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Nokia Announces App ‘Smart Store’
Nokia kicks off the 2009 Mobile World Congress in Bacelona with the announcement of the Ovi Store, an application store that blends media with social networking and location-based services, akin to Google’s Latitude application. Ovi already boasts partners such as Facebook, MySpace and game publisher Electronic Arts. Nokia Executive Vice President Tero Ojanperä used a [...]
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The Smallest RFID Tag for Jewelry
DAILY RFID recently announced availability of the jewelry industry OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) RFID tag, designed to automate Jewelry tracking in retail, wholesale, or secured storage applications.This RFID OEM tag enable entire trays of tagged jewelry to be simultaneously scanned into an RFID-enabled system within no time, eliminating the need for individual scanning and increasing [...]
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RuBee a Rugged Alternative to RFID
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers has approved a standard for RuBee, a technology that is a bit like RFID but can be used in harsher environments such as underwater or in firearms. Steel, liquids, animals and people, among other things, can disrupt RFID (radio frequency identification), according to Visible Assets, the small company [...]
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Future Store
Video showing the process of RFID and other smartstore technology in Europe’s Future Stores.
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A smart cash register from Intel
Mixing real life shopping with the Internet’s “up-selling” capabilities, Intel’s cash register is able to recognize you and give Amazon-esque recommendations, based on things you’ve purchased in the past. Frog Design is responsible for the hardware: making this 3-touchscreen terminal work with Intel’s newest processors. The touchscreen works in concert with RFID cards and salespeople [...]
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Kiva Systems’ robotic warehouse
View this video about Kiva Systems’ robotic warehouse, where orange robots make inventory move instead of workers. Over time the system becomes increasingly efficient, with the robots learning from the wisdom of the crowd.
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RFID-enabled store display making an impression
The signagelive-enabled Estee Lauder Lab Series for Men RFID solution installed by Lime-IT in the House of Fraser store on Oxford Street, London, has achieved 800 customer interactions in the first two days of trading. Using radio frequency identification (RFID), videos are played on digital signs above the fixture when customers pick up different products. Successful [...]
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Ubiquitous Computing & RFID
Ubiquitous Computing and RFID: Big Brother’s All-Seeing Eye? You be the judge.
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Shopping with Google Android
ShopSavvy, Barcode Scanner, and CompareEverywhere are three free shopping applications for Google Android poised to help you find the best deals in town and online. At their core, they’re nearly identical, using the phone’s camera to auto-focus on a barcode. That barcode is then matched to a product using an open source decoding library, ZXing, [...]
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Smartphones & smartstores
The mobile phone will inevitably be an important component for smartstores. Stores that in build intelligence in their infrastructure using RFID with hardware such as smartshelves and smartcarts will need to embrace smartphones to take full advantage for servicing their customers. If customers are carrying around a communications device that can display information, images, and [...]
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