Matrics

While Ein was involved with Matrics, he brought in investments from other venture capital funds and helped grow it from a company of two employees to 100.

Ein brings his can-do attitude (and Serena) to pro tennis team 2009

Matrics was sold in 2004 to Symbol Technologies for about $230 million.

Ein brings his can-do attitude (and Serena) to pro tennis team 2009

Ein also helped form and build Matrics, a company that sells electronic tracking systems using a technology called radio frequency identification, or RFID.

Ein brings his can-do attitude (and Serena) to pro tennis team 2009

VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Chips in official IDs raise privacy fears'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Climbing into his Volvo, outfitted with a Matrics antenna and a Motorola reader he\'d bought on eBay for $190, Chris Paget cruised the streets of San Francisco with this objective: To read the identity cards of strangers, wirelessly, without ever leaving his car.'

OpEdNews - Quicklink: Chips in official IDs raise privacy fears 2009

Climbing into his Volvo, outfitted with a Matrics antenna and a Motorola reader he'd bought on eBay for $190, Chris Paget cruised the streets of San Francisco with this objective: To read the identity cards of strangers, wirelessly, without ever leaving his car.

OpEdNews - Quicklink: Chips in official IDs raise privacy fears 2009

In September 2004, Symbol made a big RFID bet with a $230 million, all-cash acquisition of Matrics, a maker of the RFID readers and tags.

Symbol TechnologiesBeltway Bet: Symbol Technologies 2006

But Symbol's own annual report, filed earlier this month, noted the company had paid a "significant premium" for Matrics and warned investors of potential pitfalls.

Symbol TechnologiesBeltway Bet: Symbol Technologies 2006

THE INTERMEC FACTOR: It would seem that things were getting settled this week when Symbol and Intermec agreed to a (temporary) cease-fire in their patent litigation wars, the latest one being filed in June by Intermec against Matrics (which was subsequently bought up by Symbol).

The 271 Patent Blog Peter Zura 2005

Barcode supremo Intermec Technologies has sued RFID tag and reader maker Matrics, basing its claim on four patents.

The 271 Patent Blog Peter Zura 2004

Also, the patents could equally apply to virtually all the other vendors in the emerging RFID market, including giants such as Texas Instruments and Royal Philips Electronics, and new startups such as Alien Technology, yet the company is suing just one competitor, Matrics.

The 271 Patent Blog Peter Zura 2004