Internet of things: Should you worry if your jeans go smart?

What if those new jeans youve just bought start tweeting about your location as you cross London Bridge?

It sounds far-fetched, but its possible if one of your garments is equipped with a tiny radio-frequency identification device (RFID), your location could be revealed without you knowing about it.

RFIDs are chips that use radio waves to send data to a reader which in turn can be connected to the web.

This technology is just one of the current ways of allowing physical objects to go online a concept dubbed the internet of things, which industry insiders have shortened to IoT.

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2011-09-26 09:12:01, Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ipv6ActNow/~3/-bfsmvCERRg/

London’s Olympics Could Lose The IPv6 Race

From the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games, questions have been asked as to whether London 2012 will be able to live up to the spectacle of the 2008 games in China. One area people may not have considered however is whether Great Britain can match China with regards to its IT infrastructure.

Everything about the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games was IPv6 ready. From the website, to data networking, camera transmissions for sporting events and civil applications such as security systems, lighting and thermostats. Even the 15,000 taxis in Beijing were monitored via IPv6 sensors so that traffic congestion was measured quickly and effectively relieved.

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2011-09-26 09:10:16, Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ipv6ActNow/~3/D1wkLpEmc4k/

Internet of things: Should you worry if your jeans go smart?

What if those new jeans you've just bought start tweeting about your location as you cross London Bridge?
Complete info at BBC.

2011-09-25 20:55:16, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=8028

CloudFlare?s CEO talks about the broken Internet, and how to fix it in

The Internet is broken. It?s fundamentally flawed in the ways that only things which are put together as patchwork can be. This is the inherent danger of starting a network, not realizing even a modicum of its potential, and then building everything on top of what already existed. It?s a patch job, and we live on it.
Complete info at TNW.

2011-09-25 20:53:46, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=8027

Internet - Call for operators to move to IPv6

The Minister was speaking at a workshop on the transition from Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) and IPv6 organised by ICTA yesterday at The Link, Ebene.
Complete info at Defimedia.

2011-09-25 20:52:21, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=8026

London?s Olympics Could Lose The IPv6 Race

Beijing 2008 ran on IPv6; if London 2012 hasn?t implemented it, that could be an international humiliation, says Axel Pawlik.
Complete info at eWeek.

2011-09-25 20:50:24, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=8025

IPv6 Adoption in the Data Center

Most data center operators know that a failure to transition to IPv6 will eventually restrict access to connected resources and degrade communications efficiency.
Complete info at DataCenterKnowledge.

2011-09-25 20:48:45, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=8024

H3C builds IPv6 for University of Hong Kong

The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is designing and building its next-generation IPv6-ready network infrastructure with the help of IP networking solution provider H3C.
Complete info at MIS-Asia.

2011-09-25 20:43:04, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=8023

India favours change in Net number resource allocation

It wants countrywide allocation in Asia-Pacific region rather than to companies.
Complete info at TheHindu.

2011-09-25 20:41:46, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=8022

IPv6 Will Cause Some Security Headaches

But it doesn't really matter because IPv6 is coming anyway so you might as well get prepared.
Complete info at eSecurityPlanet.

2011-09-25 20:40:17, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=8021