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Pamela Nelson
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December 19, 2006 - RFID Journal
Sony Europe Implements Video-RFID Tracking System

In an effort to help the company reduce shrinkage, increase efficiency and resolve shipping disputes with its retailer customers, the electronics manufacturer is installing the system at its largest European distribution warehouse...

November 20, 2006 - Managing Automation
Marching Toward the RFID Business Case
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Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. has done it again. Another 500 of the company's stores will be RFIDenabled and another 300 suppliers will need to meet the retailer's RFID mandate by the end of next month...

October 31, 2006 - RIS News
Metro Advances RFID in Europe

An RFID test conducted in a Metro distribution center in Unna, Germany, is helping to advance the use of RFID for case and pallet identification in Europe...

October 20, 2006 - Mass High Tech
Small-scale RFID tests in Europe signal big potential

In the world of complex technologies, radio frequency identification (RFID) may rank as one of the most complex...

October 20, 2006 - RFID Journal
Reva and Impinj Release European RFID Performance-Test Results

The jointly conducted tests were a follow-up to multi-vendor RFID technology demonstrations conducted by ETSI Electromagnetic Compatibility and Radio Spectrum Matters Task Group 34 (ERM TG34) to improve the performance of RFID reader deployments in Europe...

October 19, 2006 - Nikkei Electronics Asia/NEAsia online
Reva, Impinj Achieve RFID Performance Result in Europe

Reva Systems and Impinj have announced critical results in operational tests conducted at an operational distribution center in Unna, Germany...

October 16, 2006 - RFID Update
European RFID Test Sees Near-Perfect Read Rates

Performance breakthrough for RFID deployments in Europe, where adoption in the supply chain has been hindered by poor performance owing to restrictions on radio frequency allocations...

October 16, 2006 - InformationWeek
When RFID Is Everywhere, How Will You Cope

Companies to make sure they have the hardware and software in place to manage the enormous amount of data that will be generated by millions of tags...

October 11, 2006 - Mass Technology Leadership Council
Mass Technology Leadership Council Announces 2006 Technology Leadership Awards

Reva CTO, David Husak, awarded "CTO of the Year"...

October 10, 2006 - RFID Journal
ETSI Tests Show EPC Scaleable in Europe

In a final, large-scale test involving 20 full pallets of tagged cases moving through portal reading zones, all interrogators tested worked in sync while still observing ETSI regulations...

October 4, 2006 - AmericanVentureMagazine.com
Reva Secures Investments from Cisco Systems and SAP Ventures

Funding accelerates RFID network integration effort...

October 3, 2006 - AberdeenGroup
SAP, Cisco, and Reva Connect on RFID Agenda
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SAP and Cisco, best-in-class technology providers in their respective space, recognized the need for an intelligent, scalable network management layer as a core part of an RFID implementation...

October 3, 2006 - InformationWeek
Cisco, SAP Invest In RFID Startup

Reva Systems sells network infrastructure appliances to manage RFID data and systems from multiple vendors...

October 3, 2006 - Managing Automation
Cisco, SAP Ventures Back RFID Startup
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Reva Systems' "Series B" $13.5 million will be used to build out the company's geographic footprint with channel partners as well as to expand its Tag Acquisition Network...

October 3, 2006 - EE Times
Cisco, SAP invest in RFID startup

Companies like Motorola, Cisco and SAP are stepping up their position in RFID, attributing the technology's move from startup into growth...

October 3, 2006 - Retail Solutions Online
Securing Investments: Reva Secures Investments From Cisco Systems And SAP Ventures

October 3, 2006 - Computer Business Review
Cisco, SAP invest in RFID appliance maker

Reva Systems is to announce its $13.5m second round of venture capital funding from Cisco Systems Inc and the investment arm of SAP AG, and strategic partnerships with both vendors...

October 3, 2006 - Boston Business Journal
Reva Systems garners support from SAP, Cisco
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Reva Systems raised a $13.5 million round of venture capital funding -- including money from technology giants SAP and Cisco Systems...

October 3, 2006 - Lowell Sun
Reva lands $13.5M in second round of venture capital

Chairman and co-founder Ashley Stephenson said gaining affiliations with networking giant Cisco and SAP is a big step in Reva's development...

October 3, 2006 - The Daily Deal
Reva arrives at $13.5M second round
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October 3, 2006 - The Boston Globe
Reva raises $13.5 million
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October 2, 2006 - RFID Journal
SAP, Cisco Back Reva in Series-B Funding

October 2, 2006 - Mass High Tech
Cisco, SAP join new Reva funding

While previous investors North Bridge Venture Partners of Boston and Charles River Ventures of Waltham participated in the most recent round, the addition of two new corporate investors, Cisco Systems Inc. and SAP Ventures, adds a new edge to Reva's position in the industry...

October 2, 2006 - VentureWire
RFID Co. Reva Raises $13.5M With Help From Cisco, SAP

RFID company Reva Systems Corp. has raised a $13.5 million Series B round of funding in part from new strategic investors Cisco Systems Inc. and SAP Ventures, marking the latest collaborative effort between the networking and software giants...

