RFID 101 for Hospitality Financial Technology

Upcoming session on RFID basics will be offered to hospitality financial and technology workers, highlighting success stories. ...

... "RFID 101: Your Questions Answered: This educational RFID session, developed by Bourque, will take place on Thursday, September 25 from 3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. at the 2008 Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP) Annual Convention & Tradeshow, at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Bourque's presentation to HFTP attendees will demystify RFID for financial and technology professionals by presenting successful implementation cases and providing practical information. " ...

Via Precision Dynamics: Douglas Bourque Presents Educational RFID Session

RFID Innovation Success and Leadership

ODIN is recognized as an innovation factory by RFID Switchboard and its leadership in the industry will be showcased in the Top 20 Innovators Magazine. ...

... "Innovation has been the key to client success with RFID. In 2008 after living through this new wave of RFID we have learned that there are indeed some companies that stand out from the pack. There is no doubt that ODIN technologies is a leader of the pack when it comes to RFID, innovation and client success, commented Andy Kowl the publisher of the Top 20 Innovators Award. They have also shown their commitment to increasing knowledge for future RFID adopters. " ...

Via ODIN technologies: Top RFID innovator

China RFID Market Largest

China RFID market is accelerating and has successful applications of the technology across many industries. The growth should continue in China as its identity card and access controls for the summer Olympics event drive demand. ...

... "China has become the world's largest market for RFID by value, thanks to huge government spending on China's national ID card program and investments for the Beijing 2008 Olympics. " ...

Via NetworkWorld: 2007 China RFID Industry

Staples RFID Long-Range Inventory Tracking

Fujitsu successfully implements AbsoluteSKY's Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)-based intelliTRACKER suite in three months at STAPLES Business Depot’s first store. ...

... "STAPLES Business Depot, Canada's largest supplier of office supplies, business machines, office furniture and business services, worked with Fujitsu to install AbsoluteSKY's real-time, long range inventory tracking system in a 37,000 sq. ft. STAPLES Business Depot store in May 2007 as a test pilot. To date, roughly 1,500 SKUs have been tagged, and the system has been dynamically reporting inventory status and changes on a minute-to-minute basis as merchandise travels from receiving to store shelves, across retailer-defined zones and through the point-of-sale process. The results achieved illustrate a fully automated and highly accurate business system for item-level inventory tracking. " ...

Via AbsoluteSKY: Fujitsu Installation of AbsoluteSKY RFID System is Successful at STAPLES Business Depot

Walmart RFID WSJ Incomplete Picture of Benefits

Dean Frew, President and CEO of Xterprise, responds to negative article in WSJ that criticized WalMart's RFID program alleging that WalMart is not realizing the benefits originally proposed. ...

... "It is always interesting to me that journalists like Mr. McWilliams write about the same three companies when covering RFID. Beaver Creek, Blyth and Thomasville. These companies together account for about 100,000 cases of RFID enabled product shipped per year out of >100 million cases shipped to Wal-Mart in 2006. Why did Mr. McWilliams not talk with Proctor & Gamble they have publicly talked about their RFID successes and ship millions of RFID-enabled cases of product annually? A number of our clients are each shipping over 1 Million tags a year to Wal-Mart alone and we have seen multiple of our clients that are seeing significant value in managing of promotions. Just because they are not talking about it, does not mean they are gaining value. It is unfortunate when the largest most respected global business publication leads the Market section with such a negative one-sided story with so much wrong information and without any commentary from the subject company. " ...

Via Xterprise: Letter to the Editor (PDF) ...