In an article at TechCentralStation, Instapundit writes about his fears that the nanotechnology industry is setting itself up for a PR disaster. It's all because that industry's very own...
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Microsoft has formed a new Microsoft Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Council. The council will look at how to take advantage of RFID to make it easier for retailers and manufacturers to track...
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Consider this picture: A business owner attends a seminar put on by several experts. At the seminar, the business owner learns about setting up computer databases, using palm pilots in the field to...
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In a well-balanced report, Tim Oren at the Due Diligence blog says that the privacy concerns about RFID shouldn't be focused on the RFID technology itself, but on databases of information about...
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Via the Dottocomu weblog comes this interesting little article about parents using radio frequency tags to watch over their children: "The Nikkei Shimbun newspaper reports that NTT and Dainippon...
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Editor's note: We are pleased to provide another "on-the-ground" report from guest blogger Atul Salgaonkar, Founder of RFID Solutions. Many of us have this neat compartmentalized...
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From the comments under the Vodafone post, comes this interesting tidbit: Shin'ichi Konomi points out a presentation by NTT DoCoMo called Vision 2010. You can access it by going to the NTT DoCoMo...
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An article in C-Net suggests that companies are still working to understand RFID technology. They are still getting up to speed and thus few are talking about their plans in detail -- simply because...
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Antonio Fumero says "Take a look at this Flash presentation and let your imagination go for a moment." This is yet another interesting Flash presentation demonstrating future technology. In...
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The Aberdeen Group has a useful -- and FREE -- report about implementing RFID. One of the things I found most valuable about the report are the many charts outlining implementation. This one, for...
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The U.S. Federal Highway Administration plans to use RFID technology for highway safety. It's all part of a proposed new system that will alert drivers of road hazards and advise when vehicle...
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Hiawatha Bray of the Boston Globe opines that RFID technology has the potential to drive us batty: "...the prospect of a world in which everything you buy--every single thing--can shout...
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Dan Gillmor suggests that consumers can gain power if each item around us has an RFID tag that provides information back to us on the spot: "People want more information about what they're...
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I'm not much of a fan for Macromedia Flash technology when used for ordinary websites. My own commercial site was originally almost entirely in Flash and I have been gradually replacing that...
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One of the most exciting convergences of technologies is mobile phones and RFID readers/tags. ">Nokia recently announced its Mobile RFID Kit, which is an attachment to a Nokia 5140 mobile phone...
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Editor's note: We are pleased to provide the following "on-the-ground" report from guest blogger Atul Salgaonkar, Founder of RFID Solutions. He blogs about a speaker at a recent...
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Somebody just sent me a link to a terrific downloadable RFID PowerPoint presentation. In it was this slide contrasting "active" and "Passive" RFID tags: Source: RFIDexchange.comThe...
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AIM Global, a trade association supporting the "automatic identification and Mobility" industries, has an excellent FAQ sheet on RFID. One of the things I like best about these FAQs is the...
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There's been a lot of talk recently on the Internet and in the blogs about RFID chips supposedly being hidden in US$20 bills. Turns out that's just an urban legend. The story got started when...
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Here's an interesting tidbit: Snopes.com debunks an urban legend that suggests Mondex and Motorola are planning to replace money with RFID chips in people's heads and hands. If the legend...
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