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

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Warehouse Technology - from the old to the new

by Graham Mawdsley, Senior Consultant I first set foot in a retail distribution centre 30 years ago as a management trainee, ... flexibility, but even a small-to-medium size (and cost) example will often offer considerable ... of setbacks and ‘false dawns’, RFID still promises opportunities and benefits for introduction [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 11:08:23

Injoos – Collaboration Platform for Teams

Injoos is a collaboration platform that marries the power of web2.0 with knowledge management tools - and is delivered as a SaaS application ... to a project. The site lets users create groups  - one can join other communities based on interests (ranges from RFID to Startups etc),  post news items to groups, discuss topics, manage files (i.e online [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 08:45:46

Motorola Creates New Divisions in Advance of Split

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Motorola has divided itself into three units, rather than two ... s not happening anytime soon — despite cool services such as Apple TV or Amazon’s streaming service ... its growing RFID and corporate radio assets might fall within this new organizational structure [more...]

Date: 2008-07-28 14:14:50

10 Apple Patents to Keep Your Eyes On

Apple is on the cutting edge of technology innovation, and in order to properly protect themselves from copycats, they patent things like crazy ... of the concepts in these designs are patented. And while many of the products will forever remain a concept ... up or not. iPhone nano Considering Apple’s never-ending quest to make its products smaller, [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 14:12:55

Top 10 Technology Enabled Market Trends By CAGR

Technology is the key to unlocking economic value: companies create real wealth when they combine technology with new business models ... and the economy in coming years. This article wouldn’t be possible with out my consultant. “Assuming ... firm RoA Group, the global demand for mobile RFID is expected to grow from $26.9 billion [more...]

Date: 2008-07-01 12:40:53

Fleury’s Open Remote is all about the software

It has been over five years since I started writing about wireless applications which live in the air, for home automation, ... , one-off solutions? There are some killer apps out there, applications which can use sensors, motes, and RFID connected by wireless networks to simple, Linux-based base stations. Linux because that’ [more...]

Date: 2008-07-28 13:02:45

Better Java Web Frameworks

I have been doing web application framework development for a long time. In my first experience, we developed a “Web Application Framework“, to ease development so that even business user could make development. As the years passed, I never see any business user entered self development because of the fact that this job belongs to programmers [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 09:54:45

Injoos – SaaS based Collaboration Platform

Injoos is a collaboration platform that marries the power of web2.0 with knowledge management tools - and is delivered as a SaaS application ... to a project. The site lets users create groups  - one can join other communities based on interests (ranges from RFID to Startups etc),  post news items to groups, discuss topics, manage files (i.e online [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 08:45:46

Increase Your Sales and Cut Costs by using Barcode Tracking

How do you compete more effectively in global markets? With increased efficiencies and cost savings… By Peter Green - BellHawk Systems Corporation ... money are: By saving them money on the receiving dock. They put a barcode or RFID label on each ... applying all the barcode labels and RFID tags that your customer needs for their internal tracking [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 12:49:46

Taspo rules bring retail back to tobacco

Last summer, the Japanese tobacco industry imposed a rather large burden on itself by requiring the use of Taspo (tobacco passport), an RFID identification and payment card, for adults to purchase tobacco from vending machines ... campaigns, free gifts, and other benefits are simple with small retail spaces. Of course [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 04:54:35

State of the AmLaw 200 Blogosphere, November 2008

Law firm marketing and business development professionals have been politely getting after Kevin McKeown, our VP of Client Development, for an updated report on large law's use of blogs. Innovators, such as Gloria Fox at Blank Rome, are looking for hard data for their law firm's management that their competition has effectively addressed any [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 16:14:23

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

"MARKETS: Healthcare, wireless may still thrive in 2009"

While almost all segments of the electronics industry will be flat or decline in 2009, a few exceptions are possible, according to ABI Research, ... year. Likewise, the use of Wi-Fi technology for healthcare will continue to expand and RFID technology could even benefit from the tough economic times, since RFID tags increase operational efficiency [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 18:52:00

Venture Firms Pull Back, But Not for Long

Venture firms are sounding the alarm over what this current downturn might mean for their portfolio companies — and it’s not pretty.  While it’s true that great companies are built during downturns, it’s also true that plenty of entrepreneurs are going to be shut out of any sort of financing for the foreseeable future, [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 04:01:04

Cory Doctorow's Little Brother is a Manual for our Kids to Save the Future

The fates seemed to decree that I wouldn't review Little Brother ... , the Department of Homeland Security clamps down tight, tracking the citizenry with RFID tags, gait recognition scanners and advanced data modeling software. They set up a secret prison on Treasure Island [more...]

Date: 2008-09-26 14:00:03

ALA2008 Privacy Revolution Panel

does anyone care if their library records are being tracked? should they? ALA OIF has received a grant from the Open Society Institute/Soros Foundation to explore the issue of privacy in the digital age Panelists: Dan Roth (Wired), Cory Doctorow (CrapHound), and Beth Givens (Privacy Rights Clearinghouse) [more...]

