To be used for Alien Technology Corporation, a private company, anticipating a future IPO. Alien was founded in 1995 as Beckman Displays to commercialize a process called Fluidic Self-Assembly(FSA), developed at Cal-Berkeley. The original target was low cost displays, the company was subsequently re-focused to the RFID market. Alien is a focal point of this developing market due to their ability to produce high volume, low cost tags with FSA.
Resources:
Alien Home Page:
alientechnology.com
RFID Journal:
rfidjournal.com
RFID Technology SI thread:
Subject 54298
Alien has filed on 4/13/06 to IPO, symbol RFID.
The thread is moderated. Positive and negative comments are welcome, Yahoo-style bashing is not. This is also not a forum for privacy advocates beyond what is appropriate to evaluate the company's prospects. Cooters |