The supply chain technology solutions provider, RedPrairie, has opened its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Shanghai, China. With an initial staff of twenty, the office will grow to sixty employees by the end of 2004, and will be responsible for sales, customer support and product development for the Far East. The firm’s new Asia-Pacific headquarters opened earlier […]

U.S. Discovers Its First Suspected Case of Mad Cow Disease “McDonald’s and Wal-Mart Stores quickly said they did not believe they had received meat from the animal. And almost as soon as Ms. Veneman finished her news conference, officials of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association began a conference call to seek to reassure consumers. Terry […]

S2’s Groundbreaking Security Network Appliance Integrates with Leading Access Control and Camera Technology     WELLESLEY, Mass., Dec. 16 /PRNewswire/ – S2 Security Corporation (S2),developers of the industry’s first network appliance that fully integrates arange of physical security applications, today announced that its debutproduct will support HID Corporation’s (HID) Proximity, Wiegand and iCLASSaccess control cards and […]

North County Times – North San Diego and Southwest Riverside County News “Wise young people who are looking for a career in the grocery business might take a look at the trend lines for the implementation of Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID. It is that technology, being implemented by Wal-Mart, that threatens the jobs of […]

vnunet.com Tesco unveils RFID strategy “Tesco will have radio frequency identity (RFID) technology in operation throughout its supply chain by 2007. The supermarket giant has secured its lead in the UK’s RFID race by detailing a four-year timetable that clarifies its plans for the technology.”

The UK supermarket chain, Tesco, has unveiled its plans for end-to-end supply chain RFID (radio frequency identification) tagging, to be fully implemented by all suppliers by 2007. The plans follow successful early trials of the technology on a range of non-food items in some of its stores and distribution centres. Starting immediately, Tesco is planning […]

With increasing attention focused on RFID (radio frequency identification) technology, the US-based barcode printing firm, SATO America, Inc., has announced its support for the UCC’s EPC (electronic product code) initiative. Many of Wal-Mart’s top 100 suppliers also happen to be long-standing SATO customers. Following Wal-Mart’s mandate that its top 100 suppliers must provide RFID tagging […]

A ComputerWorld article from November 10, notes that a supplier to Wal-Mart will have difficulty justifying the cost of RFID implementation, while Wal-Mart reaps the benefit. The article then fluffs the issue of how the Wal-Mart 100, Wal-Mart’s top suppliers, will have consider their internal EPC implementation architecture, irrespective of Wal-Mart’s decisions. According to the […]

Embedded into a complete tag, the ultra small chip contains a unique 64-bit ID number and will optimize product availability for customers MARIN, Switzerland – November 11, 2003 – EM Microelectronic, a company of the Swatch Group, announces that one of its recently-announced transponder ICs has been used by Marks & Spencer in a small-scale […]

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.”