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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Filed in archive Sports
by Anita Campbell on December 27, 2005
"As 100,000 tennis fans entered the Shanghai Qi Zhong stadium last month to attend the Tennis Masters Cup 2005, they waved RFID-based tickets past RFID interrogators (readers) stationed at all...
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I will be taking a few days off to celebrate the Christmas holiday here in the United States. I wish you a Merry Christmas. And to those of you from other countries, I wish you: Feliz Navidad; Buon...
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The RFID Journal offers an interesting guest column about the state of RFID usage in Chinese manufacturing (or, perhaps non-usage would be more exact). Steven H.T. Wong of China Elite Technology...
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Remember that RFID patent consortium that all the tech media were talking about earlier this year? Ever wonder what happened with that? Mark Johnson recently wrote an update on the RFID patent...
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Some of you send me emails looking for information about RFID, either because you want to learn more -- or you have to make a presentation to senior management. Well, if you are in that situation,...
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I will make a prediction for 2006: pet RFID tagging will go mainstream in the United States. This is a product whose time has come. Part of the challenge in researching RFID pet tags is that the...
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RFID continues to attract investment money for the chip/tag providers (in case you were wondering about the attractiveness of the RFID market). Two different fundings were announced just in the past...
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A few months ago I wrote about Obivision (Open Business Innovation) and its approach to RFID privacy. Using Obivision's technology, the concept is simple: RFID tags would freely transfer data...
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And in the category of yet another inventive use for RFID comes a note from Anders at the RFID Buzz blog. It turns out that the Swedish national bank is considering adding RFID tags to banknotes....
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Here's a bombshell. A representative of a major research house had this to say recently while talking about the state of the RFID market in an article at Destination CRM: "One of the biggest...
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If you wanted any further evidence that the market in RFID is growing, all you need do is look at how large and well attended some of the RFID events are becoming. Take, for instance, RFID World....
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From a press release issued by NEC Corporation comes news of the invention of a very thin, rechargeable plastic battery that can be used in RFID applications: "NEC Corporation today announced...
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We have talked a lot on this blog about RFID tag prices dropping. New production techniques as well as increased demand did their fine work, and resulted in lower tag prices -- especially in large...
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Filed in archive Retail
by Anita Campbell on December 06, 2005
Staying with my theme about the U.S. holidays for just one more post, let me point you to an important article about RFID in the retail setting, in the publication Line 56, called "RFID...
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At this time of year here in the United States, many of us are focused on preparing for our year end holidays: Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, New Year's. Part of the reason we focus on the...
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Many thanks to all who took our recent survey here at the RFID Weblog. I learned some surprising information about what you are interested in -- and not interested in. The top three subjects you want...
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