Archive for October, 2004
RFID - Federal Regulations
By Harish Keshwani at 26 October, 2004, 10:01 pm
RFID, besides being a very exciting technology, unfortunately can also be a very privacy invading technology. Every time a company decides to start-up a RFID based company, privacy concerns are raised.
However good news is around the corner, Federal Trade Commission has laid out the blueprints of agency’s dominion over RFID and will soon establish guidelines [...]
RFID - Funding Opportunities
By Harish Keshwani at 25 October, 2004, 10:19 pm
In spite of privacy concerns, RFID technology is darling of Venture capitalists. In recent months, US experienced growth in quarterly capital funding over previous quarters, for the first time in three years.
Combined with short project times, ready availability of technology, rising interest and demand from retail and other industries, has made RFID based startups very [...]
RFID - Talent Availability
By Harish Keshwani at 24 October, 2004, 3:40 pm
As discussed in my earlier posts, if we decide for RFID, we will not manufacture RFID chips butinstead, we will develop solutions around RFID chips, using “middleware” software. Big names like IBM, Microsoft, Sun, SAS, SAP are either in process of providing development environment or out-of-the-box solutions for RFID. I want to concentrate on the [...]
RFID - Idea Viability
By Harish Keshwani at 23 October, 2004, 8:18 pm
We are onto the last technology in our comparison. Here we will be discussing Radio Frequency IDentification based solutions - Idea viability. As in computers, Hardware is becoming cheaper every day, whereas custom software that make these computers useful, remains premium cost component of complete computer solution. RFID solutions seems to be following the same [...]
Nanotechnology Summary
By Harish Keshwani at 20 October, 2004, 10:07 pm
BioTech
NanoTech
RFID
IdeaViability
Almost allideascontroversialas it involvesmodifyingnature
Great Ideas, but long development times
ComingSoon
TalentAvailability
Abundanceof Talent,but retainingthat talentcan be anissue
Shortage of talent and lots of turnover
ComingSoon
FundingOpportunities
VentureCapitalis hard tocome, dueto longproductdevelopmenttimes
Being a glamourous technology, Funding is easier to get, inspite of longer product development time
ComingSoon
FederalRegulation
StrictRegulationsand lotsof them
Still in infancy stage. Company has chance to formulate them in co-operation with Government
Summary of Biotechnology [...]
