Stores prepare for IC-tagged future.

Yomiuri Shimbun (Toyko, Japan);  January 27, 2006 ;     787 words ......Takashimaya has attached IC tags to women's shoes...When a shoe with an IC tag is scanned by a reading...year. In the pilot, IC tags were attached to...on the screen. The IC tag system was a hit...beverages are to have IC tags attached to their...system, ...

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 ......antennas, called IC tags, to prevent shoplifting...industry officials. IC tag makers hope the...books a year. The IC tag technology involves...writing data on IC tags as well as monitoring the movements of IC tag-bearing books. The IC tags ...

Supermarkets checking out department stores' IC tag success.

Kyodo News International (Tokyo, Japan);  March 2, 2006 ;     520 words ......Trade and Industry is backing IC tag testing, and some supermarkets...January by putting a 2-centimeter IC tag on about 500 kinds of goods...forefront in practical use of IC tags. Mitsukoshi Ltd. began to attach...Stores Inc. of the United States. IC tag technology is ...

Japanese Inventors Develop Non-Contact Integrated Circuit Tag System

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  December 6, 2006 ;     266 words ......non-contact integrated circuit (IC) tag system. According to the U...Trademark Office: "A non-contact IC tag system includes a plurality of non-contact IC tags, each of which includes identification...slave IC tags and a master IC tag. The master IC ...

Japan's publishing industry to use IC tag by 2005

Xinhua News Agency;  November 28, 2002 ;     206 words ...Japan's publishing industry to use IC tag by 2005 TOKYO, Nov. 28 (Xinhua...aimed to use integrated circuit (IC) tags into all books sold in Japan...reported Thursday. The use of the IC tags is said to boost industry earnings...based on the information. The IC tags will ...

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...of recent developments related to IC tags, including the start of an experiment...product distribution by attaching IC tags 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...

NTT Data, Nissan Announce Child Protection IC Tag Test Results

JCNN News Summaries - Japan Corporate News Network;  April 27, 2006 ;   Chris Lui;   306 words ......drivers who tested the new 'i- safety' IC tag service which alerts drivers to the presence...is triggered by signals from a child's IC tag, which are transmitted through "lookout...involved 114 drivers, 162 children carrying IC tags, 268 guardians, and 24 lookout spots...to increase ...

Japanese Inventors Develop Image Taking Apparatus

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 24, 2007 ;     314 words ......apparatus, and an integrated circuit (IC) tag of a type that has an internal power supply and an IC tag of a type that has not an internal power...Patent Office, said: "A plural number of IC tags are alternatively covered with the sliding...Thereby, communication only by one ...

Uchida Yoko Display System Explains IC Tagged Products

JCNN News Summaries - Japan Corporate News Network;  July 2, 2008 ;   Diginfo TV;   150 words ......product information when a product with an IC tag is scanned by a reader located on the...computer to recognize a combination of IC tags and then provides the product description that corresponds to those IC tags. Customers can obtain product information...

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 ......lipstick or eye shadow with an IC tag toward a tag reader. The two other...electronics maker Fujitsu Ltd. IC tags put on products on sale can be...product information by reading IC tags on cosmetics. IC tags are also put on sample cosmetics...

Dai Nippon Printing, Ozaki Shoji Jointly Develop IC Tag-based Individual...

JCNN News Summaries - Japan Corporate News Network;  November 21, 2005 ;   Aki Tsukioka;   140 words ......Printing and Ozaki Shoji have co-developed a new system that uses IC tags to manage an individual whole cloth for wear products. Ozaki...Miyakonojo City, Miyazaki Prefecture from late November. A rewritable IC tag is attached to every cloth, so it records a material code as...

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

Kyodo News International (Tokyo, Japan);  September 4, 2006 ;     308 words ......and is held about 5 cm from an IC tag, it will read the data, which...will be able to read data on IC tags attached to the utilities meters...efficiently by using data on IC tags to obtain accurate information...being able to read data on IC tags using their mobile ...

Experiment in Japan Begins to Track Farm Products with Integrated-Circuit...

Kyodo News International (Tokyo, Japan);  January 8, 2004 ;     269 words ......attaching small integrated circuit (IC) tags to them was launched Thursday in Tokyo...the world's first experiment in which IC tags are attached to farm products through...serves as chief of the T-Engine Forum. An IC tag consists of a 0.4-millimeter-square...experiment, which is to ...