Cheap Printed RFID Tags May Replace Barcodes

Researchers at MIT have raised the prospect of increasing the capacity of cellphone batteries tenfold by using carbon nanotubes as one of a battery's electrodes.

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The limited power and processing ability of RFID chips makes them vulnerable to attackers operating at a distance. A new protocol could tackle this problem.
One drawback with RFID chips is their inability to know the distance of any device that is interrogating them. That allows a malicious user to attack from a distance, more or [...]

Climbing into his Volvo, outfitted with a Matrics antenna and a Motorola reader he'd bought on eBay for $190, Chris Paget cruised the streets of San Francisco with this objective: To read the identity cards of strangers, wirelessly, without ever leaving his car. It took him 20 minutes to strike hacker's gold.

I currently have a Dell v305w wireless inkjet printer. After many anguishing hours of research, I dispairedly admitted the truth behind the opensource printing site stating that this printer is simply not compatible with open source operating systems and consequently a decorative paperweight. My question is if anybody knows of a cheap ubuntu compatible wireless all-in-one printer.

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A few days ago I installed a new network printer Samsung SCX 4x24 following the UBUNTU 9.10 screen guide. Everything went quite well and the test page was printed correctly. Unfortunately when I print a document or an internet page the output from printer is a series of white pages.

Arbor Technology announced a seven-inch tablet PC that offers a 1.1GHz Intel Atom processor and 4GB of flash storage. The ruggedized Gladius G0710S has a touchscreen display, gigabit Ethernet and 802.11b/g/n networking, dual cameras, a RFID reader, and the ability to survive four-foot drops, according to the company....

Arbor Technology announced a seven-inch tablet PC that offers a 1.1GHz Intel Atom processor and 4GB of flash storage. The ruggedized Gladius G0710S has a touchscreen display, gigabit Ethernet and 802.11b/g/n networking, dual cameras, a RFID reader, and the ability to survive four-foot drops, accord...