Weekly Newswire August 13th, 2008

Access this week's industry, legal, and policy news... Massachusetts sues to halt Defcon subway card hacking CNET News - .. ... - The budget, as far as I can determine, primarily covers installation of a passive RFID infrastructure -- which scans tags placed on cases and pallets ... Researchers Work on Using RFID to Calculate [more...]

Date: 2008-08-13 16:07:43

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Links for 8th August 2008

Stross on the difference between US and UK sf; emergent AI in canine form; ePassports hacked like a cheap padlock; ... his own software, a publicly available programming code, a £40 card reader and two £10 RFID chips ... Can and Will Be Hacked. Tagged with: UK • passport • cloning • identity • theft • RFID • hack • cryptography • biometric [more...]

Date: 2008-08-09 00:00:22

BTSUG: Jun 25th - BizTalk RFID - come and test the System to be used at Tech08

Hi folks, we’ve got a great night coming up on this Wednesday – Jun25th Wednesday This session we need to do *testing* of our developing RFID ... or any sort of warehouse tracking then this is a must see session for you. (RFID is much more than ... is needed – you’ll get Tags, walk through RFID Readers and get hands on with the gear. We’ll [more...]

Date: 2008-06-23 11:54:37

Past Competitors: RFind (First Prize, 2006)

RFind, the 2006 BC Hydro first-prize winner, continues to innovate in the field of real time inventory tracking ... to manually record inventory, an RFID reader can wirelessly scan all nearby tags instantly ... for reader infrastructure. RFID has been quickly adopted by many industries; Walmart [more...]

Date: 2008-08-21 22:53:35

CYBRA Corporation’s EdgeMagic Replaces IBM RFID Software Solution at Shop-Vac

YONKERS, NY — (Marketwire) — 10/23/08 — CYBRA Corporation (OTCBB: CYRP), the developer of award-winning MarkMagic (TM) ... mobile readers, and Zebra RFID printers, the same hardware as WebSphere RFID Premises Server ... Bar Code Labels, RFID Tags, and Electronic Forms Software for IBM Power Systems (formerly known [more...]

Date: 2008-10-25 01:45:26

Barker’s gift … funds chip research?

The Daily Progress has an rather odd article juxtaposing our RFID research with a donation from Bob Barker (”Price is Right” host) ... when implanting RFID tags in animals. … “Animal law is a growing area that is in much discussion ... for RFID chips, which are commonly found in remote car-locking systems and touchless debit cards [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 16:06:14

Twitter Update

13:34 @Ghlaghghee yeah, let's not give my cats any ideas, hrmm? # 13:41 @twodolla holy shit, dude. that is majorly awesome ... shit shit shit shit shit # 17:46 @laskaroy agreed...all it needs is one killer app, and cheap RFID tags (less than one cent per tag)/readers. # 20:42 got a small Xmas surprise for Kate set up. :-) # 21 [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 19:01:22

Impinj Chips

Impinj Chips Monza tag silicon has the absolute guarantee of Gen 2 compliance, industry-leading read/write ranges and write-times, ... , A Division Of Jamison Door Company: Conveyor ... Domino EIS RFID Compliance 1st Program For CPG Intermec RFID Tag And Media Products Psion Teklogix 8525 G2 Vehicle-Mount Computer RF-LoopTag From bielomatik more... [more...]

Date: 2008-10-25 05:01:23

Indian Mine Monitors Workers and Toxic Gases

Indian Mine Monitors Workers and Toxic Gases PervCom's active 2 ... Roberti A renowned U.S. magazine has published an article by a well-known opponent of RFID ... .4 GHz RFID tags, attached to cap lamps, track miners' locations and contain sensors for measuring [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 21:45:18

Tucson Realtor Extends Support to Home Buyers

Read More... | 3224 bytes more | Score: 0) Page 1 of 122 (1218 total stories) ... Destination · UHF GEN 2 RFID One Time Seal Tamper Proof Tag · Barn Wood Picture Frames, a Natural Choice ... ! · About UHF RFID Reader, What is the Lowest Price? · New Study: Continued Growth of the PVC Market [more...]

