The Beijing 2008 Olympic Games are 132 days away, and high-tech players are more eager than ever to put their tested RFID (and other) technology systems into use.
ZDNet Asia reports on the companies on the gold-medal route. ![[end]](/resources/bullet/archive-4.gif)
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