By the end of this decade, your smartphone will park your car, make you toast, and, yes, it will do your laundry.
AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile are teaming up to compete with credit card companies by allowing customers to pay for products by waving their smartphones, according to a Bloomberg report.
It's called "The Internet of Things" -- at least for now. It refers to an imminent world where physical objects and beings, as well as virtual data and environments, all live and interact with each other in the same space and time. In short, everything is interconnected.
Studies show that RFID tags, implanted in pets and humans, can cause cancer in mice. But one maker defends his chips
As the nation grapples with difficulties getting new passports, a technology researcher has found another problem with the radio frequency ID technology the new documents carry.
The diamond ring of the future will radiate its unique beauty -- quite literally -- thanks to a minuscule radio-frequency identification (RFID) chip embedded in it.
Civil rights and privacy rights groups have opposed radio frequency identification, or RFID, for years. But now, researchers in the field and some lawmakers are beginning to voice concerns about the security of the technology.
As a business, you want to keep track of your inventory. But as an individual, you don't want anyone keeping track of you.
Business 2.0: Tagged for Growthupdated: Thu Mar 15 2007 12:38:00
While U.S. retailers like Wal-Mart are still struggling to put radio-frequency ID tags on boxes and pallets so they can track merchandise in bulk, Dutch bookseller Selexyz may be the first merchant...
First published December 21, 2006
Imagine this: a worldwide network of radio-tagged pharmaceuticals, weeding out the multi-billion dollar counterfeit drug market with a universal security system.
Imagine being overseas and your identity being available for the taking - your nationality, your name, your passport number. Everything.
Radio frequency identification has been heralded as a breakthrough in tracking technology, and denounced as the next Big Brother surveillance tool.
TRENDSPOTTING IS SERIOUS BUSINESS. SO MUCH so that the Institute for the Future, a Palo Alto-based think tank, produces an annual 96-page 10-year forecast--an exhaustive compendium of societal and ...
Lost luggage could become a thing of the past if RFID technology being tested at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) takes off.
Fortune: The FedEx Edge updated: Wed Mar 29 2006 10:56:00
It's easy to feel a bit sorry for any company's chief information officer these days. The pace of technology is accelerating, and costs seem to be going up just as fast. But for Rob Carter, the CIO...
FSB: Wireless grapesupdated: Wed Mar 22 2006 12:17:00
Someday soon, radio-frequency identification (RFID) will allow workers at Ballantine Produce to monitor the temperature of a box of peaches wherever it stops along the supply chain, from a sun-dren...
Fortune: The FedEx edgeupdated: Mon Mar 20 2006 08:22:00
It's easy to feel a bit sorry for any company's chief information officer these days. The pace of technology is accelerating, and costs seem to be going up just as fast.
It is every regular flyer's nightmare -- you arrive at your destination only to discover your luggage is somewhere else entirely.
Fortune: Wireless Grapesupdated: Mon Feb 27 2006 15:04:00
Someday soon workers at Ballantine Produce will be able to to monitor the temperature of a box of peaches wherever it stops along the supply chain, from a sun-drenched loading dock in central Calif...
Big Brother is watching your Viagra. And your OxyContin. And, within five years, maybe the rest of your medicine cabinet, too.
In May 2005, Congress passed the "Real ID" Act, which requires states - starting in May 2008 -- to issue federally approved driver's licenses or identification (ID) cards to those who live and work in the United States.
LONDON (Reuters) - The global mobile phone market is set to grow to 2 billion subscribers by the end of 2005, fueled by strong demand from developing economies in Asia and Latin America, Deloitte & Touche said on Tuesday.
It is home to 1.6 million books, centuries-old manuscripts and the oldest known complete Bible.
Metro Group's Future Store looks like any ordinary supermarket when you first enter it.
Can a microchip the size of a pinhead revolutionize the retail industry?
In the last week of April, Kimberly-Clark wrapped, sealed, and tagged several pallets of Scott paper towels and shipped them to a Wal-Mart distribution center in Sanger, Texas. Small electronic tag...
As revolutions go, this one ignited with something less than a boom. But that doesn't mean the events of June 26, 1974, didn't usher in a transformation. On that day a checkout clerk slid a ten-p...
Every cow in the United States may someday have a unique ID number.
Privacy advocates are alarmed by a new technology that might be able to monitor even the tiniest aspects of our lives. It comes in the form of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips.
Predicting the future of business is never easy, but it doesn't have to be a blind gamble. Savvy managers constantly engage in clear-eyed futurism to anticipate changes that may lurk over the horiz...
If you heard screams of anguish on the afternoon that Wal-Mart announced it was adopting new inventory technology, relax. That was just the sound of small-business owners realizing that they would ...
MasterCard and American Express say they have a solution for those frustrating lines at the checkout counter: "contactless" credit cards.
A computerized shopping cart that greets you by name, gives you your shopping history and helps you look for products quickly so that you don't have to search all the aisles.
Imagine strolling into Wal-Mart to buy the new DVD of The Matrix. As you take it off the shelf, a radio signal alerts an employee to restock, telling him where in the backroom to find The Matrix an...
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