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Beyond Product Codes: New Opportunities for Radio Frequency Identification Technology - The Market Possibilities Opened Up by Low-Cost, Customizable RFID Tags
White Papers Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology has achieved widespread, mass-market success in high-volume Electronic Product Code (EPC) and logistics applications, as well as considerable success in areas like smart ticketing and access control.
[April 14, 2009, 0:00]
Tech-savvy shoplifters 'could alter RFID tags'
News Privacy advocates may not be the only people taking issue with the current crop of radio-frequency identification tags -- merchants will probably have problems with a lack of security as well, a German technology consultant said on Wednesday.
[July 29, 2004, 8:40]
Benetton considers chip plans
News Clothing maker Benetton has clarified its plans regarding radio tags in response to reports that it is preparing to deploy millions of the devices in its products to help track inventory. The clarification comes after Philips Semiconductor, a...
[April 7, 2003, 8:39]
Euro notes may be radio tagged
News Radio tags the size of a grain of sand could be embedded in the euro note if a rumoured deal between the European Central Bank (ECB) and Japanese electronics maker Hitachi is signed. RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags also have the ability...
[May 22, 2003, 8:11]
RFID passports go live
News Despite security and privacy concerns, all but three of the countries required by the US to issue passports with radio tags are now doing so, the Department of Homeland Security said on Thursday. RFID tags are being included in passports despite...
[October 27, 2006, 9:30]
Europe fears RFID privacy threat
News Many individuals and organisations are concerned about the privacy implications of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, according to the European Commission. A six-month study into RFID, which culminated on Monday, found that people worry...
[October 17, 2006, 16:35]
Tesco to track milk deliveries by RFID
News The move signals the next phase of Tesco's RFID plans, which involve using permanent radio tags on "returnable transport items" such as the cages and trolleys used when goods are delivered from distribution centers to the supermarket stores.
[June 2, 2006, 9:40]
Portugal takes RFID tags to dogs
News Once a tech industry darling, radio-frequency identification tags have officially gone to the dogs. On Friday, Digital Angel, which sells RFID scanning and communications tools for tracking everything from airplanes to farm animals, announced that...
[July 26, 2004, 9:15]
Anti-RFID tags protect privacy
News Computer-security software maker RSA Security on Tuesday introduced a new technology for protecting information emitted by radio frequency identification tags. RFID tags, whose descriptive information is read via radio frequency technology, are...
[February 25, 2004, 7:35]
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]
Chip implant aims to replace cashcards
News Radio frequency identification tags aren't just for pallets of goods in supermarkets anymore. Second, sufficiently dedicated thieves may try to slice the tags out of their victims. RFID tags are miniscule microchips, which some manufacturers have...
[November 28, 2003, 14:45]
Philips adds 'off switch' to RFID tags
News Christoph Duverne, vice president of marketing and sales at Philips Semiconductors' Identification group said in engineering journal EETimes that the company will offer an option that allows its radio tags to be disabled when its use is no longer...
[May 6, 2003, 10:31]
Privacy groups protest RFID tagging of razors
News The company is one of the first to trial the controversial radio frequency identification (RFID) tags in its Mach 3 razor blade packets. Gillette has dismissed complaints by privacy groups that the company plans to use smart tags in its products to...
[August 15, 2003, 9:10]
Privacy groups protest RFID tagging of razors
Talkback RFID works like this: an antenna (usually huge ones) emit a radio wave that 'ask' nearby tags to report themself.the tag is a passive device, with no battery.it gains the energy to report back by converting part of the radio wave energy to...
[August 26, 2003, 2:07]
IBM introduces RFID tools
News IBM's new software can read and work with either ultra-high-frequency and high-frequency radio tags, or across both radio broadcast frequencies, using EPC Information Services technology, said Christian Clauss, who works on sensor information...
[December 18, 2006, 11:35]
HP unwraps RFID package
News The first package, RFID Discovery, aids companies in outlining a business case for the adoption of the technology, as well as measuring the effect of adding radio tags to a company's existing supply chain operations.
[May 11, 2004, 8:55]
RFID gets manufacturing push from IBM
News RFID tags are chips armed with radio frequency antennas; they provide detailed information about the products to which they are attached. The semiconductor maker is affixing RFID tags to all of its cases and carton packages of silicon wafers.
[September 14, 2004, 18:00]
Sun taps into rise of RFID
News RFID tags are chips armed with radio-frequency antennas that provide detailed information about the products to which they are attached. An event manager promises to help process information collected from RFID tags, or sensors, and filter the data...
[June 1, 2004, 9:00]
'Stick-on' computer developed by HP
News Memory Spots fit into an ongoing effort in the tech industry to fix a problem with RFID, or radio frequency identification, tags. DVD covers contain critical blurbs and stills from movies, but one of these tags could allow a producer to include...
[July 17, 2006, 12:00]
SAP launches SOA and RFID products
News RFID is used to log the assets of a business at short distances; it consists in its simplest form of radio tags, bar codes and sensors. Recently, Tesco started using radio tags to track its milk deliveries.
[March 15, 2007, 15:33]
