Here is an interesting tidbit about venture capital activity involving RFID companies. Quan Ventures recently exited its investment in Alien Technology, bringing more than a 2-for-1 return to...
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by Anita Campbell on January 30, 2006
RFID in the bank branch of the future, via an article in CNET: "Welcome to the bank of the future. For all the talk of the Internet killing off the branch network, around half of a bank's...
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Sponsored PostEditor'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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RFID tags are being used today to track pets, check out library books, and pay tolls without stopping your car. All these uses and more are summed up in an article in the Press Enterprise, a...
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IBM has a new solution to solve the issue of consumer privacy when it comes to item-level tags. The solution? Clippable tags. Clippable RFID tags would allow the tag to be disabled at the point of...
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Editor's Note: I am pleased to present this guest blog post by Chris Kapsambelis. By Chris Kapsambelis Currently, an RFID enabled item contains an RFID tag that is encoded with an Electronic...
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What are the top trends to expect in the RFID industry in 2006? One industry executive says to look for: Expanded Wal-Mart, Target and Marks and Spencer pilots. Improvements in speed, coverage and...
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Material Handling Management magazine has an interesting article about the top technology trends for 2006 affecting its industry. It suggests that 2005 was the Year of RFID, and that substantial...
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Interested in some webinars about RFID? The RFID Journal is offering one-hour webinars on RFID topics. One is coming up tomorrow, January 17, 2006, at 2:00 PM Eastern U.S. time. It is entitled...
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Texas Instruments announced the sale of its Sensors unit to Bain Capital for $3.0 Billion, but retained its RFID unit. RFID Update has an insightful interview outlining the reasons behind TI's...
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Konomi at the RFID in Japan blog reports that Japan has joined the countries planning to implement RFID chipped passports: "On December 22, 2005, the japanese government formally decided that...
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Zebra Technologies offers a list of Gen 2 "do's" and "don'ts" to help companies avoid potential implementation pitfalls. Do go straight to Gen 2 if you are starting RFID...
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"You can never be too thin." You've heard this quote somewhere before, I'm sure. Apparently the guys at Thin Battery Technologies follow the same philosophy. I got a couple of nice...
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IDTechEx recently published a highly technical, yet extremely interesting, article in its Smart Labels Analyst publication, about how some companies are achieving longer read ranges with HF (13.56...
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I'm getting lots of interest in the pet tagging posts here at the RFID Weblog. From the comments section, comes this latest tidbit noting an Australian company called The Gribbles Group. This one...
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Chris Kapsambelis from Barcode Data Systems, was kind enough to send me a link to an article about some of the practical problems with RFID. The article notes: "At first glance, passive RFID...
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Deal Architect has a list of top ten enterprise predictions for 2006 worth checking out. His list focuses on enterprise software and hardware predictions. He cautions against letting Web 2.0 go to...
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VeriChip, the maker of RFID chips for pets and humans, and RFID-enabled medical bracelets, announced it is planning an IPO (initial public stock offering). Interestingly, for all the hype about RFID...
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