People are most concerned about misuse of data in connection with RFID identification cards -- and not about RFID technology itself. That's one of the conclusions reached in a recent survey...
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The Intelligent Enterprise magazine has a substantive RFID/ data analytics article written by Rajeev Kasturi coming out in the September 1st issue. Entitled "Beyond Quick and Dirty RFID" it...
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Professor Lee at the Digiens@u-City blog outlines Korea's vision for implementing a ubiquitous computing environment: For ubiquitous communications, the government introduced what it refers to as...
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Hat tip to the Open Society Paradox......
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Gartner Inc. released a report of 44 emerging technologies and where they fare on the Gartner Hype Cycle. It shows RFID deep in the "trough of disillusionment" stage. The Gartner chart...
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For years I've been hearing about electronic paper and electronic books. It turns out the same electronic paper designed for books and newspapers may be used for RFID tags: A prototype of...
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Last week I brought you a roundup of posts describing the RFID patent pool formed by 20 companies. The patent pool leaves a big question unanswered: should your company move forward with an RFID...
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Museums around the world are beginning to implement ubiquitous computing environments in order to enhance the visitor's experience. A recent article in CIO magazine describes the uses. Museums...
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I'll leave you this Friday and over the weekend with some interesting links to RFID in the news recently. These are links to stories that perhaps did not get as much air time as they deserve, or...
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A German marketing consulting firm, Suhr Punkt, is conducting a survey of RFID. If you take the survey they will email you the survey results when compiled, in September. Take the survey in German or...
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UPDATE September 7 -- PLEASE NOTE: this particular book give away is now closed. Karthik Thyagaraja is the lucky person who received the book. Karthik is a graduate student at the University of...
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Did you know that there is a fledgling open source RFID movement? I learned about open source RFID through the just-released InfoWorld Open Source Buyers Guide. In addition to covering the usual open...
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The mainstream media that cover RFID have been reporting on the patent pool formed by 20 RFID vendors. The purpose of the pool is to simplify management of and access to RFID patents for...
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A Danish privacy consultant and a security company have joined forces on a novel approach to RFID tag security in the retail supply chain. Stephan Engberg of Open Business Innovation has developed...
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I am impressed with the better job the U.S. government departments are doing with their RFID communications outreach these days. When the U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently announced a...
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Innovez One has developed an enterprise jewelry information system using RFID. Says company spokesman David Yeo: "Our RFID Jewellery Solution is essentially deployed for a jewellery wholesaler...
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RFID was the subject of a claimed world record this year at the Defcon hackers conference. Some young men from a company called Flexillis claimed to have set a world record when they read RFID tags...
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Former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson comes out and promotes Americans getting chips implanted under their skin in order to alert healthcare workers about medical...
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Spending on RFID will grow only modestly during the next few years, according to a survey of 500 companies conducted by AMR Research. RFID Insights reports: "The 500-company survey suggests...
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A few weeks ago I pointed to a Louis Sirico article estimating the cost of a simple RFID implementation. Lou has now written a follow-up article with more pricing detail. He says: "What I heard...
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