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Arphid Watch: RFIDs in American passports inserted by foreign contractors

(((I'm no big fan of the Moonie Times, but these allegations sound distinctly weird. A passport factory in Thailand? Can such things be?))) ... of Bangkok, to be fitted with a wire Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID, antenna. The blank ... and is transmitted through a tiny wire antenna when it is scanned electronically at border entry points [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 18:15:47

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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

You Scratch Our Back, We’ll Break Yours

Maybe Wal-Mart doesn’t understand how products are made ... is now demanding that suppliers implement radio frequency identification (RFID) to replace bar codes. According to reports, implementing RFID will increase the cost burden on suppliers by 20 times the cost [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 19:51:41

Kinship on the Shelves

Have you noticed the machines in the aisles of the library emitting high-pitched beeps? ... with a book or dvd. This has all been in the name of RFID - Radio Frequency Identification. The use ... while engaged in this workout of putting the RFID metallic stickers on the backs of books, I let my mind [more...]

Date: 2008-10-20 18:39:00

Robotic chef that clean ups after you

By keeping track of all the contents of your kitchen and able to perform simple tasks with its impressive arms could this be the ... by the Technical University of Munich the unnamed machine utilises radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags on dishes and utensils in its kitchen and avoids some of the pitfalls from previous [more...]

Date: 2008-07-16 09:03:04

Boston Tea Party 2008

The Boston Tea Party 2008 is happening this weekend in Boston.Tickets prices are $17.76 (what else?) ... and last year’s key note speakerDr. Katherine Albrecht who is leading the fight to stop RFID tagging and chipping. A new consumer goods tracking system called Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is poised [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 15:31:00

High Tech RFID monitoring at Olympics

The Beijing Olympics are less than a month away and you can imagine how feverish the pitch is getting with last minute preparations for opening day ... Games, has issued 16 million RFID-enabled tickets, and has installed nearly 1,000 terminal devices ... experience for attendees, athletes and Beijing residents is RFID (Radio Frequency Identification [more...]

Date: 2008-07-25 11:42:55

Video: RFID Enabled Poker Table

So you’ve probably seen Poker events on television where there are cameras on the table to see what each person player is holding and at the same ... at your own home? Recently, an IT exec designed a table which utilizes Radio Frequency ID (RFID) technology whereby a computer can track what cards are in each players hands, calculate the probability [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 18:00:45

The Ticket Booths Of The Future (More Interesting Than It Sounds)

Ahhh the future, a time when we will fly to work, cloning will have wiped out hunger (ohhh controversial) ... mobile phone handsets in Japan are equipped with a RFID chip which allows them to send a unique code ... at all really. He’s an RFID (radio frequency identification) reading ticket dispenser made by NEC [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 16:36:28

Researchers Reveal Security, Privacy Vulnerabilities in ‘Enhanced’ Driver’s Licenses

Researchers Reveal Security, Privacy Vulnerabilities in ‘Enhanced’ Driver’s Licenses November 4th, ... , it is a technically straightforward matter to copy the data from a Passport Card’s RFID tag into another, off ... an individual’s citizenship status. They are also equipped with radio frequency identification (RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 09:12:38

The Next Generation of Digital Media in Retail

Customers are now able to engage with Digital Media in a way that was never possible with passive aisle mounted large screens running TV style content. Using the latest RFID technology shoppers can now interact at the Point of Decision ... . The solution comprises of LCD screens and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tagged products [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 12:56:27

Teen Drivers’ Cell Phones Jammed By Car Key

University of Utah researchers have developed an automobile ignition key that prevents teenagers from talking on cell phones or sending text ... stage business consulting and “seed funding.” It has licensed the Key2SafeDriving technology ... user’s cell phone via either Bluetooth or RFID (radio-frequency identification) technologies [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 14:31:05

The Implanted Radio-Frequency Identification Chip: “Smart Cards” in a Surveillance Society

If incorporating personal details into an RFID (radio-frequency identification) ... are divided into two categories, passive or active. A “passive” tag doesn’t contain a battery and its “read” range is variable, from less than an inch to twenty or thirty feet. An “active” tag on the other [more...]

Date: 2008-09-11 17:12:15

RFID Tutorial - Everything You Need

RFID Tutorial - Everything You Need Radio Frequency Identification tags are everywhere.  Inside these tiny tags is a predetermined code which can be read by an RFID reader.  These are used in credit cards, badges, pet tracking just to name a few.  Some people feel they create too muc… [more...]

Date: 2008-09-10 02:23:22

Researchers publish how-to guide on cloning RFID-based public transit cards

rfid.jpg RFID (short for "radio frequency identification"), a short-range wireless communication technology, has been criticized for years by many hackers ... the point, university experts have just released a pair of reports that show exactly how RFID subway cards [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 14:46:27

VeriChip Closes Sale of Subsidiary - RFID

It appears having a “chip” implant is perhaps not as popular as one might have thought as least on the consumer medical records side.  Stanley, the tools folks, have purchased one portion of the business , Xmark which makes RFID ...   Xmark sells radio frequency identification technology to tag and track newborns, adults prone [more...]

