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Get your Alibi from Internet.

Ilya G. — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:01:10 +0000

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. The prizes depend of course on the scale of your alibi. The chippest service at alibila.com is the phone call and it’s 19 Euro. By the way, the chef of the french agency is the former private detective Regine Mourizard.

The legitimate aspect of fake documents the agencies comment as the own responsibility of the customer. And if some day the truth is unearthed the agencies will not pay the money back.

Mesh Networks – the Era of Free Calls is Coming.

Ilya G. — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 04:39:38 +0000

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 unlike pure MANETs assume the usage of acceess points. These access points makes the task of dynamic network organization a bit easier.

The idea of mesh networks is quite easy. You have a group of mobile phones and only few of them are directly connected to an access point. The other phones use their connected neighbours as routers to get an access to the global network too. Thus this technology makes possible free calls over internet without using the GSM service of mobile phone providers. TerraNet made already some tests in Tansania and Equador.

TerraNet’s chief Carlius says that the mobile phone providers are not that very much ready to invest money in development of Mesh networks. It’s obviously that it would mean the end of GSM era. But I’m more than sure that in several years when this technology gets ripe enough and mesh network components will be the standard equipment at mobile phones like Bluetooth or Wlan, it will displace current expensive phone services.

Karstadt Integrates RFID.

Ilya G. — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:00:41 +0000

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. The use of radio identification will surely save a lot of money and will be of a great help for shop assistants. Unlike barcodes radio identification does not require intervisibility and works well up to one kilometer distace. This advantage will help shop assistants to find the unsorted cloths, to carry out inventory and much more. The integration of RFID will make possible in the future the development of mobile phone or PDA applications that will serve like a guide in large stores. Besides leading you to the shelves with the cloths you are interested in, it will be possible to find out wether your size is there and if not in which stores of the same chain and in which city nearby you can find it.