New State House Security Still Offline

We’ll admit it’s rare when a stuffed animal uncovers major breaking news, but such is the case with “Mr. Mouse,” who was dispatched to the S.C ... , what? State House employees were issued their RFID’s (Radio Frequency ID cards) back in the spring [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 13:39:41

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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

Weekly Newswire September 11th, 2008

Access this week's industry, legal, and policy news.. ... looking at for a number of supply chain and asset management ... Verayo Introduces World's First ... . Is Visidot a Viable Alternative to RFID and Traditional 2D Bar Codes Supply Chain Digest [more...]

Date: 2008-09-11 16:41:15

I Read the News Today

A number of readers have asked me to highlight interesting articles that I come across but don’t have time to comment on ... update on mass serialization efforts in Europe as a follow-up to Tuesday’s post. Sorry, RFID-lovers ... to fill the Albert Hall (pictured above). Oh boy. Copyright © 2008 Pembroke Consulting, Inc [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 10:05:00

Balancing The Equation

If you thought that a criticism of our governments Immigration policy is an expression of one’s racism to other people’s, then think again. My comments on my previous posted article, ‘What I believe is going on here is manipulation of the masses,’was not meant to be taken as a criticism of minorities, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 14:47:16

Traffic Alert USA -- Media News Review Aug 27th, 2008

  HIGHLIGHTS.... The Obama camp seems to be worried about Bill Clinton's speech, therefore, ... , or a razor blade with anonymity. With RFID tags, that may be a thing of the past. Some manufacturers ... ....... ************************************************************************************************************************ RFID Chips Are Here [more...]

Date: 2008-08-27 19:49:45

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

First Links for 2009

I ignored my reading backlog last week and glommed down Tom Piazza’s Katrina novel, City of Refuge. It was nothing short of amazing ... a fabulous “year in publishing” post series. Hey you Southern localvore writer types: Michael ... director harassed for planning to implement RFID) but I’m thawing out. This post on Twitter types [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 00:31:26

Mapreduce Leads The Way For Parallel Programming

We’re now entering what I call the “Industrial Revolution of Data,” where the majority of data will be stamped out by machines: software logs, cameras, microphones, RFID readers, wireless sensor networks and so on. These machines generate data a lot faster than people can, and their production rates will grow exponentially with Moore’s Law [more...]

Date: 2008-11-09 17:00:54

Weekly Newsletter - Issue 62

* News about Mint Elyssa x64 RC1 released If any of you have ideas for how we can make Mint more known please feel free to leave a comment ... Password Recovery’ Services may be crackers that gets you in deep trouble Researchers discover PDF ... GHz New ‘On/Off Switch’ Protects RFID Cards From Hacks Asus ships software cracker on recovery [more...]

Date: 2008-09-28 18:21:55

Welcome to The Ministry of Love

Tom Zoellner recently wrote an excellent article on the appointment of Janet Napolitano as Minister of The Ministry of Homeland Security under the ... we’re not headed to a police state, RFID chipping, presenting papers at checkpoints and a whisper away ... , below. Partners in Pink UnderwearJanet Napolitano’s embarrassing history with Sheriff Joe Arpaio [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 16:59:39

December 19 SOA News

Give It Time: An SOA Lesson from My Great-GrandmotherIT Business Edge - Louisville,KY,USA It wasn't well-received on the SOA Yahoo Group, ... , and other consulting solutions have already helped a wide range of government agencies ...SOA World ... , including the introduction of RFID tags for tracking toy production, and sophisticated ... Harvard [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 16:58:00

Federal Lawmaker Targets RFID In Privacy Push

I just wrote yesterday about the new RFID law that went into effect in California on January 1st that bans “skimming” information from RFID-enabled ... all products containing RFID chips to be marked clearly so consumers know which products contain them ... protections against various privacy threats that RFID technology poses (still to be determined).The [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 19:23:00

4 Scary Toys in Big Brother’s Toolbox

BY MEGHAN HOLOHAN. It seems like government agencies are ready to party like it’s 1984. In its zeal to prevent another terrorism attack, the U.S. has relaxed laws that protect our privacy, making it easier for the government to keep an eye on you. The following four products could help Big Brother keep watch. 1. Wristy Business: Monitors [more...]

