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RFID (radio frequency identification) tags are small chips that can be embedded in product labels or packaging, and can be read by specialized scanners. This technology can be used to quickly and easily identify products, without the need for customers to manually scan barcodes. RFID readers are devices that can detect and read information from RFID tags. These readers typically use radio waves to communicate with tags, and can be placed in strategic locations such as doorways, conveyor belts, or loading docks. When a tag comes within range of a reader, the reader can read the information stored on the tag and transmit this information to a back-end system.
The back-end system is responsible for processing and storing the information collected by RFID readers. This system can use the information to track objects as they move through a supply chain, monitor inventory levels, or provide real-time location data for objects.
One of the main advantages of RFID technology is its ability to quickly and accurately identify and track objects. Unlike barcode scanners, which require line-of-sight to read barcodes, RFID readers can detect tags from a distance, even if they are not visible. This can make it faster and easier to scan items, especially in high-volume environments such as warehouses or manufacturing facilities.
In addition, RFID technology can help improve inventory management and supply chain visibility. By tracking items in real-time, businesses can gain better insight into their inventory levels, and can more easily track items as they move through a supply chain. This can help reduce inventory costs, improve order accuracy, and reduce the risk of stockouts or overstocks.
Overall, RFID technology has a wide range of applications in industries such as retail, logistics, and manufacturing, and can help businesses improve efficiency, reduce costs, and gain better visibility into their operations.
For example, Japanese clothing brand, GU’s self-checkout machines is capable in identifying the products automatically with the use of RFID technology. Without the need to scan the product’s barcode one-by-one, it conserves time and reduce the risks of possible human error.
Video
You may wish to check out the video below to learn more about self-checkout machines at GU store.
Crimes of scams and fraud continues to increase and evolve into many different ways. In the past, scammers meet their target face to face to conduct their illegimate activities. One example of the scams that requires meeting face to face is the ‘Apple Scam‘ that happened in Singapore. But the scammer nowadays don’t even have to meet their target face to face, they simply uses technology to conduct the scam, it mainly involves computers, internet and phones. For example, the scammers can create a post online which says they are selling concert ticket at lower price. The victim saw the post, and falsely believe it’s true and pays the money, ended up received either nothing or a piece of fake ticket. Today I would like to share with you some basic tips on how to protect yourself and prevent you from becoming the next victim of scams.
Dealing with scams
helps in Singapore
helps in United States
https://www.scamalert.sg/ Official website by NCPC Singapore, it allows site visitor to share their scam stories.
These are the website and helpine we find it for people who needs helps or info on fraud and scam related matters in Singapore and United States.
What are some of the most common scams nowadays?:
Phone call scams
E-commerce scams
Lucky draw scams
Loan Scams
Don’t be greedy
Just like the story mention above, the victim is greedy and wants to buy the concert ticket at cheaper price. Ended up being scammed and looses money. When shopping online, don’t be fool by prices that sounds too good to be true. Please double check the seller and ensure the seller is trustworthy. And if you are looking forward to purchase concert/performance ticket, do contact the organizer to know where they sell the ticket if you are unable confirm. They will also state if they allow any third-party seller to sell ticket.
The Police and court will not call you to request for your assistance
One day, you recieve phone call from someone who claim that he/she is a law enforcement and wants you to assist in a criminal case investigation. Those people will either say they are police officer or Interpol to scare their target. Do take note, the police will not call you. Instead, they visit you straight in person if they needs you to assist in case investigation. The police will also never asks you to transfer funds from your bank account. In reality, the law enforcement will asks court to froze your bank account if you are under investigation on certain cases.
The court will also not call you to inform you things about law related matters. Intead of calling, many countries rule the court to send things like official letter or document to people for law related matters.
