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- Texas Instruments Case Sudy: RFID--Key to Container Positioning System at Port of Singapore
- The Port of Singapore PSA tracks many thousands of multi-ton cargo containers daily, and also manages arrivals and departures of up to 50 ships. The smallest error might send a container to the wrong destination in the shipyard, resulting in delayed departures or incomplete shipments. To avoid these problems, PSA...
- Tags: Container, Positioning, Texas Instruments Inc., Singapore, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
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- Automotive Supplier Minimizes IT Costs, Saves Labor With Software Distribution Solution
- TI Automotive is the world's leading supplier of fluid storage, transfer, and delivery systems. Years ago, the company recognized the benefits of using Microsoft software to reduce costs and help employees work more effectively. For example, in 2001, TI Automotive deployed Microsoft Systems Management Server version 2.0, which helped IT...
- Tags: Software, Information Technology, Supplier, Texas Instruments Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Systems Management Server, IT Cost, TI Automotive, Strategy, Management
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- Streamlining Warehousing and Distribution
- In the vast halls of the Bloemenveiling Holland flower auction, 6,000 growers generate 32,000 transactions, with orders being shipped to 2,000 buyers locally and abroad each day - all before 11:00 am. To correctly pack and ship this blossoming cargo, TI-RFid tags identify 100,000 trolleys as part of sophisticated automated...
- Tags: Warehousing, Logistics, Texas Instruments Inc., Supply Chain, Business Operations
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- Texas Instruments Case Study: Bonded Warehousing in the UK
- A bonded warehouse in the UK stores expensive single malt whiskies which are subject to theft even by the warehouse employees. Pallets carrying these stocks are also subject to being misplaced in error, thus delaying on-time deliveries. To prevent these problems, it was necessary to ensure that forklift trucks moving...
- Tags: Warehousing, Texas Instruments Inc., Pallet, RFID, Investment, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Finance
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- Texas Instruments Case Study: Fluoroware, Inc.
- Motorola, SGS Thomson and Wacker are among the companies using RFID technology in a patented, turnkey system developed by Fluoroware, Inc. The system, called FluoroTrac, is used by the semiconductor industry to eliminate product misprocessing, improve operator efficiency and increase equipment usage. The FluoroTrac system enables information on equipment usage...
- Tags: Texas Instruments Inc., FluoroTrac System, RFID, Semiconductors, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Hardware
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- Texas Instruments Case Study: 3M Digital Identification System
- The 3M Digital Identification System, based on RFID smart labels, streamlines the flow of library materials in many ways. Books and other materials are identified with smart labels that carry a unique, tamperproof ID code. The main goal of libraries is to improve service to their patrons particularly by having...
- Tags: 3M Co., Texas Instruments Inc., RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
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- Texas Instruments Case Study: Chevrolet Creative Services
- Chevrolet Creative Services uses a "red light, green light" system based on RFID to control and track the 3,500 crates coming and going from their Wixom, Michigan storage warehouse. The crates contain materials needed for specific tradeshows. RFID tags are now mounted on each crate carrying a unique ID. The...
- Tags: Texas Instruments Inc., Chevrolet Creative Services, RFID, Storage, Databases, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
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- Texas Instruments Case Study: University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
- In the past decade, graphing handhelds and related technology have become firmly entrenched in math and science education. More recently, Texas Instruments has adapted this same technology for use in social studies classrooms. Challenge of integrating computer technology into the social studies classroom is the nature of teacher preparation programs....
- Tags: Texas Instruments Inc., Team Management, Leadership, Productivity, Management
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- Network Appliance Case Study: Texas Instruments
- One of the world's foremost semiconductor suppliers and a Global 500 company, Texas Instruments TI leverages a strategic partnership with Network Appliance to position TI ahead of the competition. Over more than a decade, NetApp has become a TI standard in corporate IT, manufacturing, and design data centers. TI now...
- Tags: Network Appliance Inc., Texas Instruments Inc., NetApp, Storage, Hardware
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- Texas Instruments Case Study: Parkville High School, Baltimore, MD
- An American history teacher works with a diverse student population. Communicating with and reaching all students is her most imposing challenge. The teacher became aware of work that Texas Instruments TI was doing to leverage its handheld technology in the social studies classroom, and she soon helped pioneer what is...
