April 1 - 7, 2007

News from April 7, 2007

• RFID demo kit enables prototyping of LF IDICs
  Eetasia.com (subscription) - USA
  Atmel announced the availability of the ATA2270-EK1125-kHz RFID demo kit, which enables the evaluation and prototyping of low-frequency (LF) identification ...
• The principles of RFID: Hardware Basics
  Contactless News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  These components are the RFID tag, the RFID reader, and the antenna. This is, of course, an over simplification of what it takes to apply today's RFID ...
• TransCore Achieves RFID and Satellite Communications Distribution ...
  Broadband Wireless Exchange (press release) - Gilbert, AZ, USA
  TransCore's RFID tags are deployed in transportation applications in 39 countries with easily recognizable wireless toll collection systems in use in ...
• Paxar develops RFID system for clothing maker
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  Paxar, a developer of RFID solutions for retail chain stores, hypermarkets and fashion brands, has announced a new system developed for the Throttleman ...
• DOD Reaffirms Its RFID Goals
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  April 5, 2007—At the DOD RFID Summit, held in Washington this week, Alan Estevez, deputy undersecretary of defense for supply chain integration at the US ...
• Intel enters UHF RFID reader market with R1000 chip
  MRT (subscription) - Chicago, IL, USA
  Semiconductor giant Intel this week is scheduled to begin production on R1000 chips, which are expected to enable smaller and less expensive RFID readers in ...
• Pramari and University of Arkansas Announce Open Source RFID ...
  Broadband Wireless Exchange (press release) - Gilbert, AZ, USA
  4/2/07 - Pramari and The University of Arkansas have announced a strategic partnership to further integrate their RFID Open Source Products and create a ...
• India Inc warms up to RFID
  Business Standard - India
  Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is silently making its presence felt in India and everybody from the big business houses, government, ...
• RFID Product: Reva Systems Delivers An Enterprise-class RFID
  Data Collection Online (press release) - PA, USA
  Reva Systems, the leading RFID network infrastructure provider, recently announced that its Tag Acquisition Processor (TAP) now offers enhanced support for ...
• Pramari and University of Arkansas Partner in Open Source RFID Efforts
  TMCnet - USA
  A strategic partnership has been announced between Pramari, a provider of open source RFID solutions, and the University of Arkansas. ...
• US Navy Taps Alien's Gen 2 RFID Techstuffs
  RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  Alien Technology Corporation today announced that Alien Gen2 RFID readers and tags are being deployed as part of the US Navy’s ATAC (Advanced Traceability ...
• RFID World in Review – An Association Perspective
  Rfid.org - Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  RFID Connections: I hear that AIM Global attended RFID World last week -- can you tell us a little about why your Association would attend a big industry ...
• Today's RFID Update
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  RFID Journal reports on the winners of its first annual RFID Journal Awards. Selected by six judges from among nearly 50 submissions, the winners were ...
• Universal Guardian Unveils New RFID Programs at DoD RFID SUMMIT
  LBS-zone.com (press release) - Frederick, MD, USA
  Universal's revolutionary TAGeasy(TM) and TAGstation(TM) systems provide DoD suppliers with immediate and cost-effective DoD RFID compliant labels for use ...
• Navy Deploys Alien Technology RFID Readers and Tags
  B-EYE-Network - Boulder, CO, USA
  Alien RFID readers and tags leveraged for enhanced traceability of naval assets returning to US repair sites from overseas. ...
• New RFID Website from BlueBean Assists Healthcare Facilities in ...
  WebWire (press release) - Atlanta, GA, USA
  What these facilities may not realize is that there is a solution to these problems with the use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology. ...
• Bent Systems Partners With GlobeRanger to Jointly Leverage ...
  Web Services Journal - Montvale, NJ, USA
  Bent Systems helped to write the worldwide standards for RFID, and we are using this insight to develop software to help organizations to track and manage ...
• Goliath Unlocks Retail Secrets with RFID
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  In December 2005, RFID Update reported on a contract that Goliath Solutions had secured with Walgreens to equip all 5000+ of the giant US drugstore chain's ...
• SkyeTek’s M9 RFID Reader Module Wins Electronic Design News 17 th ...
  Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA, USA
  Approximately half the size of a business card, the M9 was designed for embedded RFID applications such as item-level inventory, product authentication, ...
• AT&T launches new RFID asset visibility solution
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  AT&T RFID Asset Visibility is an RFID solution that enables the automatic collection, display and analysis of information on location of a business asset in ...
