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

Blog posts (104) | Videos (68)
 

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

General GWiR 12 December 2008 from IP Think Tank

IP Think Tank’s weekly selection of top intellectual property news breaking in the blogosphere and internet. Please join the discussion by adding your comments on any of these stories, and please do let us know if you think we’ve missed something important, or if there is a source you think should be monitored [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 09:00:00

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

Ubiquitous Computing & Library Futures – Chris Peters & Michael Porter

Michael started it off with introductions, then Chris introduced himself – they both pimped their webjunction.org and maintainitproject ... . Ubiquitous computing in library – RFID tech. eye-fi card is another example of UC (Ubiquitous ... Interoperability and open standards • Universal addressability • Sensors • Position awareness • Power [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 05:05:50

Timeouts for Clinical Applications

I've recently been asked to describe our approach to security timeouts for clinical applications ... physical detection such as face recognition or signals from an RFID chip on (or in) the user. However ... try to infer user presence from available data.The ED Dashboard is a web based application [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 11:00:00

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

Learning From The Best Teacher In Modern Times

Richard Feynman American Physicist and Nobel Prize WinnerWhen the introduction to a computer course is like this ...Computers can do lots of things. They can add millions of numbers in the twinkling of an eye. They can outwit chess grandmasters. They can guide weapons to their targets [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 12:16:00

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

Blog Proud v. Blog Tolerant - How Are Big Firms Presenting Their Blogs?

Well, the visits to 3 Geeks and a Law Blog shot into the stratosphere this week with our posting of Monday's List of Large Law Firm's "Officially Sanctioned Blogs". With help from the ABA Journal Online and Above the Law, we've had thousands (yes, thousands!) of visits to what we believe to be the best Legal Blog covering Technology [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 11:00:00

LITA 2008: Five-minute Madness

Incorporating ICT into a New Vision for Caribbean Libraries Presenter: ... situations in 15 countries. The libraries have inadequate budgets, limited facilities, small and dated collections, poor technology, under-trained staff, and inadequate services. However, the libraries [more...]

Date: 2008-10-18 15:57:44

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

Ubiquitous Computing and Library Futures

Ubiquitous Computing and Library Futures ITI Bloggers October 22nd, 2008 I was intrigued by a talk on ubiquitous computing (Ubicomp) ... . The computer will serve you rather than you serving the computer. Some examples include RFID chips in books ... address) Sensors (light level, sound level, temperature, etc.) Location awareness (an example [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 23:02:56

Radio Frequency Identification

Radio Frequency Identification is an emerging new field like nanotechnology. Its foundation is laid upon the principles of Radio Wave Propagation and Communication Systems ... can be multiplexed over a single interface and can be continuously monitored. Radio Frequency [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 06:45:06

Erie PA Today News, Events and Info for today, Saturday, January 3, 2009

Brent Carey was the name of the man beaten to death by Jemaine Vaughn near East 38th and Ash Streets in Erie, PA. The two knew each other and were at a party at a Meryhurst College apartment. Neither attended the school - Carey was 27 and Vaughn is 31, and they were believed to have argued about a woman [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 04:25:57

From Branding to Library Closures, Learn and Share at November’s Webinars

October 29, 2008 at 7:18 pm · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged community, digital, free, marketing, technology, webinar, ... why libraries close and what you can do to prevent your own library closure? You can learn more about all these topics in WebJunction’s November lineup of free webinars. Branding Libraries [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 19:18:49

links for 2008-12-26

2pie: Snow Prints Self portraits made by pushing faces into fresh powder snow. Genius. (tags: snow pictures picture image creative idea ideas) ... images pictures progress science) Tinker it! : RFID Arduino / RFID reader / Processing tutorial (tags: arduino rfid hacks hacking hack hardware processing code tutorial examples electronics) HTTP [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 00:03:16

CribMaster Accu-Drawer RFID Drawer System

CribMaster Accu-Drawer RFID Drawer System The Accu-Drawer™ is a great solution for managing kits at point-of-use, tracking the usage of durable items, tracking maintenance items to work order tasks and the monitoring of... Intermec Large Rigid Tags: Passive RFID Tags Domino RFID-Enabled Data Center Management bielomatik T-100/165 Smart [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 19:53:40

Using LiveCycle Designer ES to create and print RFID labels

LiveCycle Designer ES lets you create and print RFID labels to capture data. RFID (radio-frequency identification) is an automatic identification technology whereby digital data that is encoded in an RFID tag ... . Using RFID does not require the tag or label to be seen in order to read its stored data. obtained [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 19:25:33

Barcode Scanner - book text search tool on Google Android

New software for the new Google Android phones connects books in the bookstore (or in the library) ... of thing that could live inside the library, since all of the book checkout scanners are already there.  (Indeed, you could use the RFID inside the book to do this so no need to have a camera.) It looks [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 16:12:05

Tools of the Trade - 4002 Edition

Hey everyone, Technocrat here. Things have been super crazy around my parts, so I didn't even notice that this is post number 4002 ... RFID devices. It currently drives a couple of RFID readers made by ACG, called the HF Dual ISO [more...]

