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WHTI: Another Link in the Control and Surveillance Grid By Kurt Nimmo~Infowars In the PSA here, happy young people tote their Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) RFID cards as America ... specifically RFID. “The RFID component stores the traveler’s relevant information. Card readers that Unisys [more...]
Date: 2008-10-16 16:05:56
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Improving Expiration Dates
Many in the supermarket industry look forward to the days when all items have RFID tags ... , dramatically cutting stores’ labor costs. RFID image courtesy of SMARTCODE corporation via Wikipedia A new kind of RFID tag that University of Manchester (UK) researchers are developing could help reduce [more...]
Date: 2008-09-25 14:41:46
In-Store Analytics
A big advantage for ecommerce sites is the ability to track minutest details of customer activity ... s consider using RFID technology at the grocery store. Placing RFID tags on carts with receiver tags ... I like best utilizes RFID. RFID technology is getting cheaper by the day and is estimated to cost around [more...]
Date: 2008-10-06 11:15:44
RFID Sewn In
We’ve started to see the introduction of RFID to track things like store inventory, travelers in airports and passport holders - and next, ... a trackable RFID tag that can be sewn into garments and withstand washing machines and ironing. We’re ... you wonder how connected our clothes will be in the future. RFID Journal reports: Another of RFID Lab’ [more...]
Date: 2008-08-14 15:02:36
When Technology is Transparent
If you’ve ever had a “Toll Tag” - a device which lets you drive on toll roads without stopping to pay with cumbersome coins - you know the ... a grocery store that use RFID for auto-scanning items for checkout and bills your credit card on file ... t offer bar code scanning Motion backgrounds that stutter and skip behind song lyrics Microsoft [more...]
Date: 2008-11-20 19:17:04
Would you like to see an example of America's infrastructure?
"....Address the Lauinger Problem", as The Hoya (student newspaper at Georgetown University) put it in an editorial (issue of Friday, Dec. 5, 2008) ... of what a library should be. In the 21st century, a library must be more than a warehouse for storing books ... : RFID chips to make everybody able to check out books individually instead of waiting in line [more...]
Date: 2008-12-13 06:37:00
In-Store Retail Advertising Causes as Many Woes as Wows
The Wall Street Journal’s Emily Steel describes the latest in in-store video advertising and RFID ... now is to figure out how to use them most effectively: Procter & Gamble is placing radio-frequency identification tags on products at a Metro Extra retail store in Germany so that when a customer pulls [more...]
Date: 2008-08-25 08:49:18
SWF to Video Converter Series V 3.3 Released
Read More... | 4273 bytes more | Score: 0) GAO Offers 125kHz (LF) Handheld RFID Reader W / LC ... Technology - Electronics - Hardware gaorfidinc writes: This portable reader is a Data Collection Terminal designed to scan RFID tags and store their ID-codes in journal memory based together [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 15:44:09
Intel Cash Register Knows Who You Are, What You Want (Wired)
(Wired.com) Asking the question: “Do you know who I am? ... you with ads and promotions. Flash an RFID store loyalty card, and your purchase history pops up — ... the counter screen to life with their badge; images of your items materialize. So do related products [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 16:14:34
Eyewear Retailer applies RFID to eliminate shoplifting
Santa Fe Optical applies EPC tags to all of the frames it sells, helping it to eliminate shoplifting and streamline inventory management ... has a number printed on it—the same number encoded to the RFID chip inside the tag. At that time, employees manually input the RFID tag number into the store’s inventory database, along with other information [more...]
Date: 2008-09-12 10:10:46
Re-inventing the Shopping Experience: Intel’s Funky Check-out
Maybe Intel is learning a few tricks from Apple: design counts. The company is introducing sleek new self-serve check-out terminals. The kiosks work with the customer’s RFID loyalty card and provides in-store incentives and recommendations. One key feature is they use 90% less energy than standard cash registers. Green [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 02:15:38
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
Mobility@Your Library - #6 Productivity Tools
Here is #6 of 10 categories of how libraries use mobile devices.#6 Productivity Tools ... eWorksheetsEXAMPLES: When I asked for examples of library mobile or wireless tools, I heard from Jaye ... , allows a library staff to store scanned barcode (or RFID) information on a handheld device [more...]
Date: 2008-11-30 18:17:00
Intel Cash Register Knows Who You Are, What You Want
By Andrew Blum Asking the question: “Do you know who I am? ... , baiting you with ads and promotions. Flash an RFID store loyalty card, and your purchase history pops up — [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 21:17:11
Motorola Sparrow: This Device Could Change Retail
The Motorola Sparrow is the newest and coolest thing in retail store marketing. The Motorola Sparrow is a very small device with a display that excepts credit cards, detects RFID, is WiFi ready, is capable of storing data, pictures etc, and can’t wait to be taken advantage [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 07:49:22
Intel Cash Register Knows Who You Are, What You Want
By Andrew Blum Epicenter | Asking the question: “Do you know who I am? ... , baiting you with ads and promotions. Flash an RFID store loyalty card, and your purchase history [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 12:04:32
Hospital hazards, "Holy Crap" Department
We take for it granted that technology can be used to tag objects in various ways, useful and otherwise. The anti-theft devices used on retail clothing stores are a familiar example. Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFID) are used for this purpose as well as for security access. I have a device [more...]
