RFID in comment and analysis
Dr Robert Atkinson
AS Profile During his time at the PPI he wrote reports on a range of technology and innovation topics, ranging from broadband telecommunications to internet telephony to ecommerce and RFID. Dr Robert Atkinson and the influential... [01 Oct 2009]
How e-coding can prevent NHS slip-ups
Comment Mayday Healthcare Trust in Croydon, for example, has implemented barcodes and RFID technology for its electronic blood-tracking pilot, tracking blood from ordering through to sampling and transfusion. [20 May 2009]
McCue Interview: Martin Frick, CIO, Avis Europe
Comment If you don't show the right RFID the ignition system is not unlocked, and so the key won't help you. You go to the car and hold your ID card with a RFID chip against the screen. Avis Europe works with... [17 Dec 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 31.10.08
Round-Up Back in February, came the news that scientists were attaching RFID chips to the backs of unsuspecting bumblebees in an attempt to better understand how data packets might travel more effectively over networks. [31 Oct 2008]
Inbox: Data breaches, tech wages, ePassport woes
Comment Why RFID? It is a mystery to me why RFID was ever brought into the ePassport programme. Unsurprisingly silicon.com readers had a few comments to make on the breach. IT skills were under the spotlight... [28 Aug 2008]
silicon.com old school
Comment The 10 craziest uses of RFID That's a grand old age for a publication launched at the height of the dot-com madness, says Julian Goldsmith. The 1998 launch party for silicon.com was held at the dinosaur hall of the... [07 Jul 2008]
Dear silicon.com... ZX Spectrum nostalgia, Mac attack, tag a bag…
Comment The jury's still out on this one… Finally, RFID bag tagging at the airport - good idea? RFID bag tags could save air-travel industry millions For several years the airlines have been saying they do not... [24 Apr 2008]
The CIO shopping list
Comment Bottom of the tech shopping list for CIOs this year are open source, grid/utility computing and RFID. Pressure to justify IT budgets and get better value for money from tech investment are the key issues driving tech... [26 Mar 2008]
Dear silicon.com... data guardians, not so "killer" mobile apps, Vista on sale…
Comment ¦ LinkedIn CEO on 'grown up' social networking ¦ Windows-based cash machines 'easily hacked' ¦ Photos: RFID bumblebees create a buzz What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? [06 Mar 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.02.08
Round-Up Anyway… the boffins have tagged hundreds of bees at their east London lab to track their movements, assuming that having a RFID chip on their backs doesn't hinder their aerial manoeuvrability. But let's face it: if you... [29 Feb 2008]
Tech Visions: Wireless sale of the century
Comment We can imagine improved quality of current services, commodity bandwidth for existing wireless devices, universal communicators for families, cross-country RFID, medical device monitoring and more. This event could turn... [17 Dec 2007]
Viviane Reding
AS Profile As European commissioner for information society and media, the Luxembourger has a hand in pretty much every decision about technology legislation that takes place in Europe, whether it's to do with mobile TV standards,... [12 Oct 2007]
Location, location, location...
Comment This, combined with the growing use of RFID tagging and GPS technologies to track business assets and events in real time, means that understanding the value and impact of location on business performance has never been... [09 Oct 2007]
Can retail old dog learn new tricks?
Comment This is true but it also provides specialist retail security based around technologies such as CCTV and RF security-tagging (As apposed to RFID tagging, although it's heavily involved in that technology too, for obvious... [08 Oct 2007]
Interview: Tesco CIO Colin Cobain
Comment Tesco has been one of the early retail adopters exploring radio frequency ID (RFID) technology. Will the RFID tags be used in distribution, warehouses and transport rather than on individual items in the... [25 Sep 2007]
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