RFID Tags For The Rich

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Second-generation RFID tags on the way

Second-generation RFID tags on the way 03/23/2005 10:09 AM

RFID tags not ready to Spy on You!

RFID tags not ready to Spy on You! 05/09/2004 05:09 PM
Seems Walmart is having problems reading some pallets of merchandise and the RFID tags contained within or on. They have...

RFID tags: The people say no

RFID tags: The people say no 09/07/2004 06:38 AM
The issue has united readers of all stripes, from the religious to privacy advocates, CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos writes.

RFID Tags Don't Work That Well

RFID Tags Don't Work That Well 11/03/2003 12:21 PM
For all the focus on how RFID tags could lead to invasions of privacy or how Wal-Mart is going to use them in all parts of their operation, one thing that many people have apparently overlooked is the fact that the technology still isn't all that reliable. I'm sure it will get better and the problems will get fixed, but this report points out that the technology doesn't work all that well sometimes. Everyone admits that RFID systems are likely to become a big thing, but the timing may not be as fast as has been predicted. In fact, some are wondering if the smaller companies providing RFID technology will be able to stay in business long enough.

RFID tags in Benetton clothing

RFID tags in Benetton clothing 03/13/2003 10:24 AM
Benetton is buying 15 million RFID (radio frequency identification) tags to attach to the labels in their clothing as an anti-theft measure. People are freaked out (again) about privacy issues, but the reality (at least today) is that the range of RFID tech is too short for someone to drive by your house and scan your closet. Still, it does make sense to zap the tags out of commission once items are paid for. Link Discuss

RFID tags become hacker target

RFID tags become hacker target 07/28/2004 08:04 PM
The tracking technology could be abused by tech-savvy shoplifters to mark expensive goods as cheaper items.

Walmart and RFID tags some conclusions

Walmart and RFID tags some conclusions 11/14/2003 04:38 AM
If you have been reading here for a while you will remember my rant on these RFID tags that companies...

IBM and Philips team on RFID tags

IBM and Philips team on RFID tags 01/26/2004 08:35 AM
ZDNet Jan 26 2004 12:51PM GMT

RFID Tags Used More for Tracking Goods

RFID Tags Used More for Tracking Goods 05/28/2004 08:02 PM
As disposable radio tags replace bar codes for tracking goods, demand is expected to explode for plastics that conduct electricity.

Gartner: Get ready now for next-gen RFID
tags

Gartner: Get ready now for next-gen RFID
tags 04/11/2005 07:50 AM
Three suppliers have developed a chip that complies with a new standard, and another has unveiled a new reader and tag system.

RFID Tags For Tracing Food

RFID Tags For Tracing Food 12/28/2003 05:24 AM
Forrester Research

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School kids to receive RFID tags

School kids to receive RFID tags 07/13/2004 08:23 AM
ZDNet Jul 13 2004 11:55AM GMT

New tool demonstrates hacks against RFID
tags

New tool demonstrates hacks against RFID
tags 07/29/2004 08:44 PM

"RFID Tags in New US Notes Explode When
You Try to Microwave Them"

"RFID Tags in New US Notes Explode When
You Try to Microwave Them" 03/06/2004 02:05 AM

Sidebar: RFID tags key to some cattle ID
programs

Sidebar: RFID tags key to some cattle ID
programs 12/30/2003 05:20 PM
Two U.S. companies and one in Australia supply cattle RFID tags through supplier arrangements with producers in Australia, Brazil and Canada.

Walmart Begins Rollout of RFID and EPC
Tags

Walmart Begins Rollout of RFID and EPC
Tags 04/30/2004 11:57 AM

Delta to use RFID tags to track luggage

Delta to use RFID tags to track luggage 07/01/2004 05:20 PM
Following a series of tests designed to see how well RFID tags work, Delta Air Lines said today it will use the new wireless technology throughout its U.S. network to track luggage.