Date: 2008-11-22 02:05:12

Microsoft taps RFID for Tech.Ed delegates

RFID tags will be embedded into badges at the annual conference in Sydney as part of a tracking experiment. Those who opt out will have less access to conference info. [more...]

Date: 2008-08-25 05:49:45

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

RFID Security and Privacy Cybertrust Grant

UVa Today has an article about our (myself, abhi shelat, John Lach, and Ben Calhoun) recent NSF Cybertrust grant on RFID security and privacy: U.Va ... available on common RFID tags. Providing a solution that adds virtually no cost is crucial, because ... . Team Receives $1 Million Grant To Improve RFID Security, by Brevy Cannon, 9 January 2009 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 04:27:08

Someday you WILL want your phone swiped. To make a purchase.

No, I don't mean swiped as in stolen, although that might be a good way for me to get Barb's iPhone replaced since it has a cracked screen ... here but I don't leave home without my American Express card. It has RFID functionality built ... or Near Field Communications technology so it can act as an RFID tag. Interestingly, it also [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 12:59:21

RFID Technology in Guns

Looks like there’s a bill in New Jersey.  I’ve been waiting for some clever anti-gun person to figure out that you can make gun owners lives ... to a match and pass a police car who gets a blip on his RFID scanner that the person in that vehicle ... miserable through mandated RFID tags.  Especially in a state like New Jersey, where gun ownership [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 13:47:27

VARs and Label Converters as RFID Sales Partners

Issue #173 | Dec. 12, 2008 | by Julia Deets If RFID labels were simple, they probably wouldn't be called "smart labels ... application. Their ability to develop new forms of RFID tags and labels to your customers’ specifications ... of RFID labels. On the other hand, don't jump too [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 16:24:18

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

New RFID Chips Could Pose Threat To Data Protection

(Crealis) -- A research article published in the current issue of the International Journal of Intellectual Property Management suggests that Big ... regarding data protection are not addressed in the design of new RFID applications. Radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips can be found tagging everything from groceries and clothing [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 17:27:11

The Perfect Airline

I'd have the airline replace the conventional baggage claim tags that they now use with RFID (radio frequency identification) tags that could be easily (and frequently) scanned, as your baggage [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 01:22:38

TIME’s Best Innovations Of 2008

TIME: From a genetic testing service to an invisibility cloak to an ingenious public bike system to the world’s first moving skyscraper — TIME’s ... with RFID tags so they’re easily trackable. The Memristor Scientists have known it was possible for 37 ... its history even when turned off. One possible application: a computer that flicks on instantly [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 18:11:11

MICROCHIP ANYONE - IT WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE, REALLY

http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=5488EXCERPTED FROM ABOVE LINK:Microsoft's HealthVault, the medical records database, ... and their families safe," says Sean Nolan, the chief architect for HealthVault, quoted in RFID Journal ... is to be integrated with VeriMed's human-embedded RFID tags, allowing doctors to access [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 22:46:00

Ambient intelligence

The Internet of Things :: Institute of Network Cultures: "Cities across the world are about to enter the next phase of their development ... network of RFID (.pdf). ... . A near invisible network of radio frequency identification tags (RFID) is being deployed [more...]

Date: 2008-10-14 09:14:53

RFID transponders

- image via core77.com PingMag recently visited Tokyo’s RFID Expo and instead of taking the usual 1984 angle, like RFID tags embedded in school uniforms for teachers to monitor, they put together a geeked out photo collection of some of the more interesting chip designs. It’s always fascinating [more...]

