The product would be a low cost one and would be using Microsoft SQL Server for data storage. Microsoft is also planning to integrate such technology in Microsoft XP embedded.

Details: http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39128515,00.htm

Details: http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/erp/story/0,10801,99072,00.html?source=NLT_APP&nid=99072

Have been following RFID developments by SUN for quite some time. There are very informative whitepapers at SUN's website http://www.sun.com/software/solutions/rfid/whitepapers.html

Well this was new to me. Always heard/read about it here and there in bits and pieces, but didn't get a chance to get to know the exact dimensions and all to the details mentioned in http://www.usnews.com/usnews/tech/billgate/gates.htm

European court have decided to uphold the penalties against Microsoft.

Details: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5500487.html

Slate the news webzine @ MSN (http://slate.msn.com/) was bought over from Microsoft by Washington Post Co.

Details: http://slate.msn.com/id/2111289/

This offering from Nokia provides an "end-to-end solution that can help companies reduce field service costs". Nokia phones with RFID readers can detect RFID tags and send the information through GPRS back to a central server for further processing etc.

Details: http://www.techworld.com/networking/news/index.cfm?NewsID=2852

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Quite a nice application of RFID in my view.

A nice detailed discussion on the reliabitiliy question mark before the RFID technology due to the uncertainity in the reading of RFID tags by RFID readers:

Details: http://www.computerworld.com/industrytopics/retail/story/0,10801,98340,00.html

Many of the Wal-Mart suppliers are more than convinced that RFID provides no ROI and that the money they are investing in deploying RFID based solutions are only to comply by the compulsion and demands of Wal-Mart. Thats really bad. This news was a bit of surprise for me as I always used to hear and read about the great ROI RFID technology promises IF it is integrated into the business processes of an organization!!!

AMR research group who has conducted the survey enumerates 3 points that are holding back these firms to deploy full scale RFID solutions one of which is this incomplete and limited implementation of RFID solutions.

Details: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041220/nem032_1.html

Came across an excellent article recently. Talks about the features of RSS and how they fit into the needs of faculty and students. The sample usage examples are pretty good and really they justify the title of the article.

Details: http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=2010

Great concept. Provides a much needed modularity in XML documents. Actually I had to use this modularity stuff in XML documents but then XInclude was still in its infancy so had to device some workarounds. Would be happy to use it in my next project  

Details: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5498458.html

Great step forward!!! Hope to see the Intermec issue to be resolved soon before this technology gets "practically" ubiquitous.

Details: http://blog.informationweek.com/001971.html

Microsoft's Home and Entertainment Department has started using RFID based solutions in its  supply chain management. Microsoft has teamed up with Accenture to deploy an RFID solution. Ths step has been taken to comply with the demands put forth by WalMart.

RFID tags are now being attached to XBox products, software products etc....

Details: http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=55300002

RFID Alliance labs tested 105 XTrack Smart labels (tags) and found 100% readability. Though there still are some issues that need to be solved in this experiment but the aim that they want to achieve would be quite critical to the RFID's future. RFID is basically used for inventory control and in enhancing efficiency through better visibility into the asset management. Cut in human labor required (and henceforth reduction is human errors) is one of the reasons that RFID would help in cost reduction for an enterprise. Hence it is of utmost importance that RFID tegchnology matures itself to a level where the errors in reading tags etc. are near to zero.

In many of the case studies of RFID pilot projects one would notice that the reduction in errors through automation is one of the main reasons why people are inclined to deploy RFID solutions.

Details: http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2004/12/emw189428.htm