Visa/Mastercard PayPass: A New Opportunity for Credit Theft…
***UPDATE: Mythbusters gagged by credit card companies from airing show describing how easily hackable RFID is - click here for video*** Opening a ... a transaction without signing a receipt, simply by swiping the card near a PayPass reader. Since the PayPass reader doesn’t require physical contact, I realized the card must transmit the cardholder’s [more...]
Date: 2008-08-09 11:05:27
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How to hack RFID-enabled credit cards for $8
A number of credit card companies now issue credit cards with embedded RFIDs (radio frequency ID tags), with promises of enhanced security and speedy transactions. But on today’s episode of Boing [more...]
Date: 2008-11-18 14:49:16
Mythbusters Silenced by Credit Card Companies
A Mythbusters episode entailing an analysis of RFID tags (and how easily they're hacked) ... =1 QuoteAlthough it's no secret that RFID is easily hacked (see: train passes, passports, credit cards ... was all set to do a show exposing the weak security behind most RFID implementations but was shut down [more...]
Date: 2008-09-03 21:36:24
IPS unveils Thinergy ADP for micro-batteries - Small Times
IPS unveils Thinergy ADP for micro-batteries Small Times - 1 hour ago Now companies in active markets including RFID, powered smart card, wireless sensor, medical device, consumer electronics, automotive, ... [more...]
Date: 2008-11-19 12:47:01
RFID Software Guide 101
RFID is the abbreviated form of Radio Frequency Identification ... manufacturing, into a dog collar etc. An RFID system can range up to 90 feet. Unlike barcode ... software. For instance lately technology company Intermec has created a new kind of intelligent RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-08-08 13:34:45
Mir:ror - RFID for the Home
I’ve been wondering when these little RFID gadgets will start to make a presence in the home. Big companies have done pretty amazing things with their supply chains using RFID, but what use will a geeky household be able to make of RFID. There hasn’t been much. I was interested to see [more...]
Date: 2008-12-09 17:36:57
USB-enabled smart transit card to trial in France
Smart cards that combine RFID contactless transaction capability with USB connectivity will be trialed by French public transportation company SNCF ... with a mind of its own Instant EPC Hotspot RFID Visualization Software Solar Powered RFID tracking ... according to a report from RFID Journal. As well as working with existing RFID transaction [more...]
Date: 2008-09-11 07:17:15
Walmart: Sacrifice is for suckers.
I got this slightly old but rather interesting link from my friend Jill ... definition of local food it’s already there. This kind of fake reform really is just par for the course ... mandates on waste and even RFID. And of course, every single green remodeling step the company takes [more...]
Date: 2008-11-17 15:28:50
Psion Teklogix Unveils NEO - The Newest Channel-Centric Pocket-Sized Handheld Computer
Psion Teklogix Unveils NEO - The Newest Channel-Centric.. ... Instruments Opens New Closed-Loop Contactless Markets With ... Leading Chemical Company Deploys Savi Smartchain Asset... Smallest, Fastest Active RFID Tags On The Market Now Available... GAO Offers [more...]
Date: 2008-09-26 18:18:17
Smart Bottles Reduce Glass Breakage
Smart Bottles Reduce Glass Breakage Glass container maker Ardagh Glass, as well as Coca-Cola, Coors and other beverage companies, are using facsimile bottles with built-in active RFID tags and sensors to identify sites ... Mechanical Thinks This Might Be The Big One! Integration Story: Laredo's Water Department Uses RFID To... more... [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 19:53:40
IEEE to setup patent pools
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) ... have been in use for over 100 years as a way of mitigating patent litigation. Via Licensing worked with the RFID ... Standards Association is to set up patent pools, whereby companies agree to cross-license patents [more...]
Date: 2008-12-09 10:45:00
IT Companies Report Customers Very Interested in RFID
Asset tracking is most popular RFID project being implemented. [more...]
Date: 2008-08-08 11:10:25
ITAA Cautions Against Over-Regulation of the 'Internet of Things'
On December 2, 2008, ITAA issued a press release (see below) on regulation and the "Internet of Things" ... in the RFID sector. EU regulatory decisions will impact US policy and vice-versa. Companies ... of Things” assumes an unlikely deployment scenario for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-12-12 17:08:53
Tikitag will bring RFID tagging to all objects
Tikitag hasn’t been in prominence lately but the Alcatel-Lucent company made a pretty significant debut at DemoFall. In fact, the RFID tagging system will go into public beta soon and it’s looking promising ... of things,” and that assertion is pretty close to the truth. In fact, it will allow you to add an RFID tag [more...]
Date: 2008-09-09 07:35:15
Shift in budgets by IT companies
New study from Forrester Research Inc. stated that It companies will spend more and increase their security budgets in 2009 as compare to 2008 ... Privacy Problems! Why don’t companies do resonable security? I wonder if you ever heard about RFID ... . The change will result from a shift in security strategy from computer security threat defense [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 00:54:41
CHEP Tracks Auto-Part Containers in Europe
Nov. 11, 2008—CHEP, a pallet and container pooling services company owned by Australia-based Brambles, is running an RFID-based application that tracks returnable containers for the automotive industry at its facilities in countries across Europe, according to Floris Kleijn, CHEP’s director of RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-11-14 03:43:27
RFID Solution Boosts Productivity 40% for Manufacturing Company
GEL-AL of Turkey, the largest European sock manufacturer, saw ROI in six months. [more...]
