http://qbit.cc Wed, 23 May 2012 01:38:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://qbit.cc/ex-ibm-employee-reveals-tv-abandoned-analog-band-to-make-room-for-rfid/ http://qbit.cc/ex-ibm-employee-reveals-tv-abandoned-analog-band-to-make-room-for-rfid/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:06:04 +0000 qbit http://qbit.cc/?p=1289 (AFP) According to a former 31-year IBM employee, the highly-publicized, mandatory switch from analog to digital television is mainly being done to free up analog frequencies and make room for scanners used to read implantable RFID microchips and track people and products throughout the world.]]> http://qbit.cc/ex-ibm-employee-reveals-tv-abandoned-analog-band-to-make-room-for-rfid/feed/ 33