Forrester Research looks to be the first company to compare and rate the main RFID middleware providers, in a research report just out. Their conclusion? Companies looking for a middleware solution...
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RFID in Japan reports that a fishery association in Japan is tagging shellfish to prevent theft from a protected fishing area: Awabi, expensive shell fish, is one of the first kinds of fish to be...
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As more data becomes available through RFID, the nature of ERP systems will have to change. A paper by Professors Edmund W. Schuster and David L. Brock of MIT, offers a future prediction about how...
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Entrepreneur Magazine says that small businesses will be reading a lot about RFID in 2005, but not actually adopting it until a few years following that. I'd say that pretty much sums up the...
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Pharmaceutical companies will be using more RFID than the consumer packaged goods industry in 18 months. That's according to a Meta Group study, as reported in Information Week. Now this is a...
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As pointed out before in this blog, the RFID patent situation is messy. But some steps are being taken to clarify the patents situation. One of the largest holders of RFID patents, Intermec, recently...
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Here in the United States you can't turn on a news show without seeing a segment on the lack of security in shipping containers. ABI Research has just issued a report suggesting that RFID is one...
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McDonald's is going to be piloting a new MasterCard wireless credit card system using RFID. McDonald's customers can use the special MasterCard PayPass card to charge purchases to their...
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Part of the reason for so little RFID industry sector coverage by stock analysts is that while the technology has been around for decades, it is only recently that RFID has begun to get wide-scale...
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A reader emailed me asking where he could find out about investing in RFID-related stocks. I'm posting the answer for the benefit of all: Researching Individual RFID Stocks All the full-service...
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Is RFID already being replaced, before it even hits the mainstream? I raise this rhetorical question only half in jest. A German company, Ident Technology AG (in German, use your Google Translator),...
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EWeek has a substantive article pointing out all the challenges with RFID -- just in case you need to read about them one more time! But buried in the article I found these two useful nuggets, about...
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This is an exciting time for RFID, because its adoption path has accelerated at such a rapid pace and interest in RFID by the business community has exploded. But as a recent Newsfactor report gives a...
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EPC Global, an industry association helping lead the way for adoption of RFID in the retail industry, now has a new president. Chris Adcock, a former executive with Gillette, takes over the helm at a...
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Jim Harper of Privicilla.org has written a paper outlining why many privacy concerns over RFID are overblown. The paper is a 12-page PDF published for the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Yet, the...
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Someone has developed software to "hack into" RFID tags and change the data stored on them. A German software consultant developed the software, called RFDump, and released it at the recent...
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