January 6 - 12, 2008

News from January 12, 2008

• iDTRONIC introduces the new high performance UHF RFID Reader with ...
  openPR (press release) - Hamburg, Germany
  (openPR) - January 11, 2008 - iDTRONIC, a leading supplier of RFID Hardware solutions, today introduced the high-performance UHF Long Range Reader UHF-LR ...
• Wegmans Eyeing RFID for Prescription Management
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  10, 2008—Wegmans Food Markets, a $4 billion supermarket operator based in Rochester, NY, thinks RFID can add a dose of organization and speediness to its ...
• High Speed RFID Encoding
  RFID Solutions Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  Venture Research has pioneered the ability to write tags directly on cartons applied by high speed applicators without the need for expensive integrated ...
• Sam's Club Suppliers Face New RFID Reqs, Fines
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  Retailer Sam's Club sent some suppliers a letter dated January 7, 2008, requiring EPC RFID tags be applied to distribution center shipments by January 31, ...
• Nationwide To Offer RFID Info-Sharing At PrimeTime!
  Twice - New York, NY, USA
  According to a release, the Contact Plus system uses RFID chips on nametags to be worn by members and vendors during the conference. ...
• HF RFID Reader is self-diagnostic and self-correcting.
  ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release) - New York, NY, USA
  January 11, 2008 - Compatible with EPCglobal RFID standard HF v2, Medio(TM) L400 self-monitors 9 different functions, including temperature and digital ...
• Sonoco teams with IPICO to develop RFID solutions for tubes and cores
  Electronic Publishing Magazine - Nashua, NH, USA
  Hartsville, SC; January 11, 2008 -- Sonoco and IPICO Inc. have announced an agreement to codevelop and commercialize Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) ...

News from January 11, 2008

• Xterprise Co-Sponsors Aberdeen Group Research Report: "Winning ...
  CNNMoney.com - USA
  The new report highlights results from multiple Aberdeen Group survey-based benchmark studies of RFID use in manufacturing, retail, and other industries. ...
• Cryptography in Hardware Logic Delivers Security and Privacy in RFID
  MoreRFID (press release) - TX, USA
  Mutual Authentication and Encryption Capabilities in Passive RFID tags is Key For many years now, RFID technology has been touted the next ubiquitous ...
• RFID News Roundup
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  1 to test VeriChip's glass-encased RFID tags, designed to be implanted in patients to make it easier to access their health records during an emergency. ...
• Fujitsu Announces Roomy 64KB Gen2 RFID Tag
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  Japan's Fujitsu this week announced a Gen2-standard RFID tag with 64 kilobytes (KB) of memory, which it claims is the highest-capacity Gen2 tag available. ...
• Zebra Announces UHF RFID Card Printers
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  10, 2008—Zebra Technologies has unveiled two devices that will enable companies to print and encode their own passive ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) RFID-enabled ...
• iDTRONIC introduces high performance UHF RFID Reader with the most ...
  PRLog.Org (press release) - Bucuresti, Romania
  As the latest addition to iDTRONIC’s family of multi-protocol, multi-regional UHF RFID Readers, the UHF-LR reader supports the very important Dense Reader ...
• Promising partnerships: RFID Consortium creates one-stop licensing ...
  Manufacturing Business Technology - Oak Brook, IL, USA
  Seven companies with patented RFID technology have organized the RFID Consortium LLC to streamline licensing of patented UHF RFID technology essential for ...
• New accredited, university-level certification for RFID professionals
  Healthcare IT News - New Gloucester, ME, USA
  By Richard Pizzi, Associate Editor MONTREAL - A team of academic leaders, courseware developers and accredited RFID instructors have announced the launch of ...
• China tops RFID market
  ITWeb - Gauteng, South Africa
  BY ILVA PIETERSE , ITWEB CONTRIBUTOR China's RFID market reached more than $500 million in 2007, growing over 50% from the previous year; a trend that is ...
• IBM Teams With METRO Group to Improve Customer Service and ...
  CNNMoney.com - USA
  IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has worked with METRO Group to implement Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology to improve the availability of ...

