Wal-Mart tags raise privacy concerns

Wal-Mart will start using removable smart tags in an attempt to track items; however, privacy advocates are worried about what else the tags may unveil, reports Observe News.

The smart tags can be taken off but not turned off, so when they are discarded, someone could theoretically know what a consumer bought by scanning their waste.

A larger worry is the fact that workers who scan the tags in stores might also scan documents of personal ID, such as driver's licences, and then use that data to track buys back to individual consumers without their knowledge.

Roper Industries plans to buy on-demand supply chain management software vendor iTradeNetwork for $525 million, states Business Week.

iTradeNetwork's software will work in concert with technologies Roper gained from its previous acquisitions of radio frequency identification (RFID) company TransCore and CBORD, according to Ray Wang, partner with Altimeter.

The pending deal will provide Roper with "additional scale to pursue acquisitions in the software solutions space," according to the company.

Ramco Systems has signed a global partnership with IDBlue to provide end-to-end RFID solutions within the aerospace sector, says CXO Today.

The RFID technology will be provided by IDBlue, while the deployment of the solutions in the aerospace sector will be handled by Ramco Systems.

"We are pleased to announce a partnership agreement between IDBlue and Ramco Systems, providing existing and new customers of our aviation software solutions and extended asset management solutions," says Jim Fitzgerald, president, Ramco's Global Aviation Solutions.