• RFID Awards: RFID Journal Announces The Winners Of The First
  Supply Chain Market (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  RFID Journal, the media and events company covering radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, announced recently the winners of the first RFID ...
• Web site educates healthcare providers about RFID
  Kiosk marketplace.com (press release) - Louisville, KY, USA
  RFID is a solution to those problems, says BlueBean, an RFID solutions company.BlueBean has launched a new Web site that will provide healthcare facilities ...

News from April 6, 2007

• RFID Technology Offers Great Potential for Fast-Paced Business ...
  Broadband Wireless Exchange (press release) - Gilbert, AZ, USA
  4/6/07 - RFID will make our lives faster, more reliable and safer. The technology is already being used in a lot of circumstances and in a lot of ...
• RFID – A Technology with Ceaseless Potential
  PressZoom (press release) - Amsterdam, Netherlands
  RFID has been constantly making its presence felt in various industries for the past several years, and the technology is set to expand its reach in more ...
• SecureRF Touts Super, Pharma-chain Bound RFID Tag
  RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  SecureRF, which recently announced the immediate availability of its LIME Tag with Onboard Security and cold chain management features, is showcasing the ...
• Good For The Country: RFID Chips, The National ID Card, and DNA ...
  NewsByUs - Boise, ID, USA
  The RFID Chip is already lost among the atoms of garments, personal toiletries, tires and auto parts inventories, and other consumables with a patent for ...
• California lawmakers try again to create RFID protections
  Computerworld - Framingham, MA, USA
  A fourth bill would make it a crime to "skim" - or surreptitiously -- data from an RFID document, and the final bill would prohibit forced RFID chip ...
• SecureRF Announces Availability of the First RFID Tag With Onboard ...
  WM Experts (press release) - Inverness, FL, USA
  Mike McGregor, formerly a lead RFID chip designer at Alien Technology Corp. and one of the industry's foremost RFID chip engineers, is in charge of creating ...
• RFID Tag: Kimberly-Clark Deploys First Mobile RFID Tagging
  RFID Solutions Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  OATSystems Inc. recently announced here at RFID World 2007 that Kimberly-Clark Corporation has deployed OATSystems' newly introduced OAT Mobile Tag, ...
• Stratum Global and Mil-Pac Technology Announce Complete RFID ...
  Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale, WA, USA
  Stratum Global, a leading RFID solution provider, today announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with Mil-Pac Technology of Ramona, CA. ...
• EU's Decision Not to Legislate RFID is Conditional
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  On Monday law firm McKenna Long & Aldridge hosted a luncheon in Washington, DC, called RFID -- An International Perspective on Privacy and Security, ...
• Open Source RFID Projects to Integrate
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  RFID applications company Pramari has teamed with the University of Arkansas to offer what the two are calling "a comprehensive open source offering for ...
• EU official: Now isn't time for RFID regulations
  ZDNet - USA
  Gerald Santucci, head of the European Commission unit whose domain includes RFID issues, said he feared that rushing to place restrictions on industries ...
• RFID - A Technology with Ceaseless Potential
  24-7PressRelease.com (press release) - USA
  RFID has various applications ranging from error prevention & data capture to providing safety from general hazards and ensuring security from terrorist ...
• Escort Memory Systems LRP820-08/LRP830-08 RFID Reader/Writer
  RFID Solutions Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  The industrial strength LRP820-08 / LRP830-08 Long-Range Reader/Writers, features a large Read/Write field for demanding applications. ...
• Dow and Chemtrec's RFID-Based Rail Safety Project
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  By Beth Bacheldor. April 6, 2007—The Dow Chemical Co. has teamed with the American Chemistry Council's Chemical Transportation Emergency Center (Chemtrec) ...

News from April 5, 2007

• RSI ID Technologies' System Uses EPC RFID to Track Jewelry, Eyewear
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  April 6, 2007—RFID tag and antenna provider RSI ID Technologies has released an RFID-based tracking system designed to give jewelry retailers increased ...
• Sirit Awarded US$2.0 million RFID Transponder Contract
  CNW Telbec (Communiqués de presse) - Canada
  The contract calls for Sirit to deliver its UHF RFID transponder technology over the next 3 years, with deliveries to commence in Q2 2007. ...
• Solution Provider Rolls Out RFID Starter Kit
  CRN - Manhasset, NY, USA
  To lower the barrier to entry for RFID-enabled asset management tracking projects, RFID solution provider Fluensee has launched an entry-level version of ...