Date: 2008-08-15 18:39:21

Carphone sees x10 interest in iPhone pre-registrations

If you’ve been reading Ben’s tale of woe trying to register to get a 3G iPhone from o2, earlier, then this piece of news is, as Kylie used to sing, especially for you.  Carphone Warehouse, the nation’s behemoth mobile phone retailer, is ready ... .  In fact, I’m going to see if we can place our very own contributor (and he with the RFID chip [more...]

Date: 2008-07-07 09:48:11

Roland’s Sunday Smart Trends #246

RFID’s Security Problem Are U.S. passport cards and new state driver’s licenses with RFID truly secure? ... goes mobile Going online from a personal computer to access government services has been commonplace ... of those same services are available through your cellphone. In Singapore, text messages are used [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 12:00:58

SCIENCE NEWS PICKS

Here are some very interesting science news picks from one of my favorite science news sites—ScienceDaily—that I’ve recently read and want to share ... Of Going Green: Industrial Hygienists Suggest Watching Out For Mold When Going Green INVASIVE ... From Slow Water Currents RFID CHIPS: RFID Chips: A Privacy And Security Pandora’s Box? SEA LEVEL RISE [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 14:04:04

MBTA drops lawsuit against MIT subway hackers

The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) has dropped its federal case against three MIT researchers, “the subway hackers” ... at Defcon. It’s a shame no one ever saw it because it covers a lot of interesting ground. A PDF ... and physical security. Our favorites by far were using GNU Radio to sniff the RFID card’ [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 16:00:24

2008 Medical Sci-Fi Contest: Please Meet the Stories!

We are excited to announce the results of this year's medical sci-fi contest, and to present to all our readers the top three stories, ... that he is a Senior Writer for Exhibitor and Corporate Event magazines, was also Yahoo Internet Life's ... , It's a Bitter Little World, an ode to film noir, was published in 2005 by Writer's Digest Books. Please [more...]

Date: 2008-11-28 04:51:14

SureFlap Robotic Cat Door

Having a cat door in your home is fine and dandy, but what happens when Fluffy isn’t the only feline walking through? ... be implanted with the relevant RFID chip first before it is able to be recognized and given access. Perfect ... gadgets tech toys car high tech products up to the minute gadget and gizmo news computer games gizmo sip [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 23:29:56

Best of 2008: Top 25 Technology Blogs

And here stands our compilation of technology blogs doing justice to the tech-needs of the common man. Had they not been there, it would have been a demanding task to get oneself updated with the emerging development s in the technology industry. We wish good luck to all of them for performing so well and giving us the opportunity to be spotted [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 09:45:23

Can You Be a Good Parent and a Good Blogger?

 That’s my personal struggle, but you could insert many all-consuming tasks — such as starting up a company, ... me, a professional news writer who’s passionate about technology — but not to the point where I want ... that I love. So my passions are pretty much destined to never meet — unless I want to implant an RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-11-27 23:09:57

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

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

Government 2.0: Intelligence Renaissance Networks

This is part of an ongoing series about government 2.0 written by Dr. Mark Drapeau. To view previous posts in the series click here. Future planning is a big part of what the national security apparatus of the United States does, and it is incredibly difficult to do well. As the national security writer William Arkin relates [more...]

Date: 2008-09-22 22:15:46

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

Random observations from Devoxx 2008

Devoxx is an annual European Java conference with a total of 3200 attendees from 35 countries and again has been completely sold out ... . Random ramblings will follow. Monitoring tools The conference passes have embedded RFID chip ... . Which application server is the most popular? Which app server is evil? Besides Websphere [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 08:42:35

Intelligent Cash Registers Concept

Intelligent Cash Registers ConceptIt makes perfect sense for cash registers to get smart sooner in the future, ... at the National Retail Federation show in New York on Sunday, and it is the system that they're ... functions seamlessly with Intel's latest processors. It will feature RFID card compatibility and rely [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 00:41:00

Guy in Mumbai

These are some photographs from a recent trip to Mumbai, India. This is one intense city with a population of approximately thirteen million people ... . Mumbai200811.jpg Vendors selling flowers and food along the path. Mumbai200813.jpg ... tell, there was no RFID or barcode system. Mumbai200816.jpg Mumbai200817.jpg [more...]

