RedMoon Inc. Replaces City-Wide Network with BelAir Networks Wireless Broadband Mesh in Town of Addison, Texas

Improved wireless performance and coverage to address city employees, residents, and business professionals in popular Dallas suburb

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SAN FRANCISCO -(Dow Jones)- Google Inc. (GOOG) Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said Wednesday that the Internet giant could team up with at least one partner to bid in the U.S. government's upcoming wireless spectrum auction. "It's perfectly possible that the best bidding strategy may be to bid with one or more partners," Schmidt told journalists following a gathering with financial analysts at the company's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters. "We won't make our decision until that last minute." The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is slated in January to begin auctioning a swath of 700-megahertz spectrum, which is considered prime U.S. wireless real estate because the airwaves can travel long distances and penetrate thick walls. Google has said it could bid up to $4.6 billion on the spectrum even though the government hasn't met all of the company's conditions that regulators open up part of the spectrum so that any device, software or service can work on the network. Alan Eustace , Google's vice president of engineering, said earlier Wednesday it is important for the Internet search giant to put its money where its mouth is when it comes to promoting an open mobile phone industry. "If you want to change an industry, it is important to put our money where our mouth is. As a company, it is important that we work to make mobile systems as useful and expandable as the way the Internet has been," he said. Schmidt said Google's primary goal, should the company bid on spectrum, was to create a wireless environment that provides more choices to users, which would in turn give the company more opportunities to provide search, advertising and other services to mobile customers. However, Vint Cerf, Google's so-called chief Internet evangelist, told analysts he was unaware of any specific plans regarding what Google would do if it won the spectrum. Google co-founders Eric Schmidt and Sergey Brin repeatedly declined to address questions about the much-speculated Google phone.
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Hastings hospital to track patients electronically

The hospital will be the first in New Zealand to test the futuristic technology. Hawke's Bay District Health Board hopes information collected by the electronic tags will identify bottlenecks in the hospital system and help it better manage beds and roster staff. Where RFID technology has been used overseas, patients are usually tagged using wrist bands. The long-awaited RFID trial has been organised by the HealthIT Cluster, an organisation whose members include about 40 health IT firms. The lead technology partner is Christchurch software company Emendo, which sells a capacity planning application called CapPlan. IBM New Zealand. Patient management software giant IBA Health will also contribute to the trial. Emendo co-founder Dave Tinkler hopes the system will then be adopted by other hospitals in New Zealand and overseas. HealthIT Cluster chief executive Andrea Pettet says the trial aims to use RFID tagging to ease overcrowding in emergency departments, using the principles of "lean thinking". "Lean thinking is a philosophy that has been used widely in manufacturing industries, but is also very applicable in healthcare. "It is essentially about simplifying processes, identifying which parts of a process add value to patient care, enabling care to flow more effectively and eliminating waste." Hawke's Bay DHB chief information officer Jo-Ann Jacobson believes the principles of lean thinking and the innovative use of IT will have substantial benefit for the emergency department. The RFID monitoring system will be linked to Hawke's Bay hospital's PAS patient management system, so capacity planning and bed management systems are automatically updated when patients are admitted and discharged. The movement patients or manual scans could trigger messages to be automatically sent to clinical staff equipped with Vocera phones. These are voice-activated mobile phones sold in New Zealand by IBM that are designed for hands- free operation and which can send messages over a hospital's local area network, without incurring toll call charges. http://www.stuff.co.nz/

Animal-ID acquisition as RFID market shows growth

Vsurance has entered the animal RFID market through the acquisition of Animal-ID, an Arkansas, USA-based company that provides livestock producers, feedlot owners, and others with inventory control, tracking and management tools. This new acquisition comes at a time when research and consulting firm IDTechEX has recently predicted that the market for RFID applications for animals, food, and farming will reach some US$9.4 billion by 2017, suggesting that this may become the largest single application market for RFID technology. "The IDTechEx report illustrates the tremendous market opportunity for RFID technology over the next ten years and beyond. As the animal population continues to grow, the need for RFID technology will increase correspondingly," explained Russell Smith, CEO for Vsurance.

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RFID Enabled Active Shelf May Signal the Death of the Dewey Decimal System

Baltimore, MD (PRWEB) -- Barcoding Inc. announced that their RFID Active Shelf Inventory System may soon spell the end for the Dewey Decimal System in libraries across the country. The shelf system, recently awarded the MD Daily Record Innovator of the Year Award, utilizes RFID technology to constantly monitor the location of books and other media on library shelves.