• Universal Guardian Unveils New RFID Programs at Department of ...
  PR Newswire (press release) - New York, NY, USA
  TAGeasy(TM) is a secure, online e-Commerce RFID label fulfillment system that generates DoD approved RFID labels, including a Certificate of Compliance, ...
• At Wayne Memorial, RFID Pays for Itself
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  April 3, 2007—Wayne Memorial Hospital has saved more than $300000 in expenses, thanks to a new RFID system it uses to track about 1300 medical devices ...

News from April 4, 2007

• Healthcare experts to discuss RFID technology & policy issues at ...
  SpiritIndia - New Delhi, New Delhi, India
  Healthcare experts will discuss the challenges and opportunities of RFID technology in health care and its implications on government policy during the ...
• Intermec's New IV7C Vehicle Mount RFID Reader Advances Forklift of ...
  Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA, USA
  The IV7C is the only forklift RFID reader on the market that is both EPCglobal certified compliant and interoperable. The IV7C joins a tightly integrated ...
• Pepperl+Fuchs' IDENT RFID System available in 13.56 MHz
  Automation.com (press release) - Eden Prairie, MN, USA
  March 22, 2007 - TWINSBURG, OH – IDENT Control, a real-time RFID product identification and data collection solution from Pepperl+Fuchs, is now available as ...
• Oracle and Savi Technology Provide Critical Information Link to ...
  Industrial Embedded Systems (press release) - St Clair Shores, MI, USA
  The milestone project was the first time that real-time information generated from active, battery-powered RFID tags on sea containers was exchanged with ...
• RFID, LTD. President Discusses $75M LOI in WallSt.net Interview
  Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA, USA
  In the interview, Nicholas Chavez discusses the $75M LOI with RFID Leasing, the progress of the Wal-Mart and Department of Defense Mandates and RFID, LTD. ...
• RFID News Roundup
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  Alien Technology says it developed a new process by which RFID encoders can write data to an Alien RFID tag and lock that data in approximately 23 ...
• Border Control
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  RFID and security experts alike say global cooperation is needed to truly improve border controls around the world. Better screening and tracking of the ...
• UPM Raflatac RFID tags optimize CD and DVD rentals and sales
  Packaging & Converting Essentials (press release) - Antwerp, Belgium
  Touch Automation, an industry leader in developing automated dispensing solutions for movies, music and video games, exclusively uses UPM Raflatac RFID tags ...
• Addressing RFID and Consumer Privacy
  Supply & Demand Chain Executive - Gilbert, AZ, USA
  New York — March 28, 2007 — Balancing the need for radio frequency identification (RFID) tagging in the retail environment with the need for customer ...
• TAGSYS Guarantees Six Sigma RFID Performance
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  TAGSYS announced a new service that guarantees no more than four failures per million reads for high frequency (13.56 MHz) passive RFID tags used for ...
• RFID: Tags and Trends -- Raghu Das, CEO of IDTechEX
  Rfid.org - Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  RFID Connections interviewed Raghu Das, CEO of IDTechEX about trends for 2006 and 2007 in tagging and various vertical markets for RFID. ...
• Human implant RFID gets owned
  InfoWorld - San Francisco, CA, USA
  After setting off a torrent of worldwide media coverage by hacking the UK's new RFID-enabled passports in a project sponsored by and first detailed by the ...
• Patent Filing Highlights RFID's Tracking Potential
  CRN - Manhasset, NY, USA
  A 2005 American Express patent application suggests that RFID technology could be used to identify shoppers in stores, track where they go within the store ...
• Automotive industry leads the way with RFID
  MMH.com (subscription) - Newton, MA, USA
  Today, the automotive industry is the predominant user of RFID, according to Alex Stuebler, business manager for factory automation sensors at Siemens ...
• Asset Management Headlines RFID Conference
  Managing Automation Magazine - New York, NY, USA
  As RFID providers look to push the technology beyond its so-far limited use, new applications are beginning to surface that redefine RFID as not just a ...
• Washington State To Offer RFID Licenses
  InformationWeek - Manhasset, NY, USA
  The State of Washington has signed an agreement with the US Department of Homeland Security to allow state residents to present RFID-enhanced drivers' ...
• Winners of First RFID Excellence in Business Awards Showcase ...
  PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien, Austria
  DALLAS, March 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Winners of the first RFID Excellence in Business Awards, announced today at CMP Technology's RFID World 2007 conference and ...
