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Google + P&G = RFID + data mining
Posted on November 29, 2008 by Mark Baard
Parallelnormal is not encouraged by the companies’ new innovation-idea-swapping agreement.
This item (excerpt, link, below) is about more than a cross-cultural exchange between two of the largest data-gathering giants on Earth.
I say, welcome to the Internet of Things. P&G wants all of its goods to bear RFID tags, which for the first time will match each [...]
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Geezers get in on the Web action
Posted on November 28, 2008 by Mark Baard
Thanks to my brother, Erik Baard, for passing along this piece, about grannies and grandpas making their holiday appearances via webcam:
“We would be strangers to them if we didn’t have the Web cam,” said Susan Pierce, 61, of Shreveport, La., who will be a virtual attendee at Thanksgiving dinner with her grandchildren in Jersey City [...]
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