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Inventor of RFID radio tags Charles Walton dies aged 89
Charles Walton, inventor of the RFID technology now common everywhere from warehouses to retail stores to public libraries, has died at the age of 89 in California.
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CSI technology to do "Rapid DNA" tests
Using a portable kit to be able to quickly analyse human DNA collected in the field for investigative and forensics purposes has been a long-time dream for the FBI, law enforcement and the US Department of Defense (DoD).
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Black Hat to talk about Stuxnet at security conference
The Black Hat security conference will kick off in Abu Dhabi on Monday with new information revealed about the Stuxnet malicious software program along with other cutting-edge research.
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Hitachi-LG plans 1TB Blu-ray storage
Hitachi-LG Data Storage has developed a prototype data storage device that can automatically back up unused data to Blu-ray Disc cartridges, each capable of holding one terabyte (1TB) of data.
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RFID tags triple range in a building duct
A research team at North Carolina State University has used a building ventilation duct to at least triple the normal distance that radio waves emitted from passive RFID tags can travel over open space.
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Human-computer virus experiment ridiculed as 'bad science'
Reading University researcher Dr Mark Gasson has been accused of scaremongering after he claimed to have become the first human to be infected with a computer virus.
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UK government sponsors mobile phone safety tools
The UK government is bringing three new mobile security technologies designed to safeguard stolen phones to next week's Mobile World Congress in hopes that manufacturers will show interest.
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Motorola unveils next generation rugged handheld
Motorola has unveiled a new rugged enterprise digital assistant designed to capitalise on its success in the handheld computer sector, at a time when the future of its consumer handset division remains uncertain.
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IBM middleware interprets RFID data
IBM has introduced middleware that can gather data from a wide variety of networked sensors, analyse it, and feed it into other enterprise applications that can also use the data to make decisions.
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Freecom puts swipe-card security on hard drive
Storage vendor Freecom has come up with a new external USB hard drive that can only be accessed using an RFID (radio frequency identification) swipe card.
