Ben Ames has spent 30 years as a journalist since starting out as a reporter for daily newspapers in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. He has focused on business and technology reporting since 1999 for ...

OATSystems, based in Waltham, Mass., this week unveiled an RFID software product designed to help manufacturers keep close tabs on their work-in-process (WIP) and assets. The Asset Tracking and ...

In recent years, the pharmacy team at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center identified a recurring challenge with operating room inventory: after medications were stocked in the anesthesia ...

Industrial supply distributor Bassett Industrial, located in Portland, Ore., is leveraging RFID to help one of its customers better manage supply inventory in its manufacturing operations. Bassett ...

Sun Microsystems on Tuesday plans to launch a software package aimed at the RFID market. The software, which is built on Sun's Java programming architecture and Jini networking technology, attempts to ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kit Check, the leader in automated medication management solutions for hospitals, today announced an expansion of their continued partnership with MPI Labels, a leader in ...

Tracking stock in modern distribution warehouses is a huge challenge for even the best-run businesses. Lost items reportedly cost American retailers over $45 billion annually, so tech that makes ...

During this installation, Staples Business Depot will tag thousands of items that will be dynamically tracked in real-time (at long range), from entering into store inventory, to store shelves, ...

SAN DIEGO--Oracle plans to release a new version of its business applications package this year that will add specialized features for companies in certain industries, including support for ...

Just this week, separate news announcements from Microsoft, Sun, and middleware vendor Oat Systems bolstered the slowly growing excitement about RFID. RFID, as you know is a technology that places ...

Most large companies have entire departments designated to monitor and track inventory. Additionally, smaller companies typically devote a lot of time to the process of tracking inventory. The reason ...