This article says New Zealand is lagging behind in RFID. Exporters will probably be among the first to adopt it, if they are required to by customers such as Wal-Mart. Sounds like New Zealand is...
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While the West is all agog with Wal-Mart, Metro, Tesco and the U.S. Department of Defense implementing RFID, China appears to be moving in its own separate direction. Many fear China is setting...
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Privacy International and the American Civil Liberties Union have written an open letter to the International Civil Aviation Organization ("ICAO") protesting the proposed use of biometrics...
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Forrester Research has an interesting background report on RFID. In it I found this chart showing some of the varied uses of RFID: Copyright � 2004, Forrester Research, Inc.......
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Wal-Mart appears to be cutting back on the requirements for requiring its suppliers to comply with RFID tracking. See media reports here and here. It seems that neither Wal-Mart nor its suppliers are...
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Here's a neat new use of radio frequency making the rounds on the blogs: RFID tags on sushi plates. "Engadget has a great post about a company in Japan using RFID tags in Sushi Bar plates....
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John Soat, Senior Executive Editor of InformationWeek, today shared this factoid assembled by the staff at InformationWeek: "If Wal-Mart were to put RFID tags on every item in every store and...
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What is the old saying: an army moves on its stomach? Soon RFID will be required for suppliers to the U.S. military. By January 2005 all of the military's 46,000 suppliers will have to embed...
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Ever since Philips's and Nokia's announcements about personal RFID readers, a number of great posts have appeared on the blogs pointing out how those devices may signal a switch in the balance...
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laura has started the RFID in Libraries weblog. Even though it is a new blog, she already has posted links to some excellent resources for libraries trying to make buying decisions with respect to...
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Via Wired.com comes word of two new products designed to allow senior citizens to remain at home longer, without the need to enter nursing homes. The products are Intel's Caregiver's Assistant...
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Steve Hall over at Northwest VC says that one of the best new products shown at the recent DEMO 2004 show is an RFID product: "Blue Vector Systems. Infrastructure solutions for large-scale RFID...
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Via Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends weblog comes word of a radar tag sensor to eliminate friendly fire during combat. Sandia National Laboratories, near the beautiful Sandia Mountains in...
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Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. will be placing RFID tags on all tires shipped to Wal-Mart. Goodyear will be complying with the previously-announced Wal-Mart mandate requiring RFID for its top 100...
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It all started with a link someone sent me to the Ubicomp and Shopping weblog, which is in Japanese. Even though I cannot read Japanese, the weblog has some great links (in English) to RFID articles....
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Via Atmaspheric Endeavors comes a report on CNet suggesting that retailers' RFID mandates will be successful only if RFID vendors overcome 3 issues: Define rules for where on a case to place RFID...
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Georgetown University Hospital is conducting a study with 100 blood transfusion patients, comparing bar-code technology with RFID technology to track transfusions from donor to patient. The project...
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Via an article in Line 56 comes word of a new report from consultancy A. T. Kearney, urging firms to focus on the benefits to be derived from RFID. For instance, companies should concentrate on...
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My Background My name is Anita Campbell. I am an entrepreneur who is interested in just about everything. Right now my main business interests are information technology, the small and midsize...
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Joi Ito's Moblog has a great photograph of dust speck sized RFID chips. You don't realize how small they are until you actually see them. I don't know if these are part of the malaysia...
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X-Change Corporation and its subsidiary Airgate Technologies, announces that it has signed an agreement with Tranguyen Corporation, of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The agreement means that Tranguyen...
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FEC Inc., a Japanese company, has developed the world's first multiband RFID chip. It has the capacity to operate at different frequencies which means it can be used in Europe, the United States...
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Cat Hiding from AuthoritiesFrom Akron, Ohio in the United States, comes this story making the headlines. The local animal shelter plans to offer a tracking system to reunite loose or roaming cats...
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Responding to pressure from consumer privacy advocates, Metro Group has decided to drop the use of RFID tags in loyalty cards at its showcase Extra Future Store in Rheinberg, Germany. Metro is the...
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So-called smart tickets, containing RFID tags, are increasingly being used in sporting events. According to an article in Vnunet.com, the German 2006 Fifa World Cup and the Chinese 2008 Olympics are...
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The Australian IT News reports that in most uses of RFID right now in Australia are in manufacturing and agriculture. Unlike other parts of the world, retailing is not the overriding leader there....
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