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| A Healthy Dose of RFID
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| Imagine a world where every single manufactured item is tagged with a tiny RFID chip that holds various bits of information about that item.
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June 15, 2007 |
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| Bermuda to Put RFID in All Vehicles on Island
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| Cars in Bermuda are getting chipped. RFID chipped that is.
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May 8, 2007 |
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| Best Buy Looks at RFID Opportunities
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| Best Buy CIO sees great opportunities to use RFID in front-end, not supply chain applications, but concedes that they must first convince consumers of the benefits.
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June 5, 2007 |
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| Cisco Access Points to Track RFID Tags
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| Announced at this week's Interop conference, a partnership with WhereNet will allow Cisco Wi-Fi access points to read signals of of active RFID chips.
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May 21, 2007 |
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| EU wants RFID tags turned off
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| RFID tags used in retail products will have to be deactivated at the point of sale to protect consumers' privacy under draft guidelines drawn up by the European Commission (EC).
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February 22, 2008 |
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| Global RFID Market Hit $5 Billion in 2007
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| a figure significantly pushed by a $2 billion investment in China's chipped national ID card, according to a report from U.K.-based RFID analysis firm IDTechEx.
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January 18, 2008 |
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| Heathrow Launches RFID Trial to Track Luggage
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| In a bid to reduce lost bags, London's Heathrow airport will start adding RFID tags to selected baggage.
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February 14, 2008 |
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| Heathrow to trial RFID tags
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| In September, Heathrow Airport will become the largest in Europe to trial RFID-based tags for tracking passenger luggage, comparing accuracy and read rates against their existing barcode-based systems.
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July 6, 2007 |
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| HP Advances RFID Adoption with New Solution and Innovation Lab
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| HP today unveiled new Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, including software and services to facilitate integration with RFID solutions from SAP AG and Microsoft Corp. for up-to-the-minute supply chain visibility.
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October 4, 2007 |
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| IBM Uses RFID to Track Conference Attendees
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| At its Information on Demand conference in Las Vegas, IBM is deploying RFID technology on name tags worn by attendees that automatically tracks their session and meal attendance.
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October 16, 2007 |
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| In Defense of RFID
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| BusinessWeek is running a series of articles that take a look at the various issues surrounding the controversy of implantable microchips. This week, Scott R. Silverman, CEO of VeriChip out of Delray Beach, FL, is defending the technology that led his company to receive the first FDA approval for implantable RFID.
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February 1, 2008 |
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| Metro Finds RFID Accuracy Not a Problem
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| A senior executive at the $81 billion European retail giant Metro Group says the efficiencies the chain saw in RFID trials were so compelling they just had to deploy.
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June 29, 2007 |
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| Metro Group Expands Its RFID Trial
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| The German company is adding suppliers from China and Vietnam to its pilot program.
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November 12, 2007 |
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| Microsoft bringing ads to shopping carts
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| The software maker spent four years working with Plano, Texas-based MediaCart Holdings Inc. on a grocery cart-mounted console that helps shoppers find products in the store, then scan and pay for their items without waiting in the checkout line.
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January 14, 2008 |
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| Mobile RFID Unit Tracks Gear
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| RF Code's M220 tag reader identifies equipment using handhelds and Bluetooth.
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September 16, 2007 |
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| MS, SAP Tout New RFID Platform Capabilities
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| hile Microsoft took another baby step toward releasing its RFID platform with the first public beta of BizTalk Server 2006 R2, SAP showcased its RFID Product Tracking and Authentication application, the company's first process-based application to build on its Object Event Repository launched in March.
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May 2, 2007 |
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| NEW RFID Blocking Wallet
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| Protect your money and privacy!
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| New RFID Spec Promising 600 Reads Per Minute
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| EPCglobal, finalizing its next-generation tag protocol standard, is seeing speeds greater than current 100 reads per minute.
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November 19, 2007 |
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| Plan to Use RFID in U.S. Border Control Draws Fire
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| Industry groups are skeptical about the U.S. government plan to add long-range RFID technology to driver's licenses to improve border security.
