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Tracking RFID
Tracking RFID research and articles about RIFD in the media...
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Top pharmaceutical RFID vendors put
their heads together
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Top pharmaceutical RFID vendors put
their heads together (Source:
In-PharmaTechnologist.com -
Montpellier,France) 02/10/2006 - The
pharma industry
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Collector Cards and Video Gaming
come together using RFID
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Collector Cards and Video Gaming
come together using RFID (Source:
Gizmag - Victoria,Australia) ...
entertained until they found out
about girls is going high tech, with
the first-of-its-kind HyperScan
hybrid game system that uses RFID
technology, allowing...
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News from RFID Journal's Industry
Summits
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News from RFID Journal's Industry
Summits (Source: RFID Journal - USA)
... manufacturing, retail, consumer
packaged goods (CPG) and
pharmaceuticals industries gathered
in Chicago this week for the first
annual RFID Journal Industry ......
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RFID Reaches the Legal Limit
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RFID Reaches the Legal Limit
(Source: RFID Journal - USA) By Mark
Roberti. October 2, 2006
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New RFID Gate Technology Aims to
Improve Read Rates
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New RFID Gate Technology Aims to
Improve Read Rates (Source: RFID
Journal - USA) Sept. 29, 2006
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GAO RFID and LAT Form a Partnership
on RFID Solutions for ...
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GAO RFID and LAT Form a Partnership
on RFID Solutions for ... (Source:
PR Leap (press release) - Chula
Vista,CA,USA) (PRLEAP.COM) Toronto,
September 30, 2006: GAO RFID Inc.
(GAO), a supplier of the world
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ICO spells out correct use of RFID
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ICO spells out correct use of RFID
(Source: IT PRO - London,Greater
London,UK) Businesses must ensure
complete transparency in their use
of radio frequency identification
(RFID) technology, including telling
people how to disarm the tags ......
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Identifying the business benefits of
RFID
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Identifying the business benefits of
RFID (Source: VNUNet.com - UK) ...
Systems (RTLS), disposable sensor
systems, smart active labels (SALs)
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Rich Miller: Auto-ID
Physical objects will have embedded intelligence that will allow them to communicate with each other and with businesses and consumers. Electronic Product Code (EPC) technology offers an automated, numeric system of smart objects that revolutionizes the w...
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Nokia signs up for near-field
wireless push
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In the year 2007, we WILL all be
carrying around RFID tags, but the
ones I'm speaking of will not be in
our clothing as a result of
supplychain
applications. They are
more likely to be in our wallets
(for NFC swipeless cards). As
for RFID...
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Meta Group weighs in on RFID
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This month, a number of the
RFID-related publications and
websites made much of the Meta
Group's statements about the
difficulties likely to be faced in
the upcoming two or three
years. But, rather than an
emperor has no clothes de-bunking,
the appro...
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FDA mandates bar codes on drugs used
in hospitals
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I know it's old news by now, but I
cannot get this thought out of my
head: In the nearterm, the
value proposition, the return on
investment and the appropriate level
of scale, price and functionality
for RFID in pharma and medical asset
management ar...
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Impinj launches long-range field
rewritable RFID
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Longer range, field rewritable tags
are going to make a difference
IMMEDIATELY in the ROI calculations
for RFID. What will make still
MORE difference is semi-passive
(class 2) and active (class 3) tags,
despite their almost inevitable
higher cost.&nb...
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Near field communication standards
forum set up
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A 'Near Field Communication' (NFC)
Forum is being established to enable
the use of touch-based interactions
in consumer electronics, mobile
devices, PCs, smart objects, and for
payment purposes. The forum is a
result of collaboration between
Nokia Corpora...
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Disposable Paper Computers
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In conjunction with an EPC Class 3
(active & passive) RFID tag, at
an OEM price of $1 chip, this is
another approach to smart
dust. Thanks to Techdirt for
pointing out this article which
appeared on Techweb. In the age of
disposable everything, ...
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Matrics to start making read/write
RFID tags
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I've noted in a previous post my
predisposition toward active tags --
the EPC Class 3 tags. I also
noted that it would be a reasonably
short period of time before we'd
hear announcements. This
announcement from Matrics of true
read/write tags&n...
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The RFID Imperative
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Thanks to RFID Log for pointing out
this rather extensive article in
CIO. While a lot of it is
a repeat of much of the trade press
explanation of RFID, the article is
worth reading to get the thoughtful
perspectives Meridith Levinson has
extract...
