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Take-off Time For Smart Clothing
News So-called "smart clothing" where technology is integrated directly into garments will be a multi-billion dollar industry in less than a decade, according to experts. Hwang Kyu-yearn, an official at the South Korean Commerce and Industry Ministry...
[August 18, 2006, 14:40]
Global Clothing Company Uses Customised Retail Solution To Help It Expand
White Papers AMG Retail is a rapidly-expanding company offering a wide selection clothing, from maternity to children's wear. When planning its expansion in Poland, AMG Retail looked for a solution with rich industry-specific functionality and a flexible...
[September 11, 2007, 0:00]
Economic Impacts Of Post-9/11 Security Initiatives On The International Textiles And Clothing Industry
White Papers Textiles and Clothing Manufacturing Industry as well as International Textiles and Clothing Manufacturers. In the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Congress scrambled to enact new security initiatives...
[January 11, 2005, 23:00]
Camaieu International Bolsters Clothing Business With Strong IT Systems
White Papers Camaieu International, a French clothing retailer that operates nearly 400 stores across Europe and Russia, was looking to expand. In doing so, it wanted to prevent serious disruptions to its growing business by implementing a disaster recovery...
[August 23, 2006, 0:00]
Linuxites: OS/2ers In Sheep's Clothing?
News The Linuxites are unbelievably organised for a group that prides itself on its anarchistic tendencies. When there are flames to fan -- a columnist to be challenged, a vendor to be prodded into jumping onto the Linux bandwagon, code to be reworked...
[March 1, 1999, 17:24]
International Clothing Retailer Promotes Remote Working With Messaging Solution
White Papers With the business growing quickly worldwide, collaboration has become increasingly important. Ted Baker wanted to replace a UNIX-based messaging solution to give employees a solution that would better support them better outside the office.
[November 16, 2007, 23:00]
Star ASP Wears On-demand Clothing
News Star Managed Services, a UK-based ISP, is reviving the concept of an application service provision (ASP), but the company said that unlike previous ASPs, it has got a realistic business model. ASPs first appeared during the dot-com boom when they...
[March 26, 2004, 15:55]
Benetton To Track Clothes With ID Chips
News Retail clothing chain Benetton will soon add a technology to its garments that allows for real-time tracking of its inventory. In the case of Benetton, labels on its Sisley clothing brand have been fitted with Philips' RFID-enabled i.code chips.
[March 12, 2003, 10:53]
Benetton Considers Chip Plans
News Clothing maker Benetton has clarified its plans regarding radio tags in response to reports that it is preparing to deploy millions of the devices in its products to help track inventory. The clarification comes after Philips Semiconductor, a...
[April 7, 2003, 8:39]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog With few exceptions, smart clothing may be the single stupidest IT idea I've ever heard. I've no objections to functional clothing that contains computing: spacesuits, diving gear and possibly even sporting apparel can all absorb environmental and...
[August 18, 2006, 20:35]
ID Chips Pressed Into Laundered Clothes
Talkback Ok first, Say you buy two pieces of clothing. Did they even think about that you could be wearing clothing with the chip. Hmmm Lets see how many ways you can fraud this. One is very expensive and the other is not.
[February 1, 2006, 20:08]
Lacey's Paper Round
News You can tell you are into what us journalists refer to as the silly season when The Economist runs an item about a camcorder that can see through clothing and the FT has an item about how rubbish the Haagen Dazs Web site is.
[August 17, 1998, 10:40]
Infineon Gets Musical With MP3 Jacket
News The Munich-based company on Friday showed off new prototype wearable chips that it says can be sewn directly into clothing and other textiles. The company also said that similar wearable chips could create clothing used in medical applications to...
[April 27, 2002, 7:31]
Smart Jacket Handles Mobile Calls And MP3s
News The article was developed in partnership with Rosner, a German clothing manufacturer, and is called the mp3blue. According to Infineon, the mp3blue is the world's first "lifestyle jacket", and similar items of clothing are set to follow.
[July 26, 2004, 14:20]
IBM: A Wearable World Beyond Your Clamshell
News The company is exploring other alternatives now, such as PCs sewn into clothing. Big Blue is experimenting with a number of unusual designs, including wearable PCs, watch computers and even a computer sewn into clothing that integrates wires into...
[February 8, 2001, 10:11]
I Am Woman, Hear Me ... Click (part 2)
News Women are very accustomed to shopping through catalogues for such subjective items as clothing, so there's no inherent opposition to their doing so online. People assumed women wouldn't buy things like clothing and accessories online," Pack said.
[September 13, 1999, 9:50]
New Euro Law Could Make Criminals Of Us All
Talkback Or how about hammers, I could in theory hit every part of the clothing in question to destroy the chips (and the clothing itself as well I suspect), would this make hammers illegal? I read with great interest the article on how new Euro laws could...
[August 11, 2003, 22:22]
Friday
Blog On 11 September) .he paid his respects to the anniversary of September 11th by putting a tarpaulin on the roof saying: "Please remember the people who have died" and underneath he put a clothes line with clothing representing the people who died i...
[September 20, 2002, 17:59]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog At first, I think that retail electronics is just as different from its UK counterpart as is clothing: I chat to some of the assistants, and they're keen, knowledgeable and efficient. My clothing advisor for today is Jim, a remarkably tall chap...
[February 20, 2004, 16:05]
Europeans To Spend €100bn Online This Year
News Those people who have been online for a while are extending their buying into other categories such as clothing or electronics," he added. The report said that travel bookings are taking the lion's share of European online spending, but suggests...
[July 10, 2006, 15:30]
