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    Sometimes the quick marketing of new technologies can mask the real issues.

  • Intel, SAP shop 'store of the future'

    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.

  • Radio ID tags get Microsoft backing

    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.

  • Council uses RFID to go through residents' garbage

    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

  • ACT prison to RFID tag inmates

    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.

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  • RFID to track army supplies in Iraq

    Australian army troops in Iraq will use radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to monitor the movement of equipment from early next year.

  • HP developing 'smart rack' to ease data centre work

    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.

  • RFID: Can it help your business?

    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?

  • RFID revolution: Are we close?

    IBM's Rainer Kerth says the key to RFID's success will be to separate practical applications from the technology's gee-whiz appeal.

  • Intel's medical ambitions

    In the future, your hospital room will be online, and so will your gastric system.

Reviews (3)

  • Data centre 101

    Secrecy seems to shroud the data centre arena -- all well and good for security's sake, but not so great when trying to pick a provider. We pull back the curtains to find what data centre options exist in Australia.

  • Making wireless more reliable

    Wireless interoperability in focus at Sun Labs

  • Untangling the wireless future

    Faced with an increasing number of wireless technologies and standards, planning a long-term networking strategy is a daunting prospect.

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