New Uses for 5 Old Pests

Doctors, criminologists and even manicurists have been busy putting smaller, less cuddly members of the animal kingdom to work. From monitoring the water supply to treating callused feet, here are some examples. 1. Bluegill Fish Enlisted in War on Terror During a meeting in 1960, Chicago Mayor Richard J [more...]

Date: 2008-08-26 21:29:09

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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

The way the brain buys

Retailers are making breakthroughs in understanding their customers’ minds. Here is what they know about youIT MAY have occurred to you, during the course of a dismal trawl round a supermarket indistinguishable from every other supermarket you have ever been into, to wonder why they are all the same. The answer is more sinister than depressing [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 13:14:00

Private firm may administer UK surveillance database

We’re living in a Twilight Zone episode. It’s time to roll back this global police state insanity now ... like these are worthless in the long run. In the first security crisis the locks would loosen.” ... , has been used as important evidence in 95% of serious crime cases and almost all security service [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 15:21:09

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

Do You Know Where Your Container Is?

ship-container Developers believe a new generation of tracking devices will overcome some limitations of RFID ... , and alert of damage. SaviNetworks, the world's largest provider of active RFID tags, is close to launching ... advantages over RFID-based solutions, said Murray Gibson, Hutchison Ports UK's general manager [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 20:40:02

News 12/5/08

From Cheryl: "Re: low-cost IT projects. I have been starving to hear stories like these! Leonard and Larry shared common problems, not hospital-specific issues. I am always on the lookout for how others are doing things better, especially solutions that can become best practices [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 02:51:20

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

The hacker mindset: The Nashville MTA, ie taking the bus.

I have always been intrigued by public transportation particularly the ones that have technology involved. I also like walking, but anyway this is about the bus. Why would one ride the bus if they had the option of driving there own car. Well the upside is overall it is cheaper if you eliminate all the costs involved in owning a car including [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 01:25:00

Building A Bridge From Legacy To Mobility

Building A Bridge From Legacy To Mobility The ideal method for adding mobility to an existing system would be to leave the system (and its database) ... Domestic Logistics Provider SingPost Streamlines Express ... Do You Know Where Your Assets Are? Maximizing ROI With RFID... HDNL Adopts Intermec CN3 Technology To Improve Productivity And... Payment [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 08:38:40

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

Greenhouse gas emissions to problem gambling: Carleton professors tasked with solving real-world problems

Today, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) announced funding for five Carleton University researchers. They received a total of $623,959 that will, among other things, allow them to pursue research to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve the quality of life for problem gamblers. Ian Beausoleil-Morrison Dr [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 15:51:12

InvoTech Selects Atlanta’s M2SYS Technology for Leading-Edge Fingerprint Software

ATLANTA, Ga. — M2SYS Technology, an award-winning fingerprint biometrics research and development firm, announced today that InvoTech Systems Inc ... System) application, an inventory management solution for a wide variety of clients spanning ... ., the leading provider of “back-of the-house” inventory tracking systems for the hospitality [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 21:17:45

InvoTech Systems Adds M2SYS Technology for Leading-Edge Fingerprint Software

ATLANTA, Ga. — M2SYS Technology, an award-winning fingerprint biometrics research and development firm, announced today that InvoTech Systems Inc ... System) application, an inventory management solution for a wide variety of clients spanning ... ., the leading provider of “back-of the-house” inventory tracking systems for the hospitality [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 18:09:40

User Data Preservation (UDP)

Ovi Sync and since then I refuse to go back to cables. Nokia Users were Born Free so it suits us to be able to sync, backup, update anything On The Go, Over The Air. This is also quite a unique feature - while Google’s Android is able to receive automatic OTA updates (but a manual update voids your guarantee on the G1) [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 10:46:24

Insurers’ Backing Sought for Car Key That Jams Teen Drivers’ Cell Phones - Steven Wevodau

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 inventors are hoping the insurance industry will back the safety technology as worthy of premium discounts for its users [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 20:45:11

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

Better sensors will reduce food wastage

Advances in sensing technology will help reduce food wastage, causing a loss of 10 billion pounds ($20 billion) ... . The new printed sensors are based on radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and will be modified ... annually in Britain alone, according to a report. Sensors can detect early indications of food [more...]

