April 13 - 19, 2008

News from April 19, 2008

No news available.

News from April 18, 2008

• News Wrap-Up from RFID Journal LIVE 2008, Part 2 of 2
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  By Brian Albright Our second day of coverage from the RFID Journal LIVE! 2008 event in Las Vegas includes a number of major contract announcements, ...
• Microsoft Broadens RFID Integration
  InformationWeek - Manhasset, NY, USA
  The company's latest BizTalk RFID software aims to foster management and integration of RF-based applications across the enterprise. ...
• Motorola Offers Port Diversity On RFID Reader
  InformationWeek - Manhasset, NY, USA
  By Terry Sweeney Motorola has consolidated RFID functions on its new XR450 platform, which the vendor claims will serve the twin aims of reducing complexity ...
• MTI Wireless Edge Intros New RFID Antenna
  TMCnet - USA
  By Calvin Azuri MTI Wireless Edge (News - Alert), a manufacturer of flat panel antennas, announced its newest product — a low axial ratio RFID reader ...
• Wireless Dynamics Intros SD RFID Card with 512MB Memory
  TMCnet - USA
  By Calvin Azuri, TMCnet Contributing Editor Wireless Dynamics announced the availability of its SDiD 1212 low frequency (LF) RFID reader secure digital (SD) ...
• Omnitrol Networks and Croop-LaFrance Team Up to Provide RFID-Based ...
  Earthtimes - London, UK
  The companies' joint traceability/tracking solutions advance the use of RFID technologies to enhance supply chain, MRO, Logistics, and manufacturing ...
• Wal-Mart furthers RFID implementation at home and abroad
  IGD Supply Chain Analysis - Watford, England, UK
  Wal-Mart has announced further integration of RFID technology into its supply-chain in the USA. The retailer is working with lift truck manufacturers to ...
• RFID bag tags could save air-travel industry millions
  Silicon.com - UK According to the fourth annual Sita Baggage Report, RFID is a key technology for solving baggage handling headaches, estimated to be costing the global air ...
• EasyMonitor^TM Automates RFID Infrastructure Monitoring ...
  Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale, WA, USA
  ODIN technologies, the leading RFID automation company, today announced the public release of the EasyMonitor^TM software as a service (SaaS) offering. ...
• austriamicrosystems and Syscan International pre-release new ...
  Japan
  ... capability that can run the application on-board, tailormade to the customer's requirements and thus reducing the costs for simple RFID applications. ...

News from April 17, 2008

• It is only natural that Microsoft extends BizTalk RFID to mobile ...
  VNUNet.com - UK
  Microsoft has unveiled its BizTalk RFID Mobile platform designed to enable delivery of information from mobile devices to core business processes. ...
• Omnitrol Networks Integrates IBM RFID Software Into Work-In ...
  CNNMoney.com - USA
  Omnitrol Networks and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Omnitrol has embedded IBM's WebSphere RFID Information Center software into the OMNITROL ...
• Progressive Gaming and Gaming Partners International Enter into ...
  Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA, USA
  The agreement enables Progressive Gaming and GPI to leverage their extensive combined experience with 13.56 MHz PJM High Frequency RFID technology to ...
• Motorola Simplifies RFID Deployments with New High-Performance Reader
  The FINANCIAL - Tbilisi, Georgia
  This new two-in-one solution provides an ideal high-performance RFID reader for both item-level tracking and more demanding supply chain applications. ...
• Contactless Smart Cards Are the Largest RFID Sector by Far and the ...
  Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA, USA
  It forecasts progress for the next ten years with contactless smart cards, tickets and RFID enabled phones, from technology to applications, ...
• Nestlé Italy Finds RFID Brings ROI for Ice Cream
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  ... 2008—The Italian arm of Swiss food company Nestlé is expanding a pilot employing active, battery-powered ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) RFID tags to track ...
• USDA to fight tubercular cows with RFID
  RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  The United States Department of Agriculture announced Tuesday that it has begun providing tens of thousands of RFID ear tags for use in state bovine ...
• Wal-Mart Lays Down the Law on RFID
  IndustryWeek - USA
  Retail giant will begin levying fines for suppliers that don't comply with its RFID mandate. By David Blanchard May 1, 2008 -- Although radio frequency ...
• History of RFID – For all those who wanted to know its past
  RFID - Jinan, China
  By Guava5_ 2008-4-17 8:41:00 If you feel that RFID is a new technology then you need to spend a few precious minutes of your to read this post. ...
• American Apparel uses RFID to take better stock of its stores
  Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA The hip retailer today announced that it has wrapped up a successful pilot program in which a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag was attached to each ...

