RFID JOURNAL - News for the Week of Sept. 6, 2004

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News for the week of Sept. 6

• Best Buy to Deploy RFID
• Otto Test Tags High-Value Goods
• Which RFID Middleware Is Best?
• Museum Puts Tags on Stuffed Birds
• Avery Debuts RFID Applicators
• New Two-Frequency RFID System
• RFID News Roundup

Featured Story
• Soap Maker Cleans Up with RFID

Opinion
• The 5-Cent Challenge

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Best Buy to Deploy RFID
The consumer electronics retailer says it will require suppliers to use Electronic Product Codes on pallets and cases beginning in January of 2006. Full Story >

Otto Test Tags High-Value Goods
The world’s largest mail-order retailer tries a real-life RFID test to help make sure shipments of expensive goods reach their intended consumers. Full Story >

Which RFID Middleware Is Best?
A new report from Forrester evaluates 13 software providers to determine whose solutions offer the best features for today, and tomorrow. Full Story >

Museum Puts Tags on Stuffed Birds
A Danish museum of natural history hatches an RFID-based exhibit on birds to better educate and entertain its visitors. Full Story >

Avery Debuts RFID Applicators
The leading maker of self-adhesive labels unveils two smart label applicators, including one that also encodes and prints. Full Story >

New Two-Frequency RFID System
IPico has developed RFID tags and readers that use both low- and high-frequency RF to improve read range, especially through liquids and metals. Full Story >

RFID News Roundup
Alien debuts 96-bit Class 1 EPC tags; SSA RFID-enables distribution software; Argent boosts RFID label production capacity; partners to offer RFID application integration; new handheld Bluetooth RFID reader. Full Story >

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Featured Story

Soap Maker Cleans Up with RFID
Canus, a maker of goat's milk soap, is deploying RFID to cut distribution costs, keep products from spoiling in transit and meet Wal-Mart's tagging requirements ahead of schedule. Premium Content >

Opinion

The 5-Cent Challenge
RFID Journal Editor Mark Roberti is betting $10,000 that end users will be able to buy simple, passive UHF RFID tags for a nickel in 2008. Full Story >

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