Hold Onto Your Seats, Sports Fans: SF Giants to Try Airline-Style Pricing

Passengers find no shortage of befuddling experiences in the air travel industry. But perhaps nothing confounds customers as much as airlines’ approach to pricing, in which the fare two people pay for the exact same service can swing wildly based on — from a customer’s perspective — a labyrinthe [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 11:32:00

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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

Why Entrepreneurs Should Pay Attention to Crowdsourcing

So you’re planning to do business either on the Internet or to use it as an important part of your operations. ( ... up processing cycles on their computers at times of day that they can specify. The hub application communicates with a desktop application on each computer, each of which get assigned small bites [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 14:43:25

Mobile to help stay healthy

Mobile to help stay healthy By Rohit • October 24, 2008 As new-generation software applications are built to help doctors connect with staff, ... (Government Affairs), Qualcomm-India, to break through the technical jargon and explain the basics ... is from this domain (though chances are rare). Yes Bank takes RFID route to Personalized [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 06:07:19

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

Experimental mscape software

Experimental mscape software Mscape has come a long way since I first came across it when HP LAbs made all sorts of claims for this which was in ... standards our users may expect. http://wiki.mscapers.com/bin/view/Experimental/RfidTags RFID (Radio ... to be incorporated into mobile devices or clothing, or stuck onto signs, packaging, or documents. [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 07:31:30

Digital Art Illuminates Minitek Festival

They're trying out some wild and crazy interactive stuff at the Minitek Festival this weekend ... by the mythological snake Ouroborous as a symbol of self-perpetuating loops. Then there's Tokyo-based RFID artist ... to translate numerical values relayed by sensors into sounds, images and color. Percussa300 [more...]

Date: 2008-09-13 05:57:13

Hack the Planet

You a fan of ’95 Angelina Jolie movies? Oh well.An 18-year-old college student in Canada – majoring in Chemistry, mind – built a small lab in his garage. Of course, the police decided he was making meth and arrested him. Then, after admitting several days later that the lab was not, in fact, used for making drugs, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 02:49:00

DIY Video Poker Table

Know When to Hold 'Em: courtesy Jason Kiely Every Friday night, about 10 regulars gather at my place in Perth, Australia, to play Texas Hold 'Em. I'm the co-founder of a technology-services company, L7 Solutions. I'm also a chronic tinkerer ... combines the video files with RFID data from the tagged chips and cards to create a simulcast [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 18:49:00

Speaking in Croatia (Part 5) - Pictures of the Pula City Library

Here's City Library of Pula, where the Librarian's Weekend session was held. Quite modern looking, since it was a fairly new building ... libraries choose to charge a fee while some -- like Zagreb -- opted not to). I saw some teens ... check-in/ out system. Didn't see any self-check machines, and they are not into RFID yet. Next, Part [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 12:58:00

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

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

RFID Poker Table

This RFID Poker Table one hell of a cool project. You can now play your Sunday night poker game and invite spectators to watch on a big screen ... with a standard deck of KEM cards that have been tagged with 52 RFID ’smart labels’ - thin and flexible ... next is integration of RFID chips! "The inspiringly-named Video Poker Table makes this possible [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 12:43:48

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

Free mediafire audio chip antenna electronics ebooks

Audio Engineering: Know It All, Volume 1Topics includes: wavelength, sound and air, frequency discrimination, the sine wave, ... communications industry has been the catalyst for the recent explosive growth in antenna design needs ... , satellite, wireless LAN for computers (WiFi), Bluetooth technology, RadioFrequency ID (RFID) devices [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 12:46:00

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

Microsoft Tags

It would seem that Microsoft wants to find a cheap replacement for RFID tags and create a way for consumers to get information on a product with just ... me to what they are calling Microsoft Tag. The tag which will be appearing on Microsoft products this quarter ... for it to work. While these tags will not replace RFID technology in general, it will in [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 23:32:29

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

Your Antivirus Can Be A Door For Hackers

/India PRwire/ - iViZ, an information security company that offers "Green Cloud Security", the world's only on-demand penetration testing for applications, networks and compliance, has announced that it has discovered new classes of vulnerabilities in many popular commercial and open source antivirus software [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 10:02:14

Nokia Locate Sensor : Make it better

How many times have you placed your bike keys or Wallet somewhere & unable to find it cos the location just slipped out of your mind, ... to install on any Symbian OS phone. Instead of attaching a device that small how about just using a RFID tag sticker, something which you can paste on your item & the phone can find where that RFID tag [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 14:31:00

RFID's new utility in the datacenter

When you think of RFID, you likely think of the radio tags being used to track items in a warehouse or verify prescriptions in a hospital -- two long-time uses of the radio frequency identification tags. But today, RFID's biggest growth ... is now found in the RFID tagging of IT assets, especially those deemed high-value, says Michael [more...]

Date: 2008-08-20 18:47:09

RFID enalbed poker table!

