November 2010
2 posts
New Item Level RFID group created
A number of organizations have branded together to develop guidelines for the implementation of item level RFID in retail. Voluntary Interindustry Commerce Solutions (VICS) and standards groups GS1 US and GS1 Canada are some of the associations involved.
Hopefully guidelines will address the numerous privacy issues associated with deploying RFID at the item level.
Iphone and NFC(RFID)
The cult of Mac is reporting a rumor that Apple will be including a NFC (Near Field Communication) chip in version 5 of the Iphone. Apparently Apple has hired a number of NFC experts and has filed a number of patents.
There have been a lot of rumors about the Iphone of which a small minority have turned about to be true. However we know that Nokia has committed to this technology for all of its...