North America Integration Stepping Up

Canadian 'enhanced driver's licence' thestar/canadaAs part of the Bush administration's war on terror, Canadians entering the U.S ... that the U.S. government's requirements for vicinity RFID technology "permits surreptitious location tracking ... . will soon need to show a passport or equivalent document in compliance with the Western [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 01:07:00

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RFID tracking 50 foot range admitted

New ID Scanners at Borders Raise Privacy Alarm Monday, December 1, 2008 6:19 PM By: ... Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) machines, allow officials to read remotely any passports, pass ... . Tien and other critics warn that people up to no good can use their own RFID machines in a process [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 18:57:30

The Future Has Arrived: Notable Technological Achievements in 2008 and What They Mean for the Future

The Future Has Arrived: Notable… Articles Listed by Industry Health Care Manufacturing Computer/Semiconductor Telecommunications Energy ... Nanotechnology Retail/Marketing Automobile/Aerospace Defense Aging Services Other Articles ... , 2007 Tracking Future Technology: nanotechnology, robotics, biotechnology, rfid [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 16:31:15

Video: an everywhere world (RFIDs, tracking, the Internet of Things)

Some good snippets here - and some of some quite scary, too: "An "Everyware" world, as Adam Greenfield calls it, is a world in which computers are embedded and merged seamlessly everywhere in the environment. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags communicate their position and other information constantly in a vast network [more...]

Date: 2008-09-28 11:27:15

Weekly Newswire October 9th, 2008

Access this week's industry, legal, and policy news... Radio-Frequency Tags Cut Specimen Bottle Errors U.S ... , is proposing that busy labs add radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags to track and ... Compliance Remains Top Reason , But Other Benefits Begin to Prompt ... SDA Asia Magazine Consumer goods [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 20:41:06

Google’s Vint Cerf On The Next Internet

As part of Google’s 10th anniversary, the company asked ten of its experts for their take on the future of the Internet ... devices will become a major component of the Internet, as will appliances and sensors of all kinds ... where you have been and will keep track of RFID-labeled objects such as your briefcase, car keys [more...]

Date: 2008-09-26 00:07:18

RFID goes beyond inventory tracking

By: Grant Buckler - Network World Canada  Click here to view original article ... to affix radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to merchandise has been the poster boy for RFID for so long that anyone could be forgiven for thinking RFID is simply an inventory control technology – [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 20:54:11

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

Accounting Best Practices: Steven M. Bragg

Editorial Reviews Review “Bragg, ... to common implementation pitfalls . . . I would recommend this invaluable book to anyone who is looking ... department. The use of RFID technology to track documents is one of many valuable tools in this latest [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 01:50:51

Printed Circuit Board Tracking with RFID

Omnitrol Networks and Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) developed a radio frequency identification (RFID) ... integration appliance, Gen 2 RFID readers and Texas Instruments' RFID Gen 2 UHF chips. The off-the-shelf ... -floor management. The manufacturing pedigree information is automatically programmed into the RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-06-19 11:49:28

Top Picks in Large Cap Value

This week our top picks come from Portfolio managers Carl Lytollis and Andrew Cox of Phillips, Hager & North Investment Managment ... $7 billion in sales in that area this year.” Zebra Technologies (ZBRA)- “We’ve held Zebra Technologies ... growing business in providing software that enables RFID (radio frequency identification) tracking [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 21:01:58

RFID Tracking

Bald in deinem Supermarkt... Siehe auch:Patent von IBM: Identification and tracking of persons using RFID-tagged items Patent von NCR: Automated monitoring of activity of shoppers in a market Weitere Patente zum Thema RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 18:17:00

Video: RFID Enabled Poker Table

So you’ve probably seen Poker events on television where there are cameras on the table to see what each person player is holding and at the same ... at your own home? Recently, an IT exec designed a table which utilizes Radio Frequency ID (RFID) technology whereby a computer can track what cards are in each players hands, calculate the probability [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 18:00:45

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

Google's Vint Cerf Sees Mobility, AI in the Web's Future

UPDATE: Who better to hold forth on the future of the Internet than a man who presided over the early Web's birth? ... and appliances with sensors of all kinds will be the norm, not the exception. Cerf said many Web ... you have been and will keep track of RFID-labeled objects such as your briefcase, car keys and glasses. "Where [more...]

Date: 2008-09-26 23:05:49

Two topical stories... are they related?

US - UK? RFID tracking devices in consumer clothing items.They're even planning to bug your Y-Fronts... like with your mobile phone and tin foil hat ... from children, mandates that all products sold for those age 12 and younger -- including clothing [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 10:31:00

RFID healthcare system, used for error prevention with RFID wrist band

RFID systems can be used in a wide range of application since it provides an efficient and reliable means for identification. RFID technology, which is remarkably versatile enabling in many uses level, will be rapidly ... ? Do you need to use great effort to identify and keep track of the newborn babies ? RFID technology [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 08:18:46

The Big Hog Daddy Tri-Glide Hauler

2009 Ford F-450 Released just in time to haul your new Harley-Davidson Tri-Glide Classic to motorcycle events, ... features embedded in the truck.  Most notable is the “Tool Link”, a Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) asset tracking system developed with DEWALT, the power tool dudes, and ThingMagic, experts [more...]

