New RFID SD Card for Mobile Market Unveiled
"RFID usage has been widely deployed in inventory tracking and supply chain management as well as some health care and security checking in consumer market. In view of the high demand, DAILY RFID, a China based leading supplier for RFID devices ... hardware change. The SD format based RFID reader is compatible with 13.56MHz RFID tag in various formats [more...]
Date: 2008-11-17 03:22:02
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RFID Wristbands
RFID Wristbands -125x125 Button - right- Idtronic is a worldwide supplier of RFID solutions such as ISO Cards, Keyfobs, Tags, RFID Readers, Mobile & Handheld Readers, UHF Long Range Readers, and Active Systems, as well as personalization for these products. It just announced three new products based on this technology, in the shape [more...]
Date: 2008-07-12 12:20:58
You Scratch Our Back, We’ll Break Yours
Maybe Wal-Mart doesn’t understand how products are made ... is now demanding that suppliers implement radio frequency identification (RFID) to replace bar codes. According to reports, implementing RFID will increase the cost burden on suppliers by 20 times the cost [more...]
Date: 2008-11-07 19:51:41
Vancouver Canucks Upgrade... off-ice
The Vancouver Canucks are outfitting GM Place with a unified communications system aimed at improving the fan experience and boosting staff ... productivity? Enhancements in their ticket scanning system, RFID capabilities, security management ... equipment supplier for Vancouver’s 2010 Winter Olympic Games definitely played a factor as this new in-house [more...]
Date: 2008-08-29 05:41:01
iDTRONIC´s new Active NOW System offers unmatched performance and flexibility to enable process changes throughout the enterprise
iDTRONIC, a leading supplier of RFID hardware, will present the world premier of its new Active RFID System “Active NOW” at this years RFID World ... conference in Las Vegas. Germany, September 04, 2008 — This innovative Active RFID System is designed to support an extensive range of RFID applications and solutions, while being easy to integrate ... [more...]
Date: 2008-09-04 07:14:50
12 examples of RFID across industries
Manufacturing - A major tire manufacturer is going to insert RFID tags into its tires ... from a tag on a driver's keychain, while Wal-Mart is requesting that all their suppliers apply RFID tags ... vehicle identification number. Pharmaceuticals - Pharmaceutical companies have embedded RFID chips [more...]
Date: 2008-12-04 20:12:52
Violet Mir:ror Bridges Real and Virtual Worlds
After the hugely successful Nabaztag, our friends at Violet have introduced Mir:ror. Simply stated, Mir:ror is an RFID reader ... with the supplier, the goods or the services. For example, imagine you bought tickets for an event such as a hockey game or a concert. The tickets could include a unique signature, using an RFID tag [more...]
Date: 2008-11-03 13:45:42
Correction: 43% of DoD suppliers aren't RFID compliant; $12.2 Million wasted; No compliance impact until 2010
I got ahold of the actual Inspector General report here. Key points that I haven't seen elsewhere: - DLA has spent $12.2 Million on RFID installation and if they don't get their compliance up, will have wasted ... , perform reviews, provide training on compliance to staff, ... - Army 'forgets to include RFID clause [more...]
Date: 2008-10-08 14:02:04
Mobile Workforce Management Grows Stronger with Acquisition
Reliable electricity supply is a key part of achieving prevalent “Smart Energy, ... solutions group that further expands on SAT’s position as a leading global supplier of mobile workforce ... and communications foundation, RFID technology, secure wireless, support for hazardous location devices [more...]
Date: 2008-08-28 18:54:00
Intermec Launches Partner Program
Everett, Washington-based Intermec, a supplier of RFID, mobile computing and data collection systems, has launched a new partner program ... that it believes maintain the highest level of technical adeptness with its printers. The firm said [more...]
Date: 2008-08-15 12:42:00
iDTRONIC´s New UHF USB Stick Is The World’s First UHF Reader To Meet The Market’s Requirements For This Unique Form Factor
August 7, 2008 ( PowerHomeBiz ) - Ludwigshafen Germany -- iDTRONIC, a leading supplier for RFID Hardware, ... Write Stick is an easy to handle RFID Reader to be used with USB equipped Terminals and Laptops. [more...]
Date: 2008-08-07 17:28:38
Choosing the Best Bathroom Accessories is Easy Now
Read More... | 3102 bytes more | Score: 0) Page 1 of 134 (1331 total stories) ... in Cost Analysis of Suppliers · GAO Launches 13.56MHz Vicinity Fixed RFID Reader · Oxyshopping.com ... as Plug-n-Play Device · GAO Launches its GEN 2 RFID Reader Wednesday, December 03, 2008· MTN South Africa [more...]
