The architecture of this RFID system - demonstrated at the Tokyo International Book Fair 2003 -- is based on specifications laid down by Auto-ID Center, an RFID research organisation led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin has become a Treo user through the programme, as have actor Evan Handler, Fiat auto designer Michael Robinson, Oxford professor and author Richard Dawkins, Nobel Prize winner Kary Mullins, and Andy Caldwell, a disk...
Since then, campaign groups Privacy International, Liberty and Stand have been busy highlighting the possible dangers of such a scheme (did someone say Big Brother? The makers of best-selling computer game series Grand Theft Auto have been...
Paul Cleaver, the owner of a Dodge dealership that uses telemarketing, said: "So many of our customers are switching to cell phones" - thus providing the dealer with a mobile phone number, causing the confusion.
Recent developments mean that transporting voice traffic on an IP network alongside data is becoming a commercial reality rather than wishful marketing huff and puff. Boyle claims about 20 to 30 per cent of the UK market is making a decision to...
The difference is that phones that integrate mobile and Wi-Fi [for voice] won't be ready for a couple of years. He also maintained SMS traffic is still growing - O2 UK saw a 40 per cent year-on-year jump in the quarter ended 30 June - though this...