Minimal or no regulation is usually a good thing. The U.S. Federal Trade commission says it has no current plans to regulate RFID. According to a short report in RCR News, the FTC says it is in the...
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Intermec has sued Matrics claiming infringement in several of its patents. "Intermec believes has infringed on RFID patents that cover readers, chips, RFID tag operation and the association of...
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Japan is planning to implant RFID chips in foreign dogs as a way to prevent rabies. JapanToday has the article and does not make it clear exactly how rabies will be prevented. My assumption is that...
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RFID will take on a larger share of IT spending over the next year. Information Week reports in a new Forrester Research study out June 1, 2004 (requires fee): According to senior analyst christine...
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The San Jose Mercury News has a fascinating article about Charles Walton, whom they dub the "Father of RFID."Although Walton did not strictly invent RFID technology, he was responsible for...
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From Paul Golding's Weblog on Wireless: "...an emerging-technology expert from Deloittes produced a figure from Walmart that the expected daily data flow from RFID tags will be 2.6 Petabytes....
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"Wal-Mart is not infallible." That's a soundbite from a recent CIO Today article, and one that the marketplace should keep in mind. Wal-Mart -- together with a few other large retailers...
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Jim Harper of Web-tank Privacilla.org writes in an article at Tech Central Station that people needn't worry about privacy issues with RFID. He says free market forces will protect consumers from...
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A new survey announced this week at the Retail Systems trade show in Chicago suggests that many companies are still struggling to figure out how to deploy RFID. Even companies that have already begun...
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There's been a lot of emphasis on the use of RFID to tag and track consumer goods. Now the IT and communications technology industry is stepping into the fray, to understand what RFID will mean...
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In an exclusive report, the RFID Journal says that two major airplane manufacturers are working together to adopt uniform standards for RFID. Boeing and Airbus will hold industry forums in Atlanta...
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In an article at TechCentralStation, Instapundit writes about his fears that the nanotechnology industry is setting itself up for a PR disaster. It's all because that industry's very own...
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Via the Dottocomu weblog comes this interesting little article about parents using radio frequency tags to watch over their children: "The Nikkei Shimbun newspaper reports that NTT and Dainippon...
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The Aberdeen Group has a useful -- and FREE -- report about implementing RFID. One of the things I found most valuable about the report are the many charts outlining implementation. This one, for...
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Dan Gillmor suggests that consumers can gain power if each item around us has an RFID tag that provides information back to us on the spot: "People want more information about what they're...
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I'm not much of a fan for Macromedia Flash technology when used for ordinary websites. My own commercial site was originally almost entirely in Flash and I have been gradually replacing that...
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Editor's note: We are pleased to provide the following "on-the-ground" report from guest blogger Atul Salgaonkar, Founder of RFID Solutions. He blogs about a speaker at a recent...
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Somebody just sent me a link to a terrific downloadable RFID PowerPoint presentation. In it was this slide contrasting "active" and "Passive" RFID tags: Source: RFIDexchange.comThe...
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AIM Global, a trade association supporting the "automatic identification and Mobility" industries, has an excellent FAQ sheet on RFID. One of the things I like best about these FAQs is the...
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There's been a lot of talk recently on the Internet and in the blogs about RFID chips supposedly being hidden in US$20 bills. Turns out that's just an urban legend. The story got started when...
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Here's an interesting tidbit: Snopes.com debunks an urban legend that suggests Mondex and Motorola are planning to replace money with RFID chips in people's heads and hands. If the legend...
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Forrester Research has an interesting background report on RFID. In it I found this chart showing some of the varied uses of RFID: Copyright � 2004, Forrester Research, Inc.......
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John Soat, Senior Executive Editor of InformationWeek, today shared this factoid assembled by the staff at InformationWeek: "If Wal-Mart were to put RFID tags on every item in every store and...
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Steve Hall over at Northwest VC says that one of the best new products shown at the recent DEMO 2004 show is an RFID product: "Blue Vector Systems. Infrastructure solutions for large-scale RFID...
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It all started with a link someone sent me to the Ubicomp and Shopping weblog, which is in Japanese. Even though I cannot read Japanese, the weblog has some great links (in English) to RFID articles....
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