Metro Readies RFID Rollout

Metro Readies RFID Rollout

Germany’s largest retailer expects its top 100 suppliers to tag pallets and cases by November and establishes timetables for stores and other suppliers.

VeriSign chosen to run RFID tag network

This article was originally published by RFID Update.January 13, 2004—VeriSign, the company that maintains the Internet’s .com and .net domain registry, has been hired to run a new directory to be used to keep tabs on consumer goods using a technology known as...

RFID: the emerging technology to contain future SARS outbreaks

This article was originally published by RFID Update.January 13, 2004—In an innovative effort to contain potential epidemic outbreaks of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Center for Aerospace and Systems Technology (CAST) successfully carried out the project...

Vendors embrace RFID at retail show

This article was originally published by RFID Update.January 13, 2004—RFID (radio frequency identification) tagging was the theme of the day in software news here Monday as vendors unloaded product and partnership announcements timed for the start of the National...

ABI says RFID developments will surge in 2004

This article was originally published by RFID Update.January 13, 2004—This will be a busy year for RFID technology, according to ABI Research. As manufacturers ready for the 2005 deployments of RFID by Wal-Mart and the U.S. Department of Defense, ABI expects news...

RFID market set to take off

This article was originally published by RFID Update.January 13, 2004—If 2003 was the year the market awakened to supply chain-based RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), 2004 will surely be the year it readies for school.Read the article at Allied Business...
IDC Forecasts Bubble, Burst, Boom

IDC Forecasts Bubble, Burst, Boom

The author of a new report sees the RFID market for the retail supply chain growing to $1.3 billion in 2008, and then declining before the real growth starts.

Microsoft retail project taps into RFID

This article was originally published by RFID Update.January 12, 2004—Microsoft said Monday that it established a new project aimed at providing next-generation technology to retailers, including emerging wireless applications such as radio frequency...