The scammer choose to impose as law enforcement or court’s personnel is to frighten their target. The scammer speaks seriousely over the phone and telling their victims what trouble they could ran into if they do not cooperate with them. The frightened victim will become cooperative to the scammer and help them to do what they want, which made the scammer getting what they wanted in the end. The best way to prevent is to ignore such call and do not reveal any information to them. If you couldn’t confirm if it is real or fake law enforcement, you should seek help from your local police station.
Can’t confirm the phone call?
Be alert when you receive call from unknown number. When you receive an unknown phone call, if you cannot confirm who is the caller at all, you may say these to the caller:
“Sorry, I am busy now, please leave your name and contact details, and I will contact you later.”
“Excuse me, may I know who are you?”
“Excuse me, may I know where are you calling from?”
Do note that do not reveal your personal information to the caller. Many scams happened on phone call. The scammers are trying to collect your personal information by tricking you into revealing them.
I read a book to learn more about frauds
I bought a book, the title is: ‘Scam me if you can’, to learn more things about frauds and scams. Although the book is based on fraud incidents and problems at United States, it is still good to learn more. The book also shared some stories about fraud, and I find the main cause of people in the stories becoming victims of fraud are caused by carelessness.
One of the story in the book shares about a victim whose family member allowing her friend to stay at the victim’s home. The victim did not know who is this person at all, and her family member did not even seek her permission first before letting her friend to live in. As a result, the friend took the victim’s personal info found in the house and use to conduct fraudulent activities in victim’s name. Sadly, the victim later faces many serious problems afterwards.
The CrimeWatch is a tv programme from Singapore. The stories in the films are based on true crime events occurred in Singapore.
This episode is about a person who was being cheated into paying large sums of money for buying surgical mask in 2020, he ended up received nothing from the scammer and had to file a police report. In 2020, because of Covid-19, the surgical mask becomes very demanding globally, the man in the video wants to purchase large amount of mask but he bought it from the wrong person.
I am sharing with you an episode which shows a story about scam, the year 2020 series, Episode 10. The CrimeWatch have many series, if you like to see more, do give a search on Youtube.
The Adobe had ended it’s Flash Player support but some people are still needing the Flash Player. Some browsers had stopped suupporting flash content, which causes some inconvenience to the flash users. However, there are still ways to play the flash file if they need to. Here are some of the solutions for you.
Playing flash file on computer
Flash Player projector content debugger
Download the Flash Player projector content debugger using the link below:
The Information Technology is a very large industry globally, and there are many different sectors of industry in IT. You may be considering which sector you should pick up on. Here we will show you some examples of the IT related job position that can be found in the industry. If there are any mistakes in the career stated below, we apologize for making mistakes, and please feel free to point it out.
Service related
Desktop support Managing the computer devices and equipment and troubleshoot on IT technical issue.
IT help desk Usually provide troubleshoot service for people who faces technical issues. May requires IT help desk to answer to phone calls or live chat from the users.
IT administrator Responsible for managing the server and computer system related task.
Security
IT Security specialist
Penetration tester
Network and telecommunication
Networking engineer
Network architect
Telecommunication specialist
Project and leadership role related
IT director Holds a significant leadership role and responsible for leading the IT staff team, and develop the company’s IT. Usually requires degree education level to pick up the position.
IT project manager Holds a significant leadership role and responsible for managing the IT related project.
Department manager Leads and take care of the IT deparment in a company. Some companies have more than one IT deparment specialized in certain fields, in this cases, it will need more deparment manager.
Programming related
Artificial intelligence developer Responsible in developing AI related project.
Augmented reality developer Responsible in developing AR related project.
Software programmer Develops software for computer devices using programming language.
Smartphone application programmer Develop smartphone application. Most recommended programming language to learn are Java, Kotlin and Swift.
Robotic programmer Develops the robot using programming skills.
System programmer Develops the software system or operating system.
Web developer The web developer designs website using programming language.
UX Developer Focus mainly on developing the user interface. It can be focus on developing software UI, application UI, or webpage UI.
Game developer Using programming language to develop games for computer, smartphone, and other types of devices.
