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Privacy groups protest RFID tagging of razors
News Gillette has dismissed complaints by privacy groups that the company plans to use smart tags in its products to track and photograph shoppers. US-based group Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (Caspian) is also urging a...
[August 15, 2003, 9:10]
Supermarket shopping gets smart tech
News A Tesco spokesman confirmed that the company is testing Gillette's smart shelf, but declined to discuss details until next week. Gillette, Wal-Mart and the UK-based supermarket chain Tesco plan to install specially designed shelves that can read...
[January 9, 2003, 12:19]
MIT takes RFID to next stage
News Auto-ID Center sponsors, including Coca-Cola, Gillette, Target, Home Depot and Wal-Mart, have poured about $20m (£11.82) into the project since its start, said Kevin Ashton, executive director of the Auto-ID Center.
[October 24, 2003, 10:00]
What to do when your job is outsourced
News When Steve Kaluzny, a senior infrastructure support analyst for nine years at the Gillette Company, learned that the company was considering outsourcing the help centre and his department, it didn't come as a surprise: company leaders had alerted...
[May 5, 2004, 15:00]
'Secret' RFID test draws consumer ire
News CASPIAN has called for boycotts of Gillette and Benetton over their RFID plans. Wal-Mart had plans to conduct a smart-shelf test in a Boston-area store with Gillette but called it off this past summer, after CASPIAN baulked.
[November 17, 2003, 10:50]
SmartDraw Case Study: Campbell County Fire Department
White Papers Eric Acton is a nine-year veteran of the Campbell County Fire Department in Gillette, Wyoming located in the northeastern part of the state. Like a lot of other fire departments, Campbell County recently needed to devise a pre-plan program where...
[April 15, 2009, 1:22]
Digital ID: You shop, they snoop?
News Sun has joined the Auto-ID program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, funded by Procter & Gamble, Gillette, Wal-Mart, Unilever, Tesco, Target and other corporations. The goal of the Auto-ID program is to keep store shelves full, said...
[February 11, 2002, 9:36]
US military throws weight behind RFID
News Earlier this year Wal-Mart, Gillette and other companies began attaching RFID chips to merchandise sold in stores, sparking intense criticism from consumer-privacy advocates. She called for worldwide boycotts of clothing retailer Benetton and...
[October 24, 2003, 16:15]
21st century toe tags
News Electronic identification chips have found their way into everything from Gillette shavers to prison inmates. But in September, with the Gulf Coast reeling from Hurricane Katrina, some people found an entirely new use for the technology...
[January 16, 2006, 11:00]
Wal-Mart provides RFID boost
News Major consumer goods companies -- including Gillette, Kraft Foods and Procter & Gamble -- have collectively spent about $250m on RFID tags and related equipment this year, according to a new report from AMR Research.
[December 23, 2004, 8:40]
Software firm tracks RFID tags
News Major retailers and consumer goods companies, including Wal-Mart and Gillette, have been testing the technology for the past few years and are just beginning to deploy it more broadly. Software maker Manugistics has released a new version of its...
[October 28, 2003, 10:05]
Next-gen bar code could tag 'every grain of rice'
News An official from the Pentagon is scheduled to speak, along with executives from Gillette, Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble and United Parcel Service. The so-called EPC Network, which has been under development at the Massachusetts Institute of...
[August 29, 2003, 16:40]
HP boosts RFID investment
News Others include Gillette, Kraft Foods and Procter & Gamble. In an effort to lead by example, Hewlett-Packard is ramping up its use of radio frequency identification technology this year. The company expects to place about am RFID tracking chips on...
[January 17, 2005, 8:35]
Microsoft adds RFID to stock management software
News Companies like Gillette and Procter & Gamble are experimenting with using RFID systems in stores to prevent shoplifting and to monitor stock on the shelf. Microsoft announced on Monday new software to help small and mid-sized companies take...
[January 26, 2004, 14:55]
Indian giant backs RFID
News In the US, companies like Gillette, Wal-Mart Stores and UK-based supermarket chain Tesco are already working to install specially designed shelves that can read radio frequency signals. IT services and consulting firm Infosys Technologies has...
[January 2, 2004, 8:05]
IBM slams RFID criticism as 'anti-retail'
News This is not the first time proponents of RFID technologies have come out against Albrecht -- in January this year, the Grocery Manufacturers' Association of America, whose members include RFID-active companies such as Gillette and Procter & Gamble...
[April 29, 2004, 16:20]
'Slap and ship' OK for RFID says analyst
News Tesco plans to have readers and tags in all the key points of its supply chain, and has carried out four significant trials to date, including an item-level tagging project with Gillette. Forrester Research is advising suppliers to go ahead with a...
[May 26, 2004, 14:00]
US lawmakers worry RFID will hurt privacy
News UK retailer Tesco has begun selling Gillette razors with RFID chips embedded in them in a trial run of the technology at its Cambridge store, according to reports. Lawmakers in California have scheduled a hearing for later this month to discuss...
[August 12, 2003, 15:30]
A close shave with cunning malware
Blog He wanted to book adverts for Gillette, which has a big campaign for Fusion/Venus razors going on now. Our advertising team - fine men and women all, and I'm not just saying that because of their role in my drinks bill - forwarded me a fascinating...
[October 23, 2008, 18:11]
Marks & Spencer tags shirts with RFID
News Other retailers and manufacturers such as Tesco and Gillette have attracted criticism from privacy groups over the potential for data from the radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to be used to track and monitor customers, even after they...
[October 17, 2003, 8:55]