- Tags: Texas Instruments Inc., Teacher, Handhelds, Hardware
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- Mission-Critical Communications Virus-Free at Texas Instruments
- Texas Instruments is the world leader in digital signal processing and analog technologies, the semiconductor engines of the Internet age. The ability to maintain ongoing worldwide communications has been one of the keys to TI's success. Email keeps 38,000 TI employees in Europe, Asia, Japan and the Americas in touch...
- Tags: Trend Micro Inc., Texas Instruments Inc., E-mail, Virus, InterScan Virus Wall, Cyberthreats, Internet, Viruses And Worms, Semiconductors, Security, Hardware
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- Texas Instruments Case Study: TeamAxess
- In 1999, TI-RFid collaborated with the Austrian company TeamAxess to develop a hands-free access system for ski lifts based upon RFID. The system, used at ski resorts in Europe, allows for improved customer service, more efficient operations, increased sales and higher throughput of customers. Remote-operated gates detect a valid ski...
- Tags: Texas Instruments Inc., RFID, Sales Strategy, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Force Management, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Sales, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Texas Instruments Case Study: The Boston Marathon
- Thanks to the use of TI-RFid technology, the Boston Marathon was able to offer updates on runners' progress via the Internet for the first time in 1999. A transponder threaded through the sneaker laces of each runner allowed runners' times to be logged easily and sent to the Internet. Friends...
- Tags: Texas Instruments Inc., Internet, Web Site Development
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- Texas Instruments Case Study: Airline Baggage Identification
- For the airline industry, getting passengers to their destinations on time and with their accompanying luggage is a feat that requires identifying and tracking millions of items daily. With Tag-it, smart labels the airlines now have highly reliable, economical baggage identification and tracking solution for positive passenger-to-baggage verification and reconciliation....
- Tags: Texas Instruments Inc., Strategy, Management
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- Introducing the Industry's Most Comprehensive VoIP Gateway Solutions Product Suite
- Do you know everything you should about VoIP solution density? Through this webcast you will learn about the requirements necessary to develop true toll quality VoIP Gateways for all categories of VoIP equipment. You will be provided with information describing why success in today's marketplace depends on total SOLUTION DENSITY...
- Tags: Gateway Inc., Industry, Texas Instruments Inc., Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking
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- Telecom Italia Sparkle and Cisco Systems Join Forces to Build S@FE
- Telecom Italia Sparkle TI Sparkle, a wholly owned subsidiary of Telecom Italia SpA, was established in 2003 with the objective of developing and consolidating the Italian Group's international wholesale and retail business. Denial of Service DoS and Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks have now evolved from random hacker exploits...
- Tags: Telecom Italia, Texas Instruments Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Distributed Denial Of Service, S@FE, Security
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- Semiconductor Unit Deploys mySAP Customer Relationship Management to Enhance Sales Channel Efficiency
- Dallas-based Texas Instruments Incorporated TI provides innovative digital signal processing and analog technologies to meet customers' real-world signal processing requirements. To support business objectives, TI had to manage increasing demand while optimizing its sales channels. A factor in meeting TI's challenges was migrating from a customized distributor reseller system to...
- Tags: mySAP, Texas Instruments Inc., Semiconductor, mySAP CRM, Semiconductor Unit, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales
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- Game Theoretic Approach to Power Control in Cellular CDMA
- This paper presents the power control problem in CDMA wireless data networks in the analytical setting of non-cooperative game theory. User satisfaction is represented as a net utility function, which is the difference of a strictly concave function, based on signal to interference ratio, and a cost term on user's...
- Tags: Theory, CDMA, Texas Instruments Inc., User Satisfaction, Games, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
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- Texas Instruments Case Study: Federal Express
- FedEx couriers have one less thing to keep track of these days?their vehicle keys. The company's couriers use an automatic keyless entry and ignition system that has RFID transponders embedded within a velcro wristband. The system is being tested in 200 FedEx delivery vehicles. With RFID, FedEx delivery personnel are...
- Tags: Federal Express, Texas Instruments Inc., RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
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- Translating glasses idea wins TI's Vision for Voice contest and 56-inch Samsung TV
- As part of my VoiceCon 2008 coverage, I wrote about Texas Instrument's Vision for Voice contest. TI asked individuals to submit a short video that describes a specific VoIP product, improvement to a current voice technology, or a new voice technology they would like to see within the next 20...
- Tags: Voice, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Vision, Texas Instruments Inc., TV, Voice Technology, Strategy, Management, Bill Detwiler
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