Travel Agency VoIP Applications June 14, 2006
Consider: You’re planning a trip to Europe and you’re going to be joined there by a friend who will be travelling through Asia ahead of you. How do you sync up with each other without paying exorbitant cell phone or satellite phone costs?
Why, through VoIP and/or Skype, of course. Imagine being able to connect up directly with your friend through your VoIP-enabled phone, right from the travel agency. If you can touch base with your travelling friend, it makes it so much easier to make last-minute travel plans - something that’s still possible with regular mobile phones, but …
Unwired - News About GPS, Wi-Fi, RFID, Bluetooth - Jun-01-2006 June 1, 2006
Here are some summaries related to wireless technologies (GPS, Wi-Fi, RFID, Bluetooth) for Jun 1, 2006:
- Qualcomm recently announced a single chip - the first of its kind - that handles three different mobile TV broadcast standards, including FLO, DVB-H, and ISDB-T [via Wireless IQ] With a growing number of cellular providers offering streaming TV on mobile phones, Qualcomm will have a definite edge over other manufacturers. Qualcomm’s share price has been increasing steadily over the past year, with a few minor dips.
- As small as the circuitry in RFID tags has become, printed circuits open …
Unwired - News About GPS, Wi-Fi, RFID, Bluetooth - May-27-2006 May 26, 2006
Here are some summaries related to wireless technologies (GPS, Wi-Fi, RFID, Bluetooth) for May 27, 2006:
- With the debate still on about illegal immigrant workers in the US, VeriChip Corporation board chairman Scott Silverman has suggest the government use his companies chips. These RFID chips are implanted under the skin. [via spychips.com] Suggestions of tracking human beings, particularly children, with RFID is a topic that is getting the backs up of a lot of people, especially civil libertarians. US President Bush has a “Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative” that includes a special RFID-enabled …
Quantizing Humans And Tracking Supermen - RFID Chips Go Cyborg April 11, 2006
In a recent episode of Smallville, the TV show about young Clark Kent before he becomes Superman, Chloe and Clark are trying to find Lana Lang, who’s developed a deadly addiction to a drug made from Kryptonite. Chloe goes on about how she can find Lana if Lana is carrying her student id card. According to her, new college student id cards have tracking enabled.
I’m assuming that they’re talking RFID chips, and the show is of course fiction, but this is the first I’ve heard of such use of student id cards. Imagine, if you’re a parent, you could keep …
You’re… Hired - Job Seeking In The Global Village March 28, 2006
The Associated Press reports today that technology firms in the United States are waiting for word from Congress in Washington regarding importing engineers and computer programmers on visa arrangements. They’d like immigration laws to change. This is no doubt due to the tech bubble that is once again forming, creating a void in the labour pool, even though there actually are skilled, out-of-work people available, but invisible.
Now, I don’t know what the unemployment figures are these days in North America. I gave up looking for full time programming work 2 years ago, after 2 unfruitful years of searching, up …
Hark, Who Goes There - Digital Identification and the New World Order March 24, 2006
According to CardTechnology Magazine, parts of southern Taiwan are trying out a contactless digital money card, branded by MasterCard, for bus passengers. Apparently, the card cannot be validated fast enough for subway use. The cards are also being used for purchases at stores.
The Taiwanese trial is one of many that are going on around the world. The Feb 2006 print issue of CardTechnology magazine asks the question “Will Banks and Transit Create A Common Contactless Card?” on the front cover. There is a move all over the world to force citizens to give up hard currency and printed identification …
Your World Daily Planner March 21, 2006
What’s On When has taken a novel idea and turned it into a website. What they’ve done is turned themselves into a storehouse of upcoming events all over the world. Events are searchable through a number of means, including a world map, by continent, country, city, theme, and date range. Quite comprehensive, I’d say.
The one thing it doesn’t have is the ability for someone to enter a search string. The themes are predefined, so you’d have to sift through a page of listings to maybe find what you’re looking for. However, maybe they’ll add features in time.
What’d be really …
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The Internet Superhighway Goes On The Rails
Planes, trains, and automobiles. The Internet has been available on airplanes for some time now. It’s only fitting that trains are next. VIA Rail Canada now offers WiFi access on their trains along the Quebec City - Windsor corridor.
For those of us that have been waiting 20 years for the promised high-speed trains along this rail corridor, being able to access the Internet on trains is no substitute. But it also means that we can work while travelling. Which sort of makes up for not being able to get to our destinations quickly.
The first thing that struck me, upon reading …
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