Copyright © 2013 Knight Sac Media. All rights reserved.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/subject.aspx?subjectid=54298In a few years RFID technology will be ubiquitous. Wal-Mart has already announced that it is going to require that its top 100 suppliers deliver RFID tagged products by 2005. By the end of 2006, that requirement will be extended to all of their products. It was recently reported that the U.S. Dep...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/images/Logo380x132.pnghttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/subject.aspx?subjectid=5429838013210Glenn PetersenNFC: What You Need to Know by Lauren Goode All Things D Published on February 18, 2013 By now you may have heard of NFC. It’s been the next big thing for the past five years. Okay, so maybe this tech hasn’t hit its stride yet. But there are several new mobile phones that claim “NFC” as a feature. So what does ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287324512/18/2013 11:26:21 AMGlenn PetersenHow the Bar Code Took Over the World By Drake Bennett and Jim Aley Bloomberg Businessweek on December 17, 2012 In 1948 a supermarket executive showed up at the Drexel Institute of Technology, in Philadelphia, with a request: He wanted the engineers there to design a technology that could encode information about ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2861251412/18/2012 12:59:18 PMGlenn PetersenConsolidation: Honeywell to Buy Intermec The acquisition, slated to close in mid-2013, will provide Honeywell's Scanning & Mobility division with more product offerings, as well as help it accelerate the company's development of RFID handheld reader products. By Claire Swedberg RFID Journal Dec. 12, 2012—Technol...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2860354312/14/2012 9:52:20 AMGlenn PetersenN. Joseph Woodland, Inventor of the Bar Code, Dies at 91 By MARGALIT FOX New York Times Published: December 12, 2012 [graphic] I.B.M. N. Joseph Woodland explaining his prototype scanner for products with bar codes. _______________ N. Joseph Woodland, who six decades ago drew a set of lines in the sand and in...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2860305112/13/2012 11:29:56 PMGlenn PetersenGoogle Wallet has been a bit of a bust: Plastic cards for Google’s digital wallet? By Quentin Fottrell MarketWatch Nov. 10, 2012, 9:00 a.m. EST Google may put something surprising into its digital wallet: plastic. This week, the search giant added the “ Google Wallet Card ” to the list of devices able to use ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2853880711/10/2012 12:06:58 PMGlenn PetersenStudent IDs That Track the Students By MAURICE CHAMMAH and NICK SWARTSELL New York Times October 6, 2012 SAN ANTONIO — For Tira Starr, an eighth grader at Anson Jones Middle School, the plastic nametag hanging around her neck that she has decorated with a smiley face and a purple bat sticker offers a way to refle...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2845919810/7/2012 8:19:21 PMGlenn PetersenTarget bets on QR codes, exclusive toys this holiday By Jessica Wohl Wed Oct 3, 2012 12:17am EDT (Reuters) - Target Corp hopes that letting shoppers scan, buy and ship a selection of toys while shopping in its stores and having hundreds of exclusive toys will help drive sales this holiday season, one of its executi...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2844869010/3/2012 9:21:15 AMGlenn PetersenBehold the World’s Largest QR Code! By Roy Wood Wired 09.13.12 5:30 AM [graphic] The Kraay Cornfield QR Code _______________ You’ve probably noticed that QR codes, those little pixelated graphics, are showing up pretty much everywhere these days. The idea is that QR codes are an effective way to encode a URL su...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=284068939/13/2012 7:38:27 PMGlenn PetersenRFID and The Big Bang Theory Posted By Mark Roberti, 08.30.2012 I recently received an e-mail from Jim Donaldson, Impinj's senior director of corporate communications, containing the subject line, "RFID on the Big Bang Theory." I thought this was going to have something to do with companies deploying the technolog...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=283780019/1/2012 3:10:43 PMGlenn PetersenRumor: NFC chip spotted in photos of purported next-gen iPhone front assembly By AppleInsider Staff Published: 05:55 AM EST (02:55 AM PST) [graphic] New images thought to be of the front assembly for Apple's next-generation iPhone show a component never seen before in the company's handsets, prompting some to...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=283647788/27/2012 3:23:43 PMGlenn PetersenUltimately, the mobile payments providers will coalesce around two or three standards, Apple probably being one of them. Until the, chaos. Walmart, Target, 7-11 And Other Retailers Are Teaming Up On Mobile Wallet Sarah Perez TechCrunch August 15, 2012 Because the mobile payments landscape wasn’t muddy enough, the...