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The RFID Weblog
Implementation and Application of RFID technology...
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Now Cell Phones Will Keep a Tab on
Your Temperature and Glucose Levels
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Would you like to see your mobile
phone act as a thermometer or even
check your glucose levels? This is
what an IP development company
Gentag wants to do. The company
plans to turn you mobile phones into
universal...
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RFID for Museum Exhibits - Reader
Needs Help
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A reader of this blog emailed me
looking for help. He is in charge of
putting up an interactive exhibit in
a museum and would like to
incorporate RFID technology. So I am
posting his note to see if...
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Santa Improves Efficiencies With
RFID
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As I was making a last quick run
through all the press releases that
normally arrive in my inbox, I could
not help but notice one issued from
the North Pole. The contact person
listed is Saint Nicholas. And...
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RFID 2006 Year in Review - Some Lost
Their Shirts
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Mr. RFID gives his take on whether
2006 was a good year. He says, it
all depends on whom you to talk
to:Here we are at the end of 2006,
and what a year it's been for the
RFID Industry....
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Cyber Concrete Can Prevent
Earthquake Damages
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Have you ever seen an area after
being hit by a massive earthquake?
Ever seen the building structures
fall like a pack of cards with
hundreds of bodies trapped inside
them for days. This could have been
prevented to...
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Nokia to Keep a Watch on Its Guards
with RFID Phones
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You know that Nokia manufactures
RFID cell phones but I am not hear
to tell you about whether Nokia has
launched any new model of RFID phone
or not rather I will tell you that
the company is using...
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RFID Sewers in Germany
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Where barcode doesn't work, RFID
does. Germany's city of Warendorf is
keeping an eye on its 127 mile long
network of sewage pipes and canals
with RFID. It ensures that the city
keeps compliance with the stringent
laws requiring...
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RFID 2006 Year in Review - Retail
Mandates Disappoint
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For my next several posts I plan to
focus on reviewing the year 2006,
and what it meant for the RFID
market, so that we can set a
baseline for where we are as 2007
rings in. In this...
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Identity 2.0
The next generation of Identity...
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What is the value of SSO to real
users?
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Recently this question was posted to
the Identity Gang mailing list. It
is a good question, as it makes sure
that we are working on something
that is not focused on being cool
and technically innovative, but that
is actually useful to real users.
I’v...
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OpenID Bounty Program
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A consortium of vendors including
Sxip Identity, have launched a
bounty program here at OSCON to
encourage open source projects to
add support for OpenID to their
sites. It is great to see the
industry rallying around delivery on
the Identity 2.0 vision.
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Identity 2.0 at AACRAO
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Today I am giving the opening
keynote at the AACRAO Technology
Conference. AACRAO stands for
American Association of Collegiate
Registrars and Admissions Officers.
Next to government, registrars from
colleges issue some of the most
important identity data...
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Internet Identity Workshop - Dec 4 -
6th
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For those that have not heard, the
next Internet Identity Workshop is
in three weeks at the Computer
History Museum in Mountain View, CA.
The first day is supposedly for
newbies, but last time it set the
stage for conversations over the
following two days,...
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Book: Identity Crisis
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Identity Crisis: How Identification
Is Overused and Misunderstood
By Jim
Harper
I read this book last summer
and finally have remembered to write
a post about it. The theory on what
is identity at the start of the book
is great for those of us in the
ident...
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Sxipper pre-release party
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Thursday night while our cousins to
the south were eating turkey, we had
a little pre-release party for
Sxipper.
We had a great turnout of
local Web 2.0 folks, several of
which blogged about the event, and
all honoured our gentlemens
agreement not to post...
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Yahoo’s Identity Silo
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Yahoo has joined Google’s silo
building by releasing BBAuth, a
mechanism for other sites to access
services and data within the world
of Yahoo.
Unlike Google’s
Account Authentication, Yahoo is
allowing their service to be used
for SSO and regis...
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Authentication methods
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Phil Becker wrote a post on Identity
substitutes, tokens and proxies over
at ZD Net. Here is the opening
paragraph:
We frequently use proxies
for identity when the real thing is
difficult, inconvenient, or
unnecessary to validate. This
applies especially i...