Date: 2008-09-30 18:23:47

Nokia RFID Phones And Cashless Payments Are Ready *

Wise Up Journal 06.11.2008 The text below is from Nokia’s European site and it speaks for it’s self: credit cards, loyalty cards, and travel card details stored in your mobile phone allowing for “touch” purchases and file transfers. Convenient RFID tracking conveniently accessed by outside devices. Radio Frequency [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 13:44:30

MobileCampNYC3 - Call for Barcode Enthusiasts & Developers

MobileCampNYC3 will take place on Sat. November 15th (9:15am-6:00pm) at Microsoft’s NYC office in midtown Manhattan. The idea is to have a dedicated track for all things related to QR Codes, Barcodes, RFID, and Physical Hyperlinking in general. For this track we will have 10 sessions dedicated to one room [more...]

Date: 2008-10-23 03:41:27

Convergence of Technologies Is the Dominant Trend at the National Retail Federation’s 98th Annual Convention and EXPO

At this week’s National Retail Federation (NRF) convention and EXPO held at New York’s Jacob K ... . RFID is everywhere. RFID-enabled systems can now help retailers track inventory as well as develop shopper profiles to study the buying habits of consumers. RFID is also being used for contactless [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 16:35:05

The End of Privacy?

I've written an article for the September issue of Scientific American magazine called The End of Privacy? ... : Tools of the Spy Trade Katherine Albrecht, How RFID Tags Could Be Used to Track Unsuspecting People ... in an Age of Terabytes and Terror Esther Dyson, How Loss of Privacy May Mean Loss of Security Anna [more...]

Date: 2008-08-20 03:15:52

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

HIV/AIDS Sufferers to be Tagged With Tracking Devices

Lawmaker John Manangsang, seeking to curb his province’s high-rate of HIV infections, ... with RFID chips simply because they suffer from the common cold. In other words, once the Indonesian ... , Indonesia, Jean Luc Picard, John Manangsang, Papua, patients, RFID chips, sufferers, tracking Share This [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 14:30:11

The NASCAR Experience Part One - What Does it Feel Like to go 175 MPH?

Last weekend I was invited to a NASCAR extravaganza weekend event by Mobil 1 Official NASCAR Sponsor to get up close ... from Motor Trend, writer for Muscle Car Magazine and car builder Jason Lewis , Road & Track and a few ... -frequency identification (RFID) tags installed at multiple locations all over the vehicles for [more...]

Date: 2008-10-16 15:31:07

CHEP Tracks Auto-Part Containers in Europe

Nov. 11, 2008—CHEP, a pallet and container pooling services company owned by Australia-based Brambles, is running an RFID-based application that tracks returnable containers for the automotive industry at its facilities in countries across Europe, according to Floris Kleijn, CHEP’s director of RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 03:43:27

Marathon to SMS Those Too Lazy to Run In It

The Dallas White Rock Marathon held tomorrow December 14, ... is offering e-mail and SMS updates on your favorite contestants progression throughout thre race. Gizmodo reports. quotemarksright.jpg While most modern marathons track runners with (RFID?) chips [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 10:52:40

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

RFIDs Fighting Bike Thefts

University of Portsmouth in the UK has started tracking student's bikes using RFID tags. Students park their bikes in designated areas and then register the bike's location using a mobile phone. Before retrieving the bike, riders must call and enter a pin number [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 07:37:24

The Next Internet: The Internet Of Things, Smart Grids And Environmental Monitoring

Internet pioneer and Google evangelist Vint Cerf has a blog post on the expansion of today's internet to include the "internet of things" ... where you have been and will keep track of RFID-labeled objects such as your briefcase, car keys and glasses. "Where are my glasses?" you will ask. "You were last within RFID reach of them while [more...]

Date: 2008-09-28 06:55:00

I would love to be in your court right now but....

I had court in Kaufman this morning. 6 cases set in two courts, one upstairs and one downstairs. First, I went to the upstairs court ... to our hearing. I want to be there; now. I need a clone, or an assistant, or an RFID implant to track [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 16:19:35

Melbourne City Council Tracks Its Car Fleet

Melbourne City Council Tracks Its Car Fleet The council estimates that once fully deployed and integrated with its employee ID system, the EPC Gen 2 RFID vehicle-tracking system will reduce labor by at least 40 staff hours per month, resulting in an annual financial savings of up to $40,000. Retailers See RFID's Potential [more...]

Date: 2008-08-18 23:34:21

Official Google Blog: The next Internet

An excerpt from Vint Cerf's view: In the next decade, ... a major component of the Internet, as will appliances and sensors of all kinds. Many of the things ... you have been and will keep track of RFID-labeled objects such as your briefcase, car keys and glasses. "Where [more...]

