Climate change presents a crossroad for the Information technology industry. One road follows the present route while the other is paved with opportunity.
The global Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) market is set to reach $US4.65 billion in 2007 and blow out to $US26.9 billion by 2017. From cattle to humans, boxes, key chains and weapons, you never know where RFID tags are going to turn up next.
Electronic document management vendor, ELO Digital, has announced a global partnership with Microsoft to distribute ELO Office with Microsoft Office 2007 and ELO Enterprise with Microsoft Exchange.
In an embarrassing case of email gone wrong, Microsoft’s US PR firm Waggener Edstrom has mistakenly sent a 13-page internal document on Wired contributing editor Frank Vogelstein directly to Vogelstein himself.
It may have taken two centuries for one of the world’s largest knowledge bases to acquire its analogue collection, but it takes just fifteen minutes for the world to produce the equivalent volume digitally.
Mortgage rates, stock prices, news headlines and sport scores, widgets offer the latest in instant information grabbing tools accessible from the desktop.
RFID is starting move into everyday use, however, while the technology offers unprecedented levels of control and feedback the sheer volume of information generated during the tracking process can present new challenges.
With the end of a significant memorandum period for employers, new record-keeping requirements for businesses have this week come into operation under the WorkChoices legislation.
