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Not buying Microsoft’s MediaCart
The MediaCart consoles coming to a grocery cart near you courtesy of Microsoft had better be sturdy and firmly attached...
Read moreCalling all RFID experts
From the IEEE:The second IEEE International Conference on RFID will address the technical and policy challenges of RFID technologies and...
Read more“Hang’em all…..”
Last weekend, a federal judge issued an injunction blocking some MIT students from explaining to a Defcon audience how to...
Read moreMythbuster busts his own tale of show’s cowardly cave-in to RFID heavyweights
Adam Savage's widely circulated YouTube video account of a pack of credit card industry giants pummeling Discovery Channel into deep-sixing a...
Read moreWill technology drive global recovery?
On Nov. 6, Sam Palmisano, chairman, president & CEO of IBM, made an important speech entitled “The Smart Planet: The...
Read moreWhat NOT to look out for in 2009
The smart phone market in 2009 won't be the realm of solely Research in Motion and Apple, as additional handset...
Read moreNSF gives University of Virginia researchers a million good reasons to improve RFID security, privacy
The National Science Foundation has awarded University of Virginia researchers $1 million to make RFID technology more secure. Among concerns:...
Read moreNTT combines RFID, e-paper for loyalty card alternative
NTT Communications has begun trials of a high-tech alternative to plastic or paper loyalty cards that promises to simplify their...
Read moreMind your nukes: Argonne National Labs using RFID to do the trick
The Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratories has figured out a way not only to use RFID to make sure...
Read moreRFID: Passport to Insecurity
While we're on the theme of governmental incompetence, I saw this piece on the fundamental insecurity of the passive RFID...
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