RFID: A Closer View by Sally Bacchetta
Within the last few years RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) has steadily migrated from the inner circles of science and technology into the public consciousness. RFID is now well-integrated into the food you eat, the clothes you wear, the car you drive... ... State Department recently published an Electronic Passports proposal, and according to Jim Harper of Privacilla.org, "The State Department intends to start issuing RFID-chipped passports, with unencrypted personal information on the chips, later this year." The U.S.

PDA and VPN Treo Troubleshooting Guide by Aaron Adams
SIM Cards hold programming information for the GSM network along with all personal settings and data.

What are the Facts about Data Loss? by Lee Morrell
I have been in the data recovery business for many years and have read and heard many “facts” covering the causes, costs and trends of data loss recovery. I have also heard of all the best ways to backup data ensuring total loss of data never happens. ... Key causes of data loss: 78% Hardware or System Malfunction 11% Human Error 7% Software Corruption or Program Malfunction 2% Computer Viruses 1% Natural Disasters 1% Other Depending on your location, hardware and software you use, I feel sure some of you will not agree with the above causes.

How FOSS Might Benefit Your Small Business by Charles Trumpess
Starting a small business or working from home takes time and costs money. After you have done all the groundwork, such as a business plan, marketing strategy and finances, you will probably start thinking about the cost of PCs and software licenses. ... Essential PIM Free is an award-winning, absolutely free personal information manager. ... Spyware is designed to collect and send your personal information to third parties without your knowledge. ... OFBiz offers an incredible array of features and functionality including content management, marketing, contact management, product and...

Entering The Twilight Zone by Tim Bryce
"If you are not pissing someone off, you are probably not doing your job." - Bryce's Law INTRODUCTION This essay represents my 100th in a series of weekly bulletins I have written over the last two years. During this time I have written on a variety of management related issues as well as... Executives falsely equate computer hardware with development and, as such, spend an inordinate amount of money on hardware and software, and little on the management infrastructure needed to create industrial strength systems (a kind of "penny-wise, pound-foolish" behavior).

The Truth about Colossus: Are You Just A Magnetic Image? by Jeanine Steele
What is Colossus? Colossus is software licensed to about twenty-five insurance companies to aid in predicting the settlement value of claims. The insurance industry maintains it is a useful tool because it considers a great many factors, and the settlement values are just a range for use in any... Since the computer was not queried or programmed to consider either of these circumstances, then it is your job to provide sufficient information to the adjuster to allow her to modify the result from Colossus by making another set of information inputs to the program.

Mobile Manufacturing by Mark Eaton
Making Advances Technology and manufacturing have traditionally been closely related, with advances in technology leading to changes in manufacturing – either in the products produced on in how they are produced – and changes in manufacturing affecting technology – through making technology... Roger Francis, CEO of Make My Show (www.makemyshow.com), a company offering request based services, says “…a typical client integration takes less than a day.” So text requests can provide a powerful, but simple, mechanism to get product information into customer’s hands quickly and if information...

Marketing Your WinRunner Team by Danna Henderson
It won’t matter how effective your WinRunner Team is if no-one outside your immediate organization knows about your accomplishments. For this reason, marketing your WinRunner Team is vital to your success. When times get tough, executives look for cost-cutting measures. ... However, if these high level executives have personal knowledge about the benefits of software WinRunner in terms they understand, which are time and cost savings to the business they support, they will be less likely to put it on the chopping block.

Information in the Next Five Years by Ena Mwangama
Impact of Radio Frequency Identification Technology The Environment consist of the all elements that are outside the system under consideration, and which it must take as given .The environment also include all the external impositions and constraints other than those imposed by the ownership. ... There are three areas that will be needed to be addressed: data management, network and end-user device management, and a new category for many IT organizations, sensor management. ... For location data, geographical information systems can play an important role in graphically depicting large...

Purpose Based Computing by John Dir
Accomplishing tasks efficiently requires a series of smaller steps that are built upon the understanding of tools and information required to complete each stage of the process. Once the entire process involved with reaching a goal is absorbed, each repetition of the job becomes less time... There are many different types of software on the market that are aimed at ease of use, with the ability to perform complex manipulations of information and procedures. ... Occasionally, we are trained to do something related to our work that contains a lot of “personal” touches and procedures thrown...