Education field
Training class teacher Class teacher of training schools for skill upgrading. Teaches IT related class.
University/school lecturer Lecturer of university or public/private schools. Teaches IT related class.
The COVID-19 epidemic has led to world’s largest remote working operation. And it is the time to recognize that advancement, working from domestic will be one of the unused standards. Numerous enterprise leaders from Singapore were caught off defense when the Circuit Breaker measures begin to enforce. The companies only had a very minimal time to transform the ways their employees’ work, instructing them to shift office back home. Leading a large scale of people to shifting office back home is a new thing to numerous companies.
So, what do a few businesses have that others need when it comes to executing farther work courses of action? We had listened to numerous stories of successful implementation from well-known enterprise around the world which reported that their employees were permitted to continue working from home all the way until the end of the year. It looks like a piece of cake for these well known companies to carry out such measures, but why?
Here are some points to consider when preparing for the work from home.
Points to consider when Implementing WORK FROM HOME
The key points to contemplation for empowering work from home for your enterprise spins around the capacity of the trade for a dispersed work operation.
A valuable way to see at this is often to ask:
Operation
Are your businesses’ important operation as of now digitized, or what solutions to use for digitalized promptly?
Software
Did your business adopt the use of communication software or application as part of the digitization working environment, or did you required to educate the employees on how to handle the software?
Cyber security
Is your business well prepared on cybersecurity defense to protect your business against the cyber threats that will approach at any time?
The stretch to which you’ll be able to become a great example of Work From Home implementation depends on how distant you’ll development in each of these different range. If your company’s operation is still intensely relies on paper, it will be benefiting rapidly when you digitize them. Enterprise that are already operating digitally is more stable and capable on handling the Work From Home, as implementing it is also more faster.
Inferior company’s experience
An inferior company will have a pretty difficult experience when implementing Work From Home. Especially the company with management problems, this will drastically disturb their implementation of Work From Home and company’s operations. Implementing Work From Home operation will be more costly to such company. Their employees may be disgusted by the horrible management, the company will result in loosing respect and refusal to cooperate by the employees.
Get in touch with a reliable IT company if you need help with implement the digitizing and Work From Home operations. Trusting an unreliable company will definitely fail your company’s operation.
Survival and success are all about coping with change in the business world and the natural world alike. When emerging technologies arise to challenge traditional business models, companies need to improve digitally based on customer preferences, advances in technology and external environmental factors.Organizations are aware of it and have consider digital transformation a high priority. Many organizations have intention to implement a marketing and business development strategy that is very advance and digitized. But the technique has not yet been totally embraced by almost everyone. Many believed they lacked the expertise to implement plans for digitization, like adopting a digital society or recognizing most decent technologies for their organization.
It goes without saying that adapting Information Technology for businesses is quite difficult than it sounds. Meanwhile, some organizations made failure attempts to perform digital transformation. What could businesses be doing to enhance their prospects for success in digitization?
Develop IT Genetics for the business
Much like living organisms’ Genetic information defines their traits and adaptability to environmental stresses, the digital Genome refers to the integration of the various organizational, human, and technological elements that build up a business digital component. Just like modern technologies itself, the digital Genetic information of an organization also continued to change and progress to respond for the latest customer preferences.
Consumer experience is the first crucial element of Digital Genetic material. Identifying consumer preference or behavior are very important, as the youngster nowadays is indeed majorly involved digitally. Vast majority is performed over their smart phones every minutes. This is just another transformation that any enterprise must encounter, regardless of the enterprise size.
When the consumer preferences change, organizations requires instant research and testing, and implementation of a fresh technology. The next major element, becoming cloud-based is crucial, which enabling companies to keep expanding easily and dynamically. The transition towards cloud-based would be profitable as it benefits by mobility as cloud-based programs are created. Digital Genetic material’s third element is application advancement, which is reshaping of legacy applications. It in turn coincides alongside digital Genetic material’s fourth and final technological element: creating networks that sustain ecological systems rather than individual goods.