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RFID Times
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Gambling made safer with RFID
embedded Chips
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RFID has found a use for itself in
almost each and every space and
field. Even gambling has been no
exception. Recently it has been
found that gambling chips have been
embedded with alarm-triggering
tracers. It is believed that the
final product will be la...
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RFID and Fridges - A Good
Combination
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Samsung Electronics is the second
largest producer of home appliances
form Korea is in the process of
developing a futuristic refrigerator
that is equipped with RFID. The
refrigerator will be able to inform
the owner as to which all supplies
are running lo...
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EPC RFID used to Track Assets
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Hexaware an Indian IT company is
making use of RFID to track its
computers as well as those of its
Clients. A limited deployment has
been initiated in its Mumbai office.
The Fluensee AssetTrack software
system is being made use of to
track the activity an...
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RFID Can Convert Mobile Phones to
Thermometers
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Now your cell phone will be able to
read your body temperatures and also
check your glucose levels. Gentag
which is an IP development company
is making efforts towards creating a
technology which would convert your
mobile handsets into universal RFID
inter...
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RFID Faces Stick in GAO Report over
US-VISIT
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A latest report from the U.S.
Government Accountability Office has
stated that Department of Homeland
Security's plans for U.S. Visitor's
Immigrant Status Indicator
Technology program initiatives at
U.S. land ports of entry are getting
hampered by operatio...
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Metal packaging challenges to be
resolved by QinetiQ and Crown
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Crown Holdings, Inc. and QinetiQ
have initiated a joint venture to
adapt QinetiQ
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At CCC, Hackers get their Tags to
follow them everywhere
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In the year of 2006 the hackers were
ripping the things to shred in about
every metaphorical and physical
sense. The attendees of this year's
Chaos Communication Congress in
Berlin ten euros to don RFID tags to
trace and track their movements in
the confer...
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Villanova, Working on RFID
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As per Ben Franklin Technology
Partners of Southeastern
Pennsylvania they will be working in
conjunction with Villanova
University to use the RFID lab
facilities of the university for
research purposes so that the
findings can be used for commercial
purpos...
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RFIDNews.org
RFID News: Technology, Tags, EPC, Wal-Mart, Readers, and Applications...
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Tech pub calls RFID a Hot
'Disruptive' For '07
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2007 will be the year when a host of
hot technologies that have been
percolating around the mainstream
will rise high on the radar screens
of CIOs and IT managers, says a
reflective year-ahead article posted
by EETimes Online. Top...
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RFID Getting Flexible
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A UK company says it will build a
factory to produce flexible display
technology components for use in
commercially available e-paper
products. Cambridge-based company
Plastic Logic has secured $100
million worth of venture capital to
build the factory in ...
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Welcoming RFID Into 'The Jungle'
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Inspecting meatpacking plants
doesn't sound Glamorous. Especially
not when your warehouse comes under
fire for churning out rotten meat.
But RFID is being tested to improve
supply chain operations in this
area, too, reports RFID Journal. A
project funded b...
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More Business Tools Launched For
Your RFID Schemes
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The Dublin, Ireland, branch of
Research and Markets just added a
Globe Ranger-Company Profile to its
offering to assist investors,
managers, and companies in
evaluating RFID opportunities and
trends. The report has been made
after extensive research using ...
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3M and Mayo Clinic Pilot Successful;
RFID-based System Ready to Roll
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Just three days into '07 and a
number of healthcare and biotech
pilots have concluded with flying
colors. To start, 3M and Mayo Clinic
today announced the completion of a
five-month pilot program with the
installation of a state-of-the-art,
track-and-trace...
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New Retail System Allows for RFID
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Retailers today need information in
real-time to reduce inventory and
other costs across the supply chain.
That's a no brainer. But it's also
the impetus behind Salt Lake
City-based Alpha Bay Corporation's
new, more advanced Adaptive
Integrated Retail Syst...
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GPS Gathering Tackles RFID And Other
LBS Issues
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There's a big market for
monitoring high-value assets, but
when will it really take off? And
when it does, will RFID dominate?
Okay, enough questions. Hear experts
hash out these issues at the
just-announced GPS-Wireless 2007
conference, scheduled for ...
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New High-tech Kiosks Mark '07
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Charlotte, N.C.-based Source
Technologies isn't the only vendor
that sees kiosks in the far-term
future, but it's one of just a
handful starting to experiment with
new technologies and not-so-hot-yet
applications like RFID, according to
reports. Source's r...
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