There they go again in California! A bill is quickly moving through the legislature there, proposing to limit RFID tagging in state identity documents. Banned uses for RFID would include student...
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The Horse magazine reports that the National Institute of Animal Agriculture (NIAA) has recommended RFID tagging as the required form of identification of horses, to best provide disease tracking....
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Recently I got a call from Wayne King at Miles Technologies and we had a pleasant chat. He tells me Miles Technologies offers a low cost RFID labeling solution for under $25,000. The company is...
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RFID Tribe has just launched a new RFID Talent and Careers Center. Any employer can post jobs. They do not need to be members of RFID Tribe to use the service. However, RFID Tribe members receive...
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Looking for an RFID white paper about supply chain implementations? HP recently came with one that is very useful. It is full of goodies such as checklists, charts and diagrams of all manner. There...
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In the works: a new, active RFID-based information network to track and manage containerized ocean cargo. The network will be built jointly by Savi Technology Inc., a venture-backed provider of...
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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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When large companies see a good thing in small companies in their industry, what happens? Today partnerships...tomorrow acquisitions. That's the conclusion of ABI Research. Recently it noted the...
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Is Las Vegas going to stop being the place where "what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas"?: "What happens in Vegas, STAYS in Vegas." Holy crap. Are there any words more magical than...
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The big U.S. RFID event -- RFID Journal Live -- has wrapped up. It's interesting that the concluding keynote speaker was not a technologist or a corporate executive, but a Futurist. Paul Saffo...
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InformationWeek has an intriguing piece about RFID standards and the pace of RFID adoption in China, and how that impacts multi-nationals like General Motors: "General Motors china will hold off...
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In 2005 the global market for RFID will be US$1.94 Billion. Added demand will increase the market size to US$26.90 Billion in 2015. That's according to a new research report by IDTechEx. The...
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Next week the biggest RFID event in the United States will start: RFID Journal Live!RFID journal, the publication that puts on this event, says to expect to see the debut of new tags and readers...
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Think that using RFID to track shipping containers is all about port security? This short article in InformationWeek suggests that it's also about reducing costs and improving efficiencies for...
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Via Boing Boing comes a story about a guy who implanted a Phidgets RFID tag into his left hand. The whole thing was captured in a Flickr photo slideshow here. There is an interview by Jordan Ginsburg...
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Here's an intriguing idea: instead of RFID tag data being in the control of the manufacturer or retailer after the tagged item is sold to the end consumer, why not have ownership of the RFID tag...
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Out of the U.K. comes a report about scientists considering the adoption of RFID to avoid heartbreaking mistakes (?) when using in vitro fertilization (definition). New Scientist magazine has the...
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Check out Mark Roberti's hilarious and creative piece entitled 'The "Bar Codes on Steroids" Hearing.' It spoofs on the recent U.S. Congressional hearings about steroid use in...
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