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
Arphid Watch: RFIDs in American passports inserted by foreign contractors
(((I'm no big fan of the Moonie Times, but these allegations sound distinctly weird. A passport factory in Thailand? Can such things be?))) ... of Bangkok, to be fitted with a wire Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID, antenna. The blank ... and is transmitted through a tiny wire antenna when it is scanned electronically at border entry points [more...]
Date: 2008-10-22 18:15:47
Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/13/2009
Check out tonight’s “behavioral sink” stories from the UK. Every night there are at least a few, but tonight seems to have more than its share ... Europe and the EUEurope Develops RFID License Plate TrackingItaly: WWII Supreme Court Explains Why ... : Threatened Algerian Writer One Year in ItalyTunisia: Emigrant Revenue Grows by 10% in 2008 Israel [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 04:58:00
Roots
I've been getting some stick from Blair and others over my love-hate relationship with Act. So, by way of partial explanation, let me provide a reference point. Be prepared. This is going to take the scenic route. The short answer is that I am a moderate libertarian, and I have the Facebook application to prove it [more...]
Date: 2008-10-03 22:38:00
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
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
Interview With Lori Evans, CEO of Abrige Corp and C-Secure Systems, Global Volunteer
(www.bizchicksrule.com) — When I heard about CEO Lori Evans’ work to help business owners in Africa — while running two successful companies in the US! — I had to learn more about this amazing woman. Lori was kind enough to answer a slew of questions about her life, her experience, and her contributions to improving the global economy [more...]
Date: 2008-10-22 10:44:22
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
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
Industry experts weigh in on Wal-Mart TV 2.0
The online discussion forum Retail Wire attracts a very knowledgeable crowd — what it calls a Brain Trust — to comment on various issues of the day, including recent news that Wal-Mart is taking its in-store video network in a new direction. This is a site requiring registration, but it’s free, [more...]
Date: 2008-07-30 11:10:29
Yes Bank Uses RFID to Personalize Service
Yes Bank Uses RFID to Personalize Service The Indian bank is issuing RFID-enabled cards to wealthy clients so they can be recognized and promptly served when they enter its branches. DOD Awards Passive RFID Contract to Six Vendors ... at RFID Journal LIVE! Europe › Zoomius Takes Motorsports Timing on a New Course › DOD [more...]
Date: 2008-10-13 17:47:16
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
From The Poker Table To Greeting Cards? The RFID Future
The story of the technologist who crafted an elaborate RFID poker table, complete with an HD camera to stream real-time games globally, is interesting mostly in how he attached ultra-thin and extra-flexible RFID tags to each playing ... it aside, the concept is interesting in potential future retail uses, assuming that the per-tag [more...]
Date: 2008-12-24 06:40:21
Week in Review for 9/21/2008
Quick News Links Palin flaunts privacy, generates spam This sort of misapprehension about the state of technology and the law is worse than the usual and somewhat rampant technical illiteracy. This regardless of the other issues raised by the article. Google’s floating data havens I wonder how genuine this is? [more...]
Date: 2008-09-21 19:25:57
Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Industries Face RFID / SCM Challenges and Opportunities in 2009
An increase in government activity affecting the use of RFID and other related SCM technologies in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries ... . The U.S. Department of Commerce and the European Commission are eager to promote RFID in Europe ... U.S./EU RFID symposium last fall, both sides have committed to jointly pursue frameworks for advancing [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 19:10:50
Zoomius Takes Motorsports Timing on a New Course
Zoomius Takes Motorsports Timing on a New Course The Northern Californian startup company is one of several that have recently launched race-timing ... › Cosmetics and Liquor Companies Assess Toppan Printing's Holographic RFID Labels › RFID ... solutions involving passive RFID EPC Gen 2 tags and interrogators. DOD Needs to Enforce [more...]
Date: 2008-10-08 09:18:21
DOD Needs to Enforce Its Own RFID Mandate, Says Inspector General
DOD Needs to Enforce Its Own RFID Mandate, Says Inspector General Many suppliers and contracting officers are failing to comply with the U.S ... Holographic RFID Labels › RFID News Roundup › Google India Uses RFID to Locate ... . Defense Department's directive for applying passive RFID tags to certain shipments, according [more...]
Date: 2008-10-07 20:03:29
ECR is worth the effort
THE WEEKLY Link ECR is worth the effort BARRY ELLIOTT The 11th ECR Asia Pacific Conference in Bangkok last week was a great success ... returnable packaging, RFID, EDI, and influencing shopper behaviour. The afternoon afforded ... to SCM challenges. This could have been an opportunity for the consulting firms to contribute [more...]
