Fausty's Blog (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Ethical hacker, Chris Paget, demonstrates a low-cost mobile device that surreptitiously reads and clones tags embedded in passport cards and enhanced drivers' licenses.He can collect ID's, change IDs and collect complete identities by correlating passcard information with credit card information where both are RFID-chipped.Anyone with such equipment, costing less than £150, can do this. The kit...
Computer Nerds Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bourdain writes with news out of the University of Arkansas, where researchers are looking for ways to combat counterfeit RFID tags. Passive tags typically wait for a reader to transmit a signal of the appropriate strength and frequency before sending their own transmission. The scientists found that the amount of power required to trigger this varies quite a bit from one tag to the next, especially...
TREND HUNTER Magazine (Free subscription) | yesterday
(TrendHunter.com) The Talking Pictures toy is one of the many technologically enhanced kids teaching tools available today, which stands to make children everywhere way smarter than their parents ever were when they themselves…
AterSlash (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bourdain writes with news out of the University of Arkansas, where researchers are looking for ways to combat counterfeit RFID tags. Passive tags typically wait for a reader to transmit a signal of the appropriate strength and frequency before sending their own transmission.
Physorg (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
GE Global Research, the technology development arm for the General Electric, today announced a $2 million award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to develop wearable RFID sensors to alert people to the presence of environmental chemical agents in the air and sample exhaled breath to serve as an early indicator of disease.
Switched (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Radio frequency identification tags (RFID) , which appear in items like credit cards and passports, have long been susceptible to hackers looking to steal personal information. Still, RFID tags are used in many ways -- from tracking a shipment of clothes to automatically opening a doggie door . But a breakthrough from a group of University of Arkansas scientists might just ease the minds of those...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
NEW YORK, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue.
Phones Review (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The iCarte from Wireless Dynamics is a device which clips to the bottom of your iPhone or iPod to deliver to the iPhoner the ability to read and write to RFID tags and enables syncing via a mini USB port according to engadget. iCarte for iPhone and iPod also enables the handset to communicate with various [...]
RFID Weblog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
First biodegradable RFID tags and latest on the anvil are wearable RFID sensors. GE Global Research will be developing wearable RFID sensors for alerting people in event of environmental chemical agents being present in the air. The sensor will be smaller than the size of a penny and could be operated without battery. The wearable RFID sensor could also serve as a person’s breath analyzer and...
MacBlender (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Short-range wireless device maker Wireless Dynamics today introduced its iCarte 110, which is the first device to bring two-way near-field communications (NFC) and RFID to the iPhone and iPod touch. The iCarte can transfer info and make contactless payments by containing an embedded smart chip which can act as a debit, credit, pre-paid or loyalty [...]
David Hayden [MVP C#] (Free subscription) | yesterday
One announcment people seem to have missed at PDC was BizTalk Server 2009 R2. Brian Loesgen has the whole scoop including these areas of enhancement: Platform Alignment - support for the following products and technologies: Visual Studio 2010 Windows Server 2008 R2 SQL Server 2008 R2 Productivity Improvements Single dashboard to apply and manage performance parameters Out-of-the-box support for Event...
RFID Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Louisiana hospital is using Newbury Wi-Fi RFID tags from Trapeze Networks to monitor conditions within all of its heating and cooling devices.
The Web Scene (Free subscription) | yesterday
Researchers at Taiwan’s National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) say that radio tags, combined with mobile communication devices, could provide seamless smart home multimedia services. The researchers, led by NCKU’s Yueh-Min Huang, have proposed an intelligent home network system that integrates radio frequency identification (RFID) technology into the Open Service Gateway Initiative (OSGi)...
Abduzeedo by design - (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
It's time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we've selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what's going on out there! <!--break--> We want to give a big thanks to our sponsors: Wix , ShutterStock , Reflex Stock , Taste of Ink Studios...
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