All Wireless Technologies News - March 2006

RFID faces virus security risk

  • News
  • Date: 22 March 2006
Dutch computer science researchers have warned that viruses embedded in radio frequency identification (RFID) tags used in supply chains to track and trace goods are around the corner.

RFID widens grip

  • News
  • Date: 22 March 2006
Despite niggling privacy concerns, radio frequency identification (RFID) is impacting a wide range of industries beyond its obvious home in the supply chain

EC backs wireless development project to aid creation of cross-platform applications

The European Commission has backed a new wireless development platform designed to make it easier and cheaper for service providers and users to develop and adopt mixed wireless technologies.

RFID developments aim to boost flexibility and facilitate roll-outs

Radio frequency identification systems featured heavily at this year's CeBit trade show, with a dedicated exhibition area for the supply chain technology.

CeBIT suppliers fail Wi-Fi security test

More than half the wireless networks used at the CeBIT IT trade fair in Hanover, Germany, last week were vulnerable to hackers because they had no encryption protection, research has revealed.

RFID tags could be exposed to viruses

European researchers are to demonstrate it is possible to insert software viruses into radio frequency identification (RFID) tracking tags.

National Express trials coach-based Wi-Fi

  • News
  • Date: 14 March 2006
National Express has begun a trial of wireless access systems on its coaches travelling between London and Cambridge.

Wireless special report: Remote revolution

  • News
  • Date: 14 March 2006
Establishing the balance between effective security and business benefit poses a major challenge for the IT department. Alison Connolly reports

Switch to RFID 'could take 15 years'

It could be 15 years before radio frequency identification (RFID) tags become universal in retail, according to German supermarket giant Metro Group, which is running a pioneering pilot of the technology.

News in brief

  • News
  • Date: 14 March 2006
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