Date: 2008-06-23 18:14:22

post info

02Jan09 goin’ even more green By tjwsmum Categories: Family, Frugal/Freebies and Personal I am SUCH  a nerd ... me with a “large 95 gallon wheeled recycling cart equipped with an RFID (radio frequency identification) tag ... !   Like what, you might ask?  Well, corrugated cardboard, chip board from boxes such as cereal, pop, shoe [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 00:58:47

Nabaztag's Violet debuts "Mirror" general-purpose home RFID reader

Filed under: Peripherals While we'll always know Violet for its iconic bunnies, the company is branching out into a more direct RFID application. The Mirror RFID reader is a USB-pluggable little platter that can read RFID tags and launch ... card of Vegas launching a corresponding picture on the computer (lame), a tagged toy car bringing [more...]

Date: 2008-08-30 13:10:00

"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

post it the 2nd generation

We love post it notes! What would we do without these colorful squares that seem to pop up in all the most appropriate as well as inappropriate ... this was in existence when I was in school! Thanks 3M. Post It, But Pock It Too! Hey, how come I didn’ ... through SMS, and can be tracked down through RFID tags, just in case you misplace them. Thanks [more...]

Date: 2008-07-01 15:52:53

RFID Clothing Tags Simplify Laundry Procedure

Read More... | 2390 bytes more | Score: 0) 2 Port UHF RFID by GAO RFID Technology - Electronics - Hardware gaorfidinc writes: This modular unit provides easy implementations of RFID across the supply chain system including warehousing, distribution and on the manufacturing shop floor Posted [more...]

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

Privacy in an age of terabytes and terror

Scientific American magazine (SciAm) devotes the whole September issue to privacy in an age of rapidly developing technology ... surveillance: tools of the spy trade Night-vision cameras, biometric sensors and other gadgets already give snoops access to private spaces. Coming soon: palm-size “bug-bots”. How RFID tags could be used [more...]

Date: 2008-08-26 06:47:44

Testing BizTalk RFID Processes

When developing applications, at some point in the dev cycle we want to know how the system will perform under load. In BizTalk RFID land it is no different. In fact, in BizTalk RFID implementations we often deal ... , what if we could raise tag read events programmatically and have our RFID Process consume them [more...]

Date: 2008-07-17 13:23:35

Sept. Scientific American: Dude, Where's My Privacy?

keyfob Gizmodo.com A new generation of RFID-enabled credit cards, like this Mastercard Paypass keyfob from Citibank, ... of privacy, to RFID chips that can track more than inventory. Here's an RFID chip reader used ... stranger than fiction in How RFID Tags Could Be Used [more...]

Date: 2008-08-22 17:18:58

RFID Sewn In

We’ve started to see the introduction of RFID to track things like store inventory, travelers in airports and passport holders - and next, ... a trackable RFID tag that can be sewn into garments and withstand washing machines and ironing. We’re ... you wonder how connected our clothes will be in the future. RFID Journal reports: Another of RFID Lab’ [more...]

Date: 2008-08-14 15:02:36

MRI's Colorful Future

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National Institutes of Health are working on technology that promises to ... can be thought of as microscopic RF identification (RFID) tags, similar to those used for identifying ... is flexible and could have other applications such as in enabling RFID-based microscopic fluid [more...]

Date: 2008-06-20 12:11:26

Automate this!

I recently heard Dennis Wixon of Microsoft Surface speak at UX Week about the future of interface design ... will soon anticipate and deliver what we want without us having to ask. The idea of wearing an RFID tag ... all be handled with motion sensors. I don’t know how high-tech heat sensors are, but that’s an option too [more...]

Date: 2008-08-21 18:37:59

Interview with Dr. Ramin Sadr, Mojix

Dr. Ramin Sadr is CEO of Los Angeles-based Mojix (www.mojix.com) ... -- of all things -- deep space probes for NASA, and has been applying that to the RFID market ... extend the range of passive RFID tags, used for things like supply chain automation, asset tracking [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 13:28:26

Dunbar Studios Art Guitars

Here are two amazing gifts that even Scott Wharton (my dear friend Dexie’s ‘rock & roll’ hubby) at Metal Martyr, will appreciate! ;) ... Swarovski crystals as embellishments. It’s RFID-tagged and comes with a case, authenticity ... , with a rosewood fingerboard. The design is hand-painted and also has hand-applied Swarovski crystals. RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-12-07 15:30:46

Enemy Territory - Tech.Ed 2008 Day 1

“Enemy Territory” — because I went to a conference promoting Microsoft products and were surrounded by Microsoft-worshipping geeks today, from 8: ... to queue up for registration. Got my show bag — a nice Targus bag — and my name tag with an RFID ... ) but maybe I just can’t see the difference. That reminds me a similar presentation I went to back [more...]

