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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 want to pay the extra costs of RFID.

Tags: mac, zx spectrum, rfid

[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 spending over the next year...

Tags: cio agenda, tech, agenda, list

[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?

Tags: mobile, data, vista, views

[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 get your scientific kicks...

Tags: microsoft, torvalds, robots, open source

[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 out to be a defining moment...

Tags: mobile, spectrum, wireless, next generation

[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, RFID regulation, opening up...

[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 more important.

Tags: gps, mapping, lbs, rfid

[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 reasons).

Tags: tesco, business intelligence, security, adt

[08 Oct 2007]

Interview: Tesco CIO Colin Cobain

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 store?

Tags: colin cobain, tesco

[25 Sep 2007]

Dear silicon.com... DNA database, lie detector tech, sat-nav blunders...

Comment All these systems ID card, benefit lie detectors, airport iris scanners, contactless payment systems, rfid, speed cameras and so on are slowly taking peope out of the loop because of the mistaken belief that technology is infallible in its...

Tags: sat-nav, lie detector, dna

[07 Sep 2007]

BI for all

Comment Meanwhile new technologies are being deployed such as radio frequency identification (RFID) which are generating still more data. Changes are afoot in the business intelligence market as vendors aim to accommodate all types of users and companies.

Tags: sas, business objects, cognos, microsoft

[18 Jul 2007]

Colin Cobain

CIO Profile Tesco has also been at the leading edge of the testing and exploitation of RFID technologies in the retail sector, using it both in-store and in the supply chain. What they say about him: "He is the classic 'new CIO' - an IT professional who has...

[06 Jun 2007]

The killer app for M2M

Comment The highest profile M2M technology is currently RFID, a wireless tagging technology which has crossed over into the corporate arena where it is widely used for tracking documents and assets. An integrated room and resource booking system controls...

Tags: office of the future, green it, m2m, zigbee

[22 Feb 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Recycling is rubbish

Comment RFID tags on the bins so the owners can be identified and then be charged by the kilogram for waste disposal. Written in the lobby of a Vancouver hotel and dispatched to silicon.com via a very low cost public wi-fi connection

Tags: recycling

[23 Jan 2007]

Unwired: The office of the future

Comment The biggest change we expect to see is the pervasive use of RFID. Unwired's Richard Leyland makes his predictions based on today's strongest trends. This morning I left my automated home, bound for my paperless office.

Tags: office of the future, wi-fi phone, mesh networks, voip

[15 Nov 2006]

The Weekly Round-Up: 20.10.06

Round-Up And speaking of security there are plans afoot to improve airport security with some nifty technology - implanting RFID chips into the brains of all airline passengers. Don't be so hard on yourself, I left my RFID wristband on.what a dolt!

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[20 Oct 2006]

Leader: Can we trust the public?

Leader At the same time, a separate survey revealed Europeans are worried about RFID tags infringing on their privacy because of the large amounts of data that could be collected about their buying behaviours should products in shops be tagged.

Tags: passport, biometrics, id cards, rfid

[18 Oct 2006]

Motorola gets serious about the enterprise

Comment Motorola's acquisition this week of mobile tech and RFID player Symbol looks to be the start of a grown-up, suit-and-bowler-hat Motorola. Why did a handset maker splash out $3.9bn to buy a company that has created bar-code scanning technology?

Tags: symbol, motorola

[21 Sep 2006]

Radioactive: Toddler telephony taps parental paranoia

Comment A school in Buffalo, New York, attracted attention in 2003 by using RFID tags embedded in their school identity cards to keep track of their pupils. RFID-based identity systems are more commonly used in the US military or prisons but this has not...

Tags: mobile phones

[15 May 2006]

Analysis: Does ID management invade workers' privacy?

Comment These are the questions being raised in response to the prospect of staff ID cards featuring RFID tags which give employers the potential to monitor workers' whereabouts in their office buildings. Organisations are turning to ID management systems...

Tags: id management, privacy

[10 May 2006]

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