By the time they were all was working on the project last summer, the question was no longer if they would finish, but when.

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Jennifer Zaino is a New York-based freelance writer specializing in business and technology journalism. Her work appears in publications including The Semantic Web Blog, RFID Journal, Smart Enterprise ...