Wal-Mart Expands Use of RFID Tracking
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Wal-Mart said it would expand the use of RFID tracking to 500 more stores, meaning over a quarter of the chain's 3,900 Wal-Mart and Sam's Club locations would now be using the controversial technology.
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Metro Group, the giant German grocery and consumer goods retailer, has been a leader in applying RFID tags to shipments of goods to track their progress through its distribution chain.
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Hewlett-Packard has jumped on the RFID bandwagon, embracing the wireless tracking technology aimed at replacing the decades-old product bar code.
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Hewlett-Packard said it will invest $US150 million ($210million) over five years in radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies, to appeal to large corporate customers such as retailers Wal-Mart Stores and Best Buy.
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AT&T is offering RFID active tags that send a Wi-Fi signal at regular intervals, as well as software to find the tags via a Web browser.
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RFID World attendees were interested in flexing the uses of RFID beyond tagging pallets in the stock room, including using RFID with cell phones to read blood sugar levels or to pay for fuel.
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Big Blue also introduces radio tag services for midsize suppliers working under mandates from retail giants such as Wal-Mart.
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Big Blue also introduces radio tag services for midsized suppliers working under mandates from retail giants such as Wal-Mart.
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Tracking inventory using inexpensive radio tags is one of the hottest technologies in supply chain management, with promising applications in retail and many other sectors.
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A mid-sized company sees a bright future for RFID technology even as it struggles to meet Wal-Mart's requirement that shipments it receives have the tags.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc said on Tuesday it  is expanding the number of health care plans it will offer its  1.3 million U.S. employees, including adding health care  credits and $4 monthly prescriptions for any of 2,400 generic  drugs.
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Wireless companies are rolling out new GPS services for employers that can track the physical location of mobile workers.
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RFID tags, the dime-sized devices that can track inventory from the factory to the store, are being embraced as one of the hottest of new technologies. -TheWashington Post
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Ziff Davis - HP is working with specialists BearingPoint and OATSystems on RFID for Wal-Mart compliance and other retail implementation. Meanwhile, the major IBM competitor is building "domain knowledge" about RFID in manufacturing.
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The first indication that the value of RFID (radio frequency identification) will extend beyond the supply warehouse was shown last week by WhereNet, a provider of wireless location and communications technology.
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MARKHAM, Ont., Sept. 16 - IBM Canada has announced a suite of services to speed the benefits of radio frequency identification (RFID) systems to industrial companies and mid-market businesses.
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IBM is set to begin offering a range of new services designed to bring the benefits of radio-frequency identification (RFID) systems to industrial firms and mid-size businesses.