By Robin Gareiss, EVP Nemertes Research, Inc.

May 26, 2006

AT&T (NYSE: T) has announced plans to partner with BEA Systems (NASDAQ: BEAS), Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), and Symbol Technologies (NYSE: SBL) to offer managed RFID services.

This initiative highlights the fact that one of the biggest roadblocks toward a more widespread adoption of radio-frequency identification (RFID) is integration of readers, applications, operating systems and databases.

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