The chairman of an Australian IT company has built an RFID enabled poker table that could bring the same level of detail seen in televised games to ... to televise it either. A cool application of RFID could be that we (in the audience) could know where ... Milner placed wireless RFID chips at the bottom of a table, fit RFID tags on a few deck of cards [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 23:17:16

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

RFID and silver jewelry collar

RFID_Jewlery.jpg Syuzi over at the Fashioning Technology blog writes: Designed by artist Amy Johnston, Hidden Agendas is an open mesh collar constructed from 45 RFID tags. Each tag, which can be read by an RFID reader, is programmed to display an image, quote, or question about tracking, surveillance [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 16:00:40

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

IDF: We're Live-Blogging the Keynote Tuesday Morning

Intel's Developer Forum is set to kick off this morning with a commencement keynote from Craig Barrett, Chairman of the Board at Intel: He'll reveal what we should expect from the chip giant in the upcoming year. Is Nehalem on pace to succeed Penryn? Will it have more than eight cores? [more...]

Date: 2008-08-19 16:20:04

Devoxx Antwerp 2008 - Impressions

University Monday 8th of December 2008 was the start of a week full of information. After attending the complete conference (including the University sessions) last year I felt it would be a good thing to do the same this year. The university sessions give me a change to get more in-depth knowledge on some of the subjects [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 11:11:12

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

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

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

Tag Helps Dog Owners Meet New Friends

Springwise: It’s a well-known fact that dogs can be conversation starters that help break the ice with people their owners meet ... and patterns, the SNIF Tag is a small RFID device that attaches to a dog’s collar and records ... an accelerometer and motion-analysis software to record a pet’s activity. Owners can monitor the dog’ [more...]

Date: 2008-11-29 01:02:00

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

SY SAJJAD: Tracking prisoners inside correctional facilities, and when they leave

January 13, 2009- Sy Sajjad, CEO of AiRISTA, presents a platform approach to deliver a strategic advantage through integration of passive, active and semi-active RFID technologies. I understand that AiRISTA has experience in asset ... active RFID technology. What frequency does the monitoring use? SAJJAD: In our case [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 16:37:30

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

What Is A Domain Name

By John BlanchardDomain Name Get the stability and reliability you deserve when you keep your domain name with the global leader in domain name registration and Web hosting. Domain Name ServicesCommKal Hosting Solutions provides domain name services which allow you to register, transfer, manage, protect, search, renew, and reserve any [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 20:37:00

Signposts for the Week Ending Oct. 17, 2008

UX designers aren’t the only one who look to Starbucks for inspiration in their work ... s just pretty! RFID might finally get the kick in the pants it needs to start living up to it’s potential with GE’s battery-free sensor breakthrough. The new platform uses a conventional RFID tag coated [more...]

Date: 2008-10-18 04:20:43

NCR Demos New Express Entertainment DVD Kiosk

Jola Moss, marketing director of NCR, did a demo of NCR’s new kiosk at a recent trade show ... it at actual retail locations. The card reader also looks quite susceptible to phishing attacks like we saw early this year at Redbox. The system uses RFID to track the discs, which means no barcode [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 14:44:20

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

5 Big Implications of YouTube's New Govt Channels

5 Big Implications of YouTube's New Govt Channels by Alvis Brigis | 2 Comments 4 Sentilla raises $7.5 million for 'smart' software-sensor solutions ... by Garry Golden | 0 Comments 3 Earth 2100 Game Imagines "Perfect Storm" Catastrophe Scenario by Adam Cutsinger | 0 Comments 3 Surge of Hybrid and Electric Cars in India, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 21:03:37

[Video] Visions of Future Urban Landscapes

Visions of Future Urban Landscapes by Garry Golden | 0 Comments 3 Surge of Hybrid and Electric Cars in India, China by amisampat | 0 Comments 2 Does the road to Electric Vehicles pass through China? EV Startup o... by Garry Golden | 2 Comments 2 Stanford launches $100 million global energy institute, as Californ.. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 20:09:11

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

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

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

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

University of Albany NanoCollege and Commerce Technologies Create Joint Information Technology Workforce Development Program

The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering ("CNSE") of the University at Albany and Commerce Technologies Inc. ("CTI") ... , utilization and management of emerging computing technologies to enable radio frequency identification devices ("RFID"), global positioning systems ("GPS"), biometrics and other emerging fields. Dr [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 14:23:00

RFID collar tag helps dog owners meet new friends

It's a well-known fact that dogs can be conversation starters that help break the ice with people their owners meet ... and patterns, the SNIF Tag is a small RFID device that attaches to a dog's collar and records ... includes one year of web services; thereafter, premium features on the SNIF Tag website are USD 89 per [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 14:03:04

"Never Events" Prevented With SurgiCount Safety-Sponge System

A surgeon's nightmare is an event that should never happen ... (in this instance, a 2-D data matrix label) and a scanning SurgiCounter is used to read the labels. Unlike other ... in a hands-free mode. By scanning in the unique labels, the system builds a database of items used [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 20:37:12

Savi Wins Role on U.S. Department of Defense’s RFID III Contract Vehicle

Savi Wins Role on U.S. Department of Defense’s RFID III Contract Vehicle January 5th, 2009 Lockheedlogo3d Mountain View, Calif ... ., December 23rd, 2008 — Savi®, a Lockheed Martin NYSE: LMT company and provider of RFID-based ... ) to compete for future task orders under the RFID III procurement contracting vehicle. Three other prime [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 10:36:10

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