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

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

100 Things To Do in Bombay

Uber cool list compiled by Zishaan Get high on qawwali at Haji Ali Spot a celebrity at Juhu PVR Sit down on the steps of Asiatic Society library Crane your neck to see the Bombay Stock Exchange building Spot a leopard in IIT Bombay campus. If you can’t, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 05:07:57

SkyeTek SkyeModule M9

SkyeTek SkyeModule M9 The SkyeModule M9 is a tiny, embedded UHF RFID reader module for OEMs. Manufacturers add RFID as a feature to a broad range of products with this high performance ... : WIP/Supply Chain Inventory EMI and RFI Design Consulting MIKOH SecureContainer more... [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 17:48:43

How-to: Read a FedEx Kinko’s smart card (SLE4442)

overview Our wallets are filling up with SIM and RFID cards that contain hidden information ... s completely documented in the datasheet (PDF), and you can buy blank cards on the web. The card ... the SLE4442 datasheet (PDF) if you haven’t already. The pinout is shown in the picture above. If you’re [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 01:29:43

Why is technology so dull?

The concept of personality has us hooked; just look at Cosmo quizzes and the thousands of online personality tests ... to be boring. If you behave the same in a nightclub as in a library, you won’t be invited out again [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 23:03:00

WORKABOUT PRO Speech Handheld Computer

WORKABOUT PRO Speech Handheld Computer The WORKABOUT PRO is a flexible, programmable, ... with either Windows Mobile 2003 SE or Windows ... M/A-COM RF Components For Readers RFID Conveyor Tunnels Motorola Mobile RFID Reader Domino RFID-Enabled Data Center Management InSync Solutions Library [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 01:10:25

Privacy Revolution - not quite live-blogging

I enjoyed the panel presentation. Jenny Levine and Kate Sheehan were both there blogging along with me ... this initiative. Soros funded. Dan Roth - Wired senior writer Privacy from a business perspective. “ [more...]

Date: 2008-07-01 18:06:26

One Week Short Term Training Course on "Library Automation and Resource Sharing", NISCAIR, 14-Satsang Vihar Marg, New Delhi - 110067

Course dates: 19-23 January 2009Broad course contents: Application of IT in libraries, Library automation: Introduction and current trends, Library automation software packages, Barcode and RFID technologies, Database creation, Digital Library concepts, Resource sharing, Library networks and services.Course fee: Rs. 2000/- without [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 11:56:41

Rfid Library

hi I am in 4 grade computer department and my final project is about (rfid library) the component of project is 1 / reader 2 / tag 3 / data base i used a pic16f877a in reader to read tags from books and save the id for each tag in the memory and then connect reader [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 19:02:35

Mashing Up Content in the Library (Thinkering Spaces II)

Yesterday I gave an overview of the Thinkering Spaces project, ... the various technologies and objects. TJ puts this book with an RFID tag in it on the reader RFID ... . To start, the TS folks put a book with an RFID chip on the reader, which triggers a process that displays [more...]

Date: 2008-06-19 04:25:41

“take a seat” is a robotic chair that follows you around

The “take a seat” chair is a robotic chair that follows you around! The user has a library card embedded with an RFID chip, which the chairs use to find and follow ... , I never go to the library so I guess I’d need a home version. Another application would be in a bar [more...]

Date: 2008-06-13 00:45:10

Kota: RFID robotic baby triceratops toy for your kid

Kota: RFID robotic baby triceratops toy for your kid ... which has RFID sensors affixed to it. I bet your children will thoroughly enjoy sitting on the back ... With Christmas fast approaching why not get some toys which are RFID enabled; at least this would [more...]

