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Smarter Trash: How Incentive Programs Can Motivate Participation in Recycling

October 25, 2009

Michigan Households Get RFID-enabled Rewards for Recycling | www.rfidjournal.com

Want to increase recycling and decrease the amount of trash reaching our landfills? Innovative companies are incentivizing recycling through the use of RFID (radio frequency identification) technology to track and reward - individual recycling efforts. 

The Most Important Chain of Custody: Improving Evidence Tracking with RFID

October 25, 2009

FileTrail Awarded GSA Contract for RFID File Tracking Systems | www.rfidnews.org

Today, criminal justice has entered a new era – with juries and the public demanding the preciseness that they see every night on TV shows such as those in the “CSI” franchise. This presents vast opportunities for improving often-antiquated – and imprecise – evidence handling practices in law enforcement agencies – and for companies seeking to use RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) for auto-enabling these processes.

Free Computing!: Why the Cloud Model is Growing in Government

October 23, 2009

5 steps to making the cloud a reality | fcw.com

Cloud computing undoubtedly changes how we individually and collectively will approach information technology.  The challenge, as the CIO of the United States Vivek Kundra has framed it, is to have the business of government IT work as well as IT does for ourselves in our personal business.Free (and low cost) alternatives to established software products will be an important part of IT strategy in the public sector for the next decade.

Watch Out Amazon (and Publishers): Google Editions is Coming!

October 15, 2009

Google to launch platform for selling books online | www.huffingtonpost.com

Google has announced a new platform for selling electronic versions of books through its new Google Editions service. This will enable consumers to "read" e-books on a wide variety of electronic devices. So, maybe that's why Google was scanning all those books....and we may all benefit from the "freeing" of books from print and single devices!

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