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$8 Billion in NFC Volume Expected This Year, $30B in 2012
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Juniper Research predicts the value of NFC transactions will reach $8 billion this year and grow to $30 billion in three years. Coupon and promotion applications are expected to be prominent in the early market, but eventually will be supplanted by contactless payment.
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RFID Weekly News Roundup -- September 3, 2009
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Investment to develop RFID tags to secure pharmaceuticals plus RTLS contract agreements by a major hospital supplier highlight this week's RFID news, which also includes several NFC developments.
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Bloomingdale's Tracks Strong Results from RFID Pilot
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RFID improved inventory accuracy by 27.2 percent and reduced the time required for inventory cycle counting by 96 percent in an item-level jeans tracking pilot project completed by Bloomingdale's. Researchers said the results were consistent with other pilots and suggest similar benefits would be available to other retailers.
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Highlights from Baird's RFID Monthly for August
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Baird has published the August edition of RFID Monthly. It is a worthwhile read for anyone requiring an overview of the industry's last 30 days. For those without time to do so, we have reprinted here the report's summary.
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RFID Weekly News Roundup -- August 20, 2009
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Italian soccer tickets, hotel linens, car dealerships, documents and Coke machines are among the things that were announced as being RFID-enabled this week. Today's news roundup also covers new market research and second-quarter financial results from several industry companies.
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IBM Releases New Version of RFID Software
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IBM released its latest RFID middleware product, WebSphere Sensor Events, which includes support for a variety of RFID and wireless sensor technologies and can scale to support high transaction volumes.
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RFID Weekly News Roundup -- August 13, 2009
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The RFID industry got a new trade show and industry association this week. Other news highlighted in the weekly roundup include multiple new implementation announcements and a handful of product releases.
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RFID Mail Tracking Expands to 21 Countries
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This month 21 countries will begin using RFID to track delivery times for international mail. The Universal Postal Union expects the system will be adopted by more than 100 of its member nations.
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RFID Weekly News Roundup -- August 7, 2009
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A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Michigan farmers who claimed, among other things, that RFID cattle tracking violated their religious beliefs. That story, along with new RFID deployments at BMW and Siemens, disappointing financial results from several major RFID vendors, and a new standard for tracking medical equipment lead this week's news roundup.
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Who really was behind the SOPA protests?
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Some critics have blamed Silicon Valley tech firms for the massive online protests last month against two controversial copyright bills. Other groups have trumpeted the grassroots nature of the protests.
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