McDonalds has a new ordering system in South Korea, which implements RFID and the customers’ cell phones.
McDonalds is experimenting with the ultimate line-buster in South Korea, where customers purchase food on their cell phones, which then ring when the order is ready.
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Source: eWeek
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Active RFID’s share of the total RFID market is expected to grow to $7 billion within 10 years
According to the news site InfoWorld, active RFID taging and tracking is rising on a day by day basis.
The use of battery-powered wireless products in tagging and tracking applications is rising sharply, according to new data [...]

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by Darren Murph
In order to truly judge the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of a newfangled technology, we all know trial by fire is the only way to go. Hence, it follows logic that about 1,000 printed organic RFID tickets will be tested at the Organic Electronics Conference this September in Frankfurt, Germany.
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by Ashwin
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), the technology of the future, has long established itself in our everyday lives. It is already deployed in various areas ranging from efficient inventory management and road toll collection through to timing the performance of individual participants in mass sporting events. With its enormous potential it is only right that [...]

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A US university which has already enabled its students with radio frequency identification (RFID) technology has announced a further development in its bid to employ the system throughout the campus.
Pennsylvania’s Slippery Rock University is to unveil a 13.56-MHz RFID tag which can be attached to pupils’ mobile phones and allow them to pay [...]

By Mick Meaney
RINF Alternative News
The American Medical Association (AMA) has released a report highlighting the risks of human implantable RFID microchips.
The report contains safety and privacy warnings - as the chips have never been thoroughly tested, despite in 2004 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) giving the go-ahead for the use of human implantable [...]

Searching the net I found this old but timely article by Declan McCullagh…
“Could we be constantly tracked through our clothes, shoes or even our cash in the future?
I’m not talking about having a microchip surgically implanted beneath your skin, which is what Applied Digital Systems of Palm Beach, Fla., would like to do. Nor am [...]

“One of Europe’s largest makers of doors, Vicaima, has rolled out a multi-million tag RFID deployment using Alien Technology’s ’squiggle’ tags in Portugal”, reports Computer Business Review Online. “Vicaima plans to extend its RFID project during the next several months throughout Europe.”
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Rollout continues in ‘world’s most successful’ RFID schemes
Dave Friedlos, Computing, 31 May 2007
Marks & Spencer (M&S) this week completes the latest stage of one of the world’s most extensive rollouts of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology.
Following a successful trial in 42 stores, the high street retailer has installed the infrastructure in its 120 largest shops.
Staff [...]