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News for the week of May 24

Wal-Mart Suppliers Discuss RFID
RFID Remedy for Medical Errors
Avery Dennison Steps Up
EPC Networking on Display
Philips, Checkpoint Form Alliance
OATSystems Releases Version 3.0
RFID News Roundup

Featured Story
Dealing With the Data Flood

Opinion
A Little Bit of Wisdom

Guest Column
Making RFID Work

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Wal-Mart Suppliers Discuss RFID
During a panel discussion at the recent Retail Systems event in Chicago, four of Wal-Mart's top 100 suppliers discussed the challenges they face in achieving RFID compliance. Full Story >

RFID Remedy for Medical Errors
Exavera’s eShepherd combines RFID with Wi-Fi and voice over IP to deliver a single system to track patients, staff and hospital assets. Full Story >

Avery Dennison Steps Up
The world's largest maker of self-adhesive labels, which has been doing a lot of work on RFID behind the scenes, is starting to make more noise about its RFID products. Full Story >

EPC Networking on Display
In Europe and the United States, VeriSign and several data-synchronization providers will show how the EPC Network can be used to gather product data from various sources. Full Story >

Philips, Checkpoint Form Alliance
The companies will harness Checkpoint’s antitheft expertise and Philips’s chip-making knowledge to develop and deliver RFID equipment and services for retailers. Full Story >

OATSystems Releases Version 3.0
The RFID middleware maker adds new features to its EPC-IS Edge Server 3.0 product for managing readers on an RFID network. Full Story >

RFID News Roundup
Coors' kegs get RFID tags; safe commerce project off to a good start; Alien readers will use Windows CE; Trolley Scan offers compact fixed reader. Full Story >

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Featured Story
Dealing With the Data Flood
Companies need to adopt smart strategies for filtering the coming torrent of RFID data and getting useful information into their back-end systems. Here are three that will work. Premium Content >

Opinion
A Little Bit of Wisdom
Here are some of the key comments made about RFID at last week's Retail Systems conference and exhibition. Full Story >

Guest Column
Making RFID Work
End users need enterprise application vendors to step up and provide ways to take advantage of RFID data without adding complexity and cost to their IT infrastructure, writes Saket Batra, a research analyst at KeyTone Technologies. Full Story >

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Cutting the Cost of Red Tape
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