Date: 2008-12-06 14:03:54
Is Amazon the Wal-Mart of Cloud Computing?
John Pescatore, information security analyst at Gartner, ... its industry and supply chain to adopt more efficient practices such as RFID and supplier-managed inventory [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 19:08:41
24 Academic Distributor Improves Shipment Accuracy RFID
22, Orlando pallet supplier opens center in Suffolk The VirginianPilot, ... of thwww. idii. com or contact IDII at 9182928785 or email at infoidii. com 19, NCR Tags Its Own Shipments ... Australian IT,Australia 25, CHEP Auation tags on million timber pallets in the next six months [more...]
Date: 2008-07-12 17:24:01
Fight Continues: Wal-Mart vs. (Real) Carbon Reduction
Remember back in August when we wrote about Wal-Mart’s lobbying effort against carbon offset guidelines? ... to squeeze its foreign supplier every chance it gets, whether its over RFID technology [more...]
Date: 2008-11-10 18:15:20
RFID Tags on 3.5 Million Flower Trolleys
For the past few years, central players within the European green sector – FloraHolland, VGB, Landgard, GASA Group, ... has been selected as the technology supplier for the pre-project. The consequences of the RFID implementation ... and Container Centralen – have worked on finding the best solution for implementing RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-12-04 06:46:01
RFID tags
Barcode Technologies is a leading supplier of barcode products, AutoID and barcode Data Capture Solutions in the UK. [more...]
Date: 2008-09-06 11:00:44
UK Virtual Private Network (VPN) Provider Moves Into Redditch
January 31 2004–RFID Systems, are a leading UK supplier of VPNs ... applications from a laptop, whilst out of the office, RFID Systems provide complete VPN solutions that are fast, cost-effective and extremely secure. David Ricketts, VPN Sales, RFID Systems commented [more...]
Date: 2008-12-03 00:02:44
FRESHER BE JOBS PUNE BIOENABLE TECHNOLOGIES
About Company : BioEnable is India’s largest supplier and exporter of cutting edge technology products and services based on Biometrics, RFID, GPS & Wireless RF technologies. We have our customers [more...]
Date: 2008-11-17 23:07:23
Australia’s Woolworths Abandons RFID Plan To Trace Produce Crates
Australia’s Woolworths, which runs the country’s largest supermarket chain, has given thumbs up to one RFID trial and thumbs down to another, according to a wonderfully detailed story in RFID Journal. “The retail giant tested UHF EPC Gen 2 tags at selected supermarkets and supplier distribution centers to determine the economic viability [more...]
Date: 2008-10-21 07:01:39
GAO Offers 125kHz (LF) Handheld RFID Reader W / LC
Read More... | 2970 bytes more | Score: 0) World Trade Forum Connects US Industrial Suppliers E Commerce - Domains - Websites richmilton writes: ForeignTRADEX, founder of the World Trade Forum and division of the Industrial ... to export industrial goods in Asia. Posted by NewsDesk on Wednesday, January 07, 2009 @ 09:21 [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 15:44:09
Laminar Batteries Power Next-Generation Products
Issue #175 | Jan. 9, 2009 | by Dr. Peter Harrop Writing about printed electronics often as I do, the dynamics of the marketplace keep coming fast ... every year, the choice is coin cells. Coin cells are the favoured power source not just for active RFID ... based on old advances in color, shape and mechanical function are rapidly being overtaken. [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 16:08:43
Retailer Must Have: Motorola Sparrow
Fast Company had a great product showcase about the new Motorola Sparrow recently ... one up after detecting a loyalty card or other relevant RFID tag. Want to win brownie points with a shopper ... bought Symbol Technologies, a maker of bar-code scanners, and asked the New York — based design [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 22:55:08
Big Three Failure Would Impact Defense Supply Chains
A failure by one or more of the Detroit Three automakers and their suppliers could put national security as well as the economy at risk, ... Monday at the Michigan Defense and Innovation Symposium at Schoolcraft College in Livonia, MI ... Guidelines for Ensuring RFID Security — medical | organizations | retail | RFID | security | technology [more...]
Date: 2008-11-17 21:40:31
Researchers show how to crack popular smart cards
Researchers have published a cryptographic algorithm and source code that could be used to duplicate smart cards used by several major transit ... the workings of the chip by analyzing communication between the chip and the reader. An RFID-compatible device ... . Their presentations show how to circumvent the security mechanism of NXP Semiconductor's [more...]
Date: 2008-10-07 11:49:49
Wal-Mart's Digital Health Push
As the largest public company and private employer in the world, Wal-Mart's massive size makes it an incredibly influential early adopter ... , it's not only its network of suppliers and customers that will take notice. So will many Fortune 500 companies ... previously written about "the Wal-Mart factor" in relation to its energy effiency and RFID programs [more...]
