tracking in news
RSS tracking in newsMySpace gets on board OpenID
News MySpace also added two new sites, movies community site Flixster and events tracking site Eventful, that will support the ability to transfer user information from their MySpace profiles. News Corp's MySpace social network will join the OpenID... [23 Jul 2008]
Location-based services mean business
News ABI Research's principal analyst Dominique Bonte said business applications of LBS, such as asset and vehicle tracking and workforce management, will become an important revenue generator for carriers in the future as more companies look to deploy... [17 Jul 2008]
Berners-Lee and friends promote web science study
News He said: "[Students] need to be taught something about techniques for looking at structures, tracking data through complex networks, how to understand the basic economics and social psychology of interaction so they've got some appreciation of how... [14 Jul 2008]
silicon.com Classics: The 10 craziest uses of RFID
News These include everything from chipping schoolchildren to RFID-tagged tanks, as well as more traditional uses, such as retailers tracking goods through the supply chain. The latest in our weekly look back through some of the classic stories in the... [02 Jul 2008]
Google helps measure up audiences
News These web measurement firms have roots in conventional media or retail audience tracking technologies. Google will offer advertisers a free media planning tool to help them locate target audiences on the web, a company spokesman said yesterday... [24 Jun 2008]
OOXML - Microsoft admits to standards naivety
News Microsoft national technology officer Stuart McKee admitted that the company had no specific department or individuals focused solely on standards prior to beginning the process of fast-tracking Office Open XML (OOXML) to become officially... [24 Jun 2008]
Mobile phones key to paperless air travel
News Mobile phones could be used to hold digital boarding passes, baggage tracking info and payment data within the next five years - making travel truly paperless, according to research by air transport industry IT provider Sita. [20 Jun 2008]
BT to cut CO2 emissions by 80 per cent
News The company has pledged to track these savings through a new model for measuring and tracking carbon emissions. BT will rely on wind farms to produce a quarter of its UK power by 2016 as part of a major drive to cut CO2 emissions. [03 Jun 2008]
Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin to retire
News He said in a statement: "The group has.continued to deliver growth in the manner of a Californian surfer, tracking up and down the coast in search of wherever the best waves are breaking. Mobile operator Vodafone has announced its CEO Arun Sarin is... [27 May 2008]
'Noisy' anti-Phorm tool developed
News The AntiPhorm site said: "It appears we can't stop your ISP tracking and selling your surfing behaviour but one solution could be to make the data they do collect absolutely worthless to their clients. [20 May 2008]
Microsoft's next plan: Make over Live Search
News Many of Microsoft's recent changes have centred around improving specific types of searches, such as image search, celebrity tracking and medical searches. Microsoft hopes to back up its refrain that it has a plan to catch Google by showing off... [08 May 2008]
Mobile M2M connections on the up
News Europe is well on the way to introducing the eCall automatic emergency call system and several Latin American countries are considering mandatory tracking devices on all new cars to combat epidemic vehicle crime. [06 May 2008]
OOXML row continues
News OOXML is also theoretically open, but central to the UKUUG's legal action is ISO's fast-tracking of the format into standardisation without properly addressing its many unresolved technical flaws - an issue exacerbated by OOXML's extraordinary... [02 May 2008]
Glasgow NHS keeps tabs on equipment with RFID
News NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has implemented a wireless networking project in the Royal Alexandra Hospital (RAH) that involves tracking medical equipment with RFID tags.silicon.com Public Sector Get the latest public sector news straight to your... [28 Apr 2008]
Thieves foiled by 'phone home' computers
News Absolute Software claims that its tracking and recovery software solution, ComputraceOne, has recovered more than 5,000 stolen computers worldwide. Tracking technology has helped police sniff out thousands of stolen machines, uncovering UK... [14 Apr 2008]
