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The New Standard-Bearer.

Authors :
Philip Qu
Source :
IEEE Spectrum. Dec2005, Vol. 42 Issue 12, p49-52. 4p. 3 Color Photographs, 3 Diagrams.
Publication Year :
2005

Abstract

The article reports that China has proposed a standard for tracking goods using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags especially when bolstered by a developing coordination with Wal-Mart Inc., the world's largest merchandiser from Bentonville, Arkansas. Wal-Mart Inc. has planned to lead the way in commercial use of RFID technology to track its products from factory to store shelf. China's standard initiatives have been applied even in some of the hottest areas of technology including computer networking which has Wi-Fi security known as Wireless Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure, next-generation DVDs wherein the Chinese government has approved Enhanced Video Disk and race for the next generation of software to run on high-definition DVDs that is concerned with the way audio and video data on DVDs are encoded..

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00189235
Volume :
42
Issue :
12
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
IEEE Spectrum
Publication Type :
Periodical
Accession number :
19280396