April 8 - 14, 2007

News from April 14, 2007

• RFID: Roadmap for Retail
  Market Wire (press release) - USA
  While only 6.5% of retailers surveyed are spending money on RFID technology today, twice that have budget allocated toward RFID implementation. ...
• Millipore touts RFID technology
  Bizjournals.com - Charlotte, NC, USA
  Millipore Corp. laid claim Friday to being the first company that integrates Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology into filtration products used ...
• RFID Is Catching On in the Cold Chain
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  In the current issue of RFID Journal magazine, contributor John Edwards examines adoption of radio frequency identification technologies in the cold chain. ...
• North Dakota Bans Certain RFID Chips
  RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  As expected, North Dakota has become the second state in the US to ban the forced implanting of RFID chips in people, according to news reports. ...
• Slippery Rock U Replaces Old Cards with RFID Ones
  RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  Pennsylvania's Slippery Rock University is replacing its ID cards with ones based around an RFID system. Students and staff will all be required to use the ...
• Aberdeen on RFID Adoption in Retail
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  Yet Wal-Mart has almost single-handedly catalyzed the RFID industry with its mandates and broad implementation of auto-ID. Some smaller retailers with less ...
• Leading Canadian RFID Conference to take place in Markham May 8-9
  Truck News - Toronto, ON, Canada
  RFID Canada, in association with the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the Town of Markham, Texas Instruments (TI) and Truck News' sister publication, ...
• North Dakota Adds to RFID Paranoia
  Wired News - USA
  North Dakota has passed a law protecting its citizens from a danger that to date only seems to affect sci-fi protagonists and people who have been lax in ...
• My RFID-embedded car numberplate has a virus
  Register - London, England, UK
  RFID chips, which began life as a replacement for bar codes in retailing and warehousing, are now being integrated into some identification documents, ...
• Navigating the RFID Adoption Roadmap
  Broadband Wireless Exchange (press release) - Gilbert, AZ, USA
  4/10/07 - Informedia India Pvt. Ltd. presents - Navigating RFID Adoption Roadmap, an International Conference on the 25th and 26th of April 2007 at the JW ...
• Fly-By RFID for Monitoring Power Towers
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  Active, long-range UHF RFID tags would be attached to the masts of the power lines and read from a helicopter fitted with RFID interrogator antennas. ...
• Creating an ePedigree for sports collectibles with RFID
  SecureIDNews (press release) - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  How can RFID work to authenticate such items? There are several companies today vying to market RFID-based solutions for sports memorabilia, but the leader ...
• Dutch Bookseller Soon to Use RFID to Locate Items on Shelves
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  April 11, 2007—Boekhandels Groep Nederland (BGN), Netherland's largest bookseller, has taken the next step in its deployment of item-level RFID tagging. ...
• RFID Helps the Boston Marathon Run
  PC World - USA
  And, of course, essential to timing the athletes on their 26-mile jaunt are the RFID (radio frequency identification) tags they need to pass through their ...
• InfoLogix buys Florida RFID firm
  Bizjournals.com - Charlotte, NC, USA
  InfoLogix Inc. said Wednesday it has acquired a company with patents covering the use of radio frequency identification, or RFID, technology, ...
• Australia Defense Launches First RFID-Tagged Shipments into the ...
  SYS-CON Media - Montvale, NJ, USA
  The shipments aboard an air freighter launched Australia's full-scale deployment of active RFID-tagged pallets and containers into the Middle East that can ...
• University adopts RFID-based ID cards
  TUV Product Service - Fareham, Hampshire, UK
  A US university is to replace its existing ID cards with a system based around radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, it was announced today. ...
• Georgia Ports Authority Hopes RFID Will Boost Efficiency, Throughput
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  April 11, 2007—The Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) is set to begin installing RFID technology at the Port of Savannah, to track shipments being brought in and ...
• SecureRF launches RFID tag with onboard security
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  SecureRF has launched a new 'LIME Tag with Onboard Security' - a battery-assisted passive RFID tag that also provides a series of other cold chain ...

