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April 13 - 19, 2008
News from April 19, 2008
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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 ...
- EasyMonitorTM Automates RFID Infrastructure Monitoring ...
Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale, WA, USA
ODIN technologies, the leading RFID automation company, today announced the public release of the EasyMonitorTM 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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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News from April 15, 2008
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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. ...
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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 ...
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