Date: 2008-12-15 12:17:33
News 10/29/08
From Houndoggie: “Re: UCI. The Eclipsys install got pushed again at UC-Irvine Med Center and the first casualty was Joy Grosser, long-time CIO. No word yet on what is going to happen. Jim Murry was brought back in the interim spot.” Unverified. I’m happy to run either confirmation or correction, whichever is appropriate [more...]
Date: 2008-10-29 01:06:43
Increase Your Sales and Cut Costs by using Barcode Tracking
How do you compete more effectively in global markets? With increased efficiencies and cost savings… By Peter Green - BellHawk Systems Corporation ... money are: By saving them money on the receiving dock. They put a barcode or RFID label on each ... applying all the barcode labels and RFID tags that your customer needs for their internal tracking [more...]
Date: 2008-11-24 12:49:46
DESIGNER/DRAUGHTMAN
All In line with our expansion, we are seeking highly motivated and result orientated individual with positive attitude and right qualification to ... of conventional Security Seals & RFID Electronic Seals with factories and offices in Penang ... for all project phases. - To organise, preparation & submission of work to supplier/mould makers [more...]
Date: 2008-10-27 08:23:11
Can RFID get it together to jump the chasm?
After what seems an age of working from home and in the office over the summer, I’m out on the road again ... of Glasgow. I’m on my way back from speaking at a one day conference – Introducing RFID – ... . RFID that wonderful technology that makes self-service so much more an engaging and simple process [more...]
Date: 2008-09-17 20:32:04
Monopoly supplier rips off British public with 93-97% markup
The irrepressible BoingBoing blog has a story about the rank insecurity and grotesque 85% markup on US RFID passports: You know those new, super-secure, RFID-enabled passports the US is issuing to its citizens? They’re manufactured ... a tiny wire antenna when it is scanned electronically at border entry points and compared [more...]
Date: 2008-10-24 07:15:00
NanoNews
David RejeskiDirectorProject on Emerging Nanotechnologies Abstract:The National Research Council (NRC), which carries out studies for the U.S. National Academies, released a report in December that highlights the significant shortfalls of the Bush administration in identifying and addressing the environment, health and safety (EHS) [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 11:33:00
Walmart: Sacrifice is for suckers.
I got this slightly old but rather interesting link from my friend Jill ... definition of local food it’s already there. This kind of fake reform really is just par for the course ... mandates on waste and even RFID. And of course, every single green remodeling step the company takes [more...]
Date: 2008-11-17 15:28:50
User Data Preservation (UDP)
Ovi Sync and since then I refuse to go back to cables. Nokia Users were Born Free so it suits us to be able to sync, backup, update anything On The Go, Over The Air. This is also quite a unique feature - while Google’s Android is able to receive automatic OTA updates (but a manual update voids your guarantee on the G1) [more...]
Date: 2008-12-09 10:46:24
Case Study: Johnson Controls Is Getting A Charge Out Of CribMaster
Case Study: Johnson Controls Is Getting A Charge Out Of... The Battery Group is the largest supplier of automotive batteries in North America ... Department Uses RFID To... Microsoft Partners With Implantable RFID Chip Maker VeriChip Industry Brief: RFID Technology In Action: The Retail Sector... Do You Know Where Your Assets Are? Maximizing [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 07:27:52
Week in Review for 11/2/2008
Quick News Links PHP gets namespace separator Committing to adding namespaces will make code re-use and maitainability better. The criteria for the new separator seem good on the surface but I have to side with the critics on this one in terms of how poor a choice the back slash really is. RFID deployment moving forward [more...]
Date: 2008-11-02 18:58:07
The Seven Grand Challenges for Supply Chain Management
Sourcing Innovation recently issued a challenge among our blogsphere community of supply chain management bloggers to offer some thoughts on the ... for this concept was RFID technology, but the hype of this particular technology within supply chains ... . In September of 2005 I authored an opinion column for RFID Update (Broadening Context for RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-09-16 17:51:01
Traffic work research
Your mobile will proactively advise you that you are meeting so-and-so at 10 a.m. and that traffic is picking up, so you should leave right now. It will than route you based on real-time traffic flow data to avoid jams. This is the promise, which Nokia is making on it’s current research regarding traffic data [more...]
Date: 2008-11-29 14:20:34
ZMD Launches ZMD41211 Temperature Logger, Smart Label RFID IC
ZMD AG, a global supplier of analog and mixed-signal solutions for automotive, industrial, medical, and consumer applications, launched the ZMD41211, its multifunction temperature logger and Smart Label RFID IC. The ZMD41211 enables logistics ... RFID IC records time as well as temperature, so shippers can determine the total exposure. This avoids [more...]
