Thursday - April 17, 2008
Think having a credit or debit card with your photo on it is cool? Well, how about a card the same size and thickness as a credit card, with a window that shows a passcode, and with a public key infrastructure chip on it? When you need to use the card, press on its switch and the PKI chip will run an algorithm that generates a one-time passcode for you to use. The card also has a built-in battery and a built-in RFID antenna.
The card's developer, Innovative Card Technologies, supplies leading financial institutions, government agencies and vendors with these cards.
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Monday - April 7, 2008
IBM is unveiling upgrades to its WebSphere Premises Server at Impact, its SOA event taking place in Las Vegas this week. The buffed-up SOA software -- Version 6.1 -- and IBM's RFID Information Center will be the two main product spotlights at the event. The cumulative effect of the improvements is that users will find it far easier to gather, analyze and act upon data.
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Sunday - April 6, 2008
Why doesn't someone invent clothing with very small, powerful magnetic material woven in? That way all the clothes teenagers leave strewn about the house could be automatically pulled toward a designated laundry basket. Or what about a central trash system, like central plumbing, where all refuse gets whisked away to some underground recycling facility inhabited only by the alligators of urban mythology.
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Thursday - March 6, 2008
RFID has gained ascendancy in the corporate world more by fiat than through efforts to persuade suppliers that the technology could deliver internal returns -- at least, in the beginning. With the requirement to deploy it or lose contracts handed down by such entities as Wal-Mart and the Department of Defense, partners scrambled to comply.
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Thursday - February 14, 2008
The remote identification of assets has received considerable interest recently, thanks in part to Wal-Mart's radio frequency identification program. Improved industrial technologies have helped companies quickly identify and track critical assets to improve sites' operations efficiency, security and even personnel safety.
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Thursday - January 24, 2008
Microsoft recently announced RFID enablement for its BizTalk Server software and numerous supporting RFID partner companies. These announcements and the use cases and solutions resulting from them reflect Aberdeen Group research, which shows that 62 percent of survey respondents now cite data integration as their chief cost concern regarding RFID.
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Thursday - October 18, 2007
RFID technology vendors are now seeing demand from a wider range of end users for a broader range of applications -- from ID and access control to asset tracking, traceability and supply chain management. Vendors and developers are looking forward to the day when process improvements and demand reach a point where competing suppliers will drive down costs and lever RFID growth to the next level.
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Thursday - October 11, 2007
Vendors and developers have invested large sums in RFID (radio frequency identification) and heavily promoted its use, especially in the retail, credit card and transportation industries, as well as across sectors for supply chain and inventory management. Retailers, among others -- small and medium-sized businesses, particularly -- haven't been keen to jump on the RFID wagon, however.
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Monday - October 8, 2007
Improving RFID systems for specific applications and industry sectors -- along with mandates from governments and large companies with extensive supply chains and logistics needs -- is spurring adoption by a wider range of small and medium-sized businesses in the public and private sectors.
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Tuesday - October 2, 2007
IBM made several developments in its RFID partner and product platform that should make software and hardware integration of the technology easier for firms. For starters, standards organization GS1 EPCglobal has certified the IBM WebSphere RFID Information Center as fully compliant with its EPCIS standard.
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Tuesday - October 2, 2007
Radio-frequency identification has been a highly touted technology in recent years, but concerns -- particularly among small and medium-sized businesses -- about high costs and actual benefits have hindered its adoption. That's gradually changing as developers and vendors focus on systems design, development and interoperability of specific applications in the public and private sectors.
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