The Ubiquitous Internet

Ubiquitous Computing: Big Brother's All-Seeing Eye - Part 1

Introduction
Ubiquitous Internet means connection between virtual internet and physical world at anytime, anywhere by anything, anyone.

I found an interesting article relating to ubiquitous internet access on campus of University of Nottingham. Students are enjoying internet access anytime anywhere, buy merchandise using e-wallet, make free phone calls and unified messaging service within the network of the campus. Wouldn’t it be more interesting if they can expand the services from campus to a big city in near future?

Ubiquitous Internet and e-Commerce

Ubiquitous Internet will create a lot of opportunities for e-commerce. The first one will be the telecommunication company. The emerging technology has improved the connection to internet from dial-up in the past to broadband and wireless now. Many telecommunication companies are starting to build their networks and providing Wi-Fi services. Besides, internet users are continuing demand for faster speed connection. Therefore, the telecommunication company with the most wireless “Hotspots” and fastest network in the future will be capable to control in this field. An example of a country with wide broadband penetration will be South Korea. By increasing the numbers of cyber café, hotspots and reduce the internet access fee, South Korea has reach an 83% of penetration rate.

The next important thing for ubiquitous internet will be the mobile devices. Examples of mobile devices such as PDAs, laptops, mobile phones and other devices must be capable to connect using wireless. Consequently, the application of these mobile devices must include big display size, battery power and memory, high security and high connection maintenance. For example, Yahoo! Go has built a gateway to mobile internet but only to certain hand phone models only. In present days, people making phone calls through network service provider such as Celcom, Digi and Maxis and charged based on duration of call. It will become more flexible and cheaper if we all connect to the internet with our mobile phones for communication.

Lastly, with ubiquitous internet, we can connect many devices with internet. With the technological convergence between internet and the devices, we can make our life a lot easier. I had put videos on the ubiquitous computing innovated by Korean in this blog. As the technology is emerging frequently, the “internet of things” is beyond of our imagination. In future, almost every physical thing can be digital transform and virtual items can be realistic. As for myself, I would like an ATM machine which automatically prints out cash from my bank account when my wallet is out of money.

Ubiquitous Computing: Big Brother's All-Seeing Eye - Part 2

References:

Top 10 Most Connected Cities, viewed 27 August 2008
How To.com

Total Broadband Experience - Extreme Broadband, viewed 27 August 2008
Extremebb.net

Yahoo! Mobile, viewed 27 August 2008
Mobile.Yahoo!Go

Introduction 2 RFID......

RFID is beginning to revolutionized the way business in done and in a way a part of technology in e-Commerce. RFID is first used in the supply chain but now it evolves into various business purposse like RFID in apparel, RFID in advertisement, RFID in automobile, RFID in medical, and a lot more to come. With increasing usage or implementation of this technology, large research will be done to enable more usage of it and price that will decline will enable all industry in using this technology.

What is RFID??

RFID stands for Radio Frequency Identification which it is a kind of technology that uses radio waves in doing automatic identification relying on storing and remotely retrieving data using devices called RFID tags or transponders. It is more similar to a small electronic device that consists of small/silicon chip and antenna that might be capable in carrying 2000 bytes of data or maybe less than that. It can be both attached or implanted into a product, animal or even person. This RFID device act the same as a bar code or even a magnetic strip enacted behind a credit card or even ATM card enables information available just with a scan of the device. Mainly, the key feature of this technology is the ability in instant tracking of tagged object.

How It Works??

RFID should have several components in its system like tags, tag readers, edge servers, middleware and application software. With this complete system, RFID enables data transmission, data storage and tracking purpose. The tag of RFID will transmit data which being read by RFID reader or tag reader and data being processed based on the particular application.

Pros & Cons!!!

Pros:
· Able to scan within distance
· Low maintenance
· Accessibility and availability
· Unique Features
· Mobility
· Low cost due to increasing demand

Cons:
· Read range and Interference
· Non-standardized standards
· RFID reader and tag collision
· Privacy and security

This is mainly a general understanding of RFID...Please proceed to The Emerging of RFID for leaving comments. Thanks.

References:

Technovelgy, “What Is RFID”, Viewed 25 August 2008, http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Technology-Article.asp?ArtNum=20#Security

RFID Journal, Viewed 25 August 2008, http://www.rfidjournal.com/

Wade, J, “Pros and Cons of RFID”, Viewed 25 August 2008, http://203.6.199.77/articles/ad/0c0213ad.asp

What R Innovation & Emerging Technologies in e-Commerce???-A General Explanation

Basically e-Commerce may be still at an early stage of development in Malaysia but not in other well-developed country. e-Commerce will keep evolving with the affect of innovations, technologies, different institutions & industries & other parties with vested interests. With the emerging development in technologies like The Internet vs. Private Nets, security system (encryption, public key, cryptography), infrastructures in e-Commerce (EFT, digital cash), online catalogs, EDI, blogging, smart cards (Octopus Card, Touch n Go), RFID, Mobile Commerce, and etc.........

In this blog...different aspect of emerging technologies will be discussed in order to understand better how technologies and innovation can affect in the world of e-Commerce

bloggers are welcome to give their views and opinions on Innovation & Emerging Technologies in e-Commerce while this blog is being updated by the contributors......

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