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Goodyear uses RFID for tire leasing to NASCAR

Posted Thu, 07/06/2006 - 20:04 by Isaac

Goodyear will start the 2006 racing season with a new tire leasing program for NASCAR's top three series and racing's first deployment of Radio Frequency Identification technology (RFID) in the form of an embedded computer chip in the tires to help manage the leased inventory.

Goodyear has been evaluating RFID tracking applications for its tires since 1984 and is currently using the technology to also manage its vendor relationship with Walmart. Read more

14 day forecasts with NASA's Ames Research Center

Posted Tue, 07/04/2006 - 17:58 by Isaac

The Ames Research Center, at Moffat Field, has over $3.0 billion in capital equipment, 4,000 research personnel and a $775 million annual budget. Ames plays a critical role in virtually all of NASA missions in support of America's space and aeronautics programs. Its role expands beyond the realm of space and into things that impact our daily lives. Ames used synthetic brainpower to design antennas for use on three small ST5 satellites that were launched into Earth orbit in March 2006. Read more

nVidia won't support firewall issues

Posted Wed, 04/12/2006 - 23:02 by Isaac

So here is nVidia Customer Support
website for customer's who buy their products to then find answers and
solutions. Well that is what I originally thought. I must admit that I
hate asking for tech advise from tech support. They never seem to have
the answers and is usually a waste of my time. But after spending
months searching for ways to uninstall the nVidia Active Armour
Firewall with no success I tried to turn to the folks that actually Read more

VOIP Example Layouts

Posted Wed, 04/05/2006 - 15:29 by Isaac

About 6 months ago I was working with a client that was interested
in using VOIP to reduce the telco costs of his hotels. He had several
locations spread between two states and he also managed an IT business
in India.

I created a series of example layouts in MS Visio so he told
understand the various methods of implementation. First let's look at
the simple layout:

voip simple overview Read more