• Despite Doubters, Passive RFID Smart Label Markets Seen Rewarding ...
  Supply & Demand Chain Executive - Gilbert, AZ, USA
  New York — March 21, 2007 — Despite continued doubts about whether passive radio frequency identification (RFID) will have a payoff for the retail supply ...
• Businesses Back Off RFID
  Consumer Affairs - USA
  Representatives of Wal-Mart recently commented in an InformationWeek article that the Bentonville, Arkansas-based retail giant was focusing more of its RFID ...
• Sybase iAnywhere Drives RFID Innovation in Vehicle-Mounted Terminals
  PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien, Austria
  With RFID Anywhere 3.1, Sybase iAnywhere continues to break new ground with advanced on-device capabilities for vehicle-mounted terminals, allowing these ...
• RFID Reader: Escort Memory Systems Goes Mobile With The Element
  RFID Solutions Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  Element RFID Reader developers kits are now available from Escort Memory Systems. The Element RFID Handheld Reader/Writer provides industrial Bluetooth ...
• Decreased price and increased performance for RFID
  MMH.com (subscription) - Newton,MA,USA As the price of industrial RFID technology has come down, the performance has gone up, putting these solutions in reach of more manufacturers. ...

News from April 3, 2007

• Despite Doubters, ABI Research Believes Passive RFID Smart Label ...
  Broadband Wireless Exchange (press release) - Gilbert, AZ, USA
  3/19/07 - Some media commentators have begun talking down the market for passive RFID tags within the retail supply chain. They cite slower-than-predicted ...
• Winners of First RFID Excellence in Business Awards Showcase ...
  PR Newswire (press release) - New York, NY, USA
  Using RFID, honorees achieved 30 to 50 percent reductions in inventory and labor costs, respectively; 100 percent tag read rates despite temperature and ...
• A&D Companies Look to RFID for Improved Supply Chain Visibility
  Supply & Demand Chain Executive - Gilbert, AZ, USA
  Enter RFID technology. There are scores of supply chain and asset management applications where RFID is being used, tested and deployed to solve real-world ...
• Sensitech Presents with Motorola at Fifth Annual RFID World Conference
  PR Newswire (press release) - New York, NY, USA
  Sensitech's vice president of Business Development and New Technologies, Peter J. Maysek, and Motorola's director of RFID Business Development, Tom Racette, ...
• Arphid Watch: ThinkGeek :: RFID Experimentation Kit
  Wired Blogs - USA
  "Depending on who you ask, RFID technology is either the "Mark of the Beast", or a global panacea destined to rescue the grocery stores and Walmarts of the ...
• Ten Inlay Manufacturers Choose TI's Silicon for Range of New RFID Tags
  PR Newswire (press release) - New York, NY, USA
  Representing established corporations and newer RFID inlay providers based in North America, Europe and Asia, the companies are using TI's EPC Generation 2 ...
• Savi Networks Provides RFID-Based, Electronically-Sealed Cargo ...
  Industrial Embedded Systems (press release) - St Clair Shores, MI, USA
  Today, the “Secure Free Zone Project” includes active RFID readers and transaction processing software at critical logistics checkpoints, ...
• RFID Won't Be Texas Tea For Everyone
  InformationWeek - Manhasset, NY, USA
  Everything is bigger in Texas, including the sprawling hotel that’s hosting the RFID World conference and the quarter-sized spider camped outside my room’s ...
• RFID Research Project Examining Security and Privacy in the Supply ...
  CIO - Framingham, MA, USA
  The Ko-RFID research project, sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, addresses RFID and collaboration, and the impact of the ...
• Washington Examines RFID for Licenses
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  That technology is likely to be RFID, says Governor Gregoire's policy advisor, Antonio Ginatta. The Department of Homeland Security is already using RFID in ...
• Mobile Aspects Releases Next Generation of RFID Enabled Medical ...
  Genetic Engineering News (press release) - New Rochelle, NY, USA
  Mobile Aspects, Inc., today announced the general availability of iRISupply 4.0, the next generation of it's industry leading RFID enabled medical device ...
• RFID Terminal: Sybase iAnywhere Drives Rfid Innovation In
  Supply Chain Market (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  Sybase iAnywhere recently announced new enhancements to RFID Anywhere, the company's software infrastructure that provides a customizable environment for ...
• Pramari and University of Arkansas Announce Open Source RFID ...
