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The future of Radio Frequency Identification
News Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is in the limelight. Further, the electronic identification stored in a tag can either be fixed or dynamically updatable. The range of sensing RFID tags from an RFID reader can vary from a few centimetres to a...
[August 18, 2003, 14:55]
IBM introduces RFID tools
News IBM is betting on new software to make sense of the reams of data collected by radio frequency identification (RFID) devices. Liard, a research director who covers radio frequency identification for ABI Research.
[December 18, 2006, 11:35]
Marks & Spencer tags shirts with RFID
News Retailer Marks & Spencer has begun a trial of radio frequency identification tags in clothes at one of its UK stores this week as part of plans to improve stock accuracy and product availability for customers.
[October 17, 2003, 8:55]
Microsoft establishes RFID council
News Microsoft is out to take a more formal role in the development of radio-frequency identification technology. The software giant on Monday announced that it is forming the Microsoft Radio Frequency Identification Council, which is set to hold its...
[April 6, 2004, 8:45]
RFID blocker may ease privacy fears
News Researchers at a major security firm have developed a blocking technique to ease privacy concerns surrounding controversial radio frequency identification technology. The labs at RSA Security on Wednesday outlined plans for a technology they call...
[August 28, 2003, 11:05]
HP unwraps RFID package
News Hewlett-Packard unveiled on Monday services for companies trying to start radio-frequency identification projects. Radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags are chips that are armed with antennas and provide detailed information about the products...
[May 11, 2004, 8:55]
RFID gets manufacturing push from IBM
News IBM announced two new sets of radio frequency identification services on Tuesday that target companies in the industrial and manufacturing sectors, as well as midsize retail suppliers. IBM asserts that by tailoring its radio tag services for each...
[September 14, 2004, 18:00]
HP puts RFID on the rack
News Business executives and bureaucrats are salivating over the potential labour-saving benefits of radio frequency identification technology, and soon technology workers may find reason to be enthusiastic, too.
[November 1, 2004, 7:49]
MIT takes RFID to next stage
News The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is ending a four-year collaboration with dozens of blue-chip companies that set out to advance a new frontier of information technology known as radio frequency identification.
[October 24, 2003, 10:00]
ID chips pressed into laundered clothes
News The Laundry Transponder, from TI Radio Frequency Identification Systems, is a thin 13.56MHz radio frequency identification (RFID) chip with a circumference of 22mm that can be attached or sewn into fabric.
[August 12, 2003, 12:10]
Supermarket shopping gets smart tech
News In a related development, Gillette announced on Monday that it agreed to purchase 500 million so-called radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, which contain the special microchips that can communicate wirelessly with computers when in the...
[January 9, 2003, 12:19]
IBM slams RFID criticism as 'anti-retail'
News A leading IBM executive has described critics of radio-frequency identification technologies as confused and described their push against the technology as masking an "anti-retail" thrust. Dr Cheryl Shearer, Big Blue's global leader, business...
[April 29, 2004, 16:20]
Software firm tracks RFID tags
News Software maker Manugistics has released a new version of its business applications software that's designed to take advantage of the emerging inventory-tracking technology known as radio frequency identification, the company said on Monday.
[October 28, 2003, 10:05]
US lawmakers worry RFID will hurt privacy
News Senator Debra Bowen, a California legislator recently at the forefront of an anti-spam legislation movement, is spearheading the 18 August hearing, which will focus on an emerging area of technology that's known as radio frequency identification...
[August 12, 2003, 15:30]
Civil liberties groups demand halt to RFID
News Over 30 civil liberties and privacy groups have demanded a suspension to the deployment of radio frequency identification (RFID) tagging systems until a number of issues surrounding the controversial technology have been addressed.
[November 20, 2003, 17:15]
Sun wants to put RFID everywhere
News Sun Microsystems is developing radio frequency identification (RFID) that will work with its existing enterprise asset-management systems to track non-networked items. The Sun RFID Industry Solution for Physical Asset Tracking is still under...
[October 28, 2005, 17:40]
Wal-Mart commits billions to RFID
News The system is based on a technology known as radio frequency identification (RFID), a new breed of computer network designed to track the location of everyday objects such as razors and shoes by embedding them with special microchips.
[November 10, 2003, 7:45]
Portugal takes RFID tags to dogs
News Once a tech industry darling, radio-frequency identification tags have officially gone to the dogs. Other European countries already require that pets have RFID chips or tattoos for quick identification.
[July 26, 2004, 9:15]
Industry tries to dampen RFID hype
News Radio frequency identification may be a hot topic among tech types these days, but proponents of the technology gathered here this week are keeping their exuberance in check. Radio frequency identification (RFID) is expected to help retailers and...
[September 30, 2004, 12:25]
IBM opens European RFID test centre
News IBM has opened a radio frequency identification (RFID) facility in La Gaude, France, for its European clients. An emerging technology, RFID enables businesses to use tags that combine chips carrying carry descriptive information and radio frequency...
[July 6, 2004, 10:45]