Date: 2008-06-29 19:49:32
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
Debenhams sales boosted by online growth
Angelica Mari, Computing, Tuesday 6 January 2009 at 10:41: ... a programme to use radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to help measure in-store stock levels [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 10:41:00
Japanese Robot Steals Your Bike
Now this, this is cool. Apparently, so many people commute by bicycle in Japan that finding bike parking has become a serious problem. The obvious solution is of course to construct a gigantic $67 million robotic bike parking garage that can store more than 9000 bikes and keeps them all organized through RFID. It only takes [more...]
Date: 2008-09-10 08:07:52
Sheetz, Wright Express Launch NFC Pilot to Field Test Mobile Payments with Fleet Vehicle Drivers
ViVOtech Enables First Real-Time Card e.Wallet for Mobile Phones South Portland, ME ... now and have been accepting contactless chip cards, using RFID technology for payments at the pump and in-store. ViVOtech [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 16:27:00
Culver’s Optimizes Its Business With Retail Performance Management
Culver's Optimizes Its Business With Retail Performance.. ... Office application and provide extensive performance monitoring and analysis to provide... Family Christian Stores Leverages Point-of-Sale Solution To Gain ... Industry Brief: RFID Technology [more...]
Date: 2008-12-10 10:40:13
RFID and Mobililty
File under: technologies you’ve heard about, but aren’t sure what the possibilities are. Radio Frequency Identifier (RFID) ... key card with you all the time. If you commute through a toll booth you might have an RFID transponder ... s an RFID transponder that sends a one-way signal to an in-store security system, saying “hey, I’m here [more...]
Date: 2008-10-21 22:45:52
USDOJ Clears RFID Patent Licensing Group
The U.S. Department of Justice announced on October 21, ... information stored in an integrated circuit (or chip) on a label. Read the Response to RFID ... patents needed to comply with standards for ultra high frequency radio frequency identification (UHF RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-10-31 21:57:00
Video: Japanese Robot Eats Bikes For Breakfast
Each day in Tokyo, over 700,000 people ride their bikes to catch the morning train and this creates a problem. Where do you store all those bikes? ... ). This implementation in Edogawa, Japan was built at a cost of $67 million and can store up to 9,400 bikes at one time. The method uses an RFID tag to identify your bike and costs only $18 [more...]
Date: 2008-09-10 13:45:00
Nokia RFID Phones And Cashless Payments Are Ready *
Wise Up Journal 06.11.2008 The text below is from Nokia’s European site and it speaks for it’s self: credit cards, loyalty cards, and travel card details stored in your mobile phone allowing for “touch” purchases and file transfers. Convenient RFID tracking conveniently accessed by outside devices. Radio Frequency [more...]
Date: 2008-11-06 13:44:30
Who is Number One?
Patrick McGoohan has died. Star, writer, director, creative genius behind the TV show “The Prisoner”, which combined cold-war paranoia, ... , as government store our emails, our web searches, our IM chats, tracks us by Oyster Card and RFID [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 23:50:59
Scanning handheld does VoIP too
Intermec has announced a Windows Mobile 6.1 handheld computer that targets warehouse operations, but also offers a "slim form factor appropriate for in-store settings." The CK3 features a 520MHz processor, 802.11a/b/g wireless, 1D/2D barcode scanning, VoIP communications, and an optional RFID reader, says Intermec. [more...]
Date: 2008-09-12 02:23:29
Top Posts Of The Week [MythBusters]
Mythbusters Gagged: Credit Card Companies Kill Episode Exposing RFID Security Flaws This Apology Letter From Southwest Is Refreshingly Honest And Informative What To Do When A Store Sells You Box [more...]
Date: 2008-09-05 20:35:00
Check Me Out
The Motorola Sparrow was conceived to provide retail stores with a mobile point of sale device to solve increased service demands from consumers ... as you can. It combines a scanner, point of sale (POS) system, RFID, communication and credit card reading capabilities ... products are often rugged and obtrusive. If you’ve ever been to an Apple store, you [more...]
Date: 2008-08-07 22:37:14
God Made D.I.R.T.
God Made D.I.R.T. October 1st, 2008 Do I have to tell y’all that ‘Da Incredible Rap Team’ hit stores yesterday? ... do the right thing and start releasing new CD’s on an illuminati chip. That’s the national RFID card being [more...]
