RFID JOURNAL - News for the Week of April 19, 2004

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News for the week of April 19

• 13 Vendors Submit EPC Proposal
• EPC Aid for U.K. Companies
• HP Designs Tracking System
• Vendor-Neutral Middleware Debuts
• Tracking Medical Emergencies
• RFID News Roundup

Featured Story
• RFID Journal Live! '04 Event Report

Opinion
• Is EPCglobal Foundering?

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13 Vendors Submit EPC Proposal
A group of RFID technology providers have submitted a proposal for a new UHF Electronic Product Code protocol. Full Story >

EPC Aid for U.K. Companies
The U.K. authority for EPCglobal is launching a range of services to support British companies in implementing RFID and Electronic Product Code technology. Full Story >

HP Designs Tracking System
Hewlett-Packard is testing a low-cost real-time location and monitoring system composed mostly of off-the-shelf hardware. Full Story >

Vendor-Neutral Middleware Debuts
Systems integrator CapTech introduces TagsWare, an application for filtering data from a range of readers and feeding it to back-end applications. Full Story >

Tracking Medical Emergencies
A pilot project at a Memphis trauma center uses RFID in a search for ways to speed treatment of critically injured patients. Full Story >

RFID News Roundup
SAP RFID-enables supply chain software; UPM Rafsec provides pharmaceutical tags; surveillance system links video to RFID tags; Secura Key debuts RFID-biometrics reader; ACNielsen opens RFID learning lab. Full Story >

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Featured Story

RFID Journal Live! '04 Event Report
Speakers at our executive conference provided a wealth of information on how they are deploying RFID technologies. Read transcripts and download the presentations. Premium Content >

Opinion

Is EPCglobal Foundering?
Complaints among end users, reports of political infighting among vendors and the loss of its president have some people wondering about the future of the organization charged with commercializing EPC technology. Full Story >

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