In the USA alibi-agencies exist already for a long time. In Europe they are quite new. Kleinezeitung reports about two online alibi agencies a french one alibila.com and a swiss one alibi-beton.com. Thus you can order a telephone call and if you pay a bit more you get even payment bills, flight or hotel reservations. (more…)

The first bells are already tolling! The time of mobile ad-hoc networks is coming. The Austrian online newspaper Kleine Zeitung reports about a Swedish compony TerraNet that currently works hard on practical realisation of Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN). Ericsson has invested already about 4 mio Euros in this project. Mesh networks are a subtype of Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks that (more…)

Golem reports today that one of the largest German shopping chains Karstadt is going completely to change over to RFID (Radio Frequency Identification, if you never heard of RFID, shame on you! wikipedia article for you) in the not too distant future. Beginning from the 10-th of September 2007, RFIF technology is already used in the Karstadt store in the center of Düsseldorf. (more…)