Date: 2008-10-22 09:07:30
RFID White Paper: UHF Gen 2 Interoperability
RFID White Paper: UHF Gen 2 Interoperability RFID hardware interoperability determines the ability of tags and readers manufactured by different suppliers to work interchangeably—to be, in fact, plug-and-play. This is critically... RFID Powered By Impinj: Getting Up To Speed Integration Story: Google India Uses RFID To Locate Shared [more...]
Date: 2008-10-13 11:43:42
Chapter XIV: The Cost of Government
So What's Wrong with Big Government?Taxes at all levels currently consume about $5 trillion out of a $14 trillion economy, or more tan a third of the Gross Domestic Product. The federal budget alone consumes about 20% of the GDP. There are of course great debates about the effects of such large expenditures [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 18:01:00
Hansgrohe AG Optimizes Business Process With RFID
Hansgrohe AG Optimizes Business Process With RFID The German manufacturer is using RFID-enabled cards in two production facilities to track its stock of components and finished goods. Yes Bank Uses RFID to Personalize Service The Indian bank is issuing RFID-enabled cards to wealthy clients so they can be recognized and promptly served [more...]
Date: 2008-10-14 09:53:00
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
RFID in Logistics: A Practical Introduction
RFID in Logistics: A Practical Introduction RFID in Logistics: A Practical Introduction Product Description Radio Frequency Identification ( ... must develop strategies for integrating RFID technologies into their supply chains. RFID in Logistics ... from computer, electrical, and industrial engineering, RFID in Logistics: A Practical Introduction [more...]
Date: 2008-11-08 23:34:13
Wal-Mart To Adopt Radio Frequency Identification On Chinese Mainland
Retail giant Wal-Mart has announced plans to adopt radio frenquency identification for products supplied by its Chinese suppliers from January 2009 ... . Compared with the currently used bar code, which costs about CNY0.05, the cost for a RFID marker is about CNY1. The 20 times cost increase is expected to be a heavy burden for Wal-Mart's 1,000 ... [more...]
Date: 2008-11-05 21:58:32
Mastering the Hype Cycle by Fenn and Raskino
You know you’ve got an interesting idea on your hands if it helps you build a fairly compelling case that the Amish are more sophisticated meta-innovators than Fortune 100 CEOs. Mastering the Hype Cycle by Jackie Fenn and Mark Raskino of Gartner, manages to do that about a third of the way through. Now, the Hype Cycle ( [more...]
Date: 2008-10-17 01:05:24
RFID in Logistics: A Practical Introduction: Erick C. Jones, Christopher A. Chung
RFID in Logistics: A Practical Introduction: Erick C. Jones, Christopher A. Chung ... to the Hardcover edition. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tagging is now mandated by the department ... , more than 200,000 manufacturers and suppliers must develop strategies for integrating RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-12-07 06:01:11
Wal-Mart To RFID Crack Down On Chinese Suppliers By January
Wal-Mart will insist that its Chinese suppliers comply with RFID tagging by January 2009 ... detailed piece in RFID News, “is expected to cost the suppliers roughly 20 times more than the bar-coding ... for the Shenzhen-based RFID provider Invengo Information Technology, as saying that the move will save Wal-Mart [more...]
Date: 2008-11-07 06:08:19
Federal Trade Commission Holds RFID Workshop
Federal Trade Commission Holds RFID Workshop Wal-Mart's Simon Langford and other attendees discussed ways to protect consumer privacy, ... . RFID Journal to Host Webinar on Tagging Sellable Units The free webinar is aimed at Sam's Club suppliers and others interested in learning ways to tag sellable units cost-effectively [more...]
Date: 2008-09-26 02:16:24
RFID Healthcare Solutions From Wavemark
RFID Healthcare Solutions From Wavemark Filed under: Business, Computing, Health, Misc, Technology New Directory Site Listing: http://www.wavemark.net Tags: rfid healthcare, hospital inventory management, medical rfid, cost containment, patient safety, regulatory compliance, hospital supply management, medical rfid The WaveMark team provides [more...]
Date: 2008-09-03 20:28:13
RFID in Logistics: A Practical Introduction: Erick C. Jones, Christopher A. Chung
RFID in Logistics: A Practical Introduction: Erick C. Jones, Christopher A. Chung ... for integrating RFID technologies into their supply chains. RFID in Logistics: A Practical Introduction ... refers to the Hardcover edition. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tagging is now mandated [more...]
Date: 2008-11-28 14:34:01
