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US DOD issue an RFP for Active RFID

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:00:00 +0100

In an article in the RFID Journal on August 26th 2008, Mary Catherine O'Connor reported that nearly two years after it issued a RFI to Active RFID equipment vendors� [Read More...]

Reva announce new version of TAP

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:00:00 +0100

On July 15th 2008, Reva announced the GA of its new Tag Acquisition Processor (TAP) appliance, the TAP 721 and at the same time announced the release of version 2.3 of the TAP software for all models. [Read More...]

Ubisense and Alien Technology: RTLS at a leading car manufacturer

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:00:00 +0100

On July 10th 2008, a joint press release was made by Ubisense and Alien Technology on the deployment of RTLS and RFID solution at a leading car manufacturer. [Read More...]

OATSystems acquired by Checkpoint

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:00:00 +0100

I have just received a press release from Checkpoint Systems and OATSystems which announced that the former had entered into a definitive Agreement to acquire the latter. The all cash transaction is expected to close within two weeks. [Read More...]

SNAPping with GlobeRanger

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Those of you who have been involved in initial pilots and multi-site deployments involving fairly standard and unvarying workflows know that that some of today's RFID Middleware is like a sledgehammer to crack a nut! Meet SNAP. [Read More...]

Oracle completes BEA take-over

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:00:00 +0100

Yesterday saw Oracle finally acquire BEA as approval from the EU was given. [Read More...]

Sirit and Reva part of Metro Group's expanded RFID roll-out

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Further extension to the existing agreement between Metro, Sirit and Reva [Read More...]

Microsoft put RFID on Mobile

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Just picked up the news that Microsoft has unveiled its BizTalk RFID Mobile platform. [Read More...]

New from AeroScout

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Just received 3 announcements from AeroScout, one of the leading RTLS vendors in the market that I thought I would share with you all. [Read More...]

Bagging Handling Applications get an RFID Simulator and Diagnostic tool

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:00:00 +0100

A new UK Company and a new RFID application tool. The New Year brings a simulator and diagnostic tool for airline baggage handling. [Read More...]

Best Financial Results - 2007 a good year for Process Oriented sales!

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Software AG and Lombardi both make announcements about a successful 2007 [Read More...]

New Competence Centre for RTLS use in Aerospace

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:00:00 +0100

Marshall Solutions and Ubisense announced on Novemember 28th 2007, the setting up of an aerospace production RTLS competence centre in Cambridge,UK. The centre is designed to showcase the benefits which Real Time Location Systems (RTLS). [Read More...]

RFID Live Europe - a personal view

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:00:00 +0100

I went to attend the pre-conference day on the 6th of November in Amsterdam and in particular to meet Subdir Hasbe of Microsoft who was giving the keynote on the Wednesday. [Read More...]

SAP to Acquire Business Objects - will this mean analysis of RFID Data?

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 06:00:00 +0100

SAP announced on October 7th 2007 that they have reached an agreement to acquire Business Objects. So another pure play BI vendor has gone. [Read More...]

OATSystems release Asset Tracking RFID application

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:00:00 +0100

OATSystems have released another application solution based on top of their RFID middleware. As the RFID middleware market starts a new phase with Microsoft's arrival, smaller companies look to new avenues for revenue. [Read More...]

Delivering an integrated video and location system in Germany

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:00:00 +0100

On August 13th 2007, eseg and Ubisense announced the live running of an integrated video and location system for Cordes & Simon, part of German transport network group System Alliance. [Read More...]

Reva Systems Announces TAP Release 2.0

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:00:00 +0100

Support expanded for fixed and mobile RFID readers, centralized reader firmware management and seamless integration with enterprise software from IBM, Microsoft and SAP [Read More...]

RFID vendors to demonstrate benefits of item-level apparel tagging

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 06:00:00 +0100

Avery Dennison, Motorola and Vue Technology will run a live Dock to Stock demonstration at the RFID Journal-AAFA Apparel & Footwear Summit, illustrating how RFID can deliver benefits throughout the supply chain. [Read More...]

Wi-Fi-based RFID improves elderly care

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:00:00 +0100

PresCare is using a Wi-Fi-based RFID system to enable its residents to quickly and easily call for help, and to alert staff if a resident wanders into a dangerous area. [Read More...]

HP Opens European RFID Solutions Centre

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 06:00:00 +0100

HP have openend a new RFID Centre of Excellence in Milan. They have also announced their Euro Pool project. [Read More...]

RFID Labelling in the Midlands

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 06:00:00 +0100

One of the organisations I met at the RFID Network Forum in June was CLC An SME playing successfully in the big world supplying RFID Labels. [Read More...]

ODIN Technologies to work with Airbus on using RFID in the Supply Chain

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:00:00 +0100

A joint announcement by ODIN Technologies and Airbus last month announced a major partnership between the 2 organisations. [Read More...]

Metro move from pilot to deployment with Reva RFID Solution

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:00:00 +0100

Reva TAP product is being used Metro in their roll-out RFID Solution [Read More...]

Closed-loop Sushi tracking in Seattle

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:00:00 +0100

2 seperate announcements about same Sushi RFID case study from Intermec and Microsoft! [Read More...]

Boeing's Dreamliner

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:00:00 +0100

US plane manufacturer Boeing launched its technologically advanced and environmentally progressive 787 Dreamliner - heralded as the world's first mostly composite commercial airplane on Sunday 8th July. [Read More...]