Texas Considers Putting RFID Tags in All
Cars

Texas Considers Putting RFID Tags in All
Cars 04/02/2005 11:05 PM

LXE Wireless Computer Software Supports
96-Bit RFID Tags

LXE Wireless Computer Software Supports
96-Bit RFID Tags 04/04/2005 11:35 AM
Frontline Apr 4 2005 3:18PM GMT

RFID tags gaining in popularity but
consumer beware

RFID tags gaining in popularity but
consumer beware 07/01/2004 03:53 PM

Some big names in business are investing serious cash in researching RFID tags. I have no doubt that RFID tags will be on virtually everything including embedded in clothes, consumer products etc. I am aware of the power of tracking products consumable products from cradle to grave.

Imagine buying some steaks at Costco and taking them home and when you put them in your refrigerator you push a inventory button and your Wifi connected fridge broadcast the updated information to your computer. You want to see where those steaks came from login to your PC and connect to national database which includes information that gives you DOB of the Steer, what the animal was fed, what type of injections it had, what processing plant processed the meat, where it was stored, what temperature variations the meat was subjected etc.

Does this sound far-fetched. Well I challenge that in 5 years or less this will be possible. But I caution you this could be a two way street. You buy a pack of cigarettes at Walmart on your debit card this purchase is tracked and then your life insurance company buys a profile about your buying habits and then send you a rate increase because now you are a high risk client in that you are a candidate for lung cancer.

Think about that the next time you see a RFID tag. [Infoworld]

Despite cost pressures, RFID tags
gaining steam

Despite cost pressures, RFID tags
gaining steam 06/08/2004 12:34 PM
It may be "the oldest new technology," in the words of IDC analyst Christopher Boone, but the combination of RFID (radio frequency identification) tags with electronic product codes could change the way manufacturers and retailers manage their supply chains, according to analysts, vendors, and attendees at IDC's RFID Update conference in Boston on Monday.

Radio tags dress up RFID concept store

Radio tags dress up RFID concept store 07/14/2004 02:58 PM
In India, Wipro sets up clothing store to demonstrate latest fashion in inventory control.

Low-cost ways to 'foil' low-tech RFID
tags

Low-cost ways to 'foil' low-tech RFID
tags 08/13/2004 05:38 AM

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“Though RFID devices come in all shapes and sizes, it’s the tiniest tags using the technology that are bound to cause the biggest headaches, according to a presenter at Wednesday’s USENIX Security Symposium….warned Ari Juels, principal research scientist for Bedford, Mass.-based RSA Laboratories, “the very simple technology can give rise to a whole host of problems.” Declaring that “we’re on the brink of an explosion in RFID use,” Juels cautioned that the security community must…

FDA backs RFID tags to track
prescription drugs

FDA backs RFID tags to track
prescription drugs 02/19/2004 06:17 PM
The Food and Drug Administration is backing RFID technology as the best way to track prescription drugs and anticipates widespread use of the wireless technology by the health care industry within three years.

Radio tags dress up India's 1st RFID
concept store

Radio tags dress up India's 1st RFID
concept store 07/14/2004 03:21 PM
CNET Jul 14 2004 7:08PM GMT

Texas bill would replace vehicle
inspection stickers with RFID tags

Texas bill would replace vehicle
inspection stickers with RFID tags 04/06/2005 06:10 PM
A Texas legislator has filed a bill that would, in part, call for the state to replace vehicle inspection stickers with RFID tags.

New Generation of Highly Conductive Inks
Making RFID Tags Better, Smaller

New Generation of Highly Conductive Inks
Making RFID Tags Better, Smaller 06/17/2005 03:23 PM
Creative Materials promotes its Product #112-15 for printing RFID antennae. [PRWEB Jun 14, 2005]

Wists new features - exploiting tags to
improve a search engine - global search
over users, tags and items

Wists new features - exploiting tags to
improve a search engine - global search
over users, tags and items 03/14/2005 04:33 PM
We've added a global search feature to Wists. The search will look up users, tags and individual item titles and...

