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News Burst: Plastic microchips ahead
News Researchers at Cambridge University are developing cheap microchip technology using plastic that some pundits believe could lead to a revolution within the processor industry. Plastic Logic, the company behind the project, hopes to demonstrate...
[November 27, 2000, 8:33]
Plastic microchips ahead
News Plastic microchips could also allow everyday disposable items, such as price tags or tickets, to carry out basic computing tasks. Researchers at Cambridge University are developing cheap microchip technology using plastic that some pundits believe...
[November 27, 2000, 11:05]
Supermarket shopping gets smart tech
News In a related development, Gillette announced on Monday that it agreed to purchase 500 million so-called radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, which contain the special microchips that can communicate wirelessly with computers when in the...
[January 9, 2003, 12:19]
Home Office denies e-passports can be faked
News The Times claimed that tests have exposed security flaws in the microchips. The UK introduced e-passports with microchips in 2006 in response to increasing threats from terrorism and identity fraud. The Home Office has rejected claims made by The...
[August 7, 2008, 9:00]
Chip implant aims to replace cashcards
News RFID tags are miniscule microchips, which some manufacturers have managed to shrink to half the size of a grain of sand. The company also warned that its implantable microchips are manufactured solely by Raytheon without a "formal written agreement...
[November 28, 2003, 14:45]
Frequent fliers: The biometric guinea pigs
News Earlier this year, the IATA started pushing the federal government to fund "smart cards" that contain embedded microchips for some travellers. Meanwhile, businesses are rushing to build biometric devices and the vast amounts of microchips, screens...
[March 27, 2002, 14:33]
US Justice Department ready to prosecute file-swappers
Talkback What's next, is the RIAA going to install microchips into our radios to find out who is recording music off of the radio onto cassette tapes? File Swapping/Sharing should be legal. It's ridiculous. If I buy someones CD and I want to send a friend a...
[February 28, 2004, 17:36]
RFID blocker may ease privacy fears
Talkback I've zapped microchips into oblivion in my microwave before and it works like a charm. Simply place the item you suspect having the RFID chip in it into your microwave oven for a few seconds. With clothes you would need to be careful of metal...
[August 3, 2004, 13:21]
Identity chip raises privacy concerns
Talkback Would appreciate it very much if you could possibly provide me with details of who i can speak to at Hitachi regarding these microchips with the intention of establishing trade relations ASAP. Looking forward to hear from you soon.
[January 28, 2004, 21:03]
FBI wants to tap high-speed Internet
Talkback When are they going to start putting microchips into the heads of new-borns? stuff like this makes me wonder that maybe the USA engineered Sep 11th so that they could finally have public acceptance of the government monitoring absolutely everything...
[March 16, 2004, 9:15]
'Supercomputer-on-a-chip' to power consumer devices
News IBM, Sony Computer Entertainment and Toshiba are planning to create new microchips that will put the power of a supercomputer into consumer devices, while enabling all kinds of gadgets to connect to each other via high-speed Internet connections.
[March 12, 2001, 15:48]
Chip-and-bin plan launched
News The five month trial involves inserting electronic microchips into 4,000 wheelie bins set aside for household recycling, while high-tech readers are fitted to the council's fleet of bin lorries to instantly record the amount of recyclable rubbish...
[September 19, 2005, 9:35]
Nokia developing RFID-embedded phone
News Nokia is at work on a cellphone that uses microchips used to store product information and signal their location, the company announced on Sunday. So-called radio frequency identification (RFID) is a favourite of warehouse operators and some...
[October 25, 2004, 8:45]
IBM bakes 3D circuit design
News IBM says building better microchips is kind of like baking a cake. Researchers at the company have devised a new 3D circuit design that uses two or more layers of transistors, the basic building blocks of a chip, stacked in the same way a baker...
[November 12, 2002, 8:03]
Portugal takes RFID tags to dogs
News Actually, RFID remains a hot topic in hardware, software and retail markets, but other applications of the technology, which marries microchips with radio antennas to foster easier tracking of inventory, have taken wing, or at least paw.
[July 26, 2004, 9:15]
High-street plan for ID card enrolment
News Under the plans, customers will be able to use the high-street outlets to scan their fingerprints and facial photographs that will be stored on microchips in the cards or biometric visas and the central National Identity Register database.
[May 6, 2009, 16:07]
All-in-one network box reaches Europe
News ASICs, or application specific integrated circuits, are custom microchips designed for a specific application. ServGate Technologies, a manufacturer of all-in-one security appliances, has bought its products to Europe.
[September 16, 2002, 9:04]
London police seek mobile ID checkers
News The notice says these must be capable of reading the information on the microchips and machine readable zones of passports, bank cards, identity cards, credit cards and other identification documents, along with fingerprints, facial recognition or...
[August 27, 2009, 9:06]
Indian giant backs RFID
News In a statement issued earlier this week, the Indian company said it will start marketing a new offering based on radio frequency identification (RFID), a technology to keep tabs on stock levels through microchips embedded in individual products.
[January 2, 2004, 8:05]
The Day Ahead: AMD gets praise, but will it translate into profits?
News This is not to denigrate what AMD has accomplished in the past year, culminating with its apparent "victory" in the race to deliver microchips capable of executing one billion instructions per second.
[March 7, 2000, 11:46]
