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  • Microsoft plans RFID software in 2006

    After investing significantly in technology for radio frequency identification devices, Microsoft is readying its first major product, a software package designed to help companies manage the product-tagging technology.

  • Chipz meanz Heinz

    Big Blue is putting some big numbers into RFID - it's announced it is to spend US$250m on the tracking technology.

  • RFID is good medicine: Meta

    The pharmaceutical industry is set to boost its use of radio frequency identification device (RFID) technology over the next 18 months, according to research group Meta. The move is being driven by the potential cost savings, the analysts said.

  • 44,000 prison inmates to be RFID-chipped

    One US state reckons it's cracked how to keep track of all of its 44,000 prison inmates - RFID-chip them.

  • UPDATE: Coles Myer kicks off RFID trial

    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.

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