Date: 2008-09-24 07:07:40

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

Thankful for a Smaller, Flatter, Smarter Planet

Greg over at IBM Eye has a post that points to Gaurav Sabnis' article ... commenting on Mitt Romney's Op-Ed piece in the New York Times "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt" . Mitt Romney During the Republican primaries, Mitt Romney promised Michigan he would bring back [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 16:16:05

DIY Electric Motorcycle on a $3K Budget

While there are a few different electric motorcycles on the market, most of them are pretty expensive, ... speed and with a 10 mile range. The cool thing is that Stryker documented most of the process ... , then the 10-mile range should be enough, if not, it makes an easy way to get around the neighborhood [more...]

Date: 2008-07-18 03:59:10

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

Lost

One of the most exciting innovations coming the way of frequent flyers is Motorola’s RFID technology ... up radio waves emitted by the RFID at different points on the belt, sending a message saying “Here I Am.” The read rate is currently 99.5% vs. 80% for optical scanners. This is where the problem starts [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 22:55:00

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

RFID Moving Into the Data Center

IT managers are increasingly finding value in using RFID within their own IT operations ... and revenues. RFID vendors and systems integrators are offering a range of products from specialized ... . This is spurring adoption of RFID in data centers and across corporate campuses. IT assets [more...]

Date: 2008-10-05 19:45:30

SuperCorridor Defeat? Don’t Bet On It

Dandelion Salad by Stephen Lendman Global Research June 20, 2008 The title refers to the I-69/Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) portion of the North American SuperCorridor Coalition (NASCO) project. The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) announced that, for now at least, it nixed this part of the $184 billion scheme calling for: [more...]

Date: 2008-06-20 13:28:29

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

2008 Terrorism

As 2008 comes to a close we must look back at America's security and terrorism in general around the world ... , gaping holes in our security. Dave Gaubatz* comments on the recent Department of Homeland Security's ... the report itself to be a national security threat for America ??? more importantly for the children [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 01:13:07

An Overview of the Battlespace

UPDATED 1354 est 1 Dec 2008: Link and site disappeared overnight after creation of this post; just found this cached version. Read this essay slowly, click on the embedded links, especially this one, and make sure to read the comments as well. Use your bravo-sierra detector to sort the wheat from the chaff, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-30 21:47:29

RFID-Enabled Parking Garage Access

RFID-Enabled Parking Garage Access In April of 2008 leading building developers implemented VUANCE's AAID Ultra Long Range RFID solution, in order to provide cost-effective parking services and generate additional... RFID Secures ... Gain With New RFID Solution RFID Helps Promote Healthy Pregnancies RFID Keeps Police Operations Safe [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 07:06:27

The Benefits Of Integrating Back-Office Systems

The Benefits Of Integrating Back-Office Systems Back-office systems run the business administration processes ... Model Makes Sense For... Building A Bridge From Legacy To Mobility Leading Domestic Logistics Provider SingPost Streamlines Express ... Do You Know Where Your Assets Are? Maximizing ROI With RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 11:50:21

Chip Implants To Avoid Identity Frauds? By Mary Wise

Chip Implants To Avoid Identity Frauds? By Mary Wise Posted by: admin In: ... . However it is said that its pay system, based on radio frequency identification (RFID) technology ... of the owner’s interests? Not So New RFID tags are becoming popular, especially with those companies [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 04:55:12

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

Dynamic Infrastructure: Networking Industry's Biggest Hope

The “speeds and feeds” mantra of the networking industry is about to be replaced by a new “dynamic infrastructure” mantra; and Cisco (CSCO), Infoblox and F5 Networks (FFIV) are taking the lead in shaping this new vision of a more flexible, more available and easier to manage network. New enterprise initiatives, from RFID/wireless [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 12:27:26

SNIF Tags Monitor Your Dog’s Health, Social Network

By Evan Ackerman Yes, I know, your dog is the best dog ever and you just have to know what he’s doing all the time and share that information ... meets another SNIF tag equipped dog, the tags exchange IDs through RFID, and your dog as made a “ ... with the rest of the known universe. Well, get yourself a SNIF tag [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 12:12:54

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

Alien Technology: Yet Another Failure For Government-Run Economic Development

I read in the Fargo Forum that yet another much-touted economic development project here in North Dakota is failing. Alien Technologies, a company that opened up shop in Fargo to make RFID tags, projected a payroll of 319 employed Fargo-area workers. To date, the company has only managed to employ 35. FARGO [more...]