  WM Experts (press release) - Inverness, FL, USA
  With this free exchange of ideas and tools, Pramari and the University of Arkansas seek to create an Open Source community that can further advance RFID ...

News from April 2, 2007

• Retail displays controlled and watched by RFID
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  RSI ID Technologies has announced the release of two new specialty RFID-enabled retail displays, which combine item-level RFID tracking and RFID-based ...
• Making sense of RFID threats
  Techworld.com - London, UK
  The recurring topic of RFID security flaws has been making headlines again lately. But unlike new e-mail viruses or Internet worms that demand the immediate ...
• RFID: Hold the revolution, pass the incremental change
  Electronics Supply & Manufacturing - USA
  Still, there are plenty of reasons companies keep paying attention to RFID. Using the technology across a broad swath of products in a supply chain looks ...
• The New Killer App
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  I always thought the best thing about RFID was how autonomous it is. No scanning, swiping or typing; just pass a tagged object near a reader and data is ...
• Focus on the Value of RFID
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  Vendors of RFID hardware and software are having trouble convincing end users of the value they create. A vendor might have 20 or 30 customers that are ...
• AIM discusses privacy issues at RFID World
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  It also highlighted how RFID security features can help ensure privacy, and laid out industry responses to key questions on the issue. "RFID is a family of ...
• RFID Helps Keeps Avocados Fresh
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  Here, 20 avocados were individually wrapped with RFID tags connected to temperature loggers while still on the tree. Within hours of being picked, ...
• RFID Britches: A Security Risk?
  PC World - USA
  Once Wal-Mart put its substantial weight behind the use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags to help track its inventory, the genie was out of the ...
• Academics and Technologists Forge RFID Partnership
  RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  Pramari and University of Arkansas will embark upon an "Open Source RFID Partnership," a strategic joining-at-the-hip to further the growth of the ...
• Metro & Impinj to develop item-level garment tagging
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  Impinj and German retailer Metro Group have announced that they will jointly develop a comprehensive UHF Generation 2 item-level RFID technology solution ...

News from April 1, 2007

• GlobeRanger Earns RFID Integration Partner Certification from LXE
  Primenewswire (press release) - Los Angeles, CA, USA
  GlobeRanger, the leading provider of RFID Edge software, mobility and sensor-based applications for both enterprise and government customers, achieved LXE ...
• RFID chips will force changes to Privacy and Electronic ...
  Out-Law.com - London, England, UK
  The Commission has published a Communication, intended as "a step towards a policy framework," for dealing with RFID chips, whose usefulness is seen by some ...
• TAGSYS Announces RFID Industry's First Quality-of-Service ...
  Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA, USA
  Until now, pharmaceutical manufacturers have grappled with consistently and predictably achieving six sigma performance levels from their RFID ...
• RFID: Deployment Continues Amid Regulatory Challenges
  RFID Solutions Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  In late 2004/early 2005, radio frequency identification (RFID) was apparently poised for rapid growth due to, among other things, mandates from leading ...
• Show Preview: RFID World 2007
  CRN - Manhasset, NY, USA
  More than 200 vendors will be on-hand to demonstrate the latest and greatest in RFID next week at the fifth annual RFID World conference. ...
• RFID Solutions: SkyeTek Signs Resellers To Serve Large RFID
  RFID Solutions Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  SkyeTek, Inc., the provider of embedded RFID reader technology, recently announced the addition of three value added resellers that will provide significant ...
• The Shape of the RFID Market
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  A quick scan of the number of companies in different categories of our 2007 Buyer's Guide to RFID Resources reveals something important about the market. ...
• AXCESS Awarded $2 Million Contract for Integrated RFID and Sensor ...
  SYS-CON Media - Montvale, NJ, USA
  OB), a leading provider of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), solutions today announced that the Port of Bridgetown in Barbados, one of the leading ...
• Fluensee Launches 'RFID Starter Kit'
  RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  "By bundling all of the components a company needs to get started with RFID-enabled asset tracking, we're aiming to help them make an effortless move from ...
• New RFID Attack Opens the Door
  Dark Reading - New York, NY, USA
  The attack uses SQL injection to fake the back-end RFID reader into admitting the cardholder into the building, says Joshua Perrymon, hacking director for ...
• RFID APPLICATIONS Atmel Introduces Advanced Stand-alone AVR ...
  Assodigitale - Seregno (MI), Lombardia, Italy
  IT) This stand-alone kit is ideal for the evaluation and customization of RFID solutions without requiring advanced knowledge of RF engineering. ...