News from April 16, 2008

• New Retail Industry Compliance and EPC Performance Testing ...
  FOXBusiness - USA
  (TM) - a three-day workshop combining instruction in the art and science of retail industry RFID compliance with product certification through Alien's ...
• Sybase iAnywhere Updates RFID and Sensor Computing Middleware
  Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA, USA
  Sybase was recently featured as a leader for enabling the next generation of business-driven RFID solutions in the RFID Switchboard publication, ...
• Metro confirms RFID infrastructure
  IGD Supply Chain Analysis - Watford, England, UK
  Following Metro Group's announcement in March that it is to roll-out RFID technology to a further 200 Real hypermarkets, the retailer has now confirmed that ...
• RFID to ease Philippine Traffic?
  Cnet Asia - San Francisco, CA, USA
  The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) announced that they would use surveillance cameras and Radio Frequency Identification Chips (RFID) to ...
• Avery Dennison Offers Turnkey Sam’s Club RFID Compliance Kit
  RFID Solutions Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  Avery Dennison Printer Systems Division, supplier of Monarch products and services, recently announced the availability of its comprehensive RFID Solution ...
• United States: E-Passport Hacker designs RFID Security Tool
  Tendersinfo (subscription) (press release) - Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
  Now the two have created RF-Wall to help thwart RFID fraud and attacks against e-passports, electronic access cards and payment cards such as the Mifare ...
• MiFare RFID crack more extensive than previously thought
  Computerworld - Framingham, MA, USA
  By Geeta Dayal April 15, 2008 (Computerworld) The ubiquitous MiFare Classic RFID chip -- used daily by millions worldwide in access control keys, ...
• Airbus Selects IBM and OATSystems for RFID Project
  TMCnet - USA
  By Niladri Sekhar Nath Airbus announced it opted for IBM (News - Alert) and OATSystems as a software solution for a RFID project that will help streamline ...
• Sensitech Inc. Invests in Rush Tracking Systems; Industry Leaders ...
  CNNMoney.com - USA
  As an experienced leader in end-to-end RFID systems integration and advisor to Fortune 100 client organizations, Rush Tracking has significant RFID field ...
• RFID: Not Ready For Prime Time
  Convenience Store Decisions - Bensalem, PA, USA
  A radio frequency identification (RFID) tag is like a barcode on steroids. A barcode printed on a cracker box may indicate that the box contains crackers ...

News from April 15, 2008

No news available.

News from April 14, 2008

• RFID News: New RFID Reader Technology has Potential to ...
  Supply Chain Digest - Dayton, OH, USA
  A company named Mojix announced today a radically different approach to RFID tag reading that, if it can deliver as promised, has the chance to cause ...
• Turkey gets an RFID travel visa tracking system
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  The Turkish RFID systems integrator, STS, has announced the successful installation of its first document tracking application in Turkey, having partnered ...
• VA county adopts RFID for increased security
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  In Virginia, USA, Prince William County has adopted the Compass system from RFID technology provider Vuance to provide increased electronic access control ...
• RFID Company Emerges from Stealth Touting Wider Coverage Area
  Managing Automation Magazine - New York, NY, USA
  by Diane Himes, MA Editorial Staff A new entrant to the passive RFID market today unveiled a system it claims can provide the read ranges and applications ...
• Role of RFID in Casinos to be Featured at 2008 IEEE RFID ...
  Earthtimes - London, UK
  Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is becoming increasingly more widespread in the gaming industry. "RFID in Casinos" will be examined at a ...
• Suppliers Find No Incentive to Adopt RFID for Direct Store Delivery
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  By Claire Swedberg April 14, 2008—The direct store delivery (DSD) market is not ready for RFID, according to a survey conducted by Global Commerce ...
• Researcher: Misunderstandings surround RFID in use today
  CNET News.com - San Francisco, CA, USA
  When asked how RFID worked, a group of novices responded to a recent academic survey with "witchcraft" and "magic." In a talk Monday at USENIX Usability, ...
• Startup Touts 600-foot Read Range for Passive RFID
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  Company CEO Ramin Sadr told RFID Update that Mojix achieved this performance through advances in digital signal processing, RF antenna design, ...
• Rush Tracking Systems Presents Business Case for RFID at RFID ...
  Earthtimes - London, UK
  Rush's presentation will focus on building the business case for RFID across the enterprise. "RFID is critical in providing visibility to products and ...
• American Apparel Taking Wireless Inventory With RFID
  InformationWeek - Manhasset, NY, USA
  Each of its 17 stores in New York will be equipped for RFID during the next three months; an additional 120 locations in North America will follow. ...

News from April 13, 2008

• South Korea's non-biometric access control products sector shifts ...
  Global Sources - Singapore
  The South Korea government has been actively supporting and promoting RFID in recent years, encouraging small- and medium-sized security product ...
• Encryption on a RFID chip cracked - Cash cards affected
  Earthtimes - London, UK
  Experts have succeeded in cracking the encryption of the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chip used in a widely available card system. ...
• New RFID readers from Alien distinguishes between tags
  engadget - Santa Monica, CA, USA
  by Darren Murph, posted Apr 13th 2008 at 12:26AM For airlines and cargo handling companies, the inability to know precisely where a specific item was ...
• IDTechEx offers 2008 RFID forecast
  RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  Industry consulting group IDTechEx forecasts an increase in global spending on RFID technology for 2008, up 7.3 % from last year. ...
• Land Rover streamlines postproduction with RFID hangtags
  RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  UK automaker Land Rover has had great success using RFID tagging to streamline its production lines. It’s an increasingly typical use of the technology in ...