Date: 2008-09-29 16:38:05

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

The Future of Clinical Computing: A Vision from Panasonic

This week, Panasonic quietly gathered some of the bigger brains in medical technology and introduced them to the company's upcoming Mobile Clinical ... . Not surprisingly, we spent time discussing Panasonic's family of mobile healthcare products, including [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 14:56:22

Zebra Technologies Announces the RW 420 Route Palette, a High-Efficiency Solution for the Mobile Workforce

Simultaneous housing and charging of the Zebra RW 420 and Motorola's rugged mobile computers and enterprise digital assistants deliver convenience and efficiency VERNON HILLS, Ill., /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Zebra Technologies (Nasdaq: ZBRA), a global leader in specialty printing and automatic identification solutions, [more...]

Date: 2008-07-05 12:39:25

Touchscreen is the Homosapien in the Evolution of Digital Signage

Product lifecycles may seems fickle, but they are often predictable. Contrast that with the rise and fall of specific animal species ... worldwide through a cellular device. The costs of these devices has also significantly dropped as well [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 17:04:40

Car Sharing Competition: Hertz and Enterprise Chase Zipcar

By John Addison. New car sharing programs allow two or more people to need only one car. Each shared vehicle results in 6 to 23 cars not being owned. Once someone joins a car share program, they cut their vehicle miles traveled up to 80 percent. Introduced first in Europe, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 19:27:28

InvoTech Selects M2SYS Technology for Leading-Edge Fingerprint Software Solution

Provider of Inventory Management Solutions for the Hospitality Industry to Offer Fingerprint Biometrics ATLANTA, Ga., Nov. 24 ( ... activities within its SAMS(TM) (Security Automated Management System) application, an inventory ... " inventory tracking systems for the hospitality industry, has chosen M2SYS Technology to provide [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 13:56:26

Interview with Bryce Harrington: Ubuntu Xorg Maintainer

For the second installment in my Ubuntu Developer Interview series, we have Bryce Harrington, Ubuntu’s Xorg Maintainer. Bryce gives us some valuable insight into one of the most complex and important areas of a modern Desktop Linux Distribution. How long have you been maintaining Xorg for Ubuntu? [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 04:19:53

40% of Digital Signs to Have SMS by 2012 Says MultiMedia Intelligence

Due to the simplicity of SMS messaging and the ubiquity of wireless handsets, ... is not the only manner for providing interactivity. Other wireless methods such as RFID, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi ... newly-installed digital displays had Bluetooth, RFID, Wi-Fi or SMS capabilities or some combination [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 19:58:47

Why The Software As A Service Business Model Makes Sense For e-Commerce

Why The Software As A Service Business Model Makes Sense For... Software as a service (SaaS) ... To Mobility Leading Domestic Logistics Provider SingPost Streamlines Express ... Do You Know Where Your Assets Are? Maximizing ROI With RFID... HDNL Adopts Intermec CN3 Technology To Improve Productivity [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 10:17:47

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

A Note on the TATA NEN Hottest Startup Contest

I stumbled upon the TATA NEN Hottest Startup contest yesterday. The site can be accessed at http://hotteststartups.in. The site features a slide show on the 30 finalists, 5 of whom get declared as the hottest startups in India. I spent some time going through the websites of the finalists and I found the array of ideas and business models [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 04:23:00

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

News 11/19/08

From Jamie Sommers: "Re: Payerpath. Word is that Art Glasgow, the Payerpath president, resigned from Allscripts-Misys today on a town hall conference call. He was a good guy and the reason why Misys bought Payerpath in the first place." Unverified. From The PACS Designer: "Re: federated identify [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 02:51:37

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