In the past two years, radio frequency identification tags-silicon chips that carry ID numbers that can be read by computerized radio scanners-have become cheap and tiny enough that such retail behemoths as Wal-Mart are implementing them to track cases of products from warehouses to stores. But makers of these tags aren't keeping good track of each other, making different kinds of tags and readers that aren't all compatible, slowing their widespread adoption.

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