"Wal-Mart is not infallible." That's a soundbite from a recent CIO Today article, and one that the marketplace should keep in mind. Wal-Mart -- together with a few other large retailers...
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Are we one step closer to ubiquitous computing with this tiny RFID reader? 'The world's smallest and lowest-cost 13.56MHz RFID reader has been developed by Innovision Research & Technology...
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Jim Harper of Web-tank Privacilla.org writes in an article at Tech Central Station that people needn't worry about privacy issues with RFID. He says free market forces will protect consumers from...
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A new survey announced this week at the Retail Systems trade show in Chicago suggests that many companies are still struggling to figure out how to deploy RFID. Even companies that have already begun...
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Sprint has developed 2 RFID customer-loyalty card applications: "The applications use an RFID-enabled loyalty card that can identify a customer as he or she walks through a store. The chip in the...
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Machine-to-machine (M2M) communcations will become a thriving market in the next four years, according to a research report issued by Wireless Data Research Group. M2M promises to give businesses new...
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MACtac, a global manufacturer of adhesives, has created as series of solutions for bonding and mounting RFID tags on surfaces where conditions are demanding or where a lightweight or inconspicuous tag...
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Baseline Magazine has a downloadable spreadsheet to help you calculate the costs of implementing RFID in the supply chain. Check it out. It will give you a good starting point. Hat tip to Dr....
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There's been a lot of emphasis on the use of RFID to tag and track consumer goods. Now the IT and communications technology industry is stepping into the fray, to understand what RFID will mean...
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In an exclusive report, the RFID Journal says that two major airplane manufacturers are working together to adopt uniform standards for RFID. Boeing and Airbus will hold industry forums in Atlanta...
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Sun Microsystems today opened a state-of-the-art RFID testing center. The center, in Carrollton, Texas, is set up exactly like a warehouse. customers can use the center to test their selections of...
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Sun Microsystems and Capgemini have launched a jointly developed Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) solution. The solution is designed for retail and consumer packaging companies that need to...
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The Future Now blog quotes United States Senator Patrick Leahy's talk on RFID entitled "The dawn of Micro Monitoring:" "The marriage of information-gathering technology with...
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Trolley Scan, of South Africa, has developed a breakthrough in RFID technology. It has created a supersensitive new RFID system operating on low power, yet being readable at up to 11 meters away. In...
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