Wouldn?t it be really nice to have a trustworthy GPS system to plot your course through your RFID implementation?

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FedEx Corp. has upgraded its FedEx Global Trade Manager?a free online resource that aims to help small- and medium-sized businesses simplify international shipping?and FedEx Ship Manager, another online shipping tool.

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There is no evidence that radio frequency identification (RFID) tags can be used to corrupt computer databases or spread computer viruses, reports AIM Global, a trade association for automatic identification and mobility. AIM?s statement is in response to a technical paper entitled “Is Your Cat Infected with a Computer Virus?” delivered during a conference earlier this month in Pisa, Italy, that made those claims about the technology.

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AIM Global, the trade association for automatic identification and mobility, issued a statement in response to a technical paper delivered during a conference on 15 March 2006, in Pisa, Italy, entitled “Is Your Cat Infected with a Computer Virus?”

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While the costs of RFID (radio frequency identification) technology are on the decline, many companies that have invested in RFID are still straddled with inadequate IT infrastructure, face major adoption challenges and haven’t focused on achieving meaningful return on investment (ROI).

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Tiny silicon chips have been embedded into two workers who reportedly volunteered to help test the tagging technology at a surveillance equipment company. Implanting them in the workers at CityWatcher.com is believed to be the first use of the technology in living humans in the United States.

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Under the leadership of Deutsche Post World Net, IBM, Intel, Philips and SAP have agreed on a strategic partnership called “DHL Innovation Initiative”. The companies, which all have global presence, plan to advance the development and introduction of new technologies for the logistics industry. The initiative is aimed at making supply chains more efficient by uniting the flow of information and physical goods through increased automation, visibility and improved collaboration among trading partners.

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Although TNT Logistics is up for sale by its parent company, that hasn’t slowed it from expanding use of RFID in its work with Big Three automaker Ford Motor Co. Underway is a cooperative initiative at Ford’s Dearborn, Mich., truck assembly plant, where TNT manages Ford’s Material Sequencing Center (MSC) as a 3PL. Motivation for the innovation came because electronic and manual processes were not connected, resulting in late deliveries, part shortages, and misplaced and lost parts.

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Car manufacturer Ford should already have stopped the RFID-pilot, which he recently has started. Ford aimed by the use of RFID on lift trucks in the factories of the company, cost could be reduced. It was the intention that the application of RFID could get more insight in the status of battery used on the lift trucks.

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Pharmaceutical manufacturer Pfizer Inc. has begun to ship its Viagra product with radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to its customers in the U.S. It?s part of the company?s initiative to promote patient safety by combating pharmaceutical counterfeiting.

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