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digg_url = 'http://digg.com/hardware/How_to_Wire_Your_House_with_RFID'; Despite criticism concerning security and personal privacy issues that surround RFID, the technology has become popular and commonplace in the retail environment. But there's no reason why these new technologies should be confined to stores and inventory...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/15_Surprising_Ways_RFID_Will_Affect_Your_Life_in_2007'; If you're an RFID fanatic, you know how RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) will affect your life this year. In fact, you may dream about how this technology will change the world within the next decade - either...

This is a roundup of recent RFID news and views. The ROI of RFIDWhile many small vendors cannot use the volume of RFID tags to make the ROI (Return on Investment) worthwhile, some companies are finding it. A trailer dealership...

This is a roundup of recent RFID-related news and views. Tracking Steel ThyssenKrupp Steel has managed to run a successful test on a thousand tagged steel slabs using EPC UHF RFID tags. The slabs were shipped from Brazil to Germany...

Yet More Anti-RFID Envelope MakersNational Envelope Corporation is the latest company to go after the potentially lucrative anti-RFID envelope and wallet market with their Smart Card Guard products. The envelopes can be used to protect contactless credit cards, ID cards,...

What happens when you lose one? Can the finder/ thief use it to make purchases? Supposedly there are safeguards, but since you can just tap your phone at, say, a cashless vending machine, I don't see how that'd stop a...

Remember CDs and DVDs? Does anyone still buy them anymore? Of course they do (despite the fall of Tower Records and lots of smaller music stores). And that probably means they still get stolen. So NXP Semiconductors is introducing RFID...