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Woolworths "Chips" Away at Inventory Shrinkage Through RFID Initiative
White Papers The benefits were Shrinkage, bookstock accuracy, reduced labor costs, asset management, transport efficiencies and identification of future RFID applications. Dartmouth College's initial challenge for the pilot project was to define a manageable...
[July 26, 2007, 0:00]
Industry divided over future of hard drives
News Successive years of shrinkage, however, have led to magnetic grains that measure about 8nm long. But that solution doesn't eliminate the "no more shrinkage" problem. Heat or dots? The question is dividing the hard drive industry as it prepares for...
[August 29, 2006, 13:25]
Savi Technology Case Study: Woolworths, Plc.
White Papers Woolworths Plc.like most global retailers, experiences problems with product "shrinkage" due to lack of asset visibility in the supply chain. Two key technologies were selected to address the problems Woolworth's faced: RFID technology and asset...
[December 23, 2004, 23:00]
Checkpoint & Philips Alliance Supports RFID
White Papers Most retailers already understand that RFID offers long-term savings: reduced shrinkage (through EAS for in-store product protection) and labor costs, as well as fewer lost sales because, for example, an item is out of stock.
[May 10, 2006, 0:00]
How Much Should You Spend on Computerization?
White Papers Better inventory control with computerized systems means significant reductions due to theft and shrinkage. According to the accounting and consulting firm, Price Waterhouse Coopers, the average retailer spends 2% of their revenues on information...
[July 27, 2006, 9:56]
Business Solution Delivers Yearly Savings of U.S.$3.5 Million for Concrete Firm
White Papers Enhanced visibility of operations has increased control over costs, reduced wastage and shrinkage, streamlined logistics processes, and improved customer service. Oldcastle Precast, headquartered in the United States, produces a range of concrete...
[November 8, 2006, 0:00]
Ubiquitous Communication: Tracking Technologies Within the Supply Chain
White Papers The case examines how technologies like Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) and Global Positioning System (GPS) can be used to improve supply chain performance and aid in reducing supply chain shrinkage.
[May 19, 2006, 1:00]
DVD Shrink
Downloads You can use one, or the other, or for maximum "shrinkage", both combined. This product is no longer available. Information regarding this product is being maintained for posterity's sake only. DVD Shrink is a free and easy to use DVD ripping...
[July 31, 2004, 8:00]
Intel buys into the memory chip market
News Intel fears that shrinkage of the high-speed, memory chip market will slow the development of PCs which, in turn, will have a knock on effect on the demand for its own chips. Intel has injected $500m (£294m) into US memory chip maker Micron...
[October 21, 1998, 10:42]
WebCCTV NVR to Protect 50 Food Courts of Nevada Restaurants
White Papers It also requires avoiding what John Zirkel of Food Courts of Nevada and Subway of Nevada calls the seven deadly profitability problems: employee sloppiness, poor customer service, inadequate staffing during peak hours, slip-and-fall court suits...
[October 19, 2006, 0:00]
India mulls tax-break extension for outsourcers
News But the consultancy says India must be prepared to let go of the exemption and accept the short-term growth shrinkage as the country's outsourcing market matures. India's fears that other countries are undercutting its dominance of the global...
[May 7, 2008, 9:16]
HP claims nanowire breakthrough for chips
News But a shift to a crossbar structure would essentially change the shrinkage formula, said Stan Williams, an HP senior fellow and director of the Quantum Science Research group in HP Labs. The shrinkage problem would also be addressed with the...
[January 16, 2007, 9:14]
The future is very, very small, say Intel
News Starting in 2000, designers moved into what Gargini calls the "equivalent scaling" era, in which chip designers improve performance in part by shrinkage, but also by using additional technologies. For Intel, moving away from silicon is a matter of...
[October 25, 2004, 16:55]
Intel ships dual-core Presler
News Semiconductor makers can further exploit the manufacturing shrinkage to add transistors and hence integrate features. Intel has begun to produce chips made on the 65-nanometer process, adding an optimistic note to what has been a somewhat tough...
[October 28, 2005, 8:30]
How to make hot chips that stay cool
News If no changes were made to counter the effects of shrinkage, and Moore's Law were to be successful in increasing the number of transistors, then a processor chip with a billion 45nm transistors would leak 1,000 amps even when completely idle.
[September 10, 2004, 10:35]
Intel sees Moore's Law wall ahead
News With shrinkage tapped out, manufacturers will have to find other methods to keep the cycle going. On the shrinkage rules, transistors with this sort of gate would occur about four to six years after the transistors with 5-nanometre gates, or 2017...
[December 2, 2003, 14:20]
Taking the helm for the US IT industry
News So this is not a shrinkage of either opportunity or of activity in the US, Canada or the EU; it's a case of growth elsewhere. Maybe you don't need to be a rocket scientist to head one of the US's first scientific and computing societies, but it...
[July 17, 2006, 15:20]
US Report: Diamond to release MP3 walkman - music industry unhappy
News In addition, the shrinkage comes at little cost to quality. The so-called MP3 files -- short for MPEG1 Layer 3 -- play near-CD-quality music from a relatively tiny file. It's already the format of choice for audio pirates passing music over the...
[September 14, 1998, 9:36]
A Year Ago: Diamond to release MP3 walkman
News In addition, the shrinkage comes at little cost to quality. In the US today, multimedia hardware maker Diamond Multimedia is expected to release a portable Walkman-type device to play music files downloaded from the Internet.
[September 14, 1999, 7:00]
Intel: Chips will network the world
News Hypothetically, optical communications equipment, which transmits data via photons rather than electrons, may hit a finite shrinkage point because "a photon is only so small. According to Intel's chief technology officer, computing and...
[March 1, 2002, 10:53]