• Third Eye Uses RFID to Monitor Employees' Hearts
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  Each wristband comes with a 915 MHz active RFID chip, an antenna, a battery and a bio-sensor chip that allows the system to capture a worker's heart rate ...
• "The Many Benefits of RFID"
  This Day (subscription) - Apapa, Lagos, Nigeria
  Radio frequency identification (RFID) is one of the fastest growing and most beneficial technologies being adopted by businesses today. ...
• Harrah's expands its RFID use
  Las Vegas Business Press - Las Vegas, NV, USA
  The radio-frequency technology is now being rolled out at Harrah's Las Vegas Casino & Hotel and Caesars Palace in the form of RFID touch screens. ...
• LF RFID SD card works on Windows Mobile devices
  WindowsForDevices - Palo Alto, CA, USA
  Wireless Dynamics Inc. (WDI) has released what it claims is the first LF RFID (low frequency radio frequency identification) reader/writer in SD card format ...
• RFID Driver's License, Washington State
  Technology News Daily - Scottsdale, AZ, USA
  The US Department of Homeland Security signed a Memorandum of Agreement today with the State of Washington to launch a pilot program that will enhance the ...
• AXCESS International Introduces New RFID Tag for Asset Management
  TMC Net - Norwalk, CT, USA
  The tag form factor is the smallest battery powered "active" RFID tag currently available, with the capability of being automatically identified and located ...
• NXP and TAGSYS enable pharmaceutical companies to combat drug ...
  Industrial Embedded Systems (press release) - St Clair Shores, MI, USA
  With NXP’s RFID technology, consumers have personal security in the knowledge they are purchasing genuine drugs. The pharmaceutical industry benefits from ...
• Pharma Industry Debating Bar Codes Vs. RFID For Drug Tracking
  InformationWeek - Manhasset, NY, USA
  The industry is leaning toward RFID at the case level but isn't sure when costs will decline enough to let it take that approach for individual bottles of ...
• RFID Award: Alien Technology Awarded EPCglobal Inc. Test Center
  RFID Solutions Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  Alien Technology Corporationrecently announced that EPCglobal Inc. has awarded its Performance Test Center Accreditation mark to the Alien RFID Solution ...
• Manual Picking Versus RFID Scanning Creates New Labor Skill sets
  The Open Press (press release) - USA
  (OPENPRESS) March 31, 2007 -- Unlike other staffing organizations, 100% of ProLogistix recruiting efforts are logistics centered. Branch staff is trained in ...
• RFID World Reveals Opportunity Outside Mandates
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  At the conclusion of RFID World 2006, RFID Update observed that mandate compliance was no longer an industry obsession. This year's show demonstrated that ...
• IBM Launches RFID Technology to Extract Business Insight and Drive ...
  WebWire (press release) - Atlanta, GA, USA
  The new WebSphere RFID Premises Server 6.0 aggregates and analyzes massive amounts of RFID and other sensor information from every corner of an enterprise. ...
• ADDING MULTIMEDIA TransCore Achieves RFID and Satellite ...
  PR Web (press release) - Ferndale, WA, USA
  TransCore’s RFID tags are deployed in transportation applications in 39 countries with easily recognizable wireless toll collection systems in use in ...
• City Link Deploys AeroScout's RFID Asset Tracking Tags
  B-EYE-Network - Boulder, CO, USA
  AeroScout, a provider of Wi-Fi-based Active RFID solutions, has announced a major deployment of its asset tracking tags for express parcel delivery firm ...
• A Business Story About RFID
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  Usually, the request starts out like this: "I'm doing a piece on the use of RFID in the supply chain and would like to interview you." I agree. ...
• Intermec to use ODIN's RFID planning software
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  Intermec has selected ODIN Technologies' EasyReader RFID planning and optimization software for use across its RFID reader platforms. ...
• RFID Partnership: Pramari And University Of Arkansas Announce
  RFID Solutions Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  Pramari, one of the, leading provider of open source RFID solutions, and The University of Arkansas, a leader in the education and research of RFID, ...
• RFID certification: Everything you need to know
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  There has been a lot of debate and even confusion recently concerning the various RFID qualifications and certifications available today, so Using RFID ...
• RFID, SOA And Sussing The Data Soup
  InternetNews.com - USA
  RFID systems (define) came along years after somebody coined that old enterprise IT axiom about not becoming data rich and information poor in your database ...
