on and learn a little more about “the Godfather of Web Analytics” … EP: For the three people who ** don [more...]
Date: 2008-07-23 15:06:42
Video: The M/A-COM WiFi Sensor Tag Advantage
Video: The M/A-COM WiFi Sensor Tag Advantage Know where your assets are worldwide ... 1 GE Scientists Develop Battery-Free, Multi-Detection Wireless Sensors 2 The RFID Experts Group (REG) Completes Work On Verification Procedures For RFID ... AIM Global 3 Large [more...]
Date: 2008-10-31 17:49:46
Dr. Strangeblood or How I learned to start worrying and hate the numbers
As we enter a new year, money and the economy are on the minds of many people. Certainly economics is an obsession in the developed world ... for transfusion medicine decision making. Transfus Med Rev 2009 Jan;23(1):112. (PDF, free full text)Brian [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 03:17:00
My 2008 Voting Experience
This is the third presidential election I have voted in. The first, in 2000, was performed via a paper mail-in ballot while I was living in Columbia, MO ... this piece of paper that has the names of those candidates who have been mentioned for weeks [more...]
Date: 2008-11-04 15:49:00
The Week in Geek - Oct. 29, 2008
Facebook’s Roar Becomes a Meow By most measures Facebook’s in a better place now than a year ago. It’s the biggest social network on the planet and the average user spends 100 minutes a month online, vs. just 60 minutes a year ago (among the college demographic, [more...]
Date: 2008-10-29 01:48:59
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
Link Buffet for June
Lots of backlogged stuff, so little time. Here's a linkpile for early June: In "Investing Strategies for iPhone Customers" Khoi Vinh writes: Like I said, this comes with the territory. The “early adopter tax,” is how most people refer to it [more...]
Date: 2008-06-10 14:27:34
Couponing in the Digital Age
Good overview piece on digital couponing via NielsenWire ... some very interesting work with their MoBeam effort. See their white paper on the redemption gap. From the Nielsen paper: " ... Coupons are already well-established as a promotional vehicle [more...]
Date: 2008-12-03 18:50:00
Defcon 16: Speakers & Presentations
DEFCON 16: August 8-10, 2008at the Riviera Hotel & Casino in Las VegasDEFCON 16 Presentations now online! ... Alonso & José Parada (PDF White Paper) Extras (ZIP)The Anatomy of a Subway Hack: Breaking Crypto ... Up Where It Shouldn't - Don M. Blumenthal (PDF)Working with Law Enforcement (PDF White Paper) Buying [more...]
Date: 2008-08-26 09:55:00
Top New Medical Technologies and/or Platforms
While this is separately a White Paper that I wrote and periodically re-write to reflect new stuff being developed (or progressing in that development), it is worthwhile to occasionally revisit [more...]
Date: 2008-11-24 00:37:54
