Monday, September 15, 2003

Radio-Tagged Codes to Hit Supply Lines
AP reports, "Backers of new radio-tagged product codes, a kind of souped-up wireless bar code, are heralding this as the week the technology finally moves off the drawing board and into the physical world. Unlike traditional bar codes, "Radio Frequency Identification" [or RFID] tags don't need to pass under a laser reader. They're already commonly used by drivers with 'speed passes' at toll booths, U.S. military quartermasters and ranchers tracking livestock..." :: Submitted for your mark of the beast files on ID technology. :: In the near future, it may be possible to put every product and every person on the Net, interacting in real-time. How's that for a brave new world?

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