UPDATE: This survey and giveaway are now closed. Thank you.I am excited to announce that thanks to IDTechEx, we have a free pass to give away for the Smart Labels USA event. It is a $1450 value --...
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For all those people questioning whether RFID will deliver a return on investment for manufacturers tagging cases and pallets, Mark Roberti has some encouraging news. In his opinion column at the...
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Alien Technology has won the bronze Award in The Wall Street Journal's recent Innovation Awards. Alien won due to a special process its CTO devised for low cost manufacture of tags: "To...
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It's not just the United States where high tech passports are making the news. Remember that I noted a while back that objections had been raised to the plan to implement RFID passports in...
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The latest big RFID news here in the U.S. this week concerns ePassports. The United States Department of State yesterday issued final rules for RFID-chipped passports. A proposed rule had been...
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Small businesses have a reputation for being risk averse when it comes to new uses of technology. That reputation is well-deserved -- and not because they are a bunch of wimps. Small businesses...
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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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RFID tag privacy and security is an issue getting growing attention. As the use of RFID grows and touches consumers' lives, concern is also growing about whether tag data is secure or whether...
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Mark your calendars for October 26, 2005 at 1:00 PM Eastern U.S. time (New York time). Manufacturing Business Technology magazine is offering a free webcast outlining an RFID case study:...
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Mikoh Corporation, an Australian company with offices in the U.S., is making a big push to introduce its tag security solution more widely in the United States. Today the company announced its first...
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Information Week offers an article outlining the problems encountered in RFID deployments in manufacturer supply chains to date. The article takes a rather negative view. This paragraph sums it up:...
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From an article in this month's Fast Company magazine, entitled "The Future's So Bright" comes this quote of executives making future prognostications: "Radio-frequency...
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One of the more interesting uses of RFID technology from a consumer perspective -- and perhaps least written about -- is in design and art. A whole new crop of design and art students are...
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RFID tag prices are dropping. But will it drive faster adoption among manufacturers implementing RFID for their operations? Mark Roberti, Editor of the RFID Journal, doesn't think so. He writes:...
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The Traceability & RFID China Conference & Expo will take place on January 18, 2006 in Shanghai, China. The event organizers have put out a call for speakers until October 20, 2005: "If...
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Recently I pointed out the Digiens@U-City blog, a blog written by Alex Guenho Lee. On his blog he has writings outlining korea's ubiquitous computing vision for its country. Ubiquitous computing...
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CNET has published the first CNET Blog 100 list: "With more than 14 million blogs in existence and another 80,000 being created each day, how is a person supposed to find the ones worth reading?...
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Congratulations to Leela Krishna, the winner of RFID Book Giveaway #2! Leela will receive a copy of the new book "Branding Unbound." Leela writes (quoted with permission): "I am...
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I've been pleasantly surprised at how many RFID blogs have surfaced since we set up the RFID Directory. There are now 21 RFID blogs listed. That does not even count blogs on other related...
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This past weekend I finally had a chance to sit down with my copy of InformationWeek magazine featuring the "InformationWeek 500." I was pleased to see RFID featured in the descriptions of...
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