Date: 2008-06-06 04:17:34
“Celebrity Big Brother Is Watching You (More Closely)”
-Endemol signs Wavetrend to track celebrity housemates’ movements- Endemol, one of the largest independent production companies in Britain, has selected Wavetrend, the world leader in active RFID, to install technology to track housemates in the 2009 C... [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 14:21:18
French public transport using USB drives as tickets
... be deducted from the card by an RFID reader or an attendant with a handheld device. They’ll have to see ... company SNCF is getting 1,000 customers to help it test an RFID-enabled smart card that doubles [more...]
Date: 2008-08-29 02:09:39
Celebrity Big Brother Is Watching You (More Closely)
Endemol, one of the largest independent production companies in Britain, has selected Wavetrend, the world leader in active RFID, to install technology to track housemates in the 2009 Celebrity Big Brother series (which started on 2nd January). [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 12:00:00
RFID-Powered Mir:ror Ties Physical Objects to Digital World
Violet, a company devoted to building products based on “calm and emotional technologies,” recently unveiled their new Mir:ror device. The cleanly designed product resembles a USB-powered cup holder, but it’s essentially a simple RFID tag reader paired with some innovative software. The idea behind Mir:ror is to streamline [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 02:24:07
ROB BALGLEY: Sales chain RFID manages inventory in the field
Dec. 18, 2008 – CEO Rob Balgley discusses how Skyetek is helping companies extend their management of inventory from their own premises to " ... that active RFID often runs on; but you are not talking about using active RFID per ... outside of a premises-based distribution center or warehouse – basically the idea of being able [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 15:57:34
Artigo na Scientific American contra o RFID - Mythbusters impedidos de emitir programa sobre a insegurança do RFID
Katherine Albrecht, co-autora de “Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID“ escreveu um artigo na ... RFID nos carros portugueses. Mythbusters RFID spychips.com - FAQQ. What is RFID?A. Radio Frequency ... , backpack, or wallet. Many of the world’s largest manufacturing companies would like to replace the bar [more...]
Date: 2008-09-06 11:47:28
Motorola Handheld RFID Readers
Motorola Handheld RFID Readers Give your workers the ability to capture a comprehensive range of data — from RFID tags and bar codes to images with this flexible multi-function device. Single device simplicity ... Domino EIS RFID Compliance 1st Program For CPG Industrial Portals, A Division Of Jamison Door Company: Product... InSync [more...]
Date: 2008-11-18 16:28:34
Intermec Intellitag PM4i Industrial Printer
Intermec Intellitag PM4i Industrial Printer The multi-function Intellitag® PM4i printer gives you the reliability, ... with the latest... Motorola Handheld RFID Readers Domino EIS RFID Compliance 1st Program For CPG Industrial Portals, A Division Of Jamison Door Company: Product... InSync Solutions Library: Data Center [more...]
Date: 2008-11-21 19:17:58
Can your wallet protect your credit score?
You might already be one of the people using the new RFID credit cards ... with RFID is that it is relatively exposed to wireless identity theft. There is one company out there that is staying ahead of the curve - Kena Kai, a brand that Luggage Pros now offers, has created patent [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 20:53:46
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
Bartronics India inks pact with Govt. of Rajasthan
Bartronics India has signed an agreement with the government of Rajasthan signifying commencement of the Bhamashah project from July 01, 2008. The company offers labeling technology to the AIDC industry with conventional barcode labels and RFID smart labels. The POS system finds application in retail outlets like super markets [more...]
Date: 2008-07-02 07:31:00
Multi-Detection Wireless Sensors from GE
GE Global Research, the technology development arm of the General Electric Company has come up with a battery-free, ... and pollution prevention. GE’s unique RFID sensors are built on traditional RFID ... ... multi-detection radio-frequency identification (RFID) sensing platform that could enable a wide [more...]
Date: 2008-10-17 02:47:16
DIY Video Poker Table
Know When to Hold 'Em: courtesy Jason Kiely Every Friday night, about 10 regulars gather at my place in Perth, Australia, to play Texas Hold 'Em. I'm the co-founder of a technology-services company, L7 Solutions. I'm also a chronic tinkerer ... combines the video files with RFID data from the tagged chips and cards to create a simulcast [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 18:49:00
Wal-Mart's Digital Health Push
As the largest public company and private employer in the world, Wal-Mart's massive size makes it an incredibly influential early adopter ... , it's not only its network of suppliers and customers that will take notice. So will many Fortune 500 companies ... previously written about "the Wal-Mart factor" in relation to its energy effiency and RFID programs [more...]
