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by gautam on December 18, 2007
As of now there is hundred reads per minute Speed for HF tags and two hundred and fifty reads per minute speed for UHF tags but how about something more than this? Let's say three hundred? Ok five...
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by gautam on July 26, 2007
Come October and a number of devices available in the market in Korea will come along with a mobile RFID code. This is being regarded as something sort of first in the world. Three types of mobile RFI...
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by Anita Campbell on February 17, 2006
Interesting quote, by the head of German retailer Metro, on the need for standardization in RFID:
Speaking at the opening of the Global Retail Technology Forum in Düsseldorf, Hans-Joachim Korber, Metr...
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by Anita Campbell on October 4, 2005
MIT's Auto-ID Lab has been asked by EPCglobal to build a "software simulation to study how data will flow to global trading partners using radio frequency identification (RFID) and the Intern...
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by Anita Campbell on April 13, 2005
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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by Anita Campbell on April 8, 2005
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 devel...
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by Anita Campbell on March 6, 2005
Is china building another wall, an RFID wall?
An article in InformationWeek (subscribe for free) reports that China is developing its own RFID standard for use within China, as this extract from the...
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by Anita Campbell on March 2, 2005
Interesting insights about the Generation 2 standard for RFID. This columnist in Frontline Solutions has some practical advice for buyers of RFID tags and readers, about what to include in RFP documen...
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by Anita Campbell on January 14, 2005
If you read just one article on RFID today, make sure it is this fascinating interview of Verisign's CEO, Stratton Sclavos on sfgate.com. (Hat tip to Mark Johnson of RFID Tribe for the link.)
T...
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by Anita Campbell on January 2, 2005
Welcome back from your holiday breaks, and welcome to the New Year.
Even though the Gen 2 standard has been adopted, it could be 3 - 18 months before companies start deploying the new standard.
Texa...
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by Anita Campbell on December 21, 2004
By now you've probably seen the news: last week EPCglobal ratified the so-called Gen 2 Electronic Product Code standard.
EPCglobal says the standard is royalty-free, meaning that RFID vendors th...
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by Anita Campbell on November 5, 2004
Intermec has announced that "it would suspend for 60 days its intellectual property (IP) licenses to stimulate RFID manufacturers to create and test systems. A next-generation standard to allow a...
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by Anita Campbell on October 22, 2004
The recent International RFID IP Conference demonstrated just how troublesome the whole patent issue is surrounding RFID. The issues are apparently more complex than most people realized.
It seems ...
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by Anita Campbell on October 8, 2004
EPCglobal is one step closer to establishing an industry standard for RFID-based EPCs. It has moved the Gen 2 specification to the final stage before its ratification as a standard.
The next step is...
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by Anita Campbell on August 20, 2004
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, recent...