Date: 2008-11-12 19:23:44
DGAP-News: SMARTRAC and Sony Corporation collaborate for release of FeliCa inlays
SMARTRAC N.V. / Miscellaneous 08.10.2008 Release of a Corporate News, transmitted by DGAP - a company of EquityStory AG. The issuer / publisher is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. ————————————————————————— Amsterdam, October 08, 2008 - SMARTRAC N.V., a leading manufacturer and supplier of RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-10-08 07:25:05
Is "dual supplier" a good strategy?
Is dual supplier a good strategy? Based on industry experience in the recent years, ... to the extra effort needed to properly schedule supplier deliveries. You also give up some of the quantity ... -sourcing from an available base of 2-5 supplier candidates through competitive bidding [more...]
Date: 2008-09-09 21:24:48
Stanford Business, Entry 14: Nike, PACCAR, Boeing, Amazon and Costco: Our Northwest Study Trip
Keeping up with our breakneck pace, we had our first out-of-town study trip last week, followed by the Stanford Thanksgiving break. I think I like the Stanford thanksgiving break a lot better than I liked the MIT break during my undergrad days; at Stanford, we got the whole week off. This was (no doubt) [more...]
Date: 2008-12-01 05:01:08
LEGIC moves forward in India gaining credential manufacturer APK-ID as new license partner
Zurich, November 2008–LEGIC Identsystems Ltd, leading provider of contactless Smart Card Technology for personal identification, ... gains the largest manufacturer of RFID products in India as a new licence partner. In future, APK-ID ... technology. With the partnership, APK-ID is reacting to the growing demand for contactless LEGIC advant cards [more...]
Date: 2008-11-26 15:45:46
Converging digital and physical infrastructures: instrumented, interconnected, intelligent
I was listening to Sam Palmisano’s talk on “A Smarter Planet” as part of the Technology and Foreign Policy discussion at the Council for Foreign ... million RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags within 2 years. The world is becoming [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 20:20:42
IT keeps sub maker above water
Tom Young, Computing, Wednesday 14 January 2009 at 17:29: ... Class,” he told Computing. A year later Easton brought in McCormick from support services group ... . BAE had an outsourcing deal with supplier CSC that was reviewed, and in 2007 Carillion IT Services [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 20:13:53
World Economic Forum 2009 Technology Pioneers
The World Economic Forum has announced 34 visionary companies selected as Technology Pioneers 2009 for their accomplishments as innovators of the highest calibre, and whose technologies will have a deep impact on business and society. Company Profiles Biotech/Health AC Immune S.A. http://www.acimmune.com/ Prof [more...]
Date: 2008-12-09 10:36:44
links for 2008-12-26
2pie: Snow Prints Self portraits made by pushing faces into fresh powder snow. Genius. (tags: snow pictures picture image creative idea ideas) ... images pictures progress science) Tinker it! : RFID Arduino / RFID reader / Processing tutorial (tags: arduino rfid hacks hacking hack hardware processing code tutorial examples electronics) HTTP [more...]
Date: 2008-12-27 00:03:16
Interview with Nokia SA’s General Manager
Fleishman-Hillard invited me to meet with and interview Mathia Nalappan, Nokia South Africa’s General Manager, last week. I sat down for an hour with Mathia and Tania Steenkamp, Nokia South Africa and Southern Africa’s Communications Manager and chatted about topics ranging from models for rural areas to Nokia’s environmental efforts [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 13:40:38
Targeting The 21st-Century Consumer, Part Two Of Three
Targeting The 21st-Century Consumer, Part Two Of Three With the promise of the Internet Protocol television on the horizon, ... Implementing Item-Level RFID Intelligence Solutions On The... Solving The Holiday Revenue Shortfall: Tips ... Touchmonitor Elo TouchSystems 3 Arigo Private Label & Sourcing Arigo 4 Wal-Mart [more...]
Date: 2008-11-06 04:21:57
Inventory Record Accuracy: Unleashing the Power of Cycle Counting (The Oliver Wight Companies): Roger B. Brooks, Larry W. Wilson
Inventory Record Accuracy: Unleashing the Power of Cycle Counting (The Oliver Wight Companies): Roger B. Brooks, Larry W. Wilson Editorial Reviews Praise for INVENTORY RECORD ACCURACY “This updated version of Inventory ... process for both on-hand and on-order inventory provides accuracy levels required for real-time data [more...]
Date: 2008-11-18 16:08:39
