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Back in 1999 Kevin Ashton, the British technology pioneer and cofounder of Auto-ID Center at MIT (creators of the global standard system for radio-frequency identification (RFID)), coined the term, the Internet of Things, to describe "uniquely identifiable objects (things) and their virtual representations in an internet-like structure."
An important new European Directive, which comes into force on 25 May 2011, will require companies with European customers to get informed consent from such visitors to their websites in order to use cookies
The Internet is often perceived as a "wild West" when it comes to a copyright owners' rights, despite efforts over the years by the copyright police to maintain order
Anybody who recalls the Tom Cruise scene in Minority Report, where he is bombarded by marketing messages in response to the scanning of his "new" eyes by each store he passes, will have an idea of one possible advertisers' utopia
