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A way to give your stuff wireless IDs

By Mark Baard
November 3, 2008

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Companies such as Wal-Mart and Procter and Gamble and the US government dream of what they call the Internet of Things, in which every manufactured object is tagged and tracked via radio frequency identification technology. (Full article: 696 words)

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