Digital Angel Positions Itself for Livestock-Tagging Demand
News of another mad cow disease case coincided with an announcement by Digital Angel that it had shipped 265,000 RFID tags designed for livestock tracking to its Canadian distributors.
Don’t Expect RFID Miracles in 2005
Will 2005 be “The Year of RFID”? Probably not, according to this article by InformationWeek.
3 Recommendations Before Buying Gen 2 Technology
Analyst John Fontanella of Boston-based research firm Yankee Group outlines three recommendations for buyers of RFID Generation 2 technology.
Symbol Pays for Matrics with Loan; Market Reaction Mixed
Symbol Technologies announced on Wednesday that instead of selling $287.5 million in stock to finance its September 2004 purchase of RFID tag maker Matrics, it would borrow the money.
Report: Half of RFID Deployments Don’t Need Middleware
The latest RFID survey of 669 supply chain executives from Larstan Business Reports yielded some interesting findings.
What’s Next for Gen 2?
RFID vendors move ahead with plans to offer tags and readers based on EPCglobal’s newly ratified standard, but disagree on how quickly and smoothly adoption will happen.
NY Times: RFID Not Ready for Wal-Mart
The New York Times ran a story on RFID in its Monday Technology section, reporting that “the technology is not yet ready to meet the needs of either Wal-Mart or its suppliers.”
RFID News Roundup
Consumer RFID awareness continues growth; Inside Contactless becomes Dexit supply partner; Agility upgrades AgileTrac 2.0; Accraply releases new printer-encoder label applicator; Worldlabel.com labels tested by lab.
RFID Readers Get Cellular
SmartCode is adding cellular data capabilities to its UHF readers so that the devices can connect wirelessly to a corporate network.
Intel Sees RFID as Growth Opportunity
Microchip manufacturing giant Intel sees the growth in RFID-enabled consumer goods as a strong potential boon to its business.