More than two years ago, Hewlett-Packard, the IT and computer products and services provider based in Palo Alto, Calif., started deploying RFID in parts of its manufacturing and distribution chain.

RFID tags are very much on their way to becoming cheap enough to be used extensively. Many RFID pilots are being conducted to prove the business case. As you read this, some companies are getting ...

The services include business-case development, technological proofs of concept, internal pilots, trading-partner pilots, and full-system rollouts. IBM is selling them to industries such as aerospace ...

A set of best practices designed to help assuage consumers’ concerns about RFID (radio frequency identification) tags was released on Monday by a group of technology vendors, RFID users and consumer ...

A new generation of radio tags can give IT a boost in avoiding SLA penalties and in managing assets better When you think of RFID, you likely think of the radio tags being used to track items in a ...

Hewlett-Packard unveiled on Monday services for companies trying to start radio frequency identification projects. HP launched three packages that essentially create a shrink-wrapped pilot program ...

LAS VEGAS -- Wal-Mart Stores, which has set various deadlines for its suppliers to implement RFID (radio frequency identification) systems, is making progress with the technology in its own facilities ...

Symbol Technologies' $230 million cash bid last week to buy Matrics, a maker of RFID tags, is another clear indicator that this technology will become more ubiquitous in the next two years. And not ...