Yahoo! News – Consumer Goods: Merchandise Moves With RFID “Many consumer packaged-goods companies, including Colgate-Palmolive and Gillette, are motivated in large part by the power of retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which is requiring that its 100 largest suppliers support RFID transmissions from product pallets within five years. While few functional deployments are expected […]

CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sept. 16, 2003–Alien Technology Corporation announced the new ALR-9640 EPC Class 1 compliant RFID reader with an integrated antenna. This new product addresses a key market need for a low-cost, flexible industrial reader. The combination of its low price, inexpensive installation and efficient management features gives the ALR-9640 a cost of ownership that is […]

/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Printronix Inc. (Nasdaq: PTNX – News), the leading manufacturer of integrated enterprise printing solutions for the supply chain, today announced it is working with Alien Technology Corp., the provider of ultra-low cost radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and hardware, to develop RFID printing solutions. The first solution, Printronix’s RFID smart label developer’s kit, […]

CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sept. 15, 2003–IBM today announced a comprehensive new service to help retailers and consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies harness radio frequency identification (RFID) technology for advanced product tracking and inventory control. IBM made the announcement at the Electronic Product Code Symposium here, where the company conducted live demonstrations of pallets and computer read-outs that […]

Stop RFID Moblog For those of you who don’t know, you are reading a weblog right now. Roughly speaking, a weblog is a frequently updated, reverse chronological journal written and edited by one or a handful of people. A moblog is a weblog (mobile + weblog) written using mobile phones. Stop RFID is a Moblog. […]

RFID Journal – The Cost of Wal-Mart’s RFID Edict “According to AMR, a typical CPG manufacturer shipping 50 million cases per year will have to spend between $13 million and $23 million to deploy RFID and satisfy Wal-Mart’s tagging requirement. Tags and readers alone will cost $5 million to $10 million, but that’s just the […]

RFID Journal – The EPC Network Gets Real “VeriSign, a Mountain View, Calif.-based company that provides digital security and network infrastructure services, is introducing three new services aimed at enabling companies to use the EPC Network to share data with their trading partners. The company will demonstrate how the system works at the Auto-ID Center’s […]

MIT to uncork futuristic bar code | CNET News.com “”I see this (event) as a formal marker that is pretty key,” to the development of these next-generation systems, said Pete Abell, analyst at the ePC Group, a research firm tracking the technology. EPC stands for electronic product code, which is the new product numbering scheme […]

silicon.com – Gillette slams privacy concerns over RFID tracking “But Gillette has hit back at the “misleading” claims, saying it only wants to use the RFID tags to improve the efficiency of its supply chain. The chips, when inserted into products, emit radio signals that allow them to be tracked. Gillette spokesman Paul Fox told […]

RFID Journal – IP Unveils RFID Enabled Warehouse “Aug. 14, 2003 – A lot of companies are talking about putting RFID in their warehouse. International Paper has done it. IP, the world’s largest paper and forest products company, announced today that it has gone live with a fully IP’s Texarkana paper mill automated RFID Warehouse […]