Korea eases border control

South and North Korea officials have discussed easing restrictions on border passage and telecommunication in the Gaeseong industrial park, reports The Korea Herald.

South Korea has suggested using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags for electronic entry control and expanding the system to the North's side of the border.

South and North Korea have agreed to improve border passage, customs clearance and telecommunication conditions in 2007, but never got to discuss the actual implementation due to the sapping of bilateral ties.

Avaya has rolled out unified communications technology to improve patient care and boost the efficiency of healthcare processes, states InformationWeek.

The solution was revealed at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference in Atlanta.

The mobile device check-out system uses RFID to track hospital staff by viewing a map of the hospital on a computer screen.

An analysis report from McKinsey consultancy reveals that technologies such as WiFi and RFID will soon be able to feed data to the Internet about people's position, status and location, says the Guardian.

The report points to the electronic chip system used in the Oyster card and suggests that the Internet of things - where everyday devices are able to send information over the Web - is closer than ever, resulting in a series of technological and social advances.

The report says: "Ever-smaller silicon chips for this purpose are gaining new capabilities, while costs are falling. Massive increases in storage and computing power, some of it available via cloud computing, make number crunching possible at very large scale and at declining cost."