• Gun Maker Hits the Mark with RFID
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  The Columbia, SC, company initiated its RFID project to comply with the DOD's contractual requirement that all cases and pallets of goods received from ...
• Universal Guardian Announces Partner Sponsorship of the Department ...
  PR Newswire (press release) - New York, NY, USA
  The Summit is the official platform to communicate policy updates and to educate the Department of Defense and the supply base on how best to leverage RFID ...
• RFID Helps Passengers Get a Seat on Lufthansa Flights
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  Now, RFID-tagged seats are accounted for as workers load them from storage onto the vehicle that will transport them to an aircraft. ...
• Blue Vector Brings RFID to Wireless Wide Area Networks
  Industrial Embedded Systems (press release) - St Clair Shores, MI, USA
  It directly controls and manages a variety of industrial sensors as well as all major UHF, HF, semi-active, and active RFID readers. ...
• Beyond Mandate-Driven RFID Solutions
  IT Reseller Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  This integrator experienced 250% revenue growth in 2006 by implementing RFID solutions that go beyond slap-and-ship. Most suppliers have chosen to resort to ...
• RFID, LTD. Announces LOI for $75000000 Credit Facility Through ...
  American Digital Networks (press release) - Annapolis, MD, USA
  The companies will work together to facilitate the leasing, usage and marketing of RFID hardware solutions and RFID devices through a planned private label ...
• EPCglobal North America and RFID Journal To Launch EPC Conference ...
  PR Web (press release) - Ferndale, WA, USA
  The leading authority on EPC/RFID standards partners with the leading RFID media and events company to provide year-round education to the North American ...
• Acsis to Exhibit and Present at RFID World 2007
  American Digital Networks (press release) - Annapolis, MD, USA
  At RFID World 2007, Acsis will exhibit and demonstrate its impressive lineup of industry solutions that are based on RFID technologies. ...
• Second state expected to nix forced RFID chipping
  Computerworld - Framingham, MA, USA
  On the other hand, some RFID supporters say forced chipping could be useful for a variety of purposes, such as helping prisons to keep track of inmates or ...
• Adding RFID data to the deluge
  IT Directors - USA
  Today, at the RFID World Conference, IBM will unveil Radio Frequency Identification software that unlocks business insight from the information explosion ...
• "The Sweet Spot for RFID" - Julie England from Texas Instruments.
  Rfid.org - Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  As a special feature this week, RFID connections has an interview from Julie England, Vice President, Texas Instruments Incorporated and General Manager, ...
• NEC succeeds in embedding RFID in bottle cap
  FoodNavigator-USA - Montpellier, France
  3/22/2007 - Two Japanese companies have succeded in developing a plastic bottle cap embedded with an radio frequency identification (RFID) tag. ...
• RFID (do you realy want to be track, again)
  ZDNet UK - UK
  RFID is fine for tracking baggage, BUT if your baggage is not lost the authorities, whoever they are can track you (the person) as and when you travel with ...
• RFID: poised for growth
  Business Standard - India
  It turns out that the RFID device readers in the store took an inventory of the shoplifter’s hidden items and billed them to his RFID-enabled credit card. ...
• LXE Certifies Sybase iAnywhere as a RFID Integration Partner
  IT News Online - Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
  LXE Inc., a unit of EMS Technologies Inc. developing wireless products and solutions, announced that Sybase iAnywhere has become a certified LXE RFID ...
• From Offense To Defense: RFID At The DoD - Psion Teklogix
  RFID Solutions Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  The purpose of RFID technology has changed a lot since its inception. In its earliest days, RFID was used as a tool of espionage during the Cold War. ...
• City Link uses RFID to tracks deliveries
  Computing - London, UK
  Express parcel delivery firm City Link is using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology on 15000 roll cages to track as many as 300000 high-value ...
• Wal-Mart Rethinks RFID
  InformationWeek - Manhasset, NY, USA
  Although Wal-Mart is still bullish on RFID and plans to add it to hundreds more stores this year, it now talks about the technology as more of a baby-steps ...
• Alien Technology Opens Gen2 RFID Tag Writing Breakthrough to RFID ...
  Industrial Embedded Systems (press release) - St Clair Shores, MI, USA
  Alien Technology Corporation today announced that it is extending the benefits of its breakthrough LoadImage high-speed RFID tag programming technology to ...
• RFID Academic Convocations Bridge Gaps
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  March 30, 2007—The RFID Academic Convocation was conceived as a way of bringing together researchers from the academic world with vendors and end users, ...
