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RSS chippedHeathrow T3 tackles lost luggage with RFID
News Heathrow airport is trialling RFID tracking technology that will help make the nightmare of lost and mishandled luggage a thing of the past for travellers. Passengers flying to and from Dubai out of Terminal 3 with Emirates airline will have a tiny... [13 Feb 2008]
Top 10 government IT stories of the year
News A spokesman said chipped bins could appear on UK streets by this time next year. Undoubtedly, the fall-out from HM Revenue & Customs' loss of two discs containing 25 million child benefit records has reverberated throughout the public sector with... [19 Dec 2007]
Editor's Blog: Confusing communications?
Comment There were others, like the C&W angle to a big R&SA contract, and even Peter Cochrane chipped in with a blog about iris scanning at Heathrow Airport. Years ago, when I used to call someone for the first time from silicon.com and had to explain what... [18 Apr 2007]
Photos: Inside the world's best known RFID bookshop
Photo Each and every one of the 250,000 books kept in the Maastricht store is RFID chipped, by means of a stick-on paper label with an integrated tag, which sits alongside the traditional bar-coded price sticker. [16 Apr 2007]
Diabetics have got RFID under their skin
News Should chipped patients turn up at hospital unconscious or unable to communicate, the RFID tags they carry inside their bodies can be scanned using an RFID reader and their details called up from a database. [14 Mar 2007]
RFID trials urge shoppers to kiss and make-up
News Consumers pick up the chipped 'slap', take it to an in-store reader connected to a PC and access product information and user testimonials from the terminals. The terminals can also show a user how a given product might look when applied when a... [29 Jan 2007]
Wasps get RFID-chipped
News Forget supply chains - wasps are the new frontier for RFID. Scientists from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) have put RFID chips on the wasps' backs to help track their movements and investigate their behaviour. [25 Jan 2007]
Top 10: The best, worst... and craziest uses of RFID
News Each of the books in BGN's Almere store is chipped and a second store, in Maastricht, will soon go the same way, allowing the retailer to track each book from its central warehouse to the shop floor. Visitors to the hospitals are given RFID-chipped... [30 Nov 2006]
RFID-chipped passport deadline passes
News The deadline for all the countries in the Visa Waiver Program to start issuing RFID-chipped passports was 26 October. The deadline for countries required by the US to issue passports with RFID tags has passed and all but three of the nations... [27 Oct 2006]
Bookshop tags texts with RFID
News Each of the books in BGN's Almere store is chipped and a second store, in Maastricht, will soon go the same way, allowing the retailer to track each book from its central warehouse to the shop floor. All books destined to be sold at BGN are chipped... [11 Oct 2006]
Photos: The secrets of BT Labs
Photo In that version a small gadget is used which generates a one-time code when a chipped card is inserted. To show off some of the gee-whizz stuff being dreamt up by eggheads in its labs, BT has set up an 'innovation showcase' at its London HQ. [02 Oct 2006]
Students ditch booze queues with RFID pub tables
News Those using the system can buy their snakebite-and-black using RFID chipped cards, with both a pre-pay and billing option. Sharp elbows. Long queues. Being ignored by the barman when you eventually get there. [20 Sep 2006]
RFID-chipped passports cross the pond
News A first wave of US passports implanted with RFID tags will soon begin making their way into the hands of American travellers despite lingering privacy and security concerns, federal officials said. Not long after researchers at a pair of security... [15 Aug 2006]
Leader: Of course passport security is too weak
Leader And this is before the majority of passport holders in the UK even have their first chipped passport - we can only imagine how sophisticated the techniques will be in 10 years' time. Botnets, distributed denial of service attacks, mass mailers... [04 Aug 2006]
Dan's China diary - day 20
Comment The government is currently in the process of switching over from paper cards to new, biometrically chipped ID cards. In May 2006, silicon.com senior reporter Dan Ilett travelled to China, seeking to get behind some of today's most interesting tech... [29 Jun 2006]