Although internal communication of an enterprise is indeed very crucial, it’s much more important to create an ecological system outside of your organization.
Shift the mentality other than technology equipment
The most critical element of digitization, apart from technological aspects, is the acceptance of information technology. Another dimension of digital Genetic material. The implementation requires melting down deep-rooted bunkers as well as keeping the strength throughout the whole implementation procedure that possibility consumes about a few year times.
Some of digitization’s greatest obstacles is the complexity of embedding the entire enterprise as part of the transition. There are three areas that businesses is encouraged to promote to embrace a modern digital culture, which is the flexible mentality, Data-Driven Decision Making and Human Centered Design. Data-driven Decision Making removes conjecture in your company, the Human Centered Design allows companies to understand user’s issues.
Organizations in their digitization process may encounter failure. It’s critically essential for companies to undergo the testing phase as well as gain from mistakes. Clearly, in the first try no one gets things right as individual responsible towards the work will undergo the cycles of learning journey experiences.
Cooperate with a trustworthy partner company
You may be looking for an IT company to provides your organization the IT consulting and implementing services. Be wary of who you are going to cooperate with, some IT cooperative partner may openly brag their professionalization towards assisting their clients in digital transformation. Choosing the wrong enterprise will lead you into deep water instead of having a successful digital transformation.
An unreliable company will produce the possible results if you gave them the digitization project:
Failure to sustain the digital requirements of your organization.
Incomplete or inferior quality work submitted to you.
You may not notice the defect immediately upon receiving the submitted work, it may take some time to realize. By that time, it’s too late to be discovered.
The inferior quality technology implementation will affect your organization’s management.
The technology like facial or fingerprint recognition, intelligent office, physical and cyber security defenses, and emergency safety handling is not a joke. Begin your journey towards digital transformation with a hypocritical cooperative partner is an express route to the failure and defeat by your competitor.
When you click the volume button on your Samsung smartphone, it always keep adjusting the Ringtone volume, instead of Media volume. Are you frustrated and wanting the button to adjust only Media volume, but not sure how to fix the issue? Here is a quick tutorial for you!
1. Open the setting.
2. Select ‘Sounds and vibration’.
3. Select ‘Volume’.
4. Switch on the ‘Use Volume keys for media’. And done, your button will only adjust the Media volume from now on.
In recent years, the public telephone are getting lesser in Singapore. Numerous amount of the telephone were removed by the authorities. As technology are getting more and more advance, many people nowadays have their own mobile device to contact their loved ones, which therefore the needs of having telephone in public places are not very demanding now. However, I believe there is still a need to have public telephones in public places. There are still people who don’t have their own mobile device. Few examples like the children whose parent refuse to give them a phone for the reason that they are too young, the low income foreign workers who can’t afford to purchase a phone, and the elderly who don’t know how to use mobile phone.
Some parent refuse to give their child a phone for the reason that they are too young.I had spoken to some renovation worker. They can’t afford to purchase a mobile phone, they will use public telephone to contact their family back in Bangladesh. There are still elderly who don’t know how to use the mobile phone. They will use public or home telephone to contact their family and friends.Image taken from Pexels.com
For their cases, the only option for them is to use public telephone to contact their family or friends when hanging out away from home. Or otherwise, use the telephone at home. However, some elderly in Singapore does not own any telephone and telephony line service at home. My elder neighbor is one example; she feels that it’s unnecessary to sign up for the line services as she don’t use the phone very often. When she wants to place a call, she prefer to use the public telephone because it is much cheaper.
Public telephone not only benefits these people, it also helps people when their phone’s battery had dried out. If they needs to contact someone urgently at the moment, they can use the public telephone. The public telephone in Singapore were removed massively in recent years. Thus, increasing the difficulties to find them. Although they are not demanding nowadays, but I hope the authorities can stop removing them and install an appropriate amount of telephone in public places that are easier for the elderly, children and foreign worker to reach.
