Key2SafeDriving is aimed to keep kids from talking/texting while driving

Researchers at the University of Utah have created a device that they see as hopefully saving the lives of some teenage drivers who like to chat or ... within the immediate vicinity. It uses either Bluetooth or RFID to communicate with the paired ... this December Nokia Beta Labs launched early beta version Nokia Music PC application Pink LG Venus [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 09:03:02

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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

Laminar Batteries Power Next-Generation Products

Issue #175 | Jan. 9, 2009 | by Dr. Peter Harrop Writing about printed electronics often as I do, the dynamics of the marketplace keep coming fast ... every year, the choice is coin cells. Coin cells are the favoured power source not just for active RFID ... based on old advances in color, shape and mechanical function are rapidly being overtaken. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 16:08:43

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

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

Drug Vial Program Considerations

Fact: Vial Safety Programs are Essentially Target Marketing of Persons Who Take Prescription Medications ... the symbol being used to denote the purpose of the device?If Same or Larger - It is Advertising ... out. You get billboards, some radio and people to visit the store.Having most of the device consist of advertising [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 17:35:00

Baghdad’s Post-Blast Wall Bibliothèque

As I kept flipping through the images in this gallery of Baghdad’s incredible blast wall murals, recalling fairly recent news of how the U.S. military had begun dismantling some of the barricades in Dora (a district in Baghdad), and even more recently how control of the Green Zone was just handed over to the Iraqi government, [more...]

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

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

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

JULIE ENGLAND: Custom designs make LF tags attractive and cost-effective Pt. 2

Part 1 discussed how LF tags are often used in harsh environments such as underwater or in animals ... can get involved with TI. We already talked about how low-frequency tags are used in livestock and other high ... receive a bin fitted with a low frequency passive RFID tag that identifies each household [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 22:04:08

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

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

Enter the Best Teen Chef Competition 2009

Read More... | 4243 bytes more | Score: 0) Page 1 of 158 (1575 total stories) ... · GAO Offers Portable RFID Reader/Writer · Sell Used Cars Through CarCash.com · Serenity Health ... Today's most read Story is: 2 Port UHF RFID by GAO RFID Login Nickname [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 18:51:12

End The New World Order With Global Non Compliance - Short Documentary Outlines Entire Global Conspiracy

Quotes from this video (Transcript) The German Philosopher Johann Von Goethe once said “there are none more hopelessly enslaved, than those who falsely believe they are free.” But few who hear the words realize that they are the ones to whom Goethe was referring [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 21:55:55

Key2SafeDriving could halt mobile usage while driving

Statistics prove that the use of a mobile phone while driving a vehicle is dangerous unless used with a hands-free kit ... phone while at the wheel as it is a mobile phone jamming device in a key fob which activates when the “key” portion is flicked out, and then connects to a mobile handset via Bluetooth or RFID and forces [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 11:36:06

2009 Predictions - Consumer Devices

2008 has been a pretty amazing year for consumer electronics, ranging from smarter communicating devices (better sensors, better screens, better connectivity) to amazing sales successes such as the xbox ... standards. RFID too, which was expected to launch e-wallets and many consumer applications failed [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 15:40:41

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

Car Key Jams Teen Drivers' Cell Phones

Car Key Jams Teen Drivers' Cell Phones ScienceDaily (Jan. 3, 2009) — University of Utah researchers have developed an automobile ignition key that prevents teenagers from talking on cell phones or sending text messages while driving. The university has obtained provisional patents and licensed the invention – Key2SafeDriving – to a private [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 14:24:48

RFID enalbed poker table!

The chairman of an Australian IT company has built an RFID enabled poker table that could bring the same level of detail seen in televised games to ... to televise it either. A cool application of RFID could be that we (in the audience) could know where ... Milner placed wireless RFID chips at the bottom of a table, fit RFID tags on a few deck of cards [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 23:17:16

RFID and Digital Signage Integration

RFID tag integration for digital signage targeting and information display If we were to throw privacy out the window and just talk about the “far-out” technological possibilities of RFID and digital signage, we may well see how both ... ll certainly see more integration with other devices like mobile phones. In fact, RFID chips [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 19:29:14

Incubation innovation

The timing of the depressed global economic outlook could not have come at a worse time for Alcatel-Lucent. The situation only confounds further the technology company’s efforts to turn the corner of a post-merger era that has resulted in an underperforming share price and integration challenges [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 05:00:00

divide and conquer - absolute power corrupts absolutely - the cashless society

So, they global ruling elite are striving for a single world bank (that's a monopoly), a single world government (that's a dictatorship) ... by implanted RFID chip (a cashless society). No, this is not Mike Philbin (retirw eht) thinking ... -building model that's been proven again and again not to work.One tiny problemette I have with the RFID [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 10:06:00

HSBC: Banking on the Network

HSBC are pretty transparent these days about their strategies, as can be seen from their investor relations webcasts and presentation downloads ... Technology and Services Officer (CTSO) discussing the bank as a network. This is a presentation ... employees, a third of which work in HSBC Tech and Services (HTS) supporting 9,500 offices across 85 [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 17:59:49

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

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

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

SY SAJJAD: Tracking prisoners inside correctional facilities, and when they leave

