Accenture Helps Form RFID Industry Group To Evaluate Technology’s Value In Pharmaceutical Industry “Accenture (NYSE: ACN – News) today announced the formation of a group of industry leaders that will work together to evaluate the potential of new radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to enhance pharmaceutical product manufacturing, distribution and retail operations within the United […]

RFID to have big impact on retailer strategies FRAMINGHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Feb. 12, 2004–According to a new report from IDC that details IT spending by vertical markets, technology purchases made by the manufacturing and banking industries will account for nearly one third of the $391 billion in IT spending in the United States this year. While […]

3rd February 2004 – GlobalPlatform, the global leader in smart card infrastructure development, has scheduled two educational seminars in Asia which will take place in Tokyo and Taipei on 10 and 12 February 2004, respectively. The aim of the seminars is to provide leading Asian smart card players with detailed information on GlobalPlatform implementations within […]

United Press International: Radio tags could help health, hurt privacy “”Pharmaceutical information is intimately related to health or medical information, which society has long treated as very sensitive and private,” Tien said. “Think about all the ‘personal’ items we buy at the drugstore. My wife wouldn’t want anyone to know she had bought a home […]

RFID Journal – RFID Touted for Drug Distribution “The Healthcare Distribution Management Association, a nonprofit organization for distributors, recommended that distributors of pharmaceutical drugs and other healthcare products begin putting RFID tags carrying Electronic Product Codes (EPC) on cases beginning in 2005 and deploy related infrastructure needed to take advantage of those tags.”

VERNON HILLS, Ill., Nov. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Zebra Technologies Corp. (Nasdaq: ZBRA – News), a worldwide leader in delivering on-demand printing solutions for business improvement and security, today announced it has forged an alliance with Acsis Inc., a provider of data collection and integration solutions for companies running SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. This […]

Corporations are increasingly recognizing the benefits of consolidating physical and network (logical) security functions to centralize access control, increase security of their IT systems and physical assets and manage the costs of administering systems. This consolidation or convergence to a single smart card-based access system can increase overall security for the company. ActivCard has seen […]