Poultry and Other Bird Tags, Livestock and Other Animal Tags, Roxan iD

Happy Thanksgiving to all RFID News readers. RFID is used in the poultry industry, including this company which produces special tags for recently hatched chicks.  

Manhattan Associates Named to Forbes’ Best of the Web B2B List for 2003

“Manhattan Associates®, Inc. the global leader in providing supply chain execution solutions, today announced that it has been named to Forbes’ 2003 Best of the Web B2B directory. Published in the October 2003 issue, Forbes’ 2003 B2B Best of the Web guide recognizes 85 best-of-breed companies in 21 different industries – from Aerospace & Defense to Wireless. Manhattan Associates was included as one of four companies in the Supply Chain Management category and the only supply chain execution vendor to be recognized.”

While it is not clear what Manhattan Associates connection to “the web” is, RFID companies are becoming investment darlings.  

RFID Journal - Smart Labels for Higher Education

“Inside Contactless has delivered a total of 10 million of Inside’s PicoTag smart labels and microchips to China’s Ministry of Education. … Chinese universities and colleges across a number of provinces have applied the smart labels to their students’ ID cards. ”

Chip implant gets cash under your skin - News & Technology - CNETAsia

“Matthew Cossolotto, a spokesman for ADS who says he’s been “chipped,” argues that competing proposals to embed RFID tags in key fobs or cards were flawed. “If you lose the RFID key fob or if it’s stolen, someone else could use it and have access to your important accounts,” Cossolotto said. “VeriPay solves that problem. It’s subdermal and very difficult to lose. You don’t leave it sitting in the backseat of the taxi.””

Sorry for the editorializing, but widespread identification implants still strikes RFID News as unnerving. This technology seems appropriate for the penal system, intelligence agencies and defense contractors, not a consumer financial trasaction aid. There are a number of adequate means of identification that do not require surgery.  

The California state Senate has held its much-discussed hearing on RFID (radio frequency identification) technology, discussing how information collected via RFID should be maintained and used, what choices and benefits are available to consumers, and the impact that consumer choices will have.

Consultant - News.com: All you need to know about consulting and consultants

“Accenture is anticipating that businesses and organizations’ need for realtime access to information and the drive to better manage existing applications and infrastructure investments will boost its revenue growth anywhere from 5 to 10 percent in its 2004 fiscal year, company executives said last week at a strategy briefing held in New York. … The emerging field of radio frequency identification (RFID) will play key role for businesses looking to improve their supply chains, as executives must use IT to act more quickly and differentiate their companies during the economic recovery, Joe Forehand, chairman and CEO of Accenture, said. ”

The need for privacy is a business opportunity :: AO

“In the same way that many people now have a shredder to prevent dumpster diving identity theives, how about a home device for switching off RFID tags - How about a range of wallets and purses that mirror the same effect as the shoplifters freezer bags - How about more robust freezer bags to bring your shopping home again, keeping your groceries private and helping the environment through repeated use of the same carrier bags”

ELECTRO-Com - Electronic RFID door locks

“ELECTRO-Com has released a new range of electronic RFID door locks ‘e-lock’. E-lock electronic radio frequency identification (RFID) door locks provide cost-effective, secure access control for stand-alone single door installations. No wiring is necessary.”

InfoWorld: Wal-Mart’s RFID edict ripples through IT: November 21, 2003: By Ephraim Schwartz: Wireless

“IT departments now have a data-generating device on the edge of the network. They will need to get the data from the edge into the enterprise. Then the data on the tags will have to be associated with other tags and with transactional documents, such as a sales order or a bill of lading.”

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