RFID use is raising privacy concerns among retailers, consumer privacy groups and, most recently, state legislators in California and Utah. So what do consumers think about the use of radio frequency ...

Secure Symbology, a New York City-based auto-identification technology company, has introduced a serialized bar coding and software platform that it says provides an alternative to radio frequency ...

This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. A couple of months ago, I wrote a piece ...

A strange as it may seem for today's generation, in the early days of bar coding (1980s and through much of the 1990s), the technology had many pit falls and companies often ran into many problems ...

BANGALORE: RFID is an automatic identification system that is seen to be a far more flexible and functional option than bar coding. <div class="section1"><div class ...

In this technology battle, the much-hyped Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags goes head to head with the UPC bar code. Scanner reads bar code—if nothing is in the way, no problem. Metals and ...

The use of RFID technology in the healthcare arena holds enormous promise. It could lead to greater accuracy and efficiency in treating patients by making medical information immediately accessible to ...