Date: 2008-11-27 13:34:50

About

Pat Rapp’s bio: My interests are in Technology, Science and Trends–particularly human-computer interaction, web technology, sensors, RFID, ... . Specialties: RFID patent application. Presentations and training on Web 2.0. Web design [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 06:18:27

InSync Solutions Library: Yard Management

InSync Solutions Library: Yard Management InSync's Yard Management solution utilizes active RFID tags and long range antennas installed in each yard. The tags have a long ample range to allow for complete coverage of each... Intermec IF30 Fixed RFID Reader Domino EIS RFID Compliance 1st Program For CPG Impinj: Indy™ R1000 Reader Chip SkyeTek [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 10:04:42

YouChoose: chairs that follow, balls of steel and air hockey champs

YouChoose: chairs that follow, balls of steel and air hockey champs Charles Arthur / YouChoose 09: ... , Eindhoven, has RFID-controlled chairs that follow you around the library. Bur what if it's busy ... hockey Oh nooo! An industrial robot programmed to be unbeatable at air hockey (puck speeds over [more...]

Date: 2008-06-26 08:21:17

Erie PA Today News, Events and Info for today, Saturday, January 10, 2009

Erie received enough snow that Erie Mayor Joe Sinnott declared a snow emergency lasting until 8 am Monday ... , who now lives in Charlotte, NC, Spiegel joined the speedway staff in 2005. She works in the guest services [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 13:50:24

On Becoming A Digital Nomad.

On Becoming A Digital Nomad. 01.13.2009 by Mike Simpson in Philosophy In a few weeks or a few months, I get my wish ( ... -time project manager who dreams of clever projects but never seems to have the cycles to get any [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 16:44:47

Michael Porter and Chris Peters: Ubiquitous computing

Michael Porter (WebJunction) and Chris Peters (MaintainIT) ... in price and availability is what makes UbiComp possible.  A good library example of UbiComp is RFID ... .  Imagine things like RFID in all sorts of places, in our libraries, and in our communities.  Another [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 20:42:20

Savi Wins Role On U.S. Department Of Defense’s RFID III Contract Vehicle

Savi Wins Role On U.S. Department Of Defense's RFID III Contract ... Savi®, a Lockheed Martin company and provider of RFID-based supply chain products and solutions, has been selected by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to compete for future... RFID Tags [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 06:01:50

Fancy TVs, Fun Telescopes at Vegas Tech Expo

This year's Consumer Electronics Show opens to the public in Las Vegas today ... trying to help big companies like music labels, broadcasters and sports leagues better leverage [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 12:26:00

[Mycolleagues] 1st CfP: MMEDIA 2009 | July 20-25, 2009 - Colmar, France

Happy Holidays!===========INVITATION=================Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groupsthe following opportunity to submit and publish original scientificresults.=============================== MMEDIA 2009 | Call for Papers ===============CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELSMMEDIA 2009, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 16:48:00

DAILY RFID launches Reader/Writer with range of 60cm

DAILY RFID, a leading producer of RFID tags and RFID readers, has recently announced 13.56MHz HF RFID Reader/Writer DL5510 with over 1 Watt RF output power, designed to provide a read range up to 60cm to cater for most HF applications. The RFID Reader/Writer DL5510 offers medium output [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 12:56:00

Integrated RFID Portal - North America (902-928 MHz)

Integrated RFID Portal - North America (902-928 MHz) ... Solutions Library: Yard Management Filtered Terminal Blocks Motorola Fixed RFID Reader Antennas Impinj ... M/A-Com is now offering a rugged floor mounted RFID Portal capable of detecting direction [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 12:07:33

RFID World China to Host the First 2009 China International RFID Technologies and Applications Show

Shenzhen, China (January 08, 2009) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — Dedicated to create an first-ever RFID application show in China, UClink Media ( ... , RFID peripheral equipment and RFID system integration solutions, GPS, RTLS and wireless sensors ... RFID World China) along with GD-HK RFID Alliance, GS1 Hong Kong and EPCglobal Hong Kong [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 10:02:49

Erie PA Today News, Events and Info for today, Thursday, January 1, 2009

GE Transportation, the Erie PA based unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) ... from their cable systems. Time Warner Cable dropped the Lilly Broadcasting stations in the areas in and around [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 12:10:30

National Library of China - Library of the Year 2008

Yesterday, I attend a ceremony in Kunlun Hotel to receive the "Library of the Year 2008" award on behalf of Dr ... , and provides many new services throught the application of high technologies, such as wireless LAN, RFID [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 00:32:00

ASIS&T 2008 - Whither LIS Education

Panelists Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information Ann Prentice, ... has an impact on information, ramifications of RFID, and understanding everything from impact [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 04:45:01

Cell Phone Blocker

An interesting article about safety when using a cell phone ... with the user's cell phone via either Bluetooth or RFID (radio-frequency identification) technologies. To turn [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 17:10:00

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