Weekly Newswire August 7th, 2008

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IT Channel Says Customer Interest in RFID Technology on the Rise
IT News Online
The worldwide survey of 155 IT companies found that 46% of their customers have implemented one or more RFID solutions, either as pilot projects or ...

RFID goes primetime in Beijing Olympics
Cnet Asia
Radio-frequency identification technology or RFID will be facing it first major test during the Beijing Olympics, taking care of ticketing for the estimated ...

RFID Study Evaluates Item-Level Retail Performance
RFID Update
By John Burnell Retailers can achieve very good RFID read rates for typical item-level tagging applications, but performance can vary widely depending on ...

Tracking a Shopper's Habits
MIT Technology Review
Getting better data about product sales was a big reason why retailers like Wal-Mart and Target pushed radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, ...

Florida State Attorney office creates RFID document system
RFID News
To bring order to the potential chaos of documents, the office has added RFID capability to its proprietary case-tracking system. Now, to locate a file, ...