Date: 2008-12-15 12:17:33
Product and Shopper Movement Tracked by Shopping Trip 360
Product and Shopper Movement Tracked by Shopping Trip 360 A new wireless sensor-based application provides retail and CPG companies with data ... ; PowerID expands channel network in the Americas; XIO Strategies to help DOD with RFID, IUID ... › Rehab Center Monitors Patients With Ultra-wide Band › DOD Issues RFP for Active RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-08-29 21:27:31
Alanco Technologies Inc. (ALAN) Posts 40% Increase in Q4 Revenues, Spurred by “Unique Technical Achievements”
Advances in personal and asset tracking have set a high bar for tracking technology companies looking to stand out in the expanding market ... supply chain. Alanco/TSI PRISM supplies Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) real-time tracking ... product line, capitalizing upon a recently introduced fuel savings module providing immediate [more...]
Date: 2008-07-24 17:58:05
Card Companies Insecure About Security
creditcards195.jpg My opinion I’m not a security expert but I’ve always suspected that RFID (think Chip and PIN credit cards) ... convincing. And remember that this is the same RFID that the Government wants to use for national ... this response when Adam Savage of Mythbusters is asked about RFID at the HOPE conference (Hackers On Planet [more...]
Date: 2008-09-03 21:03:18
RipoffReport.com for finding any negative before you buy Online!
Here’s an interesting site I came across today, it’s called RipoffReport ... in order to create a working history on the company or individual in question. better business bureau ... brings Web 2.0 Tagging to the Real World with RFID Tagging System! (1) rVita Launches ‘Nirvana’ [more...]
Date: 2008-11-26 23:54:41
DEMO: Meet Alcatel-Lucent’s Services Play
While DEMO is primarily a showcase platform for standalone startups, well-established companies launch products there too. This year Alcatel-Lucent has brought an internal startup pushing an RFID tag reading system ... , tikitag is a set of RFID- and Near Field Communication-enabled tags and a corresponding reader [more...]
Date: 2008-09-06 08:19:40
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
Allied Waste and RecycleBank Partner to Promote Nationwide Recycling
A new partnership between Allied Waste, the second largest waste management company in the U.S ... at the curb. But each recycling cart will have a radio frequency identification (RFID) that will record [more...]
Date: 2008-07-08 20:08:40
December 20 SOA News
Five fearless predictions for SOA 2009ZDNet - USASOA seemed to become more and more pervasive across companies, ... to drive down those costs. ... SOA for the greatest logisitical night of allZDNet - USA Dave suggests RFID-tagging all goods, with information flowing real-time across an SOA-enabled system. SOA can also [more...]
Date: 2008-12-20 14:21:00
FRESHER BE JOBS PUNE BIOENABLE TECHNOLOGIES
About Company : BioEnable is India’s largest supplier and exporter of cutting edge technology products and services based on Biometrics, RFID, GPS & Wireless RF technologies. We have our customers [more...]
Date: 2008-11-17 23:07:23
DGAP-News: BLUEHILL ID AG TO ACQUIRE ARYGON TECHNOLOGIES
Bluehill ID AG / Acquisition 02.11.2008 Announcement, transmitted by DGAP - a company of EquityStory AG ... ) announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire over 90% of RFID reader manufacturer [more...]
Date: 2008-11-02 18:25:08
Will Sun end up in some other hands?
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Alex Slobodkin 'In 12 months, Sun will not be the same company it is now ... bargain considering its roughly $4 billion cash on hand, sizeable intellectual property and patent ... Up With RFID Based Java Net Community Website - 14 May 2006 Non Java Support to Java Community Process [more...]
Date: 2008-08-28 16:25:23
Wireless Growth Prompts New Cashless Payment Trial
by Laurie Sullivan Wireless subscribers racked up more than 1 ... trials with credit card companies like MasterCard and Visa. Rather than carry around a plastic card ... ,” says Julie England, VP/GM for TI’s radio frequency identification (RFID) business. “ [more...]
Date: 2008-09-12 11:31:43
Retailer Must Have: Motorola Sparrow
Fast Company had a great product showcase about the new Motorola Sparrow recently ... one up after detecting a loyalty card or other relevant RFID tag. Want to win brownie points with a shopper ... bought Symbol Technologies, a maker of bar-code scanners, and asked the New York — based design [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 22:55:08
MasterCard Strengthens Its Mobile Services
The company is offering the ability to provision a customer’s PayPass account over the air, ... around the world. It’s still a growing field, and RFID vendor Sirit predicts that up to one-third [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 17:13:11
New hot stock options
Security systems provider companies witnessed a sudden action in terms of both orders/enquiries as well as stock changes in the last 3 days ... and internationally. It also offers Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID) solutions, smart cards ... , library management, application tracking, vehicle tracking, warehouse management, work-in-progress [more...]
Date: 2008-12-02 03:15:56
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
Longer loan repayment deadline
The deadline for victims of the devastating May 12 Sichuan earthquake who borrowed money and still can’t pay it back has been extended by half a ... Administration of Foreign Exchange on Thursday. Tags: Finance ZHOU: to be ready for worst situation (0) Yuan Completes Record Annual Advance as China Seeks Stability (0) Taiwan RFID (0) Sub-prime impacts [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 20:21:32
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
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
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