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91. RFID In Healthcare Video 6/21/2007
    This video showcases RFID in the healthcare industry. The Academic Medical Centre Amsterdam (AMC) optimizes patient logistics, material usage, and blood supply in its surgery complex using RFID technology.
92. The RFID Opportunity Hunt: Searching For The Killer Applications With Michael J. Liard, ABI Research 6/21/2007
    According to Michael Liard, director, RFID & Contactless for ABI Research, RFID is a theme with a thousand variations. Application opportunities are truly limitless. New, innovative products and uses routinely being introduced and RFID strategies are unfolding across vertical markets and industries. Used with permission from ABI Research
93. Security Alert: Are Your Mobile Assets Putting Your Company, Employees Or Customers At Risk? 6/1/2007
    Telargo, Inc., the provider of mobile asset management solutions, is providing organizations with guidelines for securing their mobile assets to help prevent loss, theft or hijacking of equipment and cargo. When employees, cargo, vehicles and equipment are moving about the country, security risks and concerns grow exponentially. Companies that usually concentrate on logistical management and workflow need to consider how mobile assets complicate issues of physical and electronic security. As people, products and information are traveling outside of secured corporate headquarters, they are exposed to potential threats.
94. Store's Tag's Have You Pegged Data Keeps Retailers Updated 5/28/2007
    Walgreen Co. is expanding use of wireless tags that track in-store displays to determine whether and how the promotions entice shoppers to buy. Walgreen has had a positive return on its investment in the system, said a spokeswoman for the Deerfield-based drugstore chain. The retailer uses the system to figure out which displays are effective, and which need to be changed.
95. All About Forklift-Mounted RFID Readers By Michael Smith, LXE Inc. 5/22/2007
    As industrial use of RFID grows, so does our knowledge regarding the best ways to implement the technology in order to deliver the greatest possible benefit. Installing RFID readers on forklifts instead of at dock doors is emerging as a best practice in the warehouse. These new vehicle-mounted systems reduce RFID implementation costs while improving accuracy and efficiency for shipping, receiving and other operations. Submitted by LXE
96. Asset Management: AXCESS' RFID Solution Solving Government Laptop Theft Problem 4/17/2007
    AXCESS International Inc., provider of Dual-Active Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and Real Time Location Systems (RTLS) solutions, recently announced that three civilian U.S. Government agencies are installing its patented ActiveTag wireless RFID system for locating, tracking and protecting laptop computer assets and critical documents. The installations come during a time when the theft of laptops and other assets is at an all time high, with similar incidents reported by groups including the FBI and IRS.
97. Farm And Construction Equipment Dealership Control Inventory 4/11/2007
    A farm and construction equipment dealership needed help in physically controlling its serial numbered inventory parked outside the building. The dealership sells, rents, and demonstrates the equipment. The help needed consisted of controlling the movement of the equipment, asset management, and interactive paperwork. Many labor hours are spent tracking down missing equipment that has been thought to be returned or out on demo. Submitted by Kiland's Office Systems
98. User Integration Story: Monitoring Taxis Via RFID Tags, In Greece 4/5/2007
    Mikos Pesmatzoglou, managing director of Control and Advanced Technologies Hellas AEBE in Athens, Greece, shares his company's implementation of RFID technology. This is not a simple pilot program, but rather an article outlining the successful integration of RFID. The project, triggered by the National Union of Greek Taxis, was based upon the relevant Ministerial Decision of December 2004. On the windshield of every individual taxi an RFID tag is placed. The whole procedure was based on the RFID technology, functions, and communication techniques. Submitted by Control and Advanced Technologies Hellas AEBE
99. Printed Electronics — Overcoming Barriers To Commercialization By Raghu Das, IDTechEx 3/27/2007
    Nowadays, the term printed electronics is taken to include truly printed electronics but also thin film electronics that is potentially printable. Anything less and you miss the big picture. However, the main emphasis is on circuits, interconnects and components already made with printing equipment, at least in part. Submitted by IDTechEx
    
    
100. Printed Electronics Vs. Silicon — Getting The Priorities Right By Dr Peter Harrop, IDTechEx 3/19/2007
     Although the capabilities of complex silicon chips increase at a rapid pace, there is little or no reduction in cost of the simplest silicon chips. These have stuck at about five cents for decades. The cost of a chip factory and the cost of research to improve chip production is rising exponentially so there is no reason to believe that the simplest chips will get significantly cheaper in future. Submitted by IDTechEx