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...nothing compared with the discounts he offered in the good old days, before India's recent crackdown on pirated books. Kumar previously ran off dozens of copies of Wallace's novel at a friend's printing house in Shahdara, a neighborhood of East Delhi, carted them back in an auto-rickshaw to Connaught Place and hawked them for 66? each. "Piracy is good for us booksellers and good for customers," he says. "But the publishers are now ruining everything...
...relieving her child's suffering - but police in Berck-sur-Mer may reluctantly do just that. Last Wednesday officials launched homicide inquiries after Marie Humbert injected barbiturates into the IV drip of her severely handicapped son, Vincent; he died Friday. Left blind, paralyzed and mute after a 2000 auto accident, the mentally sound Vincent used movement in his thumb to communicate his physical and emotional agony over his "locked-in" condition. In a November letter to President Jacques Chirac, he asked that his mother be allowed to help him end his torment without risking prosecution under French laws prohibiting assisted...
...with the help of P&G and Gillette, the three men co-founded the Auto-ID Center at M.I.T. to pursue RFID uses. Today 103 companies are members, including consumer giants like Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, Kraft Foods and Unilever. Ashton estimates that U.S. retail giants alone lose up to $70 billion a year in potential revenue because of their labyrinthine backroom networks. Half of that loss results from failure to restock popular items. The rest comes from lost or stolen items (shrinkage, in the parlance), particularly stuff like Gillette's Mach 3 razor blades and Duracell batteries--possibly...
While the U.S. and Europe are concentrating on using RFID in logistics, Jun Murai, head of Japan's Auto-ID center at Keio University, says gadget-crazy Asians in Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong are more likely to want household items with RFID chips that can communicate with a home network. The Chinese are more pragmatic. Shanghai and 44 other cities already use an RFID payment system for public transportation. In Singapore's library system, all 9 million books, videos and DVDs are embedded with antitheft chips, allowing self-checkout. "With bar codes, you need to precisely align...
With Wal-Mart requiring RFID tagging on pallets and cases, the stampede is on for U.S. suppliers to get up to speed. Earlier this month, the Auto-ID Center planned to issue its first RFID privacy guidelines, promising clear notification, choice and confidentiality. Saffo thinks that RFID may save us all some headaches in the future. It certainly might have helped a certain actress caught shoplifting in Beverly Hills, he says. "If only Winona Ryder had waited a couple of years, floor sensors would have detected her purchases as she headed out the door, and just charged her credit card...