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News for the week of Feb. 23
• Target Issues RFID Mandate
• House of Fraser Tags Its Garments
• Integration Services Set to Take Off
• RFID Speeds Up Bogotá
• WhereNet Replenishes Parts
• i2 Teams with RFID Middleware Makers
• Kevin Ashton Joins ThingMagic
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• Pallet Tracking Goes High Tech
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Top News
Target Issues RFID Mandate
Target, the fourth largest retailer in the United States, has told its top suppliers that they will be required to apply RFID tags on pallets and cases sent to "select" regional distribution facilities beginning late spring 2005. The company wants all suppliers to tag pallets and cases by the spring of 2007. Full Story > |
Integration Services Set to Take Off
A recent study by ABI, a technology market research firm based in Oyster Bay, N.Y., predicts that the amount of spending on RFID integration services worldwide will exceed spending on RFID hardware by 2007. Full Story > |
RFID Speeds Up Bogotá
In Bogotá, Colombia, 23,000 privately owned transit buses now sport RFID tags made by Identec Solutions. As a result, the city's residents have seen their daily commute times slashed by 75 percent. Full Story > |
WhereNet Replenishes Parts
WhereNet has combined its RFID-enabled real-time locating system and wireless local area network technology with sensors and software from Visible Inventory to create an automated parts-replenishment system for the automotive industry. Full Story > |
Kevin Ashton Joins ThingMagic
Kevin Ashton, the cofounder and former executive director of MIT's Auto-ID Center, has joined ThingMagic, a Cambridge, Mass., startup that designs multifrequency, multiprotocol readers. Ashton will be vice president in charge of marketing and business development. Full Story > |
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RFID's Early Returns
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