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by Anita Campbell on February 25, 2005
Investment banking firm R.W. Baird held its RFID Conference recently and issued a very informative report. Key take-aways: "The near-term outlook is cautious given the immaturity of the industry....
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Tom Ridge, the former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security is going to keynote at this year's RFID Journal Live! event in April. You don't want to miss this, especially if you are involved in...
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The recent GS1 meeting in Brussels brought together executives and officials from 90 countries to discuss RFID and bar coding. GS1 brings together two standards bodies for electronic product coding:...
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The European Commission's data protection and privacy body, Article 29, has published a report on RFID use. Concern is raised over using RFID to track people's movements. According to the...
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The California school that was testing an RFID-badge system to track students, has halted the program. The company developing the system -- that had asked the school to beta test for them -- has...
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RFIDInvesting.com has an excellent webinar "Follow the Money in RFID Investing." Requires free registration. Several companies are represented. One of the highlights of this session is Beth...
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The RAND Corporation, a research think tank, has issued a paper outlining privacy concerns about RFID-enabled access cards in the workplace. The paper, entitled "9 to 5: Do You Know if Your Boss...
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School kids in Japan have been wearing RFID-tagged identification devices. Now the first elementary school in the United States, in the rural town of Sutter California, has adopted RFID-enabled...
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Research firm IDC has made 10 predictions for information technology in manufacturing during 2005, according to Vice President Bob Parker. Among the predictions is this one: Lean Sigma enterprise...
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Just in case you thought there couldn't possibly be another use for RFID: "Shaken by scandals involving the black-market sale of body parts, University of California officials are considering...
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As I reported earlier, I spent most of last week on the road attending the New communications Forum in California, where I spoke on a panel -- and dealt with a number of crises long distance. As...
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Konomi over at RFID in Japan wonders aloud whether he will forget about privacy concerns in exchange for an extra hour and a half of sleep. He reports that Narita Airport in Japan will start a test...
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is going to test RFID tags at border crossings in Arizona, Washington state and New York. RFID is designed to track visitors to the U.S., and will match up...
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