Monday 21 February 2011

Footwear, Fashion Driving RFID Growth

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February 21, 2011
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Footwear, Fashion Driving RFID Growth Retailers are rapidly deploying item-level RFID tagging for apparel and footwear, according to an ABI Research report.
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Rumored MacBooks Pros Coming: What Apple Shoppers Need to Know If you're in the market for a MacBook Pro, you may want to hold off on the purchase until later this week. That's when Apple is rumored to be introducing new MacBook Pro laptops.
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Hard Sell: Motorola's $800 Xoom Tablet, No Flash Support Apple may not have to worry too much about Motorola's Xoom tablet considering its steep price and lack of the competitive feature Adobe Flash
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Windows Phone 7: 10 Free Useful Apps The Windows Phone Marketplace's 6000+ apps are far fewer than its rivals, but the Windows Phone 7 Zune-like interface gives apps a colorful and useful visual flair absent from other mobile platforms. Here are 10 free apps that benefit from that aesthetic.
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Can Anyone Afford an IBM Watson Supercomputer? (Yes) IBM hopes hospitals become the first to take advantage of the technology that beat Jeopardy's top players
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Facebook Newsfeed Saga Continues Analysis: Facebook says your Newsfeeds werent changed, just "simplified."
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UK Takes its Census Online For the first time UK householders can submit their census information online, starting next week.
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It's a Hoax: Anonymous Did Not Threaten Westboro Baptist Church Westboro Baptist Church defiantly told the hackers of Anonymous to "bring it", and Anonymous responded to say thanks for the invitation but the threat was a hoax.
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California School District Battles Truancy with GPS Gadgets that track chronically absent students are cost-effective for school.
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Lessons Learned Thanks to HBGary and Anonymous There are important security lessons to be learned from the events surrounding the takedown and exposure of HBGary by the Anonymous "hacktivist" group.
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Stanford Researchers Double Wireless Networking Speeds A new invention by Standard University researchers could lead to a doubling of wireless networking speeds without the need for extra frequencies.
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Mobile Heavyweights Seek to Finalize 1Gbps Mobile Standard The world's top handset makers are meeting this week to finalize a version of an advanced mobile communication standard that would raise data transfer speeds to...
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Alibaba.com CEO and COO Resign After Fraud Investigation The head of Alibaba.com, a top e-commerce operator in China, has resigned following an internal investigation that found an increase in fraudulent transactions...
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Fujitsu to Launch Windows 7 Business Tablet Japan's Fujitsu will soon launch a tablet PC for enterprise users that packs security features not available in most consumer machines.
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Intel Looks to Reshape Chips to Empower Mobile Devices Looking into its crystal ball at where trends are leading, Intel hopes to bolster on-chip capabilities to vastly improve the security and functionality of mobile...
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Honeycomb Ported to Nexus One, Sadly Can't Make Calls Honeycomb appears on a smartphone, hooray! However it still can't handle calls and texts.
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Angry Birds Birthday Cake Is The Best Gift Ever Every self-respecting geek needs this birthday cake in their life. The best part about this cake? You can actually play with it.
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Advanced Zeus Trojan Hits Polish ING Customers A version of the Zeus malware that intercepts one-time passcodes sent by SMS (Short Message Service) is targeting customers of the financial institution ING in...
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Seek and Employ: Gamer Jobs Open at Taiwan Game Show Over a dozen companies banded together with an online job service in Taipei over the weekend to seek people for the island's computer and online game industries...
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Footwear, Fashion Driving RFID Growth Retailers are rapidly deploying item-level RFID tagging for apparel and footwear, according to an ABI Research report.
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Rumored MacBooks Pros Coming: What Apple Shoppers Need to Know If you're in the market for a MacBook Pro, you may want to hold off on the purchase until later this week. That's when Apple is rumored to be introducing new MacBook Pro laptops.
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