Rfid News and Views

Kimberly-Clarke Betting on RFID

Kimberly-Clarke has built a warehouse solely for the purpose of testing RFID tags and the best way to use them in their system. Article here...

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Wal-mart having problems with RFID in China

In a local media poll, 94% of Chinese enterprises polled said they had no intention of adopting RFID to track their merchandise. 44% of those companies said one of the main reasons for not using the technology is their unfamiliarity of RFID. Another main reason is they already have very cheap labor and don't need RFID to reduce costs...

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RFID to fight counterfeiting in China

The host of the Tennis Masters Cup in China is going to use RFID tags from Texas Intruments embedded in their tickets to help stop the counterfeiting that runs rampant there. This will also give them the opportunity to sell tickets up to 5 months in advance, as opposed to the 1 month they could only previously do because of counterfeiters. Article here...

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Symbol Technologies' VP in Podcast

Symbol Technologies' Vice President Phil Lazo has a podcast speaking about the future of RFID.

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NATO awards RFID contract to Savi Technology

NATO is upgrading their tracking their defense consignments between Europe and Afghanistan. They awarded Savi Technologies with the contract to do so. Article here...

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TNT Express

TNT Express has become the only integrator to track shipments on a global scale using RFID. Article here...

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Study on RFID adoption in Hospitals

A study put out by BearingPoint, Inc. and The National Alliance for Health shows that large healthcare organizations are starting to get comfortable with RFID deployments.

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CompTIA starts RFID certification

Computing Technology Industry Association is just finishing up their beta exams for RFID certification. Article here. You can register for the exam here.

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Implications of RFID

Intersting short article on the implications of RFID

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Rfid spending to surpass $3 billion?

Gartner says it will by 2010...

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Rfid Monitors the temperature of refridgerated trucks in Europe

The OEM Group's SecureSeal system allows staff to instantly check the temperature of each truck in their yard to help comply with future EU food safety laws set to go into effect next year. More here...

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RFID Player to Watch - Akash Arora

The Chairman of Netlink wants to take over RFID as well...read here and here

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New Hampshire has a bill drafted to regulate RFID

New Hampshire law makers are attempting to pass a bill that could change many things in the RFID landscape. One of the many items in the bill would be to require stores to remove chips from products if requested by customers. It is worthy to note that California, Massachusetts, Missouri, and Utah have all tried to pass legislation to regulate RFID and have failed so far. The bill is scheduled to be voted on in January 2006. A major player in this is activist Katherine Albecht, author of the book 'Spychips' and the founder and president of CASPIAN.

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Wikipedia RFID entry

Wikipedia is one of the many good resources for RFID newbies to get some good background. Check it out here when you have some time...

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