Government of the Rich, by the Rich and
for the Rich

Government of the Rich, by the Rich and
for the Rich 04/09/2004 04:00 PM

Billionaires for Bush is "a grassroots political action committee advocating for the rights and interests of people of absolutely fabulous wealth." Funny, and too close to reality for comfort...

Aplus Flash Technology introduces new
high-performance, low-current RFID
EEPROM IP: Secure and cost-efficient,
Aplus’ RFID EEPROM IP offers RFID chip
designers the first easy drop-in EEPROM
memory solution

Aplus Flash Technology introduces new
high-performance, low-current RFID
EEPROM IP: Secure and cost-efficient,
Aplus’ RFID EEPROM IP offers RFID chip
designers the first easy drop-in EEPROM
memory solution 05/31/2004 02:13 PM
Aplus Flash Technology has introduced a new version of its silicon proven 0.35um 2P3M CMOS based EEPROM IP that is targeted for RFID applications. This embedded memory IP can be used in RFID applications such as contactless smart cards, RFID tags, security and surveillance, and other supply chain tracking purposes. Aplus Flash Technology is a fabless IC design company specializing in non-volatile memory IP and products. [PRWEB May 19, 2004]

RFID development kits come with
compactFlash RFID readers for pocket PC

RFID development kits come with
compactFlash RFID readers for pocket PC 08/12/2004 06:48 PM
RF Design Aug 12 2004 11:20PM GMT

RFID Labels Test 100% Readable by the
RFID Alliance Lab

RFID Labels Test 100% Readable by the
RFID Alliance Lab 12/17/2004 06:31 PM
Worldlabel.com shipped a roll with 105 pieces of 4” x 6” Xtrack™ RFID Smart Labels to the RFID Alliance Lab for testing. The tags embedded were a Rafsec dipole design with EPC UHF Ucode 1.19 chip. Tests were performed at the University of Kansas under the supervision of Dr. Daniel Deavours, Director of Research at the RFID Alliance Lab and Assistant Professor at the University of Kansas. Dr. Deavours issued the following statement on behalf of the RFID Alliance Lab. “On December 14, the Lab tested all 105 labels with a ThingMagic Mercury 4 reader. The Lab observed that all 105 labels were readable”. [PRWEB Dec 16, 2004]

The International RFID Technology Center
Locates in Frisco, TexasThe IRTC Will
Provide Leadership, Guidance and
Services for the RFID Industry

The International RFID Technology Center
Locates in Frisco, TexasThe IRTC Will
Provide Leadership, Guidance and
Services for the RFID Industry 12/19/2004 03:04 PM
The International RFID Technology Center, Inc. (IRTC) announced today that they have reached an agreement with the Frisco Economic Development Corporation (FEDC) to locate the IRTC’s headquarters in the City of Frisco, Texas, one of the fastest growing cities in the thriving Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) area. This enables the IRTC to take advantage of DFW’s technology talent pool and geographic location as a focal point for activity in the RF (radio frequency) and RFID (radio frequency identification) sectors. [PRWEB Dec 18, 2004]

Look Ma, No Tags

Look Ma, No Tags 07/24/2002 06:29 PM
XML's success can be measured not only in terms of deployment, but also in terms of inspiring competitors. Kendall Clark examines one such tagless competitor, YAML.

Hot Tags

Hot Tags 03/26/2005 07:40 PM
Neat index on Flickr... In the last 24 hours hail, tourists, rodeo, semanasanta, goodfriday, watercolor buddies, fullmoon, lamb, luna, gravestone, diptych, stlouis, easter, uae, toddler, luke, religious, nikon, friday Over the last week dilomar05, holi, pcforum, sexyblogger, goodfriday, dilo purim,...

Mac tags

Mac tags 03/29/2005 05:06 PM
Why is it that it seems many more Mac owners decorate their laptops with stickers than do PC notebook owners? Maybe it's because we PC owners want to be able to re-sell our notebooks while Mac owners assume they're going to own their machines till they wear them down to the rims. [Technorati tag: macintosh]...

