IBM on Tuesday announced two new sets of radio frequency identification services, targeting companies in the industrial and manufacturing sectors, as well as midsize retail suppliers.
The technology that could eventually make your bus pass, bank card and coins obsolete is already here -- and it's on its way to your phone.
Second-generation hybrid RFID tags should be in use by September, according to analyst group Gartner, and will feature privacy technology.
Metro Group, the German retail chain pushing for adoption of radio frequency identification technology, opened its RFID test center on Wednesday.
Coles Myer has teamed up with Intel Australia and Sun Microsystems for a two-month trial using Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID) tagging in Coles Myer distribution centres.
In the future, your hospital room will be online, and so will your gastric system.
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?
Near Field Communication could take RFID out of the logistics chain and into film and music posters, and a UK vendor is now backing the emerging technology with a new reader.
A key patent holder's demand for royalties has triggered concerns that promising RFID technology could become embroiled in an intellectual-property battle.
CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos says readers are united in their contempt for the idea of embedding chips in people.
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