Wal-Mart has unexpectedly cancelled testing for an experimental 'smart-shelf' in its US stores that would have used the controversial radio frequency identification (RFID) product tracking tags. While today's price of around 10 cents a chip is...
Earlier this week in an interview with silicon.com, Ric Francis, CIO of supermarket chain Safeway said RFID will become ubiquitous and that privacy and standards issues will be overcome because the technology is too important.
The CTO of software vendor CA has said the most important technologies in the coming year are going to be among the smallest - citing radio frequency identification (RFID) chips as a particularly important driving force.
The Gartner report sticks to the mundane side of things, focusing on how RFID would augment - rather than replace - ubiquitous bar codes. RFID, or radio frequency identification, has been hailed for its promise as a superior way to keep tabs on...
The analysts mark 2005 as the year radio frequency identification "crossed the chasm" into a mature technology - a transition kicked off in the US by landmark rollouts from the Department of Defense and supermarket giant Wal-Mart.
A new tracking system using technologies including RFID is being developed to make it easier to trace blood and cut down on mistakes such as giving patients the wrong type of blood - an error that can have potentially fatal consequences.