Informed Consent: Ethical Considerations of RFID by Sally Bacchetta
He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the wild elephant goes. Randolph Bourne Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has incubated in relative obscurity for over 60 years, quietly changing our lives with scant attention outside the technology community. ... Proctor & Gamble, The Gillette Company and Wal-Mart were among the first to provide financial and empirical support to the project. ... The bill for this hefty loss is passed on to you and me.) The public was unmoved by Wal-Mart’s defense, and the project has been aborted.

The Need for Physical and IT Security Convergence by Jeffrey Bennett
Business security professionals make it a point to study their craft and learn ways to counter evolving threat. Business intelligence methods need to continue to keep up with technology to analyze and prevent the internal and external influences that can ruin the enterprise. ... This is vital to protect a company from the threat of social engineering. ... As mentioned in other paragraphs, protecting your company with security in depth will solve many problems. ... These incidents lead to law suits, low morale, a bad reputation for the company and leaves families and victims devastated.

User Driven Modelling - Detailed Explanation - Part 4 - Translation by Peter Hale
For this research the focus is on combining the development of dynamic software created in response to user actions, with object oriented, rule based and semantic web techniques. This helps solve problems of mismatch of data between object oriented and relational database systems identified by... A Roadmap to Ontology Specification Languages, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, Chicago, USA. ... The Object-Relational Impedance Mismatch, http://www.agiledata.org/essays/impedanceMismatch.html.

RFID, Its Implications And How To Defeat by Jon Winthrop
Imagine a future in which your every belonging is marked with a unique number identifiable with the swipe of a scanner, where the location of your car is always pinpoint-able and where signal-emitting microchips storing personal information are implanted beneath your skin or embedded in your... RFID wallet project details are easy to find on the Internet. ... This is the possible future of radio frequency identification (RFID), a technology whose application has so far been limited largely to supply-chain management (enabling companies, for example, to keep track of the quantity of a given...

OLAP, An Alternative Technology Over Spreadsheets by Shaun Stltz
Are Spreadsheets Robbing your Enterprise of Competitive Advantage? ‘90% of “average” companies are not confident that their forecasts and reports are accurate and reliable’ In a recent study, 81% of FD’s cited that their highest priority is the accuracy of revenue and earnings forecasts while... Yet, when it comes to the design and development of Management Reporting, Budgeting and Planning systems, which are relied upon to manage multinational businesses, this practice is commonplace. ... All stakeholders within the enterprise are requiring more analysis, based on complex models in...

Network Security - The Road Ahead by Ramesh Kumar Thiagarajan
Network Security - The road ahead Introduction What is Network Security? "Network Security" -Monitoring "Network Security" -Forensics "Network Security" -Compliance HIPAA SOX GLBA Conclusion Introduction Network Security is the next wave... Track Account management changes:Significant changes in the internal controls sec 302 (a)(6). ... The Act asserts that financial services companies routinely collect Non-Public Personal Information (NPI) from individuals, and must notify those individuals when sharing information outside of the...