Thursday, September 18, 2003

Here's a site that shows images from the various camera phones. [The Scobleizer Weblog] comment [] 7:11:10 PM     Wal-Mart's Move to Use RFID. Wal-Mart is very IT savvy. I guess they never read Nicholas Carr. They are also quite bold in their IT moves for a company so large. For example, I wrote earlier about Wal-Mart's move to force trading partners to use Internet-based EDI. The most recent CIO Insight carries and article about Wal-Mart's big experiment with RFID. If you're not familiar with it, RFID is radio frequency identification. RFID tags can be produced cheaply and embedded in packages allowing them to be identified from a distance. Wal-Mart isn't deploying them on consumer packaging--yet--but they're requiring their top 100 suppliers to have them on cases and pallets shipped to Wal-Mart stores and distribution centers by January 2005. Wal-Mart represents 10-40% of some of these supplier's business, so they will comply even though the cost will be borne solely by them. [Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog] comment [] 7:08:46 PM

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