Re "In Airline Baggage Roulette, Travelers' Odds Are Getting Worse" (front page, Nov. 21): Airlines are resisting investing in radio frequency identification tags that would make tracking of checked luggage nearly foolproof, to save the 20 cents per bag plus the one-time hardware installation cost.
His father was John Kees, who ran the F. D. Kees Manufacturing Company, makers of hooks, handles, cornhuskers, and other items of hardware, and who at one time held the presidency of the Nebraska Manufacturers Association.
Lock making was at one time Connecticut's major industry and the museum displays locks, keys, locksmith tools, instruments and hardware.
System management tools provided fairly basic distribution and deployment functionality, so automation choices were limited and if a large manual exercise touching all the hardware was happening anyway, then it made sense to make all the changes at one time.
"Every processor that could fail at one time did," he said, a problem made worse by a number of software failures "and some where we weren't quite sure if they were hardware or software".
One time procurement of hardware/software for data management was made in the initial phases of the program.
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Most companies measure cost not by the initial one-time purchase of hardware or software, but by what it costs over a period of years, or the total cost of ownership.
With a Fitbit Force or a Jawbone Up or a Moov or a Garmin, users are paying a one-time price for hardware and then using the app for free.
Gemalto is a major producer of SIM cards and NFC for mobile phones but also provides secure transaction solutions to banks, including EMV chip cards, payment terminals and user authentication systems for online banking, such as one-time token generating hardware devices for 2FA.
