Bar code solutions are still the technology of choice for several applications despite the rise of RFID (radio frequency identification). But, what does the future hold? June of this year marked the ...

Pitching wide-scale deployments of RFID (radio frequency identification) to companies that are already optimized around bar coding is a tough sell. That’s why the two technologies should be considered ...

As more companies ramp up their RFID deployments and share data with supply-chain partners, a common problem has come to light. While many business applications need to process data from both bar ...

Sept. 27, 2002 — There are some people who believe that they won’t see RFID labels being used to track individual items in stores in their lifetime. In fact, the first testing of such a system could ...

With the RFID market predicted to hit the $3 billion mark by 2010, according to Gartner Inc., analysts say that RFID won't be the only game in town -- they can operate side-by-side with bar codes.

These are the three factors hospitals are looking at in deciding where to replace bar codes with RFID. (Picture from Accurate Data Systems.) Despite the calls by some experts to "skip" bar codes and ...

You’ve been hearing a lot about RFID recently, and with good reason. The promise of RFID is essentially the creation of a radio-based bar code, meaning that we can use radio, and not light from a ...

Here’s a field-programmable RFID spoofer developed by [Doug Jackson]. He was inspired by the spoofers we looked at near the end of September that didn’t have source code available. With the idea ...

The much-hyped Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) revolution may unfold more as an evolution with its full impact coming late in this decade, according to Gene Alvarez, vice president with Meta ...

Consumers benefit from having guidelines that promote the protection of their data captured by radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, but may be burdened by additional costs to exercise greater ...

In the film “The Recruit,” Colin Farrell portrays a CIA agent who escapes a double agent by removing a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag placed on him and surreptitiously placing it on the ...