October 2, 2006 - Byte and Switch
Reva Racks Up $13.5M

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) startup Reva Systems has chalked up $13.5 million in Series B funding from Cisco and SAP Ventures as the startup looks to expand its customer base...

August 29, 2006 - Managing Automation
Company to Watch: RFID Takes Center Stage
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With solid financing and industry smarts, Reva plans to ride an upsurge in RFID adoption with its infrastructure management products...

August 15, 2006 - CIO Magazine
Hot Technology: Disruption? Ride With It

Game-changing technologies are a part of IT life. It's up to you to run with them - or get run over...

June 2006 - Aberdeen Group
The RFID Benchmark Report Series: Pilot to Production
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The challenges of implementing RFID are only just starting to be recognized. Companies working under customer mandates are seeing increased demands for RFID tagged cases. Others are using the technology to raise the level of performance in areas such as asset management and tracking, counterfeit detection, security and supply chain visibility. Enterprises are planning to implement RFID on a broad scale, and with this comes the inevitable question of how to integrate technology and information at the "edge" with the rest of the enterprise...

June 27, 2006 - IndustryWeek
RFID Enabled Manufacturing Grows Dramatically By 2008

More than 50% of manufacturers surveyed for the "The RFID Benchmark Series: Scaling RFID Implementations from Pilot to Production" report by AbderdeenGroup have automated or will automate their RFID tagging processes in the next 24 months by integrating with manufacturing execution and material handling systems...

June 22, 2006 - eWEEK Channel Insider
RFID: What's Old Is New

Want to get on board the next great thing? How about Radio-Frequency Identification? For VARs and integrators, it is just starting to take off...

June 21, 2006 - Lowell Sun
New CEO looks to take Reva global
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For Tom Schuster, the decision to join Reva Systems Corp. as its chief executive officer was an easy one...

June 19, 2006 - Byte and Switch
New CEO Riffs on RFID

Once a niche technology used in warehouses and isolated manufacturing plants, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) could soon turn up in your data center...

June 16, 2006 - RFID Journal
Growing RFID Adoption Brings IT Challenges

During the next few years, RFID will transition from a technology affecting the edges of a company's operations to one that permeates processes and workflow across an organization...

June 9, 2006 - Mass High Tech
RFID is going to be everywhere

Reva Systems Inc.'s new chief executive officer, Tom Schuster, is being charged with splashing the radio frequency identification (RFID) company onto the global stage...

June 2006 - Logistics Magazine
RFID ROI: Will a network-based infrastructure once again lay the foundation for multiple returns?

Ten years ago, who could have predicted the Internet's commercial potential? Fast forward to the present: the new technology of radio frequency identification is showing similar promise. But certain conditions must be met before RFID attains the Internet's impressive return on investment...

June 2006 - Integrated Solutions
Push RFID Middleware To The Edge Of The Enterprise

An alternative type of RFID middleware can ease your IT department's deployment concerns about project management and scalability...

June 7, 2006 - RFID Journal
ETSI Group Plans Dense-Reader Trial

The standards agency will test two methods for improving the performance of dense RFID interrogator deployments in Europe...

June 5, 2006 - Computer Business Review
RFID industry moves toward European standard upgrade

About 30 of the largest players in the European and US RFID industry recently attended a demonstration of a new technique that is expected to pave the way for large-scale RFID deployments in Europe...

May 15, 2006 - RFID Journal
ETSI Group Explores RFID Spectral Needs

RFID vendors and users are meeting in Germany to consider measures to facilitate large-scale UHF RFID deployment across the European Union...

May 5, 2006 - Network Computing
2006 Best of Interop Awards

Our panel of experts evaluated a bevy of products, then chose the best from seven categories -- check out this year's honorees...

April 24, 2006 - Network World
The 2006 10 Start-ups To Watch

With cool technologies and growing business opportunities, these start-ups may one day be eligible for the Network World 200...

April 24, 2006 - iSeriesNetwork.com
Initiative for Innovation Brings Something New, Something Borrowed to i5/OS

Wedding bells are ringing. IBM says that the System i Initiative for Innovation program has garnered 1,700 new or enhanced applications for everyone's favorite platform...One such application is a radio frequency identification (RFID) solution from Reva Systems Corporation...

April 11, 2006 - The Manufacturer US
Gen 2 the key to global RFID

Manufacturers will like the interoperability and improved performance of Gen 2 RFID, but the middleware is immature...

February 13, 2006 - Supply Chain Manufacturing and Logistics
Working in the Middle

It is getting easier to work with RFID middleware, but harder to tell where the middleware is...

February 2, 2006 - RFID Solutions Online
We Can Learn a lot about RFID ROI from the Evolution of the Commercial Internet

To say that we can learn a lot about RFID ROI from the evolution of the commercial Internet need not invoke 'Enron economics' or irrational stock valuations. It refers to the business value the Internet provides today that most people could not envision a decade ago...

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