Sometimes the quick marketing of new technologies can mask the real issues.
A German retailer plans to open a store that will feature "smart shelves" for inventory management and a scale that can identify different types of produce.
Microsoft is enlisting in a venture designed to help develop standards for radio frequency tags intended for use by retailers and manufacturers to track goods.
A Sydney local council has begun utilise RFID technology to measure the effectiveness of its waste management program, but without telling its residents their bins and their contents are being tracked
Almost two years after announcing its intention to use RFID to track prisoners and guards alike, it has been revealed that the ACT Department of Corrective Services has signed a deal to rollout the technology.
Australian army troops in Iraq will use radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to monitor the movement of equipment from early next year.
Business executives and bureaucrats are salivating over the potential labour-saving benefits of radio frequency identification technology, and soon technology workers may find reason to be enthusiastic, too.
In 10 years almost everything will be tagged, say the experts. So what are these little chips that are soon to be so pervasive, and how will they take over your business?
IBM's Rainer Kerth says the key to RFID's success will be to separate practical applications from the technology's gee-whiz appeal.
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