There is a movement undergoing to apply RFID tags on all cattle in U.S. by 2009 but there are some people who believe that RFID would not serve the purpose and they are already trying to find...
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Now here comes an RFID which when put in the washing machine comes out unharmed or what we say transmitting. This tag has been developed by Fujitsu. The tag which is placed in a soft plastic shell...
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Intermec has come up with a reusable, rugged tag which can withstand extreme temperatures and hazardous exposures which is common in manufacturing and material handling exposures. Called the Intermec...
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The famous jeans company Levi Strauss has gone ahead and tested RFID tags on its clothes that were shipped to its stores in U.S. and Mexico. The company says that the tests were meant for tracking...
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Philips Research is developing a low cost RFID tag which is based on plastic electronics, is thin as a paper as is just the size of postage stamp. It is expected that this tag would replace existing...
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Taking note of the privacy concerns regarding RFID, IBM has come up with clipped tag technology which enables the consumers to tear or scratch off RFID antennae which diminishes the threat of an...
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SmartCode Corp has made available RFID inlays at a historical price of five cents per tag. Isn't it cheap but hold on here is the catch, one needs to order hundred million tags in order to avail...
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One of the interesting points that came up several times at the recent Smart Labels USA Conference was the fact that companies are utilizing multiple frequencies of RFID. A single company might be...
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AIM Global, the industry association, has been actively studying the use of barcodes as a backup to RFID. AIM Global noted this in a recent newsletter article about barcodes to back up RFID:Every...
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It was only recently that the scare of RFID virus died down when vendors dismissed the possibility of RFID virus by saying that the amount of memory in the tags was too small to cause any such thing...
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Certainly the consumer protests over the use of RFID tags have tarnished its image that would affect its acceptance. The damage has already been done and it does not matter whether the protests were...
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It's a widely accepted fact that RFID has resulted in a number of benefits across sectors. In order to increase the number of benefits that this technology can deliver, researchers at the...
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Are you of a forgetful nature? Are you in the habit of misplacing things then and now? Have you ever lost your keys? If the answer to all these questions above is yes, then you certainly need RFID....
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Intune, which manufactures RFID antenna, came a long way from Finland to exhibit and make connections as the Smart Labels USA show in Boston. I got a chance to snap a photograph of the company...
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By now you've probably read about the supposed virus attack involving RFID tags. One of the reports that hit the news even claimed that cats could "get viruses" from RFID tags. I have...
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Now, this is what I call the perfect use of technology. First of all the Japanese used this technology for saving lives of disaster victims and now it's the turn of cows. Animal Industry Lab,...
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Editor's Note: Chris Kapsambelis's prior guest article was so popular that I am very happy to present another, this one on the topic of two-dimensional barcodes and how they are under...
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AIM Global has come in defense of RFID Technology by questioning the technical paper - 'Is Your Cat Infected with a Computer Virus'. According to the paper RFID tags can be used for...
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RFID tags subject to viruses sound malicious but true. Researchers are increasingly becoming aware of this threat. It has been found that viruses can be implanted in RFID tags by way of a SQL...
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RFID has a bright and "printed" future. That may sound counterintuitive in this day of wireless communications and the Internet, where newspapers and magazines lose ground by the month. But...
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