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=283376578/15/2012 12:16:57 PMTamson FischerThat's an accurate way to frame the roll out; retail industry vs credit industry vs cell phone industry. Judging from the retail lineup in the article(including Best Buy, Loews and Sears), they are imo huge underdogs wrt control or large profits from the technology. Both the cell phone and credit industries MUST par...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=283375608/15/2012 11:44:38 AMGlenn PetersenI am in full agreement with you. The market is growing rapidly but it difficult to find a way to capitalize financially on that growth. An NFC solution: Payments Network Takes On Google Retailers Including Wal-Mart, Target and 7-Eleven to Unveil Mobile System Employing Smartphones By ROBIN SIDEL Wall Street Journ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=283372038/15/2012 10:03:14 AMdeenoBoy I'll tell you RFID as we knew it 5/10 years ago never got to stage one. At best a sequentcial grower for large scale non-pure plays.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=282964807/27/2012 11:14:54 AMGlenn PetersenMore info: Chipmaker Impinj pulls IPO, raises $21M privately Seattle-based Impinj formally pulled the plug on its dormant initial public offering Thursday, opting instead to raise a smaller amount of money privately. By Drew DeSilver Seattle Times business reporter Thursday, July 26, 2012 at 4:56 PM Seattle-...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=282951957/26/2012 8:25:29 PMGlenn Petersenhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=282951727/26/2012 8:10:54 PMSavantNFC Stickers Make Smartphones Smarter By Olga Kharif on July 12, 2012 In the fall, Toronto resident Pearl Chen placed quarter-size stickers on the 30 or so spice containers in her kitchen. Now whenever she taps her Samsung smartphone against a bottle of turmeric, say, the device does a Google ( GOOG) search f...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=282713327/16/2012 9:46:22 PMGlenn PetersenQR Code Fatigue By Mark Milian Bloomberg Businessweek on June 28, 2012 When 29-year-old manufacturing worker Michael Hellesen sees a Quick Response code around his hometown of Racine, Wis., he sometimes scans it using an application he downloaded to his Google ( GOOG) Android smartphone. More often than not, it ta...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=282432797/3/2012 6:16:50 AMGlenn PetersenSQuare deal After many false starts, QR codes are finally taking off The Economist Jun 16th 2012 [graphic] CEREAL boxes are, by and large, poor works of literature. Yet many people sit at breakfast reading them over and over again. Last year Kellogg’s realised it could make its packets more entertaining—and gues...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=282128366/18/2012 8:40:12 AMGlenn PetersenStudents will be tracked via chips in IDs By Francisco Vara-Orta Updated 11:44 p.m., Thursday, May 24, 2012 Northside Independent School District plans to track students next year on two of its campuses using technology implanted in their student identification cards in a trial that could eventually include all 112...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=281686415/25/2012 10:09:04 AMGlenn PetersenMany Competing Paths on the Road to the Phone Wallet By JOSHUA BRUSTEIN New York Times May 6, 2012 The idea of using a smartphone as a wallet has been slow to catch on in the United States. A big part of the problem has been that most stores do not have the proper physical equipment to allow customers to pay by ta...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=281292255/7/2012 11:14:03 AMGlenn PetersenSome speculative numbers from Juniper and a few qualifiers from TechCrunch: Juniper: NFC Payments To Reach $74 Billion Worldwide By 2015 By Leena Rao TechCrunch March 8, 2012 As we heard last week, Isis, the carrier-led joint venture between AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, is picking up steam in the NFC world to m...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=279977273/8/2012 8:49:31 AMGlenn PetersenThe Wilipedia entry for QR Code: en.wikipedia.org  A real life application: QuickPay Makes Your Smartphone a Parking Attendant By Keith Barry Wired February 16, 2012 8:00 am A service that allows drivers to pay for parking from their smartphones hopes to expand the service to private garages, city streets and...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=279576262/18/2012 12:23:54 PMGlenn PetersenA competing technology that is getting a lot of traction: Those barcode-looking things? They’re called QR codes. Here’s what they do. By Stephen Chapman ZDNet November 28, 2011, 11:39pm PST Summary: Have you seen those barcode-looking things recently but haven’t got the slightest what they’re for? After this pos...