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 radio frequency identification.
Microsoft today announced plans to track Australian delegates attending its annual Tech.Ed conference in Sydney next week using RFID tags embedded in conference badges.
The US's largest jail system has launched a pilot project with Alanco Technologies to track inmates using radio frequency identification bracelets.
Australian Defence Force plans to use radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to monitor cargo used to deliver consignments to troops in Iraq have been delayed for about six months due to difficulties with the project software.
RFID technology is on the upswing as businesses start to see ways it can augment bar coding, according to a new report.
CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos says readers are united in their contempt for the idea of embedding chips in people.
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.
Australian army troops in Iraq will use radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to monitor the movement of equipment from early next year.
Retail powerhouses such as Wal-Mart gather in the United States to push development of controversial tagging technology.
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?
Cesare Tizi, ZDNet Australia CIO of the Year 2007, waxes lyrical about RFID technology -- a subject he knows something about from his Transurban days. He believes the tiny tags will change everything from toll-booths to supermarket checkout queues.
Dr John Halamka, the CIO of Harvard Medical School, is an early adopter of RFID technology -- he's got a chip implanted in his arm. These tags can keep track of personal medical records, as well as hospital equipment. Halamka talks with ZDNet.com editor in chief Dan Farber about recent advances in patient care, and electronic prescriptions.
Retailers may love the concept of tiny radio tags for tracking products, but consumers should beware the potential for exploitation by corporations, criminals and the government.
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