• An open source RFID suite can let you age in place
  ZDNet - USA
  Instead, the idea is that you use wireless networks as an application platform, connecting sensors and other RFID chips with software to monitor your health ...
• SAVR Announces New Hand-Held RFID Reader for under $2000
  American Digital Networks (press release) - Annapolis, MD, USA
  With units available at $1995, the full-featured and Gen2 compliant SAVR Scan 900 offers more value than any other RFID handheld on the market. ...
• CEBIT: Commission plans RFID strategy for Europe
  ComputerworldUK - UK
  The move is aimed at boosting the use of RFID technology by business and public services, while addressing concerns about the privacy of personal data. ...
• NCR TransitionWorks For Retail RFID Compliance
  RFID Solutions Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  As major retailers continue to press forward with their radio frequency identification (RFID) mandates, companies continue to realize the benefits of RFID ...
• New RFID Tag Design Offers Worry-Free Prevention of Infant ...
  PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien, Austria
  2007-03-23 20:54:39 - Accutech released an updated look for their RFID tags, used with both their Infant Protection System and Patient Wanderer Security ...
• ADASA Wins CMP's "Excellence in RFID Technology" Award
  Wireless Developer Network (press release) - USA
  ADASA took first place out of 96 applications submitted by vendors and end users of RFID products and services with the help of Quatech's Airborne 802.11 ...
• Sony Europe Finds ROI with RFID Deployment
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  Sony Europe is using a combination of RFID and closed-circuit video surveillance to improve efficiency and reduce shrinkage at one of its distribution ...
• Kimberly-Clark Deploys Mobile RFID Tagging Solution
  Material Handling Management (press release) - Cleveland, OH, USA
  In-store RFID readers read the displays' tags to record when they reach the backroom of the store and again when the displays reach the sales floor. ...
• RFID Events: RFID Journal, EPCglobal North America And CIDX
  RFID Solutions Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  RFID Journal a one of the, leading media and events company covering radio frequency identification (RFID), recently announced that it is partnering with ...
• IBM Launches RFID Technology to Extract Business Insight and Drive ...
  TechWhack - New Delhi, Delhi, India
  Today, at the RFID World Conference, IBM (NYSE: IBM) will unveil Radio Frequency Identification software that unlocks business insight from the information ...
• Wal-Mart Disputes Reports On RFID
  Springdale Morning News - Springdale, AR, USA
  Both Information Week and The Wall Street Journal have run recent articles saying Wal-Mart’s RFID program has hit snags — with the Journal going so far as ...
• RFID World 2007 Announcement Wrap-Up
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  The latest RFID World exhibition and conference, held this week in Dallas, was a launching pad for many new RFID products and software applications. ...
• EPCglobal North America and RFID Journal to Launch Fall EPC Event
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  EPCglobal North America will also provide special preconference seminars at each spring RFID Journal LIVE! event, beginning with RFID Journal LIVE! ...
• Austrian Bank Finds RFID Yields Big Returns When Tracking Loan Files
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  March 20, 2007—An Austrian bank is using an RFID-based system to track the paper files it keeps on each loan it makes to customers. ...
• Iris Diagnostics Adopts SkyeTek's Secure RFID Solution to Enhance ...
  Industrial Embedded Systems (press release) - St Clair Shores, MI, USA
  Iris will integrate an M2 HF SkyeModule with ReaderWare Security into the iQ200 Urinalysis System that will read data on the RFID-tagged consumable reagent ...
• RFID World 2007: Is RFID Ready?
  CRN - Manhasset, NY, USA
  Kevin Ashton, vice president of ThingMagic, a RFID reader manufacturer, thinks that RFID may finally be ready for prime time. ...
• Europe welcomes RFID with new guidelines
  OutSourcing-Pharma.com - Montpellier, France
  In addition, it will create an RFID Stakeholder Group to provide advice and assistance in developing a European policy position concerning RFID applications ...
• RFID at your (guests') service
  Hotel & Motel Management Magazine - Cleveland, OH, USA
  RFID is a wireless identification technology used to track everything from military equipment to library books. In electronic lock applications, ...
• RFID v. Satellite in Smart Container Cargo Security
  SecurityInfoWatch - Arlington Heights, IL, USA
  Although most retailers use RFID, it seems that because retailers like Wal-Mart, Target, Home Depot use it, it must be good for the supply chain too. ...