“”You could simply put a reader device into a doorway and you would know what everyone was carrying as they walked in,” Katherine Albrecht, founder and director of Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (CASPIAN), said. “It would be like an electronic frisk.””
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Sim-Prints’ biometrics app for improving patient care in the developing world won the first Idea Transform Weekend held in Cambridge, UK, reports Business Weekly. With this mobile phone-based app, health care workers can collect and check patient information in a variety of environments. The project was developed by Shruti Badwar, Mariy Chhatriwala, Toby Norman for the Global Health Hack Day in March. James Crosby, Marcos Ikegame and Gail Mayhew joined the team for this competition. read more »dwinQ announced that with its RFID and mobile technologies the company has achieved Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer status and has completed a deep integration into the Facebook API & Platform. read more »Disney’s Art of Animation Resort, a future resort within Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, will feature contactless proximity door locks when it opens on May 31, 2012, according to the Examiner. read more »RIM has revealed a new NFC sharing app for BlackBerry handsets at BlackBerry World in Orlando, Fla. According to Pocket-lint, BlackBerry Share enables users with NFC-enabled handsets to share apps with each other by simply tapping the two phones together. Once a connection has been made, each user will be presented with a list of apps the other user has downloaded from BlackBerry App World. read more »Microsoft has filed a U.S. patent for a logo that marks a device as NFC-enabled, according to NFC World. The “Tap and Do” logo (pictured, courtesy of NFC World) will be included on computers and other hardware that feature NFC connectivity, as well as on NFC-enabled computer software. read more »Disney World is trialing a new FastPass system that will utilize RFID technology to speed up ticketing lines at Disney’s popular rides and theme park attractions, according to ITWeb. read more » |
