A couple of weeks ago there was a report about cell phones (mobile phones to everyone outside North America) being used to "kill" RFID tags. If you were losing sleep over it, well, now you...
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Sponsored Post Editor's Note: The RFID Weblog is a media partner with Smart Labels USA. In fact, I plan to attend and will be live blogging from the event at least one of the days. Following is...
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Readers of this blog from outside the United States may or may not be aware of the political brouhaha about port security dominating the nightly news here. In a nutshell, the furor concerns the...
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The United States Department of Defense is moving forward on plans to use active radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to support collaborative military coalition operations with 24...
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Ferret, the Australian site, offers an "RFID Myths Debunked" article written by an executive of Manhattan Associates. Note how the article reflects evolving attitudes toward and...
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Last summer, in August 2005, Virgin Atlantic Airways announced it was using RFID to track airplane parts. At that time the company revealed it was using RFID to track the parts in the warehouse, by...
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Sponsored PostCognio's products help troubleshoot wireless network problems such as interference, and also help monitor performance. Cognio recently announced additions and enhancements to its...
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Sticking with the standardization theme introduced in yesterday's post, let me also point out a recent intriguing announcement by Omron. Omron has developed an RFID tag that can perform at all...
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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,...
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A white paper by Reva Systems likens the situation today with RFID to the evolution of the commercial Internet ten years ago: "Flash back again ten years ago -- there were no products designed...
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RFID can't stop me! That's what Richard Marcus, a casino cheater says. Keep in mind that even though I called him a cheater, it is not defamation. Marcus is widely regarded as the...
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Readers have been emailing me for information regarding RFID for ticketing and badges at trade fairs. If you are interested in RFID for conference and trade show badges, head over to the Zebra...
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Controversy erupts in the world of RFID. Two companies are claiming to have been the first to develop a fully functioning plastic RFID tag. Philips says that it disagrees with PolyIC, which claims to...
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Here's more about the market size for RFID. Glyn Holland of IDTechEx explains what's behind the conflicting analyst reports about the RFID market size: "Several analysts, including...
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Every once in a while over the past two years I would hear something about combining RFID with ZigBee networks. But usually it was more theoretical than actual, often nothing more than a quick...
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Are companies giving up on RFID and going back to bar codes? No. RFID is an exciting technology which bar codes cannot fully replicate. Still, the intelligence I have been getting from numerous...
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By 2016, the global market for RFID will reach $26.23 Billion according to research firm IDTechEx. That is compared with a market size of $2.71Billion projected for this year, 2006. IDTechEx's...
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During 2006 look for more strategic investments like this one by large companies in smaller startups, as this report notes: "ThingMagic, a privately held RFID products specialist, said Wednesday...
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