Date: 2008-07-18 21:56:53

Study Tackles Labeling Errors

With a long-held commitment to continuously improving the quality and safety of patient care, ... of specimen-labeling errors.” This study used a technology, radio-frequency identification (RFID), to track ... Mayo Clinic researchers are recommending a new technologically-advanced labeling system aimed [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 23:11:01

How Do Radio Tagged Cards Work?

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems have three components: a small silicon microchip attached to an antenna; a reader and a computer database. The RFID tags themselves can be as small as half a millimeter square, the size of a tiny seed. Some are thin enough to be embedded in paper. Most tags today [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 15:54:58

Beacon Equity Research Featured Client: Advanced ID Corporation (AIDO.OB)

Advanced ID Corporation is a solutions provider to the radio frequency identification (RFID) market with a focus on the tire management industry ... Canada subsidiary in Calgary, Alberta. They are reintroducing their livestock tagging product line in many countries. They have also developed a UHF RFID reader product line for all market [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 19:38:44

MetalCraft RFID Access Control

RFID at the gates Radio Frequency Identification technology helps gated communities control access Problem: ... proposition that brought Austin, Texas-based Radiant RFID and GateSource Corporation together [more...]

Date: 2008-09-12 19:28:42

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

Chipping of Humans No Longer the Stuff of Novels

The microchips predicted would be able to give sensory input, allow a sort of mind-to-mind communication (like an implanted cell phone) and allow direct to the brain marketing. This Orwellian prediction opens the door for direct mind control in true 1984 fashion. Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFIDs) are finding their way [more...]

Date: 2008-07-19 18:22:05

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

Tagged and tracked at the toll booth

Are you one of those folks who loves the convenience of zipping through the toll plaza with one of those electronic toll-paying systems like FasTrak ... toll devices use Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology to broadcast information ... booth can receive it. Strangers with the right transponder reader walking through a parking lot [more...]

Date: 2008-08-07 19:20:38

What you need to know about protecting your personal information, and how the new enhanced drivers licence can put you at risk

In an age where we are constantly having to adjust to new technologies that are often touted as “time saving” and “convenient”, ... up for the right to try it out.  A reader emailed a link to a recent story detailing the risks ... of having a passport. The licences contain an RFID chip- radio frequency identification technology [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 16:27:57

Real Snail mail

A couple of "boredom researchers" at Bournemouth University in the UK think we should take time out of the instant-access digital world ... with a radio-frequency identification (RFID) chip that picks up a bunch of emails when the snail passes close to an electronic reader. When, or if, the snail makes it to another reader [more...]

Date: 2008-06-18 15:57:38

Radiator 09: Exploits in the Wireless City

I’m bound for Nottingham later this week for the Raditor Festival and Symposium, ... will be networked in a complex system of information exchange. Based on technologies such as RFID (radio frequency identification tags), our environment would turn into a space of “ambient intelligence” [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 15:39:09

Line of Sight

Line of sight …. what an interesting visual that provides. It is used in a variety of industries ... . “Line of sight” applies to radio frequency identification tag RFID technology. This means that the reader, the ‘laser eye’ line, has to have an unimpeded path to the code that it is reading [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 02:03:32

‘Chipping’ of Humans No Longer the Stuff of Novels; Use of RFIDs Becoming Commonplace in America

View the article here Like I've said before, you can stick this chip where the sun doesn't shine ... , but it lays the groundwork for later RFID tagging on children and elderly for “safety reasons.” ... the movements of students using Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFID). Microchips [more...]

Date: 2008-07-15 10:00:00

‘Chipping’ of Humans No Longer the Stuff of Novels; Use of RFIDs Becoming Commonplace in America

View the article here Like I've said before, you can stick this chip where the sun doesn't shine ... be a good idea, but it lays the groundwork for later RFID tagging on children and elderly for “safety ... to electronically track the movements of students using Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-07-15 10:17:00

Big Brother celebs not just being watched, but tracked

Housemates in the latest series of Celebrity Big Brother are already being watched by scores of cameras around the clock ... behind Big Brother, selected Wavetrend -- a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) specialist ... . But now their precise movements are being tracked thanks to RFID technology installed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 17:53:02

The NASCAR Experience Part One - What Does it Feel Like to go 175 MPH?

Last weekend I was invited to a NASCAR extravaganza weekend event by Mobil 1 Official NASCAR Sponsor to get up close ... from Motor Trend, writer for Muscle Car Magazine and car builder Jason Lewis , Road & Track and a few ... -frequency identification (RFID) tags installed at multiple locations all over the vehicles for [more...]

Date: 2008-10-16 15:31:07

Weekly Newswire October 9th, 2008

Access this week's industry, legal, and policy news... Radio-Frequency Tags Cut Specimen Bottle Errors U.S ... , is proposing that busy labs add radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags to track and ... Compliance Remains Top Reason , But Other Benefits Begin to Prompt ... SDA Asia Magazine Consumer goods [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 20:41:06

Hackers Unite in NYC at Last HOPE Conference

CNET Tonight, the Hotel Pennsylvania welcomes the Hackers of Planet Earth (HOPE) for the first night of their seventh and last conference ... and other prominent hackers attending. As an ultra high-tech touch, attendees will be wearing badges with radio frequency identification devices (RFID) that will follow their every move during [more...]