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September 8, 2007 |
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| Resistance to RFID Lingers Despite Successes
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| Alien Technology announced July 30 that one of its customers, textile producer Griva SpA, has realized a 30 percent return on investment of its implementation of Alien's RFID tag and reader system—not in real dollars but rather in time management savings and increased traceability of fabric rolls.
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July 31, 2007 |
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| Report: Opportunities for RFID Growing
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| In its 2007 Annual RFID End User Survey, ABI Research polled more than 175 companies in an online survey to determine their plans for either testing or implementing RFID (radio frequency identification) technology.
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July 17, 2007 |
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| RFDump is a tool to detect RFID-Tags and show their meta information
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| Tag ID, Tag Type, manufacturer etc. The user data memory of a tag can be displayed and modified using either a Hex or an ASCII editor.
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| RFID chip implants linked to cancer in animals
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| You might not want to chip granny afterall. Studies on animals discovered high incidents of tumours close to the sites of RFID chip implants.
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September 10, 2007 |
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| RFID Hack Could Allow Retail Fraud, By Mark Hachman (July 29, 2004)
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| A German consultant has released a tool that its creator says will allow modifications of the code stored within RFID tags, theoretically allowing consumers to wreak havoc in future retail deployments.
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| RFID-Hack Hits 1 Billion Digital Access Cards Worldwide
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| A warning is issued that some security access cards that use RFID technology are vulenarble to hack attacks.
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March 12, 2008 |
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| RFID implant cancer questions concern patients
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| News that radio frequency identification (RFID) implants could pose dangerous health risks -- even cancer -- has the healthcare and personal health records (PHR) industries wondering how to provide medical professionals with vital patient health records in case of emergency.
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September 19, 2007 |
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| RFID Journal - Wi-Fi Tag Maker Ramps Up
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| New funding from Intel should help. AeroScout Wi-Fi tag. Launched by Bluesoft last year.
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| RFID Still Struggling
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| Low tag read rates are still preventing RFID from gaining momentum as of mid-2007, even though the potential benefits of the wireless technology are making it look more attractive, according to a report issued May 29 from Cambridge, England.-based research company IDTechEx.
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May 30, 2007 |
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| Savi Expands Reach with NATO RFID Deal
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| The company announced on June 19 that it secured a pan-NATO contract for its RFID technology and services, and joined in a partnership with IFS Defense to integrate its RFID technology with IFS' ERP (enterprise resource planning) software for the aerospace and defense market.
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June 20, 2007 |
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| Security and Spying With Nanotechnology as Tiny Spy Dust Chips Track Your Movements
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| Nox Defense has released an invisible perimeter defense technology, which combines high-resolution video pictures and radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, sometimes referred to as "spy chips", to track assets and people in real time.
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March 12, 2008 |
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| Staples Tries Reusable RFID Tags
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| The traditional argument against item-level RFID is that it only makes economic sense for products costing more than $100, but that assumes one-time use. In a trial with reusable tags, Staples is throwing out all the old rules.
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June 9, 2007 |
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| Staples' Reusable RFID Trial Expanding
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| After an initial run in one store in Canada, the retailer will expand the trial to four other stores by mid-February.
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December 14, 2007 |
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| Startup Touts 600-foot Read Range for Passive RFID
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| The company claims its STAR 1000 system can read passive, Gen2-standard tags from 600 feet away, cover 250,000 square feet of area, and pinpoint tag location in 3D.
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April 14, 2008 |
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| The growing pains of RFID
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| Manufacturers issue call for help.
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June 5, 2007 |
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| Wal-Mart Eyes $287 Million Benefit From RFID
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| Wal-Mart Stores Inc. could increase sales by US$287 million by fixing just a small portion of its inventory problems using RFID technology, and that could be just the start, an executive said Friday.
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October 12, 2007 |
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| Wal-Mart to Add RFID to 400 More Stores
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| The world's largest retailer on May 1 reaffirmed its support for RFID, citing one-third fewer out-of-stock items, a reduction in excess supply chain inventory and shorter customer waits.
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May 2, 2007 |
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| Wi-fi and RFID used for tracking
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| Wireless tracking systems could be used to protect patients in hospitals and students on campuses, backers of the technology said.
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May 25, 2007 |
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