Funktel Tags Its Phones
The telecommunications equipment provider embeds RFID tags in its mobile handsets to improve product quality, enhance customer support and enable applications such as access control.
Walgreen to Use Tagged Displays
All of the chain’s 5,000 drugstores will use RFID to track retail product displays to help the company and 15 of its CPG suppliers get a handle on the displays’ effectiveness.
Savi Sees Acceptance Around the Globe
Savi Technology has come out with a string of announcements over the last week which collectively bode well for the 16-year old company that counts ex-Secretary of U.S. Homeland Security Tom Ridge as one of its board members. This article recaps the developments.
MIT to Host RFID Academic Convocation
The Auto-ID Lab at MIT will host a two-day event aimed at bringing together the leading RFID researchers with a select group of end users.
Achieving ROI from Mandate-Driven Deployments
There is a recent theme in RFID articles, presentations, white papers recommending mandate-driven RFID implementers look into the ROI equation in lieu of mere slap-and-ship. There is a notable lack, however, of realistic guidance as to how that might be accomplished in any given RFID rollout. This article fills that void.
Smart Soccer Ball Misses Its Goal
Soccer’s international governing body has canceled plans to use an RFID-enabled scoring system at the 2006 FIFA World Cup international soccer tournament.
An RFID Cure for the Checked Bag Blues?
Secure Tag, a Toronto-based startup, has developed an RFID device it says could be used to both identify and secure airline passenger baggage.
Analyst: RFID Adoption Still Lacks Business Case
Mike Witty, analyst with research firm Manufacturing Insights, argues in this guest contribution that despite the price improvements and standards developments of 2005, the leading impediment to accelerated RFID adoption still exists: lacking business case.
RFID and Small Business
To compete successfully in a marketplace dominated by larger corporations, small companies should deploy the right RFID solution.
Remember the Closed Loop
More companies are discovering that UHF RFID systems are not just for open supply chain applications.