Jacqueline Emigh

Microsoft Corp. this week announced piracy lawsuits against a second set of resellers and systems builders, a move that was applauded by some of the companys Windows partners but raised a few eyebrows in the Linux and open-source community. “Were doing this because our honest resellers and systems builders need a level playing field on […]

To try to cut costs, enterprises of all sizes are moving more and more to “offshoring,” buying their finished goods and raw materials from China and other overseas countries. But to keep these globalization efforts from backfiring, businesses need to adopt new IT systems in areas ranging from trade documentation to container security, according to […]

The long and bitter intellectual property battle between Intermec Technologies Corp. and Symbol Technologies Inc. raged on this week, as Symbols chief IP counsel accused Intermec of “embarking on an industry-stifling campaign to enforce and collect RFID royalties.” Intermecs chief operating officer countered that Symbol is “trying to beat us into a deal that doesnt […]

Gateway this week rolled out a new two-processor server and wide-screen laptop PCs, at the same time actively trying to recruit more VARs to sell to SMBs. But some resellers say low-priced hardware alone wont be enough to sway them to work with someone they view as a longtime competitor to the channel. Gateway Inc., […]

Impinj announced on Monday the roll-out of its GrandPrix, a set of RFID tags and readers touted as the first RFID system to comply with EPCGlobals emerging Generation 2 protocol. In an interview with CIO Insight, Impinj Inc. President and CEO William Colleran said that GrandPrix includes the new Monza Gen 2 RFID tag chip, […]

Microsoft has acceded to partners requests to provide more reasonable licensing options for MapPoint, a mapping software product now being tweaked by some integrators to create custom logistics applications for enterprises and SMBs that run their own fleets of cars or trucks. Over the past few years, a number of Microsoft Corp. partners with logistics […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. is now looking to launch radio-frequency identification customer centers in Taiwan, Japan and Europe, now that similar centers are already underway for RFID users in Korea, Singapore and the United States. Sun chose Dallas as the site of its first RFID center in order to be able to work with Tier 1 […]

In the latest round of a long intellectual property battle echoing across and beyond the RFID landscape, Intermec Technologies this week slapped Symbol Technologies with a countersuit charging infringement of six Intermec patents for wireless access, terminal and software technology. Intermec Technologies Corp.s lawsuit against Symbol Technologies Inc., filed Wednesday, quickly followed a suit filed […]

After uncovering a security weakness in a radio-frequency identification tag from Texas Instruments Inc., researchers from RSA Security Inc.s RSA Laboratories and The Johns Hopkins University are now eyeing future exploits against other RFID products in the interests of better security, one of the researchers said this week. Meanwhile, TI will keep making the compromised […]

U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials have hotly denied reports by some other publications that the agencys upcoming ID cards will use radio-frequency identification. Instead, the DHS will deploy another type of RF technology known as “ISO/IEC 14443,” which is soon to be required for all federal employee ID cards—and which carries a far shorter […]

To smooth out the supply chain around ocean-bound shipments, NACA Logistics Group is taking a couple of new steps: setting up wireless LANs at five warehouse locations and launching whats possibly the cargo consolidation industrys first Hazardous Materials Department. NACA is one of the worlds largest players in a category called called NVOCC (global non-vessel […]

When a company outgrows its core application package, surprising choices sometimes spring up. After turning into the largest same-day document shipper in North America, Dallas, Texas-based Dynamex Inc. has opted to swap its old shrink-wrapped order processing system from Datatrac for an enterprise IT platform built in-house, according to Andy Argento, the shippers vice president […]