A German marketing consulting firm, Suhr Punkt, is conducting a survey of rfid. If you take the survey they will email you the survey results when compiled, in September. Take the survey in German or...
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Did you know that there is a fledgling open source RFID movement? I learned about open source RFID through the just-released InfoWorld Open Source Buyers Guide. In addition to covering the usual open...
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As you can tell from the phenomenal growth in blogs, trade magazines, email newsletters and other online publications, niche publishing is growing rapidly. Online-only publications, especially, are...
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Most marketers will tell you that fear-based marketing messages are usually less effective than positive marketing messages. The negativity tends to turn people off, more than it motivates them to...
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Mark Roberti, Editor of the RFID Journal, writes an opinion column that I really enjoy. In his most recent column he states that companies need to have a long term vision of where RFID can take them:...
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"[L]egislators don't know the technology nearly as well as you do." That, in a nutshell, is why we could end up with overly-broad RFID laws in the United States -- laws that will stifle...
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We have implemented a new partnership here at the RFID Weblog, with the site MoreRFID.com. We are now running the daily MoreRFID.com featured article here. Scroll down to the bottom of the page --...
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From the AskMallipeddi blog comes an interesting link. Mallipeddi says: I recently watched a nice talk on RFID on Research channel. Its not one of those boring talks by folks from CS schools around...
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Answers.com is becoming my favorite search engine when I am looking for background information on a subject. The site has an extremely thorough and up-to-date section on RFID. For the most part, the...
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Last month I noted the recent workforce survey by RFID Tribe. One of the upshots of that survey was the realization of just how little formal training and experience in RFID most people have. The...
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RFID made the cover of InformationWeek in the most recent (June 20, 2005) edition. The story notes that RFID is proving itself in lots of unexpected ways: "We're starting to see a lot of...
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From InformationWeek comes this article about using RFID to keep track of tools that have a tendency to disappear: "Radio-frequency identification tags aren't just for the supply chain....
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A column at Supply & Demand Chain Executive suggests that the recent GAO report about usage of RFID in the U.S. government is too negative. It says, quote: "The GAO report is flawed and...
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I have not written about using RFID in driver's licenses or the REAL ID act passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, for two reasons: (1) I've learned that a surprising amount of...
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ComputerWorld offers an encyclopedic article about uses of RFID and their impact on IT systems. It's a good read if you are in the IT field and just getting up to speed on RFID and what it will...
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The Motion Picture Association of America says the U.S. motion picture industry loses $3 Billion annually due to movie piracy. So, a group of researchers thinks it may have a way to use RFID to stop...
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ZD Net has kicked off an interesting series of short video clips they call "Whiteboard Videos." There's one on RFID that talks about the Wynn Casino that's being built with RFID...
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Sometimes we get so focused on what intrigues us, that we forget about the user experience. This short but telling snippet by Andrew Pace writing for the American Library Association points out how...
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