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=279576092/18/2012 12:16:02 PMGlenn PetersenImpinj's IPO is stalled. The last amendment to their registration statement was filed on July 14, 2011: sec.gov http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=279556482/17/2012 11:46:16 AMGlenn PetersenI have to believe that MicroChips is using RFID technology in their devices, although there is no specific evidence of that in this article or on their website, which is not surprising given the controversy surrounding the insertion of RFID tags into humans. ‘Pharmacy on a chip’ passes test By Clive Cookson in Vanc...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=279547622/16/2012 10:43:51 PMSavantRT-UPDATE: MasterCard Urging Merchants, Banks To Upgrade Card Technology Last Update: 1/30/2012 5:41:02 PM --MasterCard shifting liability for some card fraud to merchants in 2015 --Move follows similar plans by Visa --Chip-based cards considered more secure than magnetic-stripe cards (Updated with details ab...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=279176591/31/2012 11:43:42 AMGlenn PetersenMore of the topic of cattle tagging: Fewer Cows’ Hides May Bear the Mark of Home By ERICA GOODE New York Times January 25, 2012 MORGAN HILL, Calif. — In the half-light of a winter evening here, a tawny calf skitters across the pasture after its mother, a Lazy T brand visible on its right hip. The brand, used by...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=279065501/25/2012 9:47:13 PMGlenn PetersenCattle branding comes under fire; icon of the West may fade away Ranchers accept the inevitability but lament the passing of a ritual older than America — the smell of trampled sagebrush and burned hide, the sound of whinnying horses, songs around campfires and friendly boasts among friends. By Lisa M. Krieger Ori...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=278848491/16/2012 10:57:53 PMGlenn PetersenDigital Snickers Alert: Google Wallet Is Coming to a Vending Machine Near You Lauren Goode All Things D December 1, 2011 at 8:00 am PT There might now be one less reason to kick the office vending machine — consumers will soon be able to pay for their snacks with a smartphone, as well as send real-time complaints...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2779943012/1/2011 9:26:25 PMGlenn PetersenCharlie Walton, inventor of RFID, passes away at 89 Dean Takahashi VentureBeat November 27, 2011 [graphic] Charlie Walton, the inventor of an ubiquitous wireless technology known as RFID, has passed away at 89. Walton, who lived in Los Gatos, died on Nov. 6, according to his wife Ann Walton. I once wrote an artic...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2778885711/27/2011 2:14:04 PMGlenn PetersenAlien Still Tagging Investors for More Money By Don Clark Wall Street Journal November 8, 2011, 11:20 AM ET Alien Technology is 17 years old, smaller than it once was and pursuing a different strategy. But the company is still acting, and raising money, like a startup. The closely held company–a pioneer in the ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2775671211/9/2011 1:33:35 PMTamson FischerIdentive Group to present at Tech America Classic investor's conference identive-group.com  SANTA ANA, Calif., October 24, 2011 -- Identive Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: INVE, Frankfurt: INV), a provider of products, services and solutions for the identification, security and RFID industries, will present at the TechAmerica ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2772499010/25/2011 1:07:33 PMGlenn Petersenhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2768024710/4/2011 7:00:54 PMGlenn PetersenGoogle Mobile App Aims To Turn Phones Into Wallets Katherine Boehret All Things D Wall Street Journal September 20, 2011 at 3:54 pm PT Would you rather leave home without your wallet and be penniless all day, or leave your phone at home and be out of touch all day? Many people would rather be penniless. If only ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=276502849/20/2011 11:30:05 PMGlenn PetersenMobile Wallet Gaining Currency By SONIA KOLESNIKOV-JESSOP New York Times September 6, 2011 SINGAPORE — Nowadays, when Edward McLaughlin is paying for aspirin at the Walgreens drug stores in New York, he just has to tap his Nexus S mobile phone on a terminal device. He not only avoids having to fumble through his w...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=276190279/6/2011 4:20:24 PMGlenn PetersenVisa To Ramp Up Chip Migration To Support NFC And Mobile Payments Leena Rao TechCrunch Autgust 9, 2012 We know Visa is getting serious about mobile and digital payments. Part of this plan involves adopting NFC and other chip technologies that will enable mobile transactions. Today, the company is announcing that...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=275558388/9/2011 11:42:18 AM