January 13, 2009- Sy Sajjad, CEO of AiRISTA, presents a platform approach to deliver a strategic advantage through integration of passive, active and semi-active RFID technologies. I understand that AiRISTA has experience in asset ... active RFID technology. What frequency does the monitoring use? SAJJAD: In our case [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 16:37:30

Ticketexecutive.com: Buy Hard-To-Get Tickets

Read More... | 2116 bytes more | Score: 0) USB RFID Reader Boosts Your Convenience Technology - Electronics - Hardware jackpan writes: DAILY RFID( www.rfid-in-china.com ),a leading manufacturer of RFID tags and RFID readers,has unveiled 13.56MHz USB RFID Reader with very small footprint as a pocket device.It enables [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 15:44:09

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

Do-It-Yourself RFID Service Tikitag Launches In India; The Market, The Timing?

  tikitag Tikitag, a service that enables the launching of online applications by touching a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) or (NFC) ... to a computer and 10 RFID tags to stick to devices. So you just need to swipe the tag over the reader ... lies if the fact that it is interoperable, and can be used (apparently) with any NFC or RFID reader [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 03:02:16

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

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

Key2SafeDriving: Cellphone Jamming Key To Save Lives, Cash.

Cellphone jammers seem to be becoming more common these days. From Brando's personal device that makes you a walking dead spot to Japan's use of them at ATM's ... either Bluetooth or RFID to communicate with the paired phone, shows a stop sign on the phone's [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 14:33:00

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

Key 2 Safe Driving (K2SD) Disables Teens’ Cell Phones While Driving

Key 2 Safe Driving (K2SD) is a new technology built on Bluetooth, which will disable a teen’s cell phone when they start up the car ... to wirelessly connect to the cell phone through RFID or Bluetooth. The driver has to push a button or slide the key out in order to start the engine. A “driving” signal is sent to the cell phone and the device [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 15:39:21

Key2SafeDriving Makes Sure You Don’t Use Your Phone While Driving

Most recent laws on driver behavior when behind the wheel forbid the use of cellphones for texting and chatting ... is more of a “driving mode” for your phone, that connects via Bluetooth or RFID to that above ... software company finally came up with... [more...]

Date: 2008-12-14 07:52:10

IT keeps sub maker above water

Tom Young, Computing, Wednesday 14 January 2009 at 17:29: ... Class,” he told Computing. A year later Easton brought in McCormick from support services group ... . BAE had an outsourcing deal with supplier CSC that was reviewed, and in 2007 Carillion IT Services [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 20:13:53

BETA: Biztalk Server 2009 releases Beta 1

clip_image001 4 We recently released the first public beta of the BizTalk Server 2009 and made available RFID mobile features for the current ... to utilize the integrated source control, bug tracking, team development support, Project Server ... experience. BizTalk RFID Mobile also extends the power of BizTalk Server RFID to mobile devices [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 22:28:29

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

Take action on NAIS--more important than you know

What's NAIS? It's the National Animal Identification System. It would require that every small farmer tag his or her animals with a microchip or RFID (radio ... is that the time and money required for a small farmer to tag every last farm animal can be prohibitive [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 21:29:16

Microchipping Dogs

We've decided to microchip every pup that leaves here from now on. Why? First, it's an added benefit to our clients ... about, all microchips are basically the same. A little radio frequency identification (RFID) chip [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 20:25:09

Welcome to airline pricing at the ballpark! (Yuck)

News Item from MLB.com: The Giants … will become the first Major League team to use a “dynamic” pricing structure, ... of ticket services. Do the Giants really need to spend money on computer analysis of the obvious? Those [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 21:43:10

OBAMA HEALTH PLAN POSES DANGER TO AMERICAN FREEDOMS

by NWV News director, Jim KouriJanuary 13, 2009 © 2008 NewsWithViews ... up at the emergency room without their card, the government will require that the rfid chips ... all the medical records. Next, control access to the records by use of a card containing [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 13:32:01

New Key Stops Texting and Cell Phone Calls While Driving

University of Utah engineers have invented a wireless car key device that stops teenage motorists from talking on ... wirelessly with each key user's cell phone via either Bluetooth or RFID (radio-frequency identification [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 21:57:26

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

Interview with Dr. Ramin Sadr, Mojix

Dr. Ramin Sadr is CEO of Los Angeles-based Mojix (www.mojix.com) ... -- of all things -- deep space probes for NASA, and has been applying that to the RFID market ... extend the range of passive RFID tags, used for things like supply chain automation, asset tracking [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 13:28:26

Deploy RFID Access Control System With RFID Key Fob To Cut Cost

Deploy RFID Access Control System With RFID Key Fob To Cut Cost DAILY RFID, a leading producer of RFID tags and RFID readers, ... ... RFID Tags From UPM Raflatac Streamline Ferry Traffic To Hailuoto IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA 2008 ... Tags Provide Excellent Reads For Sure-Reach... more... CribMaster Accu-Drawer RFID Drawer [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 04:34:06

Global RFID: The Value of the EPCglobal Network for Supply Chain Management: Edmund W. Schuster, Stuart J. Allen, David L. Brock

Global RFID: The Value of the EPCglobal Network for Supply Chain Management: Edmund W. Schuster, Stuart J. Allen, David L. Brock ... for transforming business through the use of low-cost, radio frequency identification (RFID) tags ... The EPCglobal Network and RFID technology, initially developed by the Massachusetts Institute [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 22:31:51

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