Brightpoint, Inc. has announced plans to purchase the outstanding shares of Dangaard Telecom A/S, one of Europe’s largest distributors of mobile phones and accessories, as part of an almost all-stock deal valued at $308 million.

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2006 was a challenging year for the RFID industry - sales expectations fell short, a high-profile IPO did not materialize, and the market continued to be “commoditized before it is commercialized.” Nevertheless, investment in RFID remained strong and the industry made significant strides toward resolving standards-related issues.

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In 2006, much of the media attention focused, justifiably, on Gen2 UHF and longer-range RFID tags for use in logistics. As we enter 2007, however, equal attention should be given to applications a little “closer at hand” — in fact, in your hand. Integration of RFID readers into cell phones and PDAs, along with advances in sensor-enabled tags and the growing interest in Near Field Communications (NFC) applications and sensors, might see an entirely new RFID model emerging: personal RFID.

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So far Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags have been fairly typical of so much Information Technology - much hyped but slow to deliver. DHL, however, has begun to bring to market a stream of new applications and services that appear to realise some of the potential benefits of the technology.

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As the cost of tags and readers continues to fall, system integration and data analytics are emerging as the top challenges in achieving total supply chain visibility with RFID.A new Aberdeen Group report that dissects the supply chain finds that the objectives, opportunities, and best-in-class RFID solutions change as product travels from one organization to the next in the chain.

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High-tech companies were looking to aggressively increase their investment in IT the coming year, an April 2006 AMR Research study found. In “Invest in the Future Now: IT Spending To See Double-Digit Growth the Coming Year,” we reported that 76% (of surveyed respondents) plan to increase IT spending the next 12 months. The average budget growth is expected to be 19.5%.

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A new Aberdeen Group report that dissects the supply chain finds that the objectives, opportunities, and best-in-class RFID solutions change as product travels from one organization to the next in the chain.

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GS1 EPCglobal has announced that the Transportation & Logistics (TLS) Industry Action Group has initiated an RFID pilot program to enable visibility of containers transported by sea between Hong Kong and Japan.

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A new RFID (radio frequency identification) Technology center is the result of a joint effort between RedPrairie and Babush Material Handling Systems.

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Intellident, the UK’s leading RFID solutions provider specialising in the design and supply of software driven asset tracking and recording systems, with over 50 million items already RFID-enabled and Stockway, a leader in collaborative value chain visibility solutions have chosen to work together to bring additional functionality to the already powerful Vision software suite from Intellident.

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