Only the size of a grain of rice, a pet microchip is usually injected just under the skin at the back of the neck of your pet.  The procedure is usually carried out by a veterinarian and is quick and painless.  The chip carries information which is readable by a chip reader, particularly a code [...]

Happy Christmas for those of you who survived Christmas turkey, ham, stuffing and all the rest of the food and drink that gets thrown at us this time of year
New Year is just around the corner and we are getting ready for welcoming 2009 in and waving goodbye to 2008 as it heads [...]

Tagging your possessions is something many of us do but we fail to consider the full scale benefit to be derived from making sure our goods and chattels are identifiably ours.
Take look at some of the law enforcement statistics regarding lost and stolen property:

a tagged item is 37 times more likely to be returned to [...]

Radio frequency identification or RFID is the technology that uses radio signals to trak an items location; if you read about a convict being released but compelled to wear an ankle bracelet to track them, the you are looking at a practical example of RFID.
RFID has far more constructive uses than just making sure a [...]

The use of finger print identification to access a laptop or other electronic device has become an accepted though not widely adopted biometric technology for securing access, particularly to sensitive systems.  Banking applications using fingerprint identification technology have come under increasingly sophisticated attacks by fraudsters and is no longer the secure biometric solution it once [...]

Every pet should be tagged or chipped; the cost is minimal and the impact upon the pet is negligible with painless injection or for those with a fear of needles, collar tags.
More dogs and cats are lost in winter than at any other time of the year so it becomes doubly important that they are [...]