It appears that location-based service applications for finding local coffee shops, specialty stores, banks and the like have fallen short in intriguing consumers in the United States. But industry contends that a market-albeit one far more practical and far less sexy than previous expectations-for...
I was just out of college in 1993 when "Demolition Man" was released. Remember that movie? Set 40 years in the future, all personal freedoms had been removed in the interest of perfect order, and the world had become so passive that swearing was...
DALLAS-Axcess International Inc., which provides radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions for security and asset management purposes, announced several new applications for its ActiveTag system in recent weeks.Axcess' solution is being used by Merrimac Industries to track intellectual property throughout its building and to decrease...
RFID chips that can be used to scan inventory are either the latest, greatest way to track large pallets entering the retail warehouse or another step toward a world where Big Brother watches your every movement-and tracks every purchase you make.Privacy advocates fear the...
While Wal-Mart Stores Inc. joins the high-tech industry in celebrating its recently launched supply-chain management Radio Frequency Identification pilot program, consumer privacy groups are shaking their collective heads, concerned about the implications RFID tagging has on consumer privacy rights.Wal-Mart launched its trial with eight...
SAN MATEO, Calif.-The market for wireless machine-to-machine communications is poised to experience a 27-percent compound annual growth rate, ballooning from $9.3 billion in 2004 to $31 billion in 2008, according to research from the Wireless Data Research Group.Machine-to-machine communication systems allow for the remote...
WASHINGTON-California, already pursuing new laws for wireless carriers, cell-phone drivers and camera phones, has become the latest state to advance privacy legislation governing radio frequency identification applications embraced by retailers, manufacturers and libraries. The California bill and others like it-either already introduced or...
DALLAS-Sun Microsystems Inc. this week officially opened its Dallas-based RFID Test Center and launched a new Radio Frequency Identification solution. The test center simulates a warehouse environment to test RFID equipment from Sun and its partners, which include Alien Technology Ltd., Applied Wireless Identification...
DENVER-Radio frequency identification technology is reaching maturity. Such an assertion seems almost absurd for a technology that has recently received hype rivaling that of other newfangled short-range wireless technologies like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.But RFID is nothing new. It was introduced during World War II...
Handset maker LG Electronics Co. Ltd. will use push-to-talk software from Sonim Technologies in its line of GSM/GPRS and W-CDMA phones. Sonim said it is a member of the worldwide consortium that submitted the PoC phase 1 specification to the Open Mobile Alliance in...
MELBOURNE, Fla.-Wireless antenna manufacturer SkyCross has received a $1 million investment from Korea's SK Telecom.Last year, SK Telecom began implementing SkyCross' cellular, GPS and W-CDMA embedded antenna solutions in its new global positioning system-enhanced phones. With this latest investment, the two companies will continue...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission approved rules improving radio frequency identification systems for commercial shipping operations, a move that comes as enterprise applications and consumer concerns about the wireless technology attract increased attention on business and regulatory fronts.The FCC ruling increases the maximum power level...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission today approved rules improving radio frequency identification systems for commercial shipping operations, a move that comes as enterprise applications and consumer concerns about the wireless technology attract increased attention on business and regulatory fronts.The FCC ruling increases the maximum power...
SANTA CRUZ, Calif.-Security and access control applications are the most likely to use Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, according to a survey from Evans Data.The survey showed 3 in 10 respondents planning on implementing RFID will focus on security applications first. Inventory and asset...
HANOVER, Germany-Megapixel camera phones were the name of the game at the CeBIT trade show, with Nokia Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Siemens and NEC Corp. among those releasing new advanced products.First, Nokia released its first megapixel camera phone, the 7610, which the company...
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RFID tags are poised to replace UPC bar codes used today by retailers to identify products, suggests the Harrow Group. WalMart and the Department of Defense require suppliers to put RFID tags on pallets sent to them.
RICHMOND, British Columbia-eXI Wireless Inc., provider of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)-based asset management and security solutions, announced its eXI Systems subsidiary has completed an RFID Asset Tag Trial Program with 22 hospitals in the United States.The trial program demonstrated Assetrac, a single system for...
Like others that seemed out of the wireless range at the outset, the radio-frequency identification technology may not just be about supply chains. Its future efficiency may be derived from using wireless technologies like wireless local area networks and wide area networks. Although the...
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-This will be a busy year for RFID technology, according to ABI Research. As manufacturers ready for the 2005 deployments of RFID by Wal-Mart and the U.S. Department of Defense, ABI expects news around developing standards, large company entrants, startup software developers...
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-The emergence of converged wireless handheld devices capable of multiple communications tasks may provide relief for the seemingly slowing PDA industry, according to research firm ABI.Converged devices, which ABI refers to as "connected PDAs," have thus far been slow to gain traction,...
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-The emergence of converged wireless handheld devices capable of multiple communications tasks may provide relief for the seemingly slowing PDA industry, according to research firm ABI.Converged devices, which ABI refers to as "connected PDAs," have thus far been slow to gain traction,...
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-The automotive industry will spend about $600 million on radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology this year, according to a new study from market research firm Allied Business Intelligence Inc."While the technology has made its way into millions of production vehicles each year, growth...