Last year, one of our admin, Coding Matrix was scammed by his childhood friend. The friend asks Coding Matrix to sign up for a mobile phone contract on behalf of him. When he was asked why he can’t sign the contract himself, he gave excuses of his parent’s name already registered under other phone contract and cannot sign up for more. He also offer Coding Matrix some money in exchange for the 4G network and the new Iphone device given by the contract. Coding Matrix thought it is totally fine, he sign up the contract using his own name at the Telecom store, and gave the Sim Card with 4G network as well as the new phone to his friend.
However, when the phone bill mails to Coding Matrix’s home, as he start asking him to pay the bill, the selfish friend refused to pay the bill. His friend blocked Coding Matrix’s contact number and on social media including Whatsapp to prevent Coding Matrix from contacting him. The bill costs more than a thousand of dollars (Singapore dollar).
MAKING THE POLICE REPORT
Coding Matrix have no choice but made a police report secretly without his parent’s notice, he afraid his parent will scold him if he let them know. Coding Matrix told me when he’s making the police report, the police officer call his reported case a “Stupid Case” when the officer is discussing the matter with his colleague over the phone. Yes, I laughed, I totally agreed with the police officer that this is very “Stupid Case”. Firstly, it is because Coding Matrix is too careless, as he should not trust people so easily. He could have asked someone close to his family like his grandparent or relative to help signing the contract if he really needs the new phone and network, instead of asking his friend for help. Secondly, Coding Matrix does not even know where his friend live and ways to contact his parent. He shouldn’t help him at the first place when he is unclear of where he lives.
“I saw the police officer said my case is a ‘Stupid Case’ when he discuss my problem with his colleague over the phone.”
Coding Matrix
TRACKING DOWN THE CULPRIT
I tried to help Coding Matrix by find out where his friend live and working at, but Coding Matrix only knows his Facebook and Instagram account. When I investigate, Coding Matrix told me his friend’s family have financial problem, which causes him unable to continue his studies and he quit ITE (A school in Singapore) to start working. I strongly believe that it is nonsense, because Singapore provides bursary and financial assistance for students who faces financial difficulties, so they will be able to pay the school fee and continue receiving education. It’s almost impossible to quit school just because of financial problems in Singapore, I predict most likely his friend dislikes the class lesson or the subject which made him decide to quit school. I continue to investigate it further, but I still can’t find where he lives or work at. Instead, I found a few points which prove that he is not poor. I saw a picture of him smoking cigarette on Instagram. Cigarette are not cheap in Singapore, as I told Coding Matrix, but he told me his friend might be purchasing cigarette from unlicensed sales person which sold it cheaply. Next, from the Instagram post, I find that he have tattoos on his leg and he his hair are dyed with bright colors. These are not cheap also, if he’s really facing financial difficulties, he wouldn’t spend his money on such area at all.
Regardless, Coding Matrix now regrets helping him, as it had also gave him many problems afterwards. Few months after the contract had cancelled, the debt collection service company sent Coding Matrix a letter which asks him to pay the contract’s phone bill. Even though the contract is cancelled, the bill still have to be paid, or Coding Matrix will not be able to sign up new contract from that particular Telecom company again in future. He tried to hide it from his parent, but his mother later still found that he was scammed by his friend and scolded him fiercely. Coding Matrix’s mum brings him to the police station and made a new police report. Furthermore, his mum also filed a complaint to the Telecom company.
Besides, he could have avoided these problems if he think twice. Such scamming cases are actually common in Singapore. It’s not the first time where such similar cases happen.
His story had taught us four important points:
Not to trust others easily.
Think carefully before helping people in complex problem or accepting offer.
Don’t be greedy.
Be very careful when making friends, Coding Matrix’s story has shown us that he was making friends with the wrong person.
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