RFID tags are very much on their way to becoming cheap enough to be used extensively. Many RFID pilots are being conducted to prove the business case. As you read this, some companies are getting ...

More than two years ago, Hewlett-Packard, the IT and computer products and services provider based in Palo Alto, Calif., started deploying RFID in parts of its manufacturing and distribution chain.

The services include business-case development, technological proofs of concept, internal pilots, trading-partner pilots, and full-system rollouts. IBM is selling them to industries such as aerospace ...

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LAS VEGAS -- Wal-Mart Stores, which has set various deadlines for its suppliers to implement RFID (radio frequency identification) systems, is making progress with the technology in its own facilities ...

A set of best practices designed to help assuage consumers’ concerns about RFID (radio frequency identification) tags was released on Monday by a group of technology vendors, RFID users and consumer ...

A new white paper by Dr. Peter Green examines the tradeoffs between using barcode and RFID scanning for tracking work-in-process in manufacturing plants For efficient tracking of work-in-process you ...

Adding to the growing buzz surrounding radio frequency identification tagging technology, IBM Thursday officially opened its RFID Testing and Solution Center in La Gaude, France, while in a separate ...

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RFID-activated drilling reamers are downhole tools in the bottomhole assembly (BHA) that selectively expand or retract reamer blades when commanded by radio-frequency identification tags pumped from ...

Symbol Technologies' $230 million cash bid last week to buy Matrics, a maker of RFID tags, is another clear indicator that this technology will become more ubiquitous in the next two years. And not ...