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Oil Prices on Path to $300? Apple makes Supply Gambit; Killer App at Last for RFID? Toyota Stays Home, but will It Work? |
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750 million
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That's how many RFID tags will be sold into the applications for apparel item-level tagging across the globe in 2011, according to new predictions from the analysts at ABI Research. That would mean that the number of tags that will be used for retail item-level tagging in apparel alone is likely to exceed the total number of tags consumed over the past five years for all RFID markets combined. The RFID industry may finally have found its "killer app."
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18
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Number of years since Toyota last opened a new assembly plant in its home market of Japan, as it chistened a new factory there this week to produce subcompact Yaris for the US and Middle East markets. Labor costs and a very high Yen will make it tough for Toyota to make any profits exporting these smaller cars, but the company was under some pressure to keep production on-shore.
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