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The future of Radio Frequency Identification
News At a high level, RFID is an e-tagging technology that can be used to provide electronic identity to any object. In the short to medium term, RFID tag costs will not have dropped enough to apply the technology for item-level tagging.
[August 18, 2003, 14:55]
Cisco Systems Partner GFI Informatics Accelerates Networking for New UK Toll Road
White Papers M6 Toll Road, one of the most high-tech roads in the country, includes two networks: an electronic tagging system, developed by French supplier Ascom, which scans cars as they pass through the various toll stations to help ensure quick payment and...
[June 2, 2006, 0:00]
Tagging brings search power to the people
News Because tagging is used as an indexing tool and as a way to search for information, both in discrete databases or across the Internet, some say it is conceivable that the technology could one day give search engines like Google a run for their money.
[November 16, 2005, 14:45]
Under-skin ID tags generate concerns
News The overriding idea behind tagging people with chips -- whether through implants or wearable devices such as bracelets -- is to improve identification and, consequently, tighten access to restricted information or physical areas.
[August 23, 2004, 15:05]
Digital ID: You shop, they snoop?
News And "if legislators mandate mandatory tagging of things like firearms or ammunition, we could get both the left and right wing pissed off", Holtzman said. Transponders for driving through electronic tollbooths started as a convenience to drivers...
[February 11, 2002, 9:36]
RFID: An idea whose time has come
News Dairy tagging Electronic product codes (EPC) supply chain deployment Electronic article surveillance (EAS) In the information age, technical innovation is expected. We're frequently bombarded with the newest, latest, greatest technological...
[February 19, 2004, 14:29]
Cyberterror? Don't make me laugh
News As much as I like being a trend-setter, I must point out that the last time I committed a computer crime George Bush was in the White House and no one was tagging sites on a Web that did not yet exist.
[October 14, 1999, 11:04]
Roundup: Human rights and government cybersnooping
News Outrage at government 'tagging' of citizens But will it make a difference to your electronic privacy? The Human Rights Act (HRA), which passed into law Monday, codifies a person's right to privacy and private correspondence, but privacy experts...
[October 6, 2000, 11:23]
Homeland Security bill becomes US law
News The agency considered and abandoned a plan to curtail Internet anonymity by tagging browsing with unique markers for each person, while funding a mammoth database that would feature profiles of nearly all Americans' behaviours and spending habits.
[November 26, 2002, 11:41]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Nokia, it transpires have been tagging their phones for a while now - nothing suspicious, just supply chain management. If someone had told George Orwell that the citizens of the 21st century would be constantly scanned by a global electronic...
[October 3, 2003, 13:45]
Sun sets up Scottish RFID test centre
News Sun maintains that RFID tags have the potential to cut huge costs from the supply chain of retailers and manufacturers and said the European centre will help firms with the tagging of products, integrating the information into back-end systems and...
[December 4, 2003, 9:30]
Nokia to launch RFID phone kit with a magic touch
News Niininen suggested that companies could use RFID for security purposes, for example by tagging sensitive areas of their premises, and giving a security guard an RFID device they could check that these places were being regularly visited.
[November 3, 2004, 13:58]
XML 2: The XML 1.0 specification is here. Does it cut the mustard?
News It also managed to take away the rigidity of HTML tagging. So the online community decided it wanted to achieve different goals with the next generation electronic document format. Although HTML had been the darling of a new breed of Internet...
[November 10, 1999, 11:01]
FBI digs deeper into the Web
News I hate to be in a position of telling people 'don't go online and speak' or 'watch what you say,' but you have to take from this that on an arbitrary basis, the FBI is going to be tagging people as terrorists based on what they say online," said...
[June 6, 2002, 12:28]
RFID could boost compliance effort
News Sarbanes Oxley, like other compliance regulations, requires businesses to keep a record of all electronic transactions and communications for up to seven years. RFID tags could help US and UK companies to win their battle with compliancy...
[October 13, 2004, 13:45]
Subcutaneous RFID tags upset privacy advocates
News Tagging of criminals is not even on the agenda," the spokesperson said. Dale Clapperton, a board member for Electronic Frontiers Australia, a non-profit organisation that represents the on-line rights and freedoms of Internet users, said he is just...
[October 15, 2004, 11:40]
Civil liberties groups demand halt to RFID
News Over 30 civil liberties and privacy groups have demanded a suspension to the deployment of radio frequency identification (RFID) tagging systems until a number of issues surrounding the controversial technology have been addressed.
[November 20, 2003, 17:15]
How to get consumers to swallow electronic tags
News Last week's Enterprise Wireless Technology show in London heard a proponent of radiofrequency identification (RFID) tags explain some of the techniques that retailers should use to overcome customer opposition to this new technology, which some...
[October 18, 2004, 12:15]
How to get consumers to swallow electronic tags
Talkback I am looking into the possibility of electronically tagging some homeowners for a new television series and was wondering if we could have a chat about it. It is a design show and we want to examine how they use their house - which rooms they spend...
[August 9, 2005, 14:20]
RFID certification plans approved
News David Somner, VP of electronic commerce at CompTIA, said the certification would be designed to tackle the hardware, software and business services needs of would-be RFID experts. The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) has...
[March 10, 2005, 8:15]
