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...Police come knocking after tracing an RFID-tagged soda can found at a crime scene to her credit card. While RFID certainly has the potential to be the most invasive consumer technology ever, supporters--consumers themselves, after all--are working on safeguards, such as "kill codes" for tags after checkout. "Privacy mavens are going to wring their hands over this, and I'm sympathetic," says Saffo, "but RFID is too good to stop...
...items with RFID chips that can communicate with a home network. The Chinese are more pragmatic. Shanghai and 44 other cities already use an RFID payment system for public transportation. In Singapore's library system, all 9 million books, videos and DVDs are embedded with antitheft chips, allowing self-checkout. "With bar codes, you need to precisely align the reader and the tag, but with RFID even old people and young children can use the system," says library-board senior development manager Wong Tack Wai. With costs down to 40¢ an item, libraries in Australia, South Korea, New Zealand...
...cart will display a map to guide you through the aisles, pointing out sales and specials. Instead of taking a number, you'll use the touch screen to request shrimp from the seafood section or cold cuts from the deli to be picked up on your way to the checkout...
...with the e-mail from the man in Vermont. The issue for the web site came down to what was the connection of Canon Robinson to the organization, and what was his connection with the web site. He provided answers that proved to be satisfactory. They were checkout. They needed to be checked out. TIME: You're being accused of using a political dirty trick...
...behind schedule, Clinton and her attending entourage met the line of visitors so efficiently that she was able to sign more copies of the memoir than she—or Wordsworth Books, which was sponsoring the event and unloading hundreds of copies of the book at a makeshift checkout stand outside the hotel—had planned. Clinton originally agreed to sign 800 books, but the actual number exceeded that, according to a Wordsworth employee...