Tag: rfid
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Project Kuiper aka The Bezos Belt
Not content with already owning a majority stake in the Western Worlds commerce. Jeff Bezos now wants to wrap the entire planet in a neat Amazon bow made of satellites.
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Rise Of Contactless Payment
The rise of contactless payment is spreading. Cash has been around for quite a while now. We’ve all used it, grown up with it, most of us cannot imagine a world without cold hard cash. Well, it could soon be time to wake up and smell the coffee! We all know those times when you’re […]
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RFID, iot and Automation – Whats It All About?
Automation creeps ever closer and the internet of things (iot) is Harbinger of this story. Will the imminent future be some dystopian nightmare or utopian wonderland? There is no doubt that automation will inevitably cut jobs. By 2030, Googles “top rated futurist speaker”, Thomas Frey, predicts that the planet will be down 2 Billion jobs, […]
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Amazon GO Stores – A Cashless Society?
Not content with being number one online retailer, Amazon have decided to turn up the heat on the high street. The multi-national announced on Monday that they will be stepping into the arena with their Amazon GO store in Seattle. There is a difference though; this ones cashless! On announcement there were no mentions of any […]
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Move over wearables it’s time for Smart implants
Yesterday at the Cebit trade show in Hannover, Germany, on March 13, 2016, a man demonstrated that he could give his business card to anyone with a smart phone simply by waving his hand at their device. The man in question was Patrick Kramer and he is the founder and CEO of Digiwell. As a […]
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How to Protect Your RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification) and Personal Data
In this day and age, we seem to be constantly hearing about data being lost, sold, traded and worst of all, stolen. Unfortunately due to our wishes to be more connected (iot) all of the time, it makes the job for thieves a little easier. Now, if you are not security/technically savvy, then you probably […]
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Download Festival-Goers Left Beerless After Cashless Cock-up
Thousands of revellers hoping for food and booze after the long trek to this year’s Download found themselves out of pocket when the festival’s new cashless payment system failed on day one. The unhappy campers started arriving at the Donnington site on Wednesday, looking forward to a weekend of metal from the likes of Slipknot, […]
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Plastc Supercard Hopes to Slim Wallets
We’ve been going on about NFC payments a lot recently, especially since we heard about Apple pay and Zapp coming to the UK in 2015. However, there’s more than one way to get on board with NFC payments, as Plastc, the new supercard and app combo demonstrates. Plastc, spelled without the ‘i’, is a […]