The tags were introduced to track students and help tighten control of school funding.
Users also can choose to review the photos they're tagged in before the tags show up on Facebook.
When they do so, the tags (which are glued to their shells) talk to the nearest convenient satellite.
While textual in nature, the concept of the tags, hashtags and similar metadata is another element of conveying context.
Information gathered from the tags could be made available on a public website.
As an aside, we also tested the tags with our Galaxy Nexus and had no problem picking up the associated message.
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It attached satellite tags to four sharks this April, but two of the tags broke off within three or four days.
The tags indicate that they have examined the buildings and determined whether they are safe, need repairing or should be demolished.
The tags also have inbuilt beepers which can be pinged to track down any rogue possessions they're partnered with, like your keys.
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Properly equipped refrigerators, for example, would be able to alert users whenever their stock's about to expire, simply by scanning the tags.
The Expressway and Rapid Transit Authority promised to look into the problem, but added that drivers may have affixed the tags incorrectly.
The tags have become something of a status symbol among frequent fliers.
The tags mean that ordinary shop-bought items could be tracked by computers.
If viruses do appear in smart tags, said the researchers, they are likely to cause problems for companies that read data off the tags.
The tags are designed to stay on the sharks for up to five years, which will provide scientists with a fuller picture of shark behaviour.
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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.
Under Todd, Hunter started playing up its association with the royals by making the Royal Warrant logo more prominent on the tags and packaging of Hunter boots.
As The Scotsman reports, out of a total of 987 tagging orders issued, there were 285 incidents where the tags failed, with dead batteries the biggest culprit.
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In some cases, said the researchers, viruses could be spread by household pets such as cats and dogs that are injected with the tags to help identify their owner.
In a similar vein by starting to include the tags and descriptors defined by semantic web standards into its search index, web users suddenly have better reasons to use them.
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.
Also among the new arrests are a 13-year-old girl who has been charged with burglary and a 14-year-old boy who was detained by Assistant Chief Constable Garry Shewan, who also recovered stolen trainers with the tags still on.
The scientists will also use the tags to find out whether oil exploration is altering the creatures' movements, and they will also help to establish whether the number of walruses being hunted in west Greenland at present is sustainable.
Even though I had been assured that the tags wouldn't hurt the walruses because of their tough skin and thick layer of blubber, I was still relieved to see that the animal barely seemed to notice the tag as it landed on its hide.
Unfortunately two of the tags were lost - they skimmed on the water just before they hit the walruses, sinking to the bottom of the sea, but another one, launched by Ole with the harpoon, hit a walrus squarely between the shoulders - the perfect place for a sat-tag.
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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Beyond the price tags, the types of pictures being snapped have changed in recent years as well.
Alliance Tech, the Austin, Tex. firm that makes the wireless tags and the scanners that read them, provided Foley with job title, employer and specialty for each of those visitors.
On Thursday morning, as news of the allegations spread, the hash tags lospapelesdebarcenas (the Barcenas papers) and RajoyDimision (Rajoy resign) were among the top terms trending among Spanish users of Twitter.
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