News from January 10, 2008

• RFID GEN2 Card Printers from Zebra Technologies Supported by ...
  PR.com (press release) - Levittown, NY, USA
  FixedAssetManager™ utilizes the Gen2 RFID cards for items such as returnable totes and storage boxes for file or document management. ...
• RFID pilots: towering solutions for global supply
  innovations report - Bad Homburg, Germany
  The once imposing barriers to mass implementation of RFID tracking solutions along global supply chains are starting to come down. ...
• SATO working in conjunction with Microsoft makes management of ...
  MoreRFID (press release) - TX, USA
  SATO, a pioneer in the Automatic Identification and Data Collection (AIDC) industry and a leader in barcode printing, labeling, and EPC/RFID solutions, ...
• Raflatac unveils NXP G2XM/L IC-based RFID tags
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  UPM Raflatac says that it is now expanding its UHF EPC Class1 Gen 2 product portfolio to include UCODE G2X ICs from NXP Semiconductors. ...
• Carolinas Medical Center Expands Its RFID Deployment
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  9, 2008—A successful, three-year implementation of three RFID-enabled medical supply cabinets has spurred Carolinas Medical Center (CMC) to add 26 more ...
• RFID clothing tag concept talks to your washer, so you don't have to
  Sci Fi Wire - USA
  clothTAG, a system designed by Samgmin Bae, uses RFID technology to give clothes the ability to communicate with RFID-enabled washers, dryers and other ...
• NXP and Sirit to Host Webcast on EPC Gen 2 Enhancements
  FOXNews - USA
  Presenters will include Ralf Kodritsch, marketing manager, UCODE RFID products for NXP, along with Tony Sabetti, vice president, RF Solutions for Sirit. ...
• Aberdeen Group - RFID Solutions Get Faster : NON-REG
  Reuters - USA
  RNS Number:3837L Aberdeen Group 09 January 2008 RFID Solutions Get Faster, Better, and Cheaper, as Users Gain Business Benefits Beyond Mandate Compliance ...
• Aberdeen Announces "Winning RFID Strategies for 2008"
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  Aberdeen Group has released the latest installment in a series of reports on RFID adoption. Entitled Winning RFID Strategies for 2008, the report is ...
• RFID Chips Used in Surgical Materials to Prevent Them From Being ...
  InjuryBoard.com - Tampa, FL, USA
  By Jenny Albano Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips, which are normally used to prevent people from stealing merchandise, are being used in many new ...

News from January 9, 2008

• Fujitsu Develops World's First 64KByte High-Capacity FRAM RFID Tag ...
  Japan Corporate News (press release) - Tokyo, Japan
  Fujitsu anticipates that this 64KB UHF-RFID tag will transform global aircraft maintenance operations. Equipped with 64KB FRAM memory, the world's highest ...
• Passport card with chatty RFID chip draws privacy ire
  Computerworld - Framingham, MA, USA
  January 08, 2008 (Computerworld) -- A proposed new RFID-enabled passport card intended for use by Americans frequently travelling to Canada, Mexico. ...
• Netc launches new RFID barcode label
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  KSW Microtec, a German RFID component supplier, reports that the media products supplier Netc has developed an integrated, customisable, RFID-enabled UHF ...
• 2007 China RFID Industry Annual Awards
  PR-USA.net (press release) - Varna, Bulgaria
  RFIDWorld China and RFID China Alliance launched a big, non-profit RFID event ¨C 2007 China RFID Industry Annual Awards ¨C to review and summarize the ...
• US Gov Sets Controversial RFID Passport Card Specs
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  The US Department of State last week published a Federal Register notice that sets its RFID passport card requirements, effective February 1 of this year. ...
• RFID implants linked to cancer tumors: Newstarget.com
  TransWorldNews (press release) - Monroe, GA, USA
  The radio frequency identification (RFID) chips are made by VeriChip Corp. They are designed to carry a serial number, which can be read when scanned by ...
• InSync RFID And Sensor-Driven Edgeware
  RFID Solutions Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  InSync’s Edgeware product is an application platform that leverages RFID and Sensor technologies including GPS, barcode and environmental sensors; ...
• MTI Wireless Edge Signs a Distribution Agreement With WAV(R ...
  Reuters - USA
  About MTI Wireless Edge Ltd. MTI Wireless Edge, a leader in the development production and marketing of high quality, low cost, flat panel antennas for RFID ...
• Advanced ID’s New RFID Reader Line Selected for Portuguese Retailer
  Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA, USA
  All shelves, books, CDs, DVDs, and other products are uniquely identified with industry standard passive RFID tags that are read at the kiosks and points of ...
• Zebra Technologies Unveils Industry's First UHF RFID Gen 2 Card ...
  SunHerald.com - Biloxi,MS,USA The company is also offering genuine Zebra-designed supplies -- rugged, flexible UHF RFID-enabled plastic cards for single-sided or dual-sided card printing ...