Date: 2008-10-01 17:42:06
IN THE WHOLE WORLD
I love this store. I am a technician and Electronics hobbyist and this place is my secret weapon. Where else could I get RFID Components and Touch Screen gadgets for an a very affordable ... s just as good as stuff you can get at electronics depots and Industrial Computer component shops. It’ [more...]
Date: 2008-12-12 12:07:45
The Future is Near (Field Communications)
Many young people think their phone is more essential than their wallet (so do we). Maybe that’s because they are replacing them altogether ... /president of Vivotech, Santa Clara, CA. RFID contactless readers are becoming more and more pervasive, and you may have tapped them with your bank card in drug stores, fast food chains, gas stations, even [more...]
Date: 2008-07-21 21:38:47
RFID & Data
Hey all ive got my RFID from Parallax working fine. I can get data(keys) and it works well. My question is more on storing and testing data ... and can turn on 2 LEDs depending on if i wave a card or keyring in front of module. Or should i store [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 23:48:50
iPresentoir - Supertec’s Smart In-Store Fixture
Quividi continue to announce license and embedded deals for VidiReports their live audience measurement solution. Here we see integration into Supertec’s smart in-store fixture, called iPresentoir® and better ... POPAI 2008 Award in the Digital Media category, Ed Supertec’s POP solutions often embed RFID technology [more...]
Date: 2008-11-17 00:02:07
CONSUMER WATCH (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
How much info's on your RFID cards? It can happen undetected in an instant ... with a compatible reader device can skim information about you that's stored on the chip-embedded credit cards [more...]
Date: 2008-10-26 05:20:51
The shopper marketing revolution
70% of all purchase decisions are made in store. 68% of in-store purchases are impulse buys 68% of consumers are brand-switchers ... levels Product sales velocity Sales goals vs. actuals Proximity sensors RFID readers User inputs [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 01:39:04
Store the dead in automated warehouses
With space in the busy areas of Japan at a premium, burying the deceased can be a stress filled, headache inducing, ... an automated cremation retrieval system. When you present a RFID key, the system then retrieves ... what you have here is a rented self-storage warehouse for your loved ones’s remains. One could argue [more...]
Date: 2008-08-21 14:48:33
Trusted Traveller
I received a new Nexus card by registered mail yesterday. It came with a little envelope in which I'm supposed to store the card when not in use. The envelope's interior has been metalicized.Keep the card in its protective sleeve at all times unless you are presenting it at the border. This will help prevent the RFID chip from being read [more...]
Date: 2009-01-01 12:49:00
Make Dinning Delicacies with Ease
The Sook Cut is a three-part concept by Adam Brodowski that makes delicious meals out of ingredients you may not know how to combine ... information, and stores a library of ingredients. You can touch and drag ingredients to build custom recipes ... it charge the Sook Cut and Touch appliances, it also works as an RFID scanner to identify [more...]
Date: 2008-09-19 11:08:53
Design Remixed: Ted Booth
Wednesday, 12 November 2008 Apple Store, Soho 103 Prince Street New York, NY 10012 map 6:30-8: ... Symbol Technologies) working on a wide range of mobile computers, RFID devices, and remote management tools. Before that, he led interaction design at Method, a consulting firm specializing in brand [more...]
Date: 2008-08-20 15:51:12
IT Planet Security Cameras
If you are an entrepreneur opening up a retail store, bank, or just an office, ... has a variety of other products in the categories of label printing, ID card printing, point of sale, RFID, and security systems. Check out IT Planet today for all your security needs. Bookmark [more...]
Date: 2008-11-16 00:00:21
Tikitag promises to bring RFID tags to everything
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Wireless The Alcatel-Lucent-backed Tikitag certain has managed to keep a low profile until now, ... its RFID tagging system that’s apparently set to go into public beta in less than a month ... yahoo new laptops high tech cellphone ipod tech toy reviews imac gaming pc store tech geer gizmo toys [more...]
Date: 2008-09-08 23:08:29
USB Train Tickets reach In France
By Jonathan Kimak SNCF, a railway company in France, is trying out some new tickets. The tickets are part RFID, which was already a standard on France’s railway ticketing system ... and load money onto the ticket to compose future train ticket purcha… computer store gizmo toys handheld [more...]
Date: 2008-09-05 18:04:55
Study: RFID Tags May Scramble Hospital Equipment
A new study is raising questions over how radio frequency identification chips could be interacting with hospital equipment ... . They also power many cities' transit payment systems and are used for animal identification and store theft [more...]
Date: 2008-06-25 18:49:31
Staples Business Depot Completes RFID Inventory Tracking Pilot Expands To Additional Stores
Date: 2008-10-10 12:26:13
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