Monthly Archives: November 2004
FedEx Ground Steps to Bluetooth and GPRS Wireless
As competition grows hotter in package delivery, Federal Express Ground, a division of FedEx Corp., is cooking up some new technologies. The delivery people...
RFID Has Far Greater Reach Potential Than Bar Code
Media reports often treat RFID as a "barcode on steroids" but this attitude oversimplifies the technology, according to Ben Gaucherin, chief technology officer for...
VeriChip CEO: Most People Find Implantable RFID Chip Creepy
Implantable RFID chips arent an easy sell with nine out of 10 people finding them "creepy," according to Scott Silverman, the CEO of VeriChips...
Ten Extensions Enhance Firefox
Firefox is taking the world by storm. Its preview release has already chalked up more than 5,000,000 downloads. And its even begun (albeit in...
Supersonic Search Engines
During mid-tide, the volume of water thundering through Nova Scotias Minas Channel in the Bay of Fundy exceeds the flow from every river and...
Abandoned Shopping Carts May Be Good News
In the first year or two of e-commerce, one sign of sure trouble was seeing a high number of abandoned shopping carts.
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VOIP is Booming
The big picture take-away of this earnings season is that VOIP is booming, Jim Oberweis said in the November issue of the Oberweis. Report."We...
FTC on Spam: More Work to Be Done
WASHINGTON—The second day of meetings at the Federal Trade Commissions E-mail Authentication Summit began on a hopeful note Thursday, with FTC Commissioner Jon Leibowitz...
Samsung Adds Two More Smartphones
Samsung pumped up its smartphone lineup with two new models at a recent New York show, both of which will probably give new life...
Study: Whos Playing Fair with International Fares?
The three major U.S. online travel sites fare worse than their European counterparts in finding the cheapest international air fares, according to a study...