Date: 2008-06-30 07:27:11

Strong Growth in the Polypropylene Market

Read More... | 4713 bytes more | Score: 0) Page 1 of 117 (1164 total stories) ... from Trusted Source Can be Helpful · Get Value Printer Cartridges from Super Warehouse · Beat ... the Eyes of the Gamers · 125KHz RFID Keychain and RFID Key Tag · The Best New Mobile Phone Deals · IDIT [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 14:51:31

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

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

IndustrialPR Launches an Online Marketing Program

Read More... | 3031 bytes more | Score: 0) Page 1 of 119 (1188 total stories) ... 19, 2008· Guide to Purchasing a Recreational Vehicle · RFID Laundry Tags Make Laundry Sorting Easily ... on Identity Theft Related Services · DAILY RFID Unveils RFID Metal Tag Like Coin · Strong Growth [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 17:23:53

Apartment Marketing: Some Compelling Trends and a Platform to Match

This white paper is brought to us by Robert Sardary of Trusterra ... at the optimal times? I can. Can you imagine a system that embeds RFID technology for preventive and real ... . We have a chance to be a part of something larger than ourselves on this one. Take a look at the paper, introduce [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 04:16:53

Shibuya Station pop-up marketing stands

Tokyo is certainly plastered with ads from top to bottom, but ad culture in Japan is still quite traditional ... is a feat in itself. wonda zeromax coffee japan We haven’t blogged this product yet because we weren’ ... with Taspo, the RFID enabled ID card that’s required tobacco purchases from vending machines [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 05:53:09

2 Port UHF RFID by GAO RFID

Read More... | 3400 bytes more | Score: 0) New Guide Helps American Manufacturers richmilton writes: ForeignTRADEX.com, an international industrial trade portal has published three new marketing guides for American manufacturers seeking trading partners and the Middle East industrial [more...]

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

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

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

TechCrunch Euro Tour 08: Yes, even Belgium has startups

A couple of weeks ago I headed over to Belgium as part of my ongoing TechCrunch Euro Tour, to get a taste of the local web/mobile entrepreneur community (BTW, come to the London and Helsinki events soon). I hooked-up with another TechCrunch writer, Robin Wauters, who had kindly arranged a TechCrunch Belgium meetup in Gent [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 11:13:46

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

Study on the Global Fillers Market

Read More... | 2229 bytes more | Score: 0) Page 1 of 118 (1175 total stories) ... · Handheld RFID Reader DL8033 in 13.56MHz Monday, November 17, 2008· TS&T- InfoCom Adds VoIP ... on Identity Theft Related Services · DAILY RFID Unveils RFID Metal Tag Like Coin · Strong Growth [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 16:16:35

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

Picnic08: Connected rabbits, running shoes and cable providers…

Kara Swisher of the Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital converses with - grill, perhaps - Mike Fries of Liberty Global, the world’s second largest cable operator. The focus is on the future of television, and Fries feels very, very strongly that the future is professional, random-access content [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 11:32:58

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

Media Centers: Alternative, Open-Source, Cross-Platform Solutions - A FLOSS Comparison

Looking for an open-source alternative to proprietary media center solutions from big brand names like Microsoft and Apple? Tired of buying into their own closed and proprietary business strategies? Here is a report showcasing you all of the alternative open-source media centers available out there. [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 09:30:00

Valley view

For San Francisco readers keeping up-to-date on celebrity news, we are pleased to provide this story from The BBC. By Maggie Shiels Technology reporter, BBC News, San Francisco [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 01:25:26

Panasonic Toughbook CF-H1 Mobile Clinical Assistant: Video Demos

Panasonic have officially announced the Toughbook CF-H1 Medical Tablet PC they demonstrated at the IDF in August ... for employee identification and an RFID reader. There’s also a GPS receiver, WiFi a/b/g/n, Bluetooth ... We say “primary” because there are other methods of input: a barcode reader, for instance, that allows [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 17:44:06

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

SF Bay Area Mayors Announce Coordinated Policies to Accelerate Establishment of EV Infrastructure; Better Place to Enter US Market in California

Better Place introduced a second EV prototype to work with its infrastructure: the Better Place Rogue, based on the Nissan Rogue crossover SUV. Click to enlarge. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed and Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums announced a nine-point policy plan to establish a pervasive infrastructure to [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 23:53:32

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

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

Tories versus loan companies

Tory Housing Spokesman Grant Shapps recently published a report entitled Pay-Day for Loan Sharks which complains that companies lending small sums of money for short periods of time to poor people charge excessive interest rates. Iain Dale quotes Shapps as saying: [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 12:08:03

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

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

Are American Dollars Nearing Extinction?

How much is your money really worth? If you’re familiar with the “Amero” or you’ve seen “Zeitgeist”, ... to the plan for federal identification code name: RFID, (if you didn’t catch that post click here to read it» The Amero The Amero is being looked at as the defacto currency of the North American [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 02:35:50

RFID Golf Balls and Top Golf

For the Golfer who has it all now they can have RFID Radio Frequency Identification GPS Global Positioning System Golf Balls? Wow, if that sounds really high-tech, well it is because now you can hit your golf ball and know the exact distance it has traveled and in the future as there are more RFID enabled golf courses [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 07:22:19

SilverStone Raven RVM01B Mouse

SilverStone Raven RVM01B Mouse September 29, 2008 -- While SilverStone Technology has long been known for their high-end (and very expensive) ... computer peripherals while driving new and interesting innovations into these conventional products ... the drive and secure it using two RFID keys. If these small keys were not exposed to the TS01 [more...]

Date: 2008-09-29 15:02:20

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