Date: 2008-09-03 14:50:06

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

Spimewatch: Mass Sensor Networks

The amateur radio crowd have been doing interesting things with the Internet and its precursors for awhile now ... will seem quaint by comparison. Technorati Tags: arduino, pachube, rfid, spime ... . This morning I discovered Pachube, a “service that enables people to tag and share real time environmental [more...]

Date: 2008-07-15 18:42:36

FDA on the attack against family farms

In the past few years we have suffered food contamination in products from China, Mexico and places unknown.  Thanks to CAFTA ... and have no way of knowing where it came from, how it was produced or what the standards for processing were ... farms.  This is a system of RFID tagging of every animal, even those not used for food, and a data [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 18:58:35

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

Think NFC is Just Ticketing and Payments? Think Again.

Near field communication (NFC) is a viable enabling technology for activities ranging from securely exchanging medical records to popping perfect ... is a wireless communication technology with only a few inches of range. It is most commonly used for contactless ... then described a potential use case where an NFC RFID tag is embedded in microwave [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 16:13:17

Advertisers kill Mythbusters spy-chip story

p2pnet news view Cool | Advertising:- “Credit-card companies killed Mythbusters segment on RFID vulnerabilities,” says a Boing Boing headline ... out of airing a program about how crappy the security in RFID tags is,” suggests the text, in turn linking ... outgunned …’ In the video,  “We were gonna do RFID and on several levels how hackable, how [more...]

Date: 2008-09-01 13:32:04

IT: Internal Transmitters

What to all our internal transmitters? Well, perhaps you have heard of radio frequency identification tags or R. F. I. D. and if so this is the technology that will be implanted subdermal into humans for tracking. At first, RFID Tags will be used to track children in case they are abducted or to track child molesters [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 19:40:23

Key Varients

Yakushima, 2008 An awkward mixture of wood, carbon fiber and RFID to turn on lights - in this Yakushima hotel room ... to place it in one position and have the RFID tag read. The designer had a choice whether to adopt ... can be the right solution but for occasional users - most guests would stay one or two nights [more...]

Date: 2008-06-21 14:39:37

Google + P&G = RFID + data mining

Parallelnormal is not encouraged by the companies’ new innovation-idea-swapping agreement. All in it together. CC/Kenneth Lu This item ( ... to bear RFID tags, which for the first time will match each of us to the individual items ... Media Info Center Posted in Big Brother, Globalism, Homeland Security, Personal tech, Privacy, RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-11-29 22:43:56

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

GE develops battery-free RFID tags

GE Global Research has announced a new type of radio-frequency identification (RFID) ... smaller sensors at low cost, opening up a new range of potential applications from measuring ... Related Articles: Cell Phones to monitor the air and alert users to harmful chemicals and gases RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-10-15 06:01:29

The Implications of Implanted Chips

In June of 2007, the American Medical Association’s Council on Ethics and Judicial Affairs stated, “RFID tags may promote the timely identification of patients and expedite access to their medical ... risk of tumors in small lab animals that were implanted with RFID’s, but there is no evidence [more...]

Date: 2008-06-09 15:28:18

Daily news beat for August 20, 2008

RFID's new utility in the datacenter. The No. 1 growth category for RFID tags is IT asset management ... information security. Related: Four exotic uses of RFID that just might surprise you. CRM host Salesforce.com scoops up InStranet, the maker of knowledge-based management products for call centers in a deal [more...]

Date: 2008-08-20 17:40:07

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