Stores prepare for IC-tagged future.

Yomiuri Shimbun (Toyko, Japan);  January 27, 2006 ;     700+ words ......product development and personal security. IC tags are being used by more and more companies...on whether their cost can be lowered, IC tags have the potential to trigger new types of business. IC tags, which come in various sizes but are most...

Japan's market for IC tags to grow 84-fold by FY 2010

Xinhua News Agency;  January 14, 2004 ;     193 words ...Japan's market for IC tags to grow 84-fold by FY 2010 TOKYO, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- Japan's market for IC tags is projected to grow 84-fold to 1,214 million...series of recent developments related to IC tags, including the start of an experiment to...

Japanese Inventors Develop Goods Verification Method with Integrated...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 7, 2007 ;     325 words ......of goods using integrated circuits (IC) tags and an equipment which use the method...genuineness/counterfeit discrimination using IC tags, contradictory problems of the reliability and lifetime of the IC tags and the accuracy of goods genuineness...

Japanese Textile Industry in 2007 Through Insight Into Keywords

Asian Textile Business;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......of January, an experiment to introduce IC tags began between Sumikin Bussan Corporation...Flandre Co., Ltd. Since the effectiveness of IC tags can serve as an excellent tool toward...will take the leadership in the region of IC tags. So it is safely concluded that the results...

Japanese Book Retailers May Replace Bar Codes with 'IC Tags' to Prevent...

Kyodo News International (Tokyo, Japan) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  May 12, 2003 ;     304 words ......combined with flat antennas, called IC tags, to prevent shoplifting and facilitate...scanner reading and writing data on IC tags as well as monitoring the movements of IC tag-bearing books. The IC tags would allow bookstore clerks to verify...

Japan Trader, Printer to Conduct Test on Integrated-Circuit Tags for...

Kyodo News International (Tokyo, Japan) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  December 8, 2003 ;     200 words ......conduct a test to use integrated circuit (IC) tags for Chinese-made apparel to better manage...will be the first of this kind involving IC tags that are delivered beyond international...and export procedures with the use of IC tags, they said. Under the plan, IC tags ...

Mitsukoshi testing IC tags for virtual makeup.

Kyodo News International (Tokyo, Japan);  January 26, 2007 ;     257 words ......Shiseido Co. and electronics maker Fujitsu Ltd. IC tags put on products on sale can be used to store product...terminal to display product information by reading IC tags on cosmetics. IC tags are also put on sample cosmetics to collect data...

Supermarkets checking out department stores' IC tag success.

Kyodo News International (Tokyo, Japan);  March 2, 2006 ;     520 words ......already at the forefront in practical use of IC tags. Mitsukoshi Ltd. began to attach IC tags to women's shoes at three stores in the Tokyo...Fukuoka. One problem holding back the spread of IC tags is their production cost, but the Ministry...

KDDI to launch cellphone device with IC tag-reading ability in fall.

Kyodo News International (Tokyo, Japan);  September 4, 2006 ;     308 words ......inspectors will be able to read data on IC tags attached to the utilities meters, while...repairs more efficiently by using data on IC tags to obtain accurate information about parts...consumers, being able to read data on IC tags using their mobile phones will permit...

Japanese Inventors Develop Non-Contact Integrated Circuit Tag System

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  December 6, 2006 ;     266 words ......system includes a plurality of non-contact IC tags, each of which includes identification...command via radio to each of the non-contact IC tags." An abstract of the invention, released...Patent Office, said: "The non-contact IC tags include a plurality of slave IC tags ...

WIPO: Inventor in France Develops Display Stand

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 3, 2008 ;     192 words ......Frederic Serre of Eybens, France, has developed a display stand. According to an abstract posted by the World Intellectual Property Organization, the invention consists of "display stand for displaying products in a shop comprises multiple...

Oregon Inventor Develops Wheeled Carrier Configurable Assembly

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 28, 2006 ;     309 words ......assembly that can be placed both into a display stand configuration and, alternately, into...Trademark Office: "The assembly includes a display stand configuration base and a support structure...the base, when the assembly is in the display stand configuration. In addition, a ...

Canadian Inventors Develop Foldable, Self-Erecting Display Stand

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 29, 2008 ;     315 words ......Office: "A foldable and self-erecting display stand has an easel mounted at the rear surface...of the elastic cords for folding the display stand to the collapsed state. The elastic...are in a stretched condition when the display stand in the collapsed state, and the cross...

A man gestures in front of a display stand at the International...

Getty Images;  September 29, 2008 ;     64 words ...A man gestures in front of a display stand at the International... Full Size JPG (1548 KB) A man gestures in front of a display stand at the International Astronautical Congress in Glasgow, on September 29, 2008. The 59th International Astronautical...

GOOD IDEA.(Features)

Sunday Mirror (London, England);  February 5, 2006 ;     23 words ...USE a stacking vegetable rack to make a tiered display stand on your patio. - Gordon Henderson, Bromsgrove, Worcs. MORE GARDEN ADVICE: BACK TO PAGE 8