If you want an overview of the big picture of the RFID market -- how big it is presently and the forecast for the future -- you need only look to yesterday's opening keynote at . Dr. Peter Harrop,...
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Here's more about the market size for RFID. Glyn Holland of IDTechEx explains what's behind the conflicting analyst reports about the RFID market size: "Several analysts, including...
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By 2016, the global market for RFID will reach $26.23 Billion according to research firm IDTechEx. That is compared with a market size of $2.71Billion projected for this year, 2006. IDTechEx's...
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Here is an interesting tidbit about venture capital activity involving RFID companies. Quan Ventures recently exited its investment in Alien Technology, bringing more than a 2-for-1 return to...
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Texas Instruments announced the sale of its Sensors unit to Bain Capital for $3.0 Billion, but retained its RFID unit. RFID Update has an insightful interview outlining the reasons behind TI's...
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VeriChip, the maker of RFID chips for pets and humans, and RFID-enabled medical bracelets, announced it is planning an IPO (initial public stock offering). Interestingly, for all the hype about RFID...
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The RFID Journal offers an interesting guest column about the state of RFID usage in Chinese manufacturing (or, perhaps non-usage would be more exact). Steven H.T. Wong of China Elite Technology...
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RFID continues to attract investment money for the chip/tag providers (in case you were wondering about the attractiveness of the RFID market). Two different fundings were announced just in the past...
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Here's a bombshell. A representative of a major research house had this to say recently while talking about the state of the RFID market in an article at Destination CRM: "One of the biggest...
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Heard on the street: "small is the new big" and "miniaturization, miniaturization, miniaturization." Actually, that was not heard on the street. It was heard at the CA World...
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A new report by research company Frost & Sullivan says revenue in the RFID retail market totaled $400.2 million in 2004. The study, called "World Retail RFID Markets -- A Retailer...
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The latest big news in the RFID market is Smartcode's announcement that it received one of the world's largest orders for RFID tags, to supply MSWAYCO, a leading semiconductor distributor in...
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ThingMagic, manufacturer of RFID readers, just got $10 Million in venture capital funding. ThingMagic, as you may recall, is the company that says it has the only reader which can read any RFID tag....
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Gartner Inc. released a report of 44 emerging technologies and where they fare on the Gartner Hype Cycle. It shows RFID deep in the "trough of disillusionment" stage. The Gartner chart...
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Museums around the world are beginning to implement ubiquitous computing environments in order to enhance the visitor's experience. A recent article in CIO magazine describes the uses. Museums...
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Spending on RFID will grow only modestly during the next few years, according to a survey of 500 companies conducted by AMR Research. RFID Insights reports: "The 500-company survey suggests...
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According to Computer Business Review Online, citing a Datamonitor study: "Five years from now, the RFID software, hardware and services market is expected to be dominated by North America, with...
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If you are interested in pursuing RFID opportunities at the Federal level, or if you just like to know what's going on in the government, then you may be interested in a brand new report about...
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