In May US Airways supplemented the use of ID tags at the Charlotte, N.
They also print their own baggage tags at the kiosks, speeding up the process at baggage drop points.
Recruiters marketing a Trading Boot Camp don fatigues and dog tags at trade shows to lure innocents to costly trading seminars.
For in-store scenarios either at the register or in the aisle, MasterPass supports the use of NFC, QR codes, tags, mobile devices used at points of sale or traditional plastic cards.
They speculated that consumer activist groups could use smart tags viruses to cause havoc at stores they are targeting.
Jackson expects each of his small labels to make money, though in some cases they are being run by family (hard to fire) or came at hefty price tags.
We'd put more weight in those figures if they were price tags attached to products or at least from the OEMs that will build them, but at least there's a target.
At least the price of tags and readers has steadily declined since the implementation of the Gen2 standard.
The touch screens on Alliance's scanners can reveal someone trying to sneak in with two tags, one for a colleague off at the craps table.
Get Back-Working hand-in-hand with the Proximo App, Bluetooth 4.0 Tags help you locate your most important things at any given time.
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Frequent fliers get free ID cards and Q Bag Tags, with bag tag colors denoting status level at the airline (black for platinum, gold, silver and bronze).
Often, the people injured in a disaster are literally color-coded by medical workers with colored tags, says Carl Ramsay, chair of emergency medicine at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, who has cared for people after an earthquake, airplane crashes, and large-scale fires.
Brewers have lately been courting the class (and cash) of the wine world with bigger bottles, heftier price tags, claims of terroir, even or, at least profound, boastful flavors.
In a pilot study in the North East, sex offenders were fitted with electronic ankle tags with a wireless connection to a mobile phone, carried at all times, which sends back co-ordinates to a tracking station.
As soon as the pet arrives at a shelter it is photographed and checked for ID tags.
One form of the technology can read 30 notes a second, although the tags have to be separated from each other by a distance of at least 2cm to reduce interference.
One involved PayPal and Bling Nation, a startup that offered RFID tags that mobile phone users could stick onto their phones for use at 150 or so merchants in the Silicon Valley area.
Steve Bohme at BML says many publishers are deliberately slapping higher price-tags on their titles, anticipating that retailers will want to discount them.
After being identified through the tags they used, the boys were made to clean up their graffiti at David Lister School and a youth club.
At 33 sites across the country, IRS auditors had their name tags and their best behavior on display as they sacrificed part of their weekend to help the taxpayers.
We haven't yet heard of any problems with the RFID tags increasingly being used to monitor inmates in prisons, but it looks like the electronic tags used to keep watch on early release offenders are decidedly less reliable, at least according to a recent investigation into the matter in Scotland.
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Yet, with companies trading at close to their 52-week-highs, are hefty price tags on these transactions justified?
No word yet on what would happen to these tags post-digestion, though our inner 13-year-olds are giggling at the possibilities.
That way, a user could point the phone at a store and see both the store and a welter of cyberspace tags with details of, say, the goods for sale inside.
We think luxury means much more than impressive facilities or expensive price tags luxury is found in the exceptional service and outstanding experiences you find at a Five-Star hotel, restaurant or spa.
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"This is intended as a wake-up call, " said Andrew Tanenbaum, one of the researchers in the computer science department at Amsterdam's Free University that did the work revealing the weaknesses on smart tags.
The latest change came this month when Penney began adding back more sales events and putting price tags on half of its merchandise to show customers how much they're saving by shopping at Penney.
For example, you can shop at discount stores rather than premium name brand stores that feature the allure along with higher price tags.
An Australian who spent most of his career in the U.S., he was a rebel outsider with club privileges (a column for more than 20 years at Time, an open door at The New York Review of Books, film crews trailing him around) and no cultural baggage tags that others could readily identify.
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