RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)

RFID has become very popular now a days, it being used as auto data collection (ADC) technology in many fiel

ds for example Passports, Libraries, School, Universities, Hospitals, Stores and Museums.

RFID is way of tracking objects using the radio waves typically called an RFID tag. Some tags can be read from several meters away and beyond the line of sight of the reader.

There are two major parts, One is an integrated circuit for storing and processing information, modulating and demodulating aradio-frequency (RF) signal, and other specialized functions.The second is an antenna for receiving and transmitting the signal.

On the other hand some say that using this technology for identification is a security threat, for example countries that put RFID in passports include Norway, Japan, most EU countries including Ireland and UK, Australia and the United States, Serbia, Republic of Korea.

See this artical at InfoSecurity.Us!

For further details you can visit... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFID

Traxster .NET Micro Framework Kit

Wirte your own progrmms for Traxster robot using .NET Micro Framework Robotic Kit.

. Now you can learn the .Net Micro Framework, and use it develop cool autonomous applications using the Traxster Robot! This is the coolest .NET Micro Framework development kit available!
The Traxster MF Robot Kit uses one of our Serializer Robot Controllers for the low level sensory and motor control, and features the SJJMicro EDKPlus development kit that serves as the .NET MF brains. The EDKPlus kit is based on the 200 Mhz iPac-9302 ARM9 processor, which is where the Tiny CLR runs.
Developing managed C# applications for the Traxster MF is extremely easy, and deployment is a snap. Managed applications deployed to the EDKPlus board are non-volatile. Thus, the application starts right up once power is applied.
This kit comes packed with hardware and user documentation, including a Visual Studio 2005 Solution containing the source code for the SerializerLibMF library and useful examples.
Want to learn the .NET Micro Framework, and have tons of fun doing it? The Traxster MF Kit is your development solution!

For futher details see...

http://www.roboticsconnection.com/p-85-traxster-net-micro-framework-robot-kit.aspx

Microsoft Axum for .Net

Build Parallel Applications using Axum

Axum is a language that builds upon the architecture of the Web and principles of isolation, actors, and message-passing to increase application safety, responsiveness, scalability, and developer productivity.
Other advanced concepts we are exploring are data flow networks, asynchronous methods, and type annotations for taming side-effects.

You can learn more about it at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/devlabs/dd795202.aspx

Virtualization with Hyper-V

Well this is not a very new technology but i am realy loving it now, it can reduce the cost and management effectively. With Hyper-V, the next-generation hypervisor-based server virtualization technology. This enables you to make the best use of your server hardware investments by consolidating multiple server roles as separate virtual machines (VMs) running on a single physical machine and also efficiently run multiple different operating systems—Windows, Linux, and others—in parallel, on a single server, and fully leverage the power of x64 computing.




For further details see http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/hyperv-main.aspx

Blu-ray Disc Technology

Its has been more than year this technology is avilable. Most of the new Sony laptops has this technology. Blu-ray Disc is an optical disc storage medium designed by Sony to take the place of the standard DVD format. Its main purposes are high-definition video and data storage with 50GB per disc. The disc has the same physical dimensions as standard DVDs and CDs use to have.
The name Blu-ray Disc is derived from the blue laser used to read and write to this type of disc.