What's in the Box? Radio Tags Know That, and More
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I.B.M. plans to invest $250 million over the next five years and employ 1,000 people in a new business unit to support products and services related to sensor networks.
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Nanoparticles can be activated by radio frequencies.
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Also: What your phone knows about you. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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Radio frequency identification technology, which enables objects, pets and people to be tagged and tracked wirelessly, is likely to be ubiquitous in the not-so-distant future. Almost no aspect of life may soon be safe from the prying eyes of corporations and governments.
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Radio broadcasters are considering technology and business models that may soon allow listeners to click, listen and buy the tunes they hear on their favorite radio stations.
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FCC approval of Torian Wireless' InFusion portable internet radio means new competition for XM and Sirius. In Listening Post.
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A new technology unveiled Tuesday would show what's being said on the radio using a receiver with a screen that would scroll text much like closed captions roll by on TV.
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Radar Networks is unveiling a new tool that provides a smarter way to find information and increase productivity.
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Hitachi's new tags measure 0.002 inches square, but store as much information as their much-larger predecessors. The company's still investigating possible uses. By the Associated Press.
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Dotted around the globe are shadowy, short-range transmitters beaming strange radio messages across the planet. The messages are indecipherable, and often unlistenable. Nonetheless, they have their fans. By Jason Walsh.
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Tracking down online images is mostly hit or miss thanks to inaccurate text tags, but a new technology could help you find what you're looking for more precisely. By John Gartner.
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The much-anticipated merger between Sirius and XM brings up some important issues. Plus: 10 gadgets for writers. In Gadget Lab.
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Radio frequency identification tags contain more information than standard bar codes and several hundred can be scanned at once.
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RFID tags, the dime-sized devices that can track inventory from the factory to the store, are being embraced as one of the hottest of new technologies. But Patrick J. Sweeney II likens most available applications of RFID, or radio frequency identification, to the user-unfriendly personal computers of the 1980s: a blank screen and a command prompt.
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Tiny computer chips used for tracking food, tickets and other items are getting even smaller. Hitachi Ltd., a Japanese electronics maker, recently showed off radio frequency identification, or RFID, chips that are just 0.002 inches by 0.002 inches and look like bits of powder. They're thin enough to be embedded in a piece of paper, company spokesman Masayuki Takeuchi said Thursday.
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BALTIMORE--Radio frequency identification may be a hot topic among tech types these days, but proponents of the technology gathered here this week are keeping their exuberance in check.
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Joining Polk and JBL, Sony, Alpine and JVC have unveiled HD Radio-equipped units that can "tag" songs for review or buying.