Date: 2008-09-26 11:23:52

Do You Know Where Your Container Is?

ship-container Developers believe a new generation of tracking devices will overcome some limitations of RFID ... , and alert of damage. SaviNetworks, the world's largest provider of active RFID tags, is close to launching ... advantages over RFID-based solutions, said Murray Gibson, Hutchison Ports UK's general manager [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 20:40:02

What supermarkets know about how we buy

This week's Economist has a great article looking at the work supermarkets have done to understand the buying, thinking, ... them around a retail centre (without consent) and the growth of the use of RFIDs to track people [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 18:27:45

Alanco Technologies, Inc. (ALAN) Quarterly Sales Up 32%

Alanco Technologies, Inc.,(NASDAQ:ALAN) announced today that preliminary results for first quarter FY 2009 sales jumped 32%, ... TSI PRISM Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tracking system. Robert R. Kauffman, Alanco ... Alanco acquired Star Trak Systems in 2006, a provider of GPS tracking and wireless asset management [more...]

Date: 2008-09-30 19:06:13

Robo Cop To Report For Duty In UK

AI Professor, Noel Sharkey from Sheffield University (that’s in South Yorkshire folks!) ... instantly identify people. In addition robots could go out armed with sensors to detect weapons ... and in the event of larger scale crowd problems fire RFID darts into the trouble makers and track [more...]

Date: 2008-08-11 13:32:32

That's About As Useful as a Solar Powered Flashlight

When you think about it, a solar-powered flashlight isn't such a bad idea ... 2007 Get Landscape Lit Up with Solar Powered Faux Brick Edging! - 18 October 2007 Solar powered RFID tracking system can play a crucial role in developing countries - 21 November 2007 Contents of this feed [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 09:29:43

InfoLogix Launches HealthTrax 2.0 to Help Hospitals Automate Time-Consuming Asset and Patient Tracking

#fullpost{display:inline;} InfoLogix, Inc. , a leading technology provider of enterprise mobility and advanced wireless asset tracking solutions for ... network of small RFID transmitter tags, HealthTrax 2.0 pinpoints the location of specific assets ... draws upon sophisticated Real-Time Location System (RTLS) and Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 01:58:00

Nats to Expand WiFi Offerings at the Ballpark

From PC World (and also a ton of other places via press release): "After a first successful season running 802 ... RFID (radio frequency identification) tags to track cash bags over the Wi-Fi network as they are carried from a concession stand to the safe, Zachariah added. The tags could also be distributed [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 15:36:24

‘Chipping’ of Humans No Longer the Stuff of Novels; Use of RFIDs Becoming Commonplace in America

View the article here Like I've said before, you can stick this chip where the sun doesn't shine ... be a good idea, but it lays the groundwork for later RFID tagging on children and elderly for “safety ... to electronically track the movements of students using Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-07-15 10:17:00

GAO launches beaconing tag

Canadian firm GAO RFID Inc. has released a new 2.4GHz active beaconing RFID tag ... in asset locating and tracking and warehouse inventory management applications. The new tag ... receives a specific signal from a nearby RFID reader, a built-in LED flashes to assist the user [more...]

Date: 2008-09-09 19:12:00

Scientific American special issue: will technology kill privacy?

... policy, insurance or self-presentation. It is useful to clarify those issues before focusing on privacy ... of the government’s surveillance powers. How RFID Tags Could Be Used to Track Unsuspecting People [more...]

Date: 2008-08-30 13:42:04

“Celebrity Big Brother Is Watching You (More Closely)”

-Endemol signs Wavetrend to track celebrity housemates’ movements- Endemol, one of the largest independent production companies in Britain, has selected Wavetrend, the world leader in active RFID, to install technology to track housemates in the 2009 C... [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 14:21:18

Who is Number One?

Patrick McGoohan has died. Star, writer, director, creative genius behind the TV show “The Prisoner”, which combined cold-war paranoia, ... , as government store our emails, our web searches, our IM chats, tracks us by Oyster Card and RFID [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 23:50:59

HITBSecConf2008 Malaysia - Write-UP

HITBSecConf2008 Malaysia - Write-UP 0 Comments | This entry was posted on Nov 05 2008 Even tho US is in the middle of a recession crisis, ... . We only have 4 training tracks; Structured Network Threat Analysis and Forensics, Bluetooth, RFID ... basics all over again. A number of those who initially signed up only for training tracks, decided [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 16:14:58

links for 2008-12-05

Archives & Museum Informatics: Museums and the Web 2009 (MW2009): Abstract: Cheap, Accurate RFID Tracking of Museum Visitors for Personalised Content Delivery In this project, we explore the deployment of RFID based technologies as a cheap and unobtrusive means [more...]

Date: 2008-12-06 02:02:05

Review: The Privacy Advocates

(Source) I’ll start this by being very forthright: Colin is my supervisor for my doctoral work ... groups who oppose tracking consumer spending, and so oppose RFID identifiers) Within each group [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 06:45:49

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

RFID News Roundup

RFID News Roundup Academia RFID offers retail-specific training; Barcoding Inc. intros plug-and-play RFID reader; Savcor purchases RFID antenna company Intune Circuits; Pennsylvania hospital to deploy RTLS to track assets, patients; ODIN to help DHS implement RFID for customs [more...]

Date: 2008-07-25 01:32:06

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