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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 […]

RFID Journal – The EPC Network Gets Real “”Data sharing can be done at a fraction of the cost of what is required with point-to-point solutions today,” says Jon Brendsel, VeriSign’s director of product management. “And [the EPC Network] is broadly applicable to a variety of supply chains, not just consumer packaged goods.” “

Siemens Dematic Successfully Completes RFID Integration Testing with Matrics, Inc. “Siemens Dematic teamed with Matrics, Inc. (http://www.matrics.com ), a provider of UHF EPC-compliant RFID technology and visibility solutions, to successfully implement a conveying and sorting test loop where 100% read rates and diverts were achieved. The prototype demonstrates the ability to read discrete cartons in […]

The California Senate may be the first legislative body to take a hard look at the privacy implications surrounding radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. This month, the Senate’s Subcommittee on Information Technology held a hearing entitled, “Who’s watching what you’re buying? RFID technology and privacy issues.” Framing the meeting’s purpose, Senator Debra Bowen stated, “New […]

Alien Technology Corporation has won an order from Gillette for 500 million low-cost RFID tags. This is the first major commercial order for products incorporating the electronic product code (EPC) developed by researchers and member companies at the Auto-ID Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Alien Technology credits its patented manufacturing approach, Fluidic Self-Assembly, […]

Dec. 18, 2002  Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world’s leading manufacturer of advanced smart card solutions, today announced that its 64KB smart card with crypto functions, product code S3CC9PB, has received EAL4+ level Common Criteria (CC) certification. The advanced security requirement makes the new smart card an attractive solution for security-sensitive applications such as SIM cards, […]

Dec. 11 2002–The technology company ExypnoTech GmbH (www.exypnotech.com), a subsidiary of NanoPierce Technologies, Inc., of Denver, Colorado, USA, (OTCBB:NPCT) today announced that it has signed a general agreement with Holz-Elektronik GmbH (www.holz-elektronik.de) involving extensive collaboration in the area of RFID technology. This agreement will take advantage of synergies in both firms in order to supply […]