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Wednesday, February 2, 2011

RFID, IS, and Informatics

Walmart uses Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) for a variety of purposes now. They initially used RFID to streamline their supply chain during shipping and warehousing, and now they are also using them in their stores and before the goods are ever shipped to them. This article delves into the business case for Walmart pursuing RFID in their stores. RFID isn't just for Walmart. It can also be used for cows. Cows were too big a target, so they moved on to mice.

This story appearing today about Google, Microsoft, and Bing is too good to pass up. Is Microsoft using Google through internet explorer to improve Bing, or is Microsoft copying Google directly?

Also, Google just released a nifty in-browser information visualization tool for fractals.

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