News from April 13, 2007

• RFID Under Attack Again
  Dark Reading - New York, NY, USA
  APRIL 9, 2007 | Hacking some RFID-based technology is so frighteningly simple that it has even surprised the researchers who have recently demonstrated ...
• Australia Defense Begins RFID-Tagged Shipments
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  April 13, 2007—The Australian Defense Force (ADF) has begun using active RFID tags to track supplies it sends to the Middle East and throughout its own ...
• RFID News Roundup
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  Advanced ID Corp., a Canadian provider of UHF RFID technology, has inked a deal with Pentamaster, a Malaysian investment-holding company with a variety of ...
• Fight Phonies: Send Counterfeits And Generics To The Jailhouse ...
  Medical Design Online - Horsham, PA, USA
  Reclaim your revenue by embedding SkyeTek RFID solutions into your existing product lines to protect your products and consumables. ...
• InfoLogix Acquires RFID Patent Portfolio
  Technology News Daily - Scottsdale, AZ, USA
  InfoLogix, Inc. acquired a cutting edge patent portfolio surrounding RFID technology that manages proper medication management and delivery. ...
• Alien helps enhance US Navy RFID capabilities
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  Alien Technology has announced that its Gen 2 RFID readers and tags are being deployed as part of the US Navy's ATAC (Advanced Traceability and Control) ...
• UK's Manchester Airport to Track Travelers with RFID
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  The airport used RFID tags to track 50000 passenger volunteers as they moved throughout the facility with the goal of measuring and improving the efficiency ...
• RFID - Bringing Revolution to the World
  PressZoom (press release) - Amsterdam, Netherlands
  RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) could make barcode passé. The technology will bring an era where everything on the mother planet will be connected and ...
• ND bans forced RFID chipping
  Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA Essentially, it forbids anyone from compelling someone else to have an RFID chip injected into their skin. The state follows in the steps of Wisconsin, ...
• DoD RFID Summit Shows Steady Commitment to RFID
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  The US Department of Defense (DoD) RFID Summit took place in Washington, DC, on Tuesday and Wednesday of last week. RFID Update attended the event in order ...
• EJ Brooks develops passive RFID container seal
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  With billions of dollars of international cargo moving through docks and airport terminals each year, a cooperative development between RFID provider IPICO, ...
• RFID Rubbernecking
  Pro AV Magazine - Overland Park, KS, USA
  MINI Cooper owners can send themselves a message via billboard with the help of key fobs laced with RFID chips. It’s one way the technology is making it ...

News from April 12, 2007

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News from April 11, 2007

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News from April 10, 2007

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News from April 9, 2007

• Correos Spanish Mail Uses RFID
  Hell Mail - England, UK
  RFID are adhesive microchips that allow items to be properly tracked and sorted through automated centres. A trial of the system involving 10000 packets ...
• Boffins working on RFID super-shield
  Register - London, England, UK
  A group of Dutch researchers at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, led by PhD student Melanie Rieback, is building RFID Guardian, a personal RFID firewall to ...
• Congratulations to the RFID Journal Award Winners
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  I get a similar sense of joy from reading and writing about excellence in business, which is why it's been especially rewarding to create the RFID Journal ...

News from April 8, 2007

• RFID Solution: Defense Logistics Agency Runs With Zebra
  RFID Solutions Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  ODIN technologies, one of the leader in the physics of RFID solution design, deployment and optimization software, and the prime contractor providing ...
• RFID Reader: SkyeTek’s M9 RFID Reader Module Wins Electronic ...
  Semiconductor Online - USA
  SkyeTek, Inc. Provider of embedded RFID reader technology, was announced the winner of the EDN 17 th Annual Innovation Award in the Computers, Boards, ...
• RFID Sponges from Siemens?
  Medgadget.com - San Francisco, CA, USA
  Sponges for an operation are equipped with RFID chips. They are then read by a stationary RFID. So, for now, the story is developing...