Date: 2008-09-27 19:17:04

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

Erie PA Today News, Events and Info for today, Tuesday, January 13, 2009

The PA Department of Environment Protection and US Environmental Protection Agency began a thorough inspection of Erie Coke in Erie, ... Department was cut so there isn't enough people to work security at the 5th Street entrance. They didn't ... with a buzzer for the door used at other times. Erie PA native Charles R Walczak was named the new [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 12:34:30

Apple has patented "smart garments"

Filed under: Apple Corporate, Hardware, Portables, RumorsWould you believe an article of clothing that knows what you're doing? Apple has filed a patent for something called "smart garments." We can only assume this refers ... with an RFID chip -- which is necessary for the transmitter/iPod paring -- could be embedded [more...]

Date: 2008-09-12 00:00:33

Headline News - September 5, 2008

Get Rich Slowly: Credit Card Basics: Five Essential Skills for Mastering Plastic Official Obopay blog: ... plastic cash? Thailand: Financial transactions can be done via mobile phone CreditCards.com: Consumer Reports rates the best and worst of credit cards The Upcoming Technology of RFID For Contactless Access [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 13:52:58

City Eco Labs and other compelling reasons to go on living

(((My residency at Sandberg Instituut has ended gracefully and I am in transit for the next few days. Please console yourselves with the brilliant outpourings of the mighty John Thackara.))) Doors of Perception Report By John Thackara November 2008 City Eco Lab - from Open Money to VeloWalas CITY ECO LAB ENCOUNTERS If you know of another [more...]

Date: 2008-11-01 08:37:52

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

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

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

Sony offers modules to its FeliCa RFID technology

Sony+offers+modules+to+its+FeliCa+RFID+technology Mainly used in Japanese mobile phones or Transportation cards (JR Suica for example), anyway the needs for RFID solution is pretty high lately and in order to please its customers, Sony announced 2 new more module to its FeliCa line-up with the FeliCa Plug (RC-S801) which [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 06:06:29

Wee-Fi: News from Meraki, Violet, Qualcomm

Meraki offers wall plug, solar unit, apartment package: Meraki has added two products to its line up. A wall plug ($179) ... reasons to be. Violet prepares to ship an RFID tag reader, Mir:ror: The new device plugs in via USB ... . A number of municipal wireless projects (not all Wi-Fi) are getting rave reviews. We may be over the hump [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 05:13:07

Prophetic Signs that we are in the End Times

You would never find me in a church because I find what most people consider to be religion or christian is truly perverted and corrupt, because they do not know the Bible since they don't read it. I do believe the Bible is God's word. The Bible gives many examples of signs that should warn us of the coming end of the age [more...]

Date: 2008-11-30 17:43:27

Bicycle Blog Roundup, 11/11/08

Yes, by the way, starting with last week, I’ve dropped the “news media” part of the roundup, and just focused on blogs. Yay! Tech-Enabled Bike Sharing Rolls Into North America, The Huffington Post Now RFID (radio frequency identification) tags and Smart Card payment systems have created a third generation of bike share [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 20:24:41

Erie PA Today News, Events and Info for today, Monday, January 12, 2009

Rehrig Pacific Company closed their manufacturing facility in Raymond, New Hampshire and is moving the operations to their facility in Erie, PA at 1738 West 20th Street. Products made at New Hampshire include plastic milk crates, soda-bottle holders, garbage receptacles and recycling bins. Forty employees were laid-off [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 12:49:02

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

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

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

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

Liveblogging the Clinton Global Initiative Opening Plenary

Monday’s blogger meeting with Bill Clinton, I was surprised at how relaxed the security was for the meeting. Not so today ... a sensor that detected the RFID inside of my press badge and instantly displayed my name and picture on a connected laptop, a metal detector, a handheld wand that could detect the RFID in my badge [more...]

Date: 2008-09-24 14:09:44

Does iRobot Want to Mow Your Lawn?

iRobot's "Mowba" (probably not its real name) ... the world. Robot Stock News has uncovered an extensive patent application that outlines numerous ... robot. There are so many options in here for controlling the robot's lawn navigation: GPS, RFID, guide [more...]

Date: 2008-07-07 17:25:07

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