The pharmaceutical industry is set to boost its use of radio frequency identification device (RFID) technology over the next 18 months, according to research group Meta. The move is being driven by the potential cost savings, the analysts said.
The percentage of worldwide radio frequency identification (RFID) projects concerning tagging people has increased from eight percent to 11 percent over the last year, according to new research -- with the healthcare sector set to see the benefits.
Mozilla on Thursday launched Thunderbird 2, the latest version of its free, open-source e-mail client featuring message tagging and customisation.
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If there ever were concrete evidence that Labor is blowing smoke up the proverbials of the Australian population, it came earlier this month as Senator Stephen Conroy, the man charged with promoting Labor's fibre-everywhere policy while simultaneously taking potshots at his counterpart Senator Helen Coonan, put his foot squarely in his mouth.
Amazon engineer DeWitt Clinton's ringing endorsement of Atom over RSS as the XML flavour of choice for syndicated feed content for discerning geeks made headlines yesterday, although the points he makes have been made before.
IT director Bob Berg tells ZDNet Australia how Western Australia's Department of Attorney-General and Corrective Services overcame complex document management for 40 separate Web sites.
CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos says readers are united in their contempt for the idea of embedding chips in people.
Near Field Communication could take RFID out of the logistics chain and into film and music posters, and a UK vendor is now backing the emerging technology with a new reader.
In an interview with ZDNet.com.au, Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield shares his thoughts with us about the web, Google, Microsoft and Flickr's acquisition by Yahoo, as well as his recent departure from the US search giant.
Firefox 3 aimed for 5 million downloads in the first 24 hours of its release, and smashed all expectations achieving more than 8 million downloads worldwide. This photo gallery takes you inside the new features this recording breaking browser.
Giving viewers the power to control content meant hours of tagging each video clip for the T-Visionarium's developers.
It runs Apple's Mac OS X Leopard, but doesn't look anything like an Apple computer and certainly doesn't come with an Apple price tag. Kara Tsuboi and Tom Krazit discuss Psystar's open computer.
Sun Microsystems demos two new JavaFX-powered applications, Photo Flocker and Movie Cloud, at its annual JavaOne Conference in San Francisco Tuesday. Rich Green, the company's executive vice president of software, shows attendees Photo Flocker, an app that allows users to search for photos by tags and display the photos.
Cesare Tizi, ZDNet Australia CIO of the Year 2007, waxes lyrical about RFID technology -- a subject he knows something about from his Transurban days. He believes the tiny tags will change everything from toll-booths to supermarket checkout queues.
Dr John Halamka, the CIO of Harvard Medical School, is an early adopter of RFID technology -- he's got a chip implanted in his arm. These tags can keep track of personal medical records, as well as hospital equipment. Halamka talks with ZDNet.com editor in chief Dan Farber about recent advances in patient care, and electronic prescriptions.
An Australian company has underlined the potential of well-proven technologies such as short-messaging services to deliver m-commerce applications, launching two new products based on SMS.
If you're wary of Google knowing everything about your business and your web site, then Google Analytics is not for you. But for most, it's a useful ally in a challenging business climate.
If only for the speed, lightness of being and security alone, Firefox remains our Editors' Choice for best internet browser.
Camera phones with 5 megapixels are no longer just for people with huge pockets. The C902 packs a very mean shooter into a very slim package and delivers excellent photos.
Although there's room for improvement in the colour department, the Sony VPL-VW40 is yet another impressive advert for SXRD.
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