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

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Erie PA Today News, Events and Info for today, Sunday, January 11, 2009

The Erie area spent yesterday digging out of the snow. Representative Kathy Dahlkemper, now in Washington DC, hopefully spent the day learning the names of the other members of Congress - story. US Navy Seaman Alex McKelvey of Erie PA is serving as an aviation ordnanceman on the aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 13:04:14

Erie PA Today News, Events and Info for today, Wednesday, January 7, 2009

What a bizarre story. Robert Daniels apparently died in the fire he started at the home he lived in on the 1300 block of West 25th Street. Daniels got into a domestic dispute with the women he lived with. The woman went to the police station after being beaten by Daniels. She warned them that Daniels was armed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 12:50:07

News 2008.07.10

Cambridge Consultants XAP5 Core Sets New Standard for 16-Bit Processors Cambridge Consultants has launched its next generation XAP processor core - ... with a 24-bit address space for large programs up to 16 Mbytes. Intel Sells UHF RFID Reader Chip Operation ... Business Initiatives (NBI) incubator and which developed the award-winning R1000 RFID reader [more...]

Date: 2008-07-10 17:13:44

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 ... of municipal wireless projects (not all Wi-Fi) are getting rave reviews. We may be over the hump [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 06:18:00

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

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

Second Batch Of Vulgar Websites Exposed In China

Second Batch Of Vulgar Websites Exposed In China Other China News China Hospitality News: ... : Colorful Oriental Omelet Emergency Chinese: Buying Airline Tickets China Trivia: Who Is Not A Writer ... Travel Fair to be held again next March RFID World China to Host the First 2009 China International [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 02:27:37

Internet-of-things on CNN

(((Soon to rename itself "Cloud News Network," I reckon.))) http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/11/02/digitalbiz ... ) technology, which allows things to be "read" by an NFC (Near Field Communication) scanner, bar-code ... , over time. The reason why RFID is often called next-generation bar code is that the technology [more...]

Date: 2008-11-02 13:10:23

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

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

Dandelion Salad by Tom Burghardt Global Research, September 6, ... when a RFID reader emits a radio signal. The chips are divided into two categories, passive or active. A “ ... 2008Antifascist Calling… RFID tags implanted in physical objects or human beings If incorporating [more...]

Date: 2008-09-07 17:29:50

Blog Proud v. Blog Tolerant - How Are Big Firms Presenting Their Blogs?

Well, the visits to 3 Geeks and a Law Blog shot into the stratosphere this week with our posting of Monday's List of Large Law Firm's "Officially Sanctioned Blogs". With help from the ABA Journal Online and Above the Law, we've had thousands (yes, thousands!) of visits to what we believe to be the best Legal Blog covering Technology [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 11:00:00

BUSH'S UNFINISHED BUSINESS, AND HIS LEGACY

This post came about because, as I was scanning Google News, I notice the Dallas News (paper) ... the article and tainting my lily white consciousness with his Bushit, give MY list of Bush's ... . He did not get an RFID chip, and the numbers "666" implanted in the flesh of every American2. He did [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 16:18:00

Roland’s Sunday Smart Trends #235

D-Day for RFID-based transit card systems Want to ride the subway for free without having to jump the turnstiles? ... is showing the VitOL project, a technological platform for the realization of logistical information ... out of the equation When people working on a project get together [more...]

Date: 2008-10-12 10:23:32

News 2008.07.21 Late Edition

iSuppli Webinar Reveals Truth About MEMS Just how fast is the MEMS industry really growing? ... Incorporated (TI) (NYSE:TXN) introduced a 13-W Power over Ethernet (PoE) powered device controller ... , including IP phones, IP security cameras, wireless access points, security card readers and RFID scanners [more...]

Date: 2008-07-21 23:24:53

Business in Virtual Worlds News Roundup - Sept 15-21 2008

Headlines about virtual worlds just from the past week ... : As with everything on my blog, the opinions expressed here are mine and do not reflect on Clever Zebra ... to Second Life A review of RFID tracking experiments for future hospitals. Dolby Gets into Virtual [more...]

Date: 2008-09-21 14:51:46

Roland’s Sunday Smart Trends #233

Americans text more than they talk American cell phone users are sending more text messages than they are making phone calls, ... of a brand-new technology for screening and even diagnosing sleep disorders. The first application ... . It is the first health-promoting mobile phone application [more...]

Date: 2008-09-28 10:48:12

Heise Security: Microsoft - Customers play "Russian roulette" with their systems

# Info World: Researchers hack into Intel's vPro Posted: 07 Jan 2009 08:58:38 # Threat Level: Weak Password Brings 'Happiness' to Twitter Hacker "An 18-year-old hacker with a history of celebrity pranks has admitted to Monday's hijacking of multiple high-profile Twitter accounts" Posted: 07 Jan 2009 08:58:21 # IAIK TU Graz: RFID Tag Emulators [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 19:41:31

MORNING INTELL: Aging Reversed, Thanksgiving Thanks, Obama Citizenship

‘’ ‘′ ‘′ ‘’ ‘’ BLOGOSPHERE NEWS: November 27 2008 THE SCOOP: * THANKSGIVING is for Thanks, Right? * New Drug Reverses the Effects of Aging? * 100s injured, dead in INDIAN Terrorist Attack * Obama Citizenship Questions Continue * Big Brother Alert * Brainy Obama? HAPPY THANKSGIVING! [more...]

