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...know what RFID stands for, but you're probably using the technology on a daily basis. RFID (that is, radio frequency identification) is in passports, in electronic toll-collection tags, in credit cards, metrocards, library books and car keys. Like conventional bar codes, RFID chips store and relay information, and allow for the identification of commercial products - and, now, of house pets and people too. Human "tagging" was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2004 to facilitate retrieval of private medical records, but the procedure has had few takers. It's still purely voluntary and last week, California...
...Worldwide, the total value of shares from 25 countries tracked on the MSCI Emerging Market Index is now at its highest level since the mid-1990s, a time considered by many to have been a bubble (one that was popped by the 1997 Asian crisis and Russia's credit default). Yet investors are still piling in - inflows into emerging-market funds have been about $24 billion so far this year, exceeding $22.4 billion for all of last year...
...like Kronenbourg beer and by 2003 had narrowed its activities to fresh dairy products, bottled water--and cookies. "In a long history of disposals, this we suspect was the final major divestment that leaves Danone fully focused on the growing health-oriented markets," says Charlie Mills, an analyst at Credit Suisse, of the July sale of the cookie business, which included household names like LU and Prince and made up 15.6% of the company's total sales...
...inventory management, to help keep track of exactly what is precisely where in their vast tentacular supply chains--Wal-Mart announced earlier this month that it had RFID-enabled forklifts in 975 of its North American stores. RFID tags are embedded in tires. They're in library books and credit cards and lift tickets. The military uses them to track assets in Iraq. The Venetian Casino that just opened in Macau puts an RFID tag in each one of its chips. As of Jan. 1 of this year, every U.S. passport contains an RFID tag, to make them machine-scannable...
...future of the party fund has yet to be resolved, student group funding is still up in the air, and the UC’s money remains frozen. But UC-termbill derived funding of House Committees (HoCos), which last week appeared to be in jeopardy, will thankfully be unaffected. Credit for the change goes to the College administration. Last week, Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II announced that money would only be forked over to the UC once receipts showing the eventual destination of its money had been handed over. That edict all but torpedoed upfront...