RFID pioneers discuss its origins

This article was originally published by RFID Update.July 18, 2004—In early June a piece appeared in San Jose’s Mercury Times telling the story of an early RFID pioneer named Charles Walton. The newspaper has since received a letter from another RFID pioneer,...

Royalties Expected To Increase Cost Of RFID Technology

This article was originally published by RFID Update.July 18, 2004—The five-cent cost of RFID tags has been a stated industry goal for the last couple years. It is at that price point that item-level tagging becomes feasible for a broad range of consumer products. But...
Log Maker Warms Up to RFID

Log Maker Warms Up to RFID

Having successfully completed an RFID pilot, North America’s biggest maker of artificial logs for fireplaces plans to deploy a full system ahead of schedule.

RFID News Roundup

RFID to track hazardous waste; SAMSys unveils ETSI-compliant reader; Paxar opens smart label bureau; Matrics readies reader for EPC Gen 2; MPI delivers functioning labels.

Sun Microsystems delays RFID test centre opening

This article was originally published by RFID Update.July 16, 2004—The opening of Sun’s RFID center in Scotland will be delayed, reportedly because the company has decided to modify the center’s focus. The original plan had been to replicate the...
RFID Router for Remote Sites

RFID Router for Remote Sites

RF Code releases a palm-size router that collects and filters RFID tag data and forwards the results to a central management system.

Ask Matt

This article was originally published by RFID Update.July 15, 2004—This article in USA Today takes a look at the RFID industry from an investor’s point of view. Like similar articles that have been written recently, it concludes that the RFID space is still to...

The magic of touch

This article was originally published by RFID Update.July 15, 2004—A recently introduced RFID-based protocol named Near Field Communication, or NFC, continues to make headlines. Heavyweights Philips, Sony, and Nokia have all endorsed NFC, with the latter recently...

RFID Reader Has Split Personality

This article was originally published by RFID Update.July 15, 2004—A new RFID tag reader developed by a US Department of Energy laboratory is able to communicate with both active and passive RFID tags. While initially developed for government purposes, the...