Date: 2008-11-27 16:53:17

Erie PA Today News, Events and Info for today, Thursday, January 8, 2009

Catholic education in Erie PA in 2009 will soon look more like 1959. There must be enrollment problems at Erie Villa Maria Academy and Erie Cathedral Prep [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 12:42:23

Spime! Internetting every thing, everywhere, all the time

Internetting every thing, everywhere, all the time @ CNN... It's called "The Internet of Things" -- at least for now ... " by an NFC (Near Field Communication) scanner, bar-code-style, as well as to store information ... called next-generation bar code is that the technology is more accurate, scanners can read [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 16:46:44

News 12/17/08

From MM: "Re: EMR. $83 million for an EMR? Unbelievable! Who besides me thinks EMRs cost a little less than an order of magnitude too much? I don’t blame vendors entirely. I blame the conceptual model used in the industry (CDR-centric that duplicates data already available electronically) [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 03:07:57

Sun Microsystems to Lay Off 350

Nortel is likely to cut about 10 percent of its work force. The malaise has started to spread to component makers. For instance, JDSU cut 400 jobs, shut down seven R&D centers and three plants. Anadigics, a Warren, N.J.-based broadband wireless and wireline chip maker cut 15 percent of its work force [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 17:02:09

10 Tips to Keep Identity Theft from Ruining Holiday Travel Plans

From Brian Lapidus, Chief Operating Officer for Kroll Fraud Solutions Attention Holiday Travelers: There’s good news and bad news to report about the 2008 holiday travel season. The good news? Despite current economic challenges, Americans are still planning to travel to spend the holidays with family and friends, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 06:24:11

Violet mir:ror connects everything using RFID

Violet mir:ror connects everything using RFID If everyday objects just aren’t connected to the digital world in the way you would like, then check this out. This device uses RFID technology to connect all of your crap to the digital ... all of your belongings and your computer. For example, let’s say you put an RFID tag on your umbrella [more...]

Date: 2008-10-27 00:57:51

Week in Review for 11/23/2008

Quick News Links Released docs show feds can tap cells without help Documents received under a FOIA request show that a previously known technology, ... , such as JSON and AJAX currently rule. Nabaztag maker launches a home RFID reader The initial [more...]

Date: 2008-11-23 16:58:59

News 2008.07.17 Late Edition

VDC Publishes Microsoft Windows Embedded Research Report Recently published research by Venture Development Corporation (VDC) ... voltages in applications such as optical networking and RFID systems. Opera Software Releases Opera ... : : EDA Blog © 2008 Online Destiny Ltd : : Embedded Star [more...]

Date: 2008-07-17 23:32:24

Holidays Gadget Deals

This holiday season, it seems highbrow concepts are better off making their commercial debut in low-tech gadgets. Nabaztag, an electronic device shaped like a rabbit, can read you weather forecasts from the Internet [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 18:25:29

Posts about Mobile Internet as of January 10, 2009

PROTOTYPE: Mio shows Windows Mobile powered MID at CES - theunwired.net 01/10/2009 jkOnTheRun just reported about a Mio Technology MID (Mobile Internet Device) … to Intel’s MID definition, this device class is mostly running on Linux and designed for mobile Internet access and use. However Mio’s MID prototype (which hasn’t has a name yet) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 18:48:33

From The News Wire: RDIF, Non Invasive, Not Tested on People, BG Metering

Well it sounds like they just started to me but what to I know? The headline is "Researchers Finish Work on Needle-free Glucose Tester"The idea is a skin patch ... uses a non-invasive skin patch to measure a patient's glucose level, and an RFID-enabled cell phone [more...]

Date: 2008-10-01 12:29:00

signagelive in the news

Our PR has been picked up across the globe. Here are some of the links from our recent press releases:- General signagelive comment http://www.aka ... ://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/news/article/default.aspx?objid=55274 Next stop….Canada (KCSP) http ... ://www.dailydooh.com/archives/7157 Signagelive appoint in the Middle East [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 15:00:17

Week in Review for 12/7/2008

Quick News Links Reality mining and the privacy debate This is an incremental step beyond the existing privacy threats, driven by the same concerns, largely the tension between convenience and the desire to use this data, these tools to improve revenue [more...]