News from January 8, 2008

• Bartronics raises $50 mn through FCCBs
  Business Standard - Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
  identification and data capture (AIDC) and radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions, has raised $50 million (around Rs 200 crore) through issuance of ...
• ACLU criticizes plan to track RI grade-schoolers by planting ...
  International Herald Tribune - France
  Brown also raised concerns that unauthorized people, perhaps using RFID readers that are easily bought online, could exploit information contained on the ...
• ACLU Criticizes RI Student Tracking
  Houston Chronicle - United States
  The pilot program in the Middletown school district would have about 80 children put tags containing radio frequency identification chips, or RFID chips, ...
• How to Evaluate Competing Tag Technologies
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  9, 2008—There's a turf war brewing between competing RFID technologies—although "air war" might be a more appropriate label for the budding conflict. ...
• RFID: What's The Frequency, Shopper?
  Newsradio 620 - Milwaukee, WI, USA
  The wristbands each contain a Radio Frequency Identification Device, or RFID. It's a tiny computer chip that stores tons of data. The device is similar to a ...

News from January 7, 2008

• Carolinas Medical Center Expands Use of Mobile Aspects RFID Technology
  PR-USA.net (press release) - Varna, Bulgaria
  One System of CARE uses Texas Instruments Inc.’s Tag-it^TM HF-I portfolio of high-frequency ISO/IEC 15693 RFID tags. By automating the storage, tracking, ...
• USA : Celerant launches new RFID technology at NRF 2008
  Fibre2fashion.com - Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
  Leading retail software provider, Celerant Technology Corp., announces the release of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) for POS, to be launched at the ...
• Terrapinn Introduces 5th Annual RFID World Asia 2008
  MoreRFID (press release) - TX, USA
  Following the great success of RFID World Asia 2007, Terrapinn, the leading trade exhibition media company, will hold its 5th Annual RFID World Asia 2008 ...
• RFID fully justified for tracking laboratory animals
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  These animals present the perfect justification for RFID tracking, according to Bob Scher, CEO for animal management technology firm Dynasys. ...
• Visonic unveils all-weather active RFID asset tag
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  Tel Aviv-based Visonic Technologies has released an All Weather Asset Tracking Tag that provides a robust tag for tagging and monitoring heavy industrial ...
• The Time Is Right for RFID in Health Care
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  Most questions surround the use of RFID in open supply chains. One issue that was clearly resolved in 2007 was that RFID delivers huge benefits for ...
• Technology that exposes your dirty linen
  Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
  The Australian Law Reform Commission says washing machines could be fitted with radio frequency identification equipment, known as RFID, which stores ...
• RFID Passports
  ComputerWeekly.com - UK
  News about the likely introduction of RFID passwords is nothing new and Bruce Schneier expressed his thoughts on this subject over three years ago here. ...
• Web spreads worries over passport security
  Baltimore Sun - United States
  31, also will tighten document requirements for traveling from Canada to the US They use radio frequency identification, or RFID, a wireless technology with ...

News from January 6, 2008

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