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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Over at RFID Solutions Online I found an interesting Q & A (Question and Answer) document in which several vendors of RFID readers give quick tips for selecting RFID readers. Now, if you are like...
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Chris Kapsambelis, of Barcode Data Systems, who has been a guest contributor here and is a regular commenter, has written an interesting piece published at AIDC100.org about barcodes and RFID being...
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Sticking with the standardization theme introduced in yesterday's post, let me also point out a recent intriguing announcement by Omron. Omron has developed an RFID tag that can perform at all...
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Controversy erupts in the world of RFID. Two companies are claiming to have been the first to develop a fully functioning plastic RFID tag. Philips says that it disagrees with PolyIC, which claims to...
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Every once in a while over the past two years I would hear something about combining RFID with ZigBee networks. But usually it was more theoretical than actual, often nothing more than a quick...
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Are companies giving up on RFID and going back to bar codes? No. RFID is an exciting technology which bar codes cannot fully replicate. Still, the intelligence I have been getting from numerous...
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During 2006 look for more strategic investments like this one by large companies in smaller startups, as this report notes: "ThingMagic, a privately held RFID products specialist, said Wednesday...
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IBM has a new solution to solve the issue of consumer privacy when it comes to item-level tags. The solution? Clippable tags. Clippable RFID tags would allow the tag to be disabled at the point of...
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Editor's Note: I am pleased to present this guest blog post by Chris Kapsambelis. By Chris Kapsambelis Currently, an RFID enabled item contains an RFID tag that is encoded with an Electronic...
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"You can never be too thin." You've heard this quote somewhere before, I'm sure. Apparently the guys at Thin Battery Technologies follow the same philosophy. I got a couple of nice...
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IDTechEx recently published a highly technical, yet extremely interesting, article in its Smart Labels Analyst publication, about how some companies are achieving longer read ranges with HF (13.56...
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I'm getting lots of interest in the pet tagging posts here at the RFID Weblog. From the comments section, comes this latest tidbit noting an Australian company called The Gribbles Group. This one...
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Three months ago AT&T announced it would be launching trials of a hosted RFID infrastructure for an "open," standardized RFID system. An article in eCommerce Times gives a glimpse into...
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Remember Mikey Sklar and the Faraday cage pants? Back in October 2005 I wrote about him and his experimental project in "Building a Faraday Cage in Clothing to Shield RFID Tags." Well,...
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The movie "The Graduate" has a scene in which a single phrase has become famous: "One word: plastic."Today if the movie were being re-filmed, that line might read something like...
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