SWAN Tags

SWAN Tags 02/01/2005 10:09 PM

This afternoon I did a presentation about information shifting at the Downers Grove Public Library for their staff in-service day. I modified it to include more about online social networks since I’ve been drawn to the topic lately. In the section on “library web services” and user-centered vocabulary, I showed the progression from Flickr tags to Books We Like tags to SWAN tags. I wanted to really drive the point home, so I did a mock-up (click on it for a larger version).

Try to spot that word that freaks out librarians. I think we can figure out a way to handle all of this, though. Wouldn’t it be a cool way to browse the catalog?!

Tangent: After the presentation, a staff member came up to tell me that her daughter got a Zipit for Christmas. The woman had been nodding yes throughout my presentation.

Tags and Divergence

Tags and Divergence 03/23/2005 02:32 AM

I've been looking at the way people using tags (not XML tags but associating words to lumps of text or pictures) and, so far, concluded that some form of focusing mechanism needs to be introduced to limit divergence of tags which leads to the Tower of Babel.

I think one of the weak areas is exposure.  Lacking exposure to common tags causes people to invent their own.  But exposures out of context contributes little to convergence preceeding emergence.

Hmm.  I think I'll wait for the flower to bloom in its own time instead of screaming at it.

Why Technorati tags don't

Why Technorati tags don't 02/01/2005 09:47 PM
Tagging has become the latest hype word-du-jour, mostly due to services such as del.icio.us, Flickr, and now, Technorati. Clay Shirky and others have written strong statements for this folksonomy phenomenon.

I personally love tags. They are a very cool way of attaching meaning to information - essentially put the semantics in the web in the "Semantic Web" sense, even if the metadata is dissociated from the pages themselves. But as a non-English speaker I see a potentially fatal flaw here: Most Internet users don't speak English as their first language. Even if I speak decent English and use a lot of English services, I still tag things in both English and my native language.

And that means that tags will become "language polluted." Take a look at the Technorati tag for "Macintosh& ;quot;, for example. Many of the blog entries are in Japanese.

If you look at Orkut, many of the parts of it suddenly became &a mp;quot;owned" by Brasilians, which essentially drove away English speakers (I haven't checked how they have handled this). USENET coped with this by having separate hierarchies for each country (so sfnet is all Finnish) and "accepted" languages on each newsgroup. But tags don't have any way to determine the language.

The situation is worse than it should be, because entries on RSS feeds and blogs almost never state what their language is. In fact, I would guess that most RSS feeds claim that the language is "en-US" regardless of their actual content. People like me write in two languages on the same blog. Atom has the possibility of setting the language-per-entry, but I sincerely doubt that anyone will bother to set the language, unless they are relatively passionate about the subject.

There are three cases of "language collision" on tags (I'm using English and Finnish as an example only here).

1. The tag is different in English and in Finnish. For example "fishing" and "kalastus". This should pose no problem, as the folksonomies grow on each of the tags independently.
2. The tag is the same in English and in language Finnish, but the meaning of the tag is different. In this case, the dominant mass of the users will "hijack" the tag.
3. The tag is the same in both languages, but the web pages will be in different languages. This is the case with things like trade marks (Apple, Macintosh, Nokia), or when people like to tag Finnish pages with English tags (like me: I use the word "blog" to mark any significant articles about blogs, regardless of the language). This reduces the usefulness of tags for people who do not understand Finnish.

There is also an additional tagging problem with languages such as Finnish: the same word can be conjugated and written in multiple ways, depending on the context. It is somewhat the same as the problem of using different words for the same concept, but it does make the number of potential strings increase three-fourfold.

There are few solutions to this problem: and probably all of them involve some sort of heuristic to determine the language of the tag and the web page. Tagging is still a relatively new technique to be adopted in mass classification of things, but in order for it to become truly successful, one must still remember localization. Otherwise, it will be the dominance of the masses

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