The 131 year old Dewey Decimal system, invented in 1876 by Melvil Dewey, relies on labeling books and classifying them primarily by subject relationships, time, or type of materials, producing numbers at least three digits long, but indeterminate in length. The resulting number determines the order and location that books are placed on shelves. Barcoding Inc. will be demonstrating their shelf system at this week's Palinet07 Conference being held at the Baltimore Tremont Hotel + Convention Center.

Barcoding's Active Shelf can use either HF or UHF RFID tags to track the location of each book on the shelf, and items can be classified by genre, author, subject, or other characteristics much like you see to today's bookstores. The software that runs the Active shelf system can integrate with a library's ILS (Integrated Library System), allowing customers to search for books and identify which shelf in the library they are on, even if they are misplaced in a different section.

Many libraries are adopting this technology to help track items in areas with large circulation, including DVDs and CDs, as well as reference areas where items are not checked out, but used within the library. "Librarians find this system particularly useful to monitor reference books where the only way they know which items are being frequently used, is by seeing which books are constantly left on tables," said Bill Poulsen, Director of RFID Integration for Barcoding Inc. "With our system, we can tell how often books are taken from shelves, and how long they are used. Now librarians have the added knowledge of how often materials are used, and less frequently used materials can be kept in storage rooms on a reserve basis. This clears up valuable shelf space enabling libraries to purchase more reference books that are pulled from the shelf most often." The main RFID reader can reside on one "master" shelf, while the other shelves act as antennas, requiring nothing more than a network cable to send information back and forth to the host system. All of the shelves in the library can be set-up with three to four inventory zones, so locating a particular book is quite easy. "Many libraries are already tagging books for check-in and check-out functionality, we are taking the technology another step by letting them see where the books are in their library," added Poulsen. "While most libraries are using HF tags, our shelf is designed to work with either HF or UHF tags. The benefit of using UHF tags is that they are nearly one-third the cost of the HF tag; depending on a libraries circulation, and using UHF tags can save enough money in tag cost alone to cover most of the infrastructure costs. Please contact Jon Stroz, Director of Marketing, at 888.860.SCAN (7226) x121 or jons@barcoding.com.
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Proxim Wireless Introduces 4.9 GHz
Proxim Wireless Corporation (NASDAQ: PRXM), a leader in core-to-client solutions for broadband municipal wireless networks, today announced the mobile ORiNOCO® AP-4900MR-LR mesh access point and the mobile Tsunami(TM) MP.11 Model 4954 point-to-multipoint subscriber unit. The new products provide mobile broadband data access in public safety vehicles using the 4.9 GHz spectrum dedicated for public safety applications in the United States. The mobile ORiNOCO AP-4900MR-LR is a high capacity, high power, dual-radio mesh access point for public safety applications. Providing double the capacity of single-radio mesh access points, the dual-radio architecture separates mesh traffic from client access traffic. The ORiNOCO Mesh Creation Protocol (OMCP) enables mesh connections using the 4.9 GHz radio while the 2.4 GHz radio is used exclusively for Wi-Fi client coverage. The product supports sophisticated security features such as IEEE 802.11i and AES encryption. Its design enables flexible and easy deployment on the interior or exterior of a public safety vehicle. The system can be powered by the vehicle's 12 volt electrical system. http://money.cnn.com/news/

UPM Raflatac Announces Library Tag Warranty
UPM Raflatac has introduced a warranty for RFID tags sold for library book-tagging applications. The guarantee covers the lifetime of a book in standard environmental conditions, which is considered to be 10 years in a public lending library. If a UPM Raflatac library tag fails at any time during the 10-year lifespan, says Mari Ruissalo, the company's RFID communications manager, UPM Raflatac will replace it at no charge, regardless of when it was applied to the book. The warranty covers tags used only to track books in library applications, Ruissalo says, because such tags are used as part of a well-controlled application where the lifetime of a tag is the lifetime of the asset. Each UPM Raflatac reseller, or systems integrator selling the tags, will provide replacement library tags to its customers as needed. http://www.rfidjournal.com/

Socialstream
Socialstream is the result of a Google-sponsored capstone project in the Master's program at Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute. This project was guided by three goals that built upon each other:
Initial Task: Rethink and reinvent online social networking;
Refined Focus: Discover the user needs related to social networking and explore how a unified social network service can enhance their experience;
Prototype Goal: Create a system for users to seamlessly share, view, and respond to many types of social content across multiple networks;

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