Date: 2008-07-18 16:19:58

Low-cost nanotechnology substitute for gold and silver in printable electronics

Ink-jet printing of metal nanoparticles for conductive metal patterns has attracted great interest as an alternative to expensive fabrication ... and radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. Nobel metals like silver and gold are preferred ... -cost applications such as RFID tags with required unit costs below one cent. A new technique [more...]

Date: 2008-10-14 02:46:27

RFID Tutorial - Everything You Need

RFID Tutorial - Everything You Need Radio Frequency Identification tags are everywhere. Inside these tiny tags is a predetermined code which can be read by an RFID reader. These are used in credit cards, badges, pet tracking just to name a few. Some people feel they create too muc… [more...]

Date: 2008-09-10 02:23:22

Protecting Privacy of Children, Rights of Parents Unfinished in California

By Zack Kaldveer Consumer Federation of California In 2005 a tiny school district in Northern California inadvertently ignited a statewide debate over the appropriate use of modern technologies in the school system. The technology in question was Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID, which the district had embedded in student badges... [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 13:25:39

Internetting every thing, everywhere, all the time

In a long article today, CNN explores the Internet of Things and to some of the thinkers on the topic, ... web of objects is RFID (Radio Frequency Identity) technology, which allows things to be “read” ... about themselves and their relationship with their environment, over time. The reason why RFID is often called [more...]

Date: 2008-11-02 14:45:52

Mythbusters Blocked From Revealing RFID Myths

The image “http://media.bestofmicro.com/RFID,X-G-1204-1.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors. ... the myths behind RFID Radio-frequency identification security, you might be saddened to hear it looks ... of Mythbusters, when speaking to the audience of The Last HOPE hacker conference, revealed why RFID has become [more...]

Date: 2008-09-06 13:28:21

The Energy to Rebuild

... The development of a "smart grid" for the US would provide thousands of jobs, and would position us to meet demand ... , sensors and RFID (radio frequency ID) tags providing real-time input to computers which can monitor [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 07:58:26

Study Tackles Labeling Errors

Study Tackles Labeling Errors With a long-held commitment to continuously improving the quality and safety of patient care, ... of specimen-labeling errors.” This study used a technology, radio-frequency identification (RFID ... Mayo Clinic researchers are recommending a new technologically-advanced labeling system aimed [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 23:11:01

Top Picks in Large Cap Value

This week our top picks come from Portfolio managers Carl Lytollis and Andrew Cox of Phillips, Hager & North Investment Managment ... $7 billion in sales in that area this year.” Zebra Technologies (ZBRA)- “We’ve held Zebra Technologies ... growing business in providing software that enables RFID (radio frequency identification) tracking [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 21:01:58

Enabling Technologies (2)

Unintelligent gadgets. This includes devices such as sensors and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags ... of devices can pack a great of functionality in a small device. A good example of RFID in use is vehicle-tracking tags. The idea here is that a small sticker-like RFID tag is placed on the inside [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 08:43:10

Area Manufacturers benefit from UTSA laboratory

By Kris Rodriguez (photo) Public Affairs SpecialistUTSA 1604 Campus The UTSA Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Lean Systems (CAMLS), housed in the College of Engineering, recently partnered with the San Antonio Manufacturers Association to conduct a radio frequency identification (RFID) workshop. Click on the link for the rest [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 11:11:29

Two Historic RFID Regulation Bills—Important to Our Privacy and Safety--Await Governor Schwarzenegger’s Decision

Zack-Kaldveer.gif By Zack Kaldveer Consumer Federation of California Tiny computer chips called Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) ... and other government issued cards without our knowledge. These “human identification systems” pose clear information security risks that can threaten individual privacy and public safety. RFID chips allow [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 12:06:05

RFID tracking 50 foot range admitted

New ID Scanners at Borders Raise Privacy Alarm Monday, December 1, 2008 6:19 PM By: ... Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) machines, allow officials to read remotely any passports, pass ... . Tien and other critics warn that people up to no good can use their own RFID machines in a process [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 18:57:30

Make buses more friendly to the blind with Rfid tags

bus-stop.jpg To use Rfid tags on public vehicles, communicating their identification number to the blind in big cities ... called Radio Frequency Identification (Rfid). This technology allows object to interact with other objects through a tiny microchip (tag) and radio waves. One group of students came [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 14:41:17

Video: an everywhere world (RFIDs, tracking, the Internet of Things)

Some good snippets here - and some of some quite scary, too: "An "Everyware" world, as Adam Greenfield calls it, is a world in which computers are embedded and merged seamlessly everywhere in the environment. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags communicate their position and other information constantly in a vast network [more...]

Date: 2008-09-28 11:27:15

More ways for you Identity to be Stolen

From NewsMax… The devices, called Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) machines, allow officials to read remotely any passports, pass cards, and driver’s licenses that contain special chips with personal information. The RFIDs are so sensitive that, even before [more...]

Date: 2008-12-07 16:52:04

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


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