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[Jan Whitaker]

>Tracking Chips
>http://news.com.com/Portuguese+pooches+to+get+radio-tagged/2100-7343_3-5281608.html?part=rss&tag=5281608&subj=news.7343.20
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>Portuguese pooches to get radio-tagged
>By Matt Hines
>
>Once a tech industry darling, radio frequency identification tags have
>officially gone to the dogs.
>
>Actually, RFID remains a hot topic in hardware, software and retail markets,
>but other applications of the technology, which marries microchips with radio
>antennas to foster easier tracking of inventory, have taken wing, or at least
>paw. On Friday, Digital Angel, which sells RFID scanning and communications
>tools for tracking everything from airplanes to farm animals, announced that
>it had won a $600,000 deal to start affixing radio tags to dogs in 
>Portugal...




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