Date: 2008-12-07 12:25:06

Trick or Jay Treaty? Canada Border Assaults Remind Indigenous Women of Old Indian Story - Mohawk Nation News

The hundreds of Mohawk women who have been harassed, assaulted, threatened, abused, raped, almost killed and "disappeared" ... -functional. They are in the process of forcing everyone to carry biometric radio frequency ID (RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 22:21:00

December 1 SOA News

<!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:1; mso-generic-font-family: ... Decisions with BizTalk RFID ... SYS-CON Media - Montvale,NJ,USA BizTalk Server 2006 R2, Microsoft's core SOA and BPM technology included advancements for fixed RFID readers including device management [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 16:48:53

Irongeek Security Hacking Illustrated Videos InfoSec Articles Zaurus Security Tools Apps/Scripts Reviews RSS Your IP Hoosier Hackers Newscat Links Contact Forums Workout Nutrition Supplements Humor Advertise Hire Me Irongeek Campuses Books [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 00:58:53

Security news roundup: States urged to do more to tackle cybercrime

This week’s security events includes a Defcon talk by MIT students stopped by a court order, a critical vulnerability in the Joomla CMS, ... . Of course, the title of the talk — “The Anatomy of a Subway Hack: Breaking Crypto RFIDs & Magstripes [more...]

Date: 2008-08-15 14:08:00

Roland’s Sunday Smart Trends #229

Note: I was unable to publish this weekly column last Sunday because of a software problem -- which is now solved. Roland. ... , The Washington Post, August 20, 2008 How RFID Tags Could Be Used to Track Unsuspecting People [more...]

Date: 2008-08-31 16:37:29

My Old Kentucky Blog 2008 Holiday Interview Series : Nick Thorburn & Jim Guthrie of Human Highway

Not too long ago we raved about Nick Thornburn, of Islands, and Canadian folk singer Jim Guthrie's new project Human Highway and their album Moody Motorcycle ... in my bedroom. It's a small, personal little project, titled I Am An Attic.Jim Guthrie : My new solo [more...]

Date: 2008-12-06 02:15:00

Assessing the Bush Legacy: The Measure of the Man and His Administration

Assessing the Bush Legacy: The Measure of the Man and His Administration - by Stephen LendmanGeorge W. Bush. US president: January 20, 2001 - January 19, 2009. Born of privilege. Unimpressive by every measure. A history of underachievement. Chosen by big money. Arranged through electoral fraud. Installed by the Supreme Court [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 11:26:00

'Daily Voting News' For November 03, 2008 – Morning Edition

Election day is tomorrow Well, here we are. Tomorrow is the day we have been building toward. Today much of the news is articles of reassurance from election officials across the nation. They say they are ready. Tomorrow we will see just how ready they are [more...]

Date: 2008-11-03 16:51:53

The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same

Posted on October 10, 2008 at 12:30 PM • 18 Comments • View Blog Reactions Data Mining for Terrorists Doesn't Work According to a massive report ... more Americans live their lives online, using everything from VoIP phones to Facebook to RFID tags in automobiles [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 18:30:19

Sunday, 11/30/08 11:00 PM

Five-O T minus 3... today was not a good day... happens every four day weekend, I luxuriate in having all that "free" time, and then Sunday comes, ... to Chicago to attend the RSNA conference; interesting, it turns out that the RSNA attendee badges have RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 07:00:39

The shopper marketing revolution

70% of all purchase decisions are made in store. 68% of in-store purchases are impulse buys 68% of consumers are brand-switchers ... levels Product sales velocity Sales goals vs. actuals Proximity sensors RFID readers User inputs [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 01:39:04

Roland’s Sunday Smart Trends #238

The possibilities of a ‘portable eye’ Inventor says device for blind has much broader uses ... in software loaded onto the $600 device. But then it becomes apparent what’s unique about Smith’s phone [more...]

Date: 2008-11-02 12:29:11

Fight Continues: Wal-Mart vs. (Real) Carbon Reduction

Remember back in August when we wrote about Wal-Mart’s lobbying effort against carbon offset guidelines? ... to squeeze its foreign supplier every chance it gets, whether its over RFID technology [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 18:15:20

Jerry Weinstein: MediaBizBuzz on Democrats, Republicans, Gustav and Ike

Click for News, Photos and all the links to major press coverage of the Republican Convention and for the Democratic reaction. This past week could have been a Christopher Buckley novel. Gov. Palin's Pastor Kroon -- as he readies for his "Love Won Out" [more...]

Date: 2008-09-08 19:02:00

how to be invisible

I’ve always been of the opinion that people over concerned with surveillance and data security are displaying the first stages of clinical paranoia. It’s well known, for those that care to look [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 15:47:17

DOCOMO Announces Mobile Phone with Built-in Intelligent Key

docomo_key.jpg From here onwards, keitai or Japanese phones can boast of having not only FeliCa cards using RFID technology, ... comes into range. It also lets drivers start (or stop) the engine even without inserting the key [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 06:10:38

Global News Update: Tuesday, October 7, 2008

In today's podcast: AMD to spin off chip fabs; SAP and Oracle fail to agree over TomorrowNow; ... and public transit RFID card security flaw details published. read more Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add to Twitter Add to Slashdot [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 18:39:44

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