April 22 - 28, 2007

News from April 28, 2007

• Government tunes in to RFID
  EContent (press release) - Wilton, CT, USA
  Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology dates back to World War II, but interest surged recently as large organizations in both the public and ...
• Survey Suggests RFID Could Aid Clinical Trials
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  RFID can help save both, especially during the clinical trials phase, according to a study released this week by ChainLink Research. ...
• Checkpoint Combines EAS Tags With RFID
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  April 27, 2007—Checkpoint Systems unveiled today the Evolve product family of product labels that marry RFID technology with Checkpoint's electronic article ...
• NIST Issues Security Recommendations For RFID
  InformationWeek - Manhasset, NY, USA
  NIST's report on RFID security was released Thursday as it urges everyone using the technology to evaluate security and privacy risks and use best practices ...
• NIST Issues RFID Recommendations
  Tech Insider - Washington, DC, USA
  Agencies thinking about using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology should first conduct security and privacy risk assessments, ...
• Curing the RFID Virus Infected Cat - AIM Global Embarks on Mission ...
  Packaging & Converting Essentials (press release) - Antwerp, Belgium
  Consider these instead: RFID secures US ports, RFID saves elderly patient who's wandered off, RFID to protect coal miners, RFID ensures emergency evacuation ...
• NIST Issues New RFID Security Guidelines
  RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  “RFID tags, commonly referred to as smart tags, have the ability to improve logistics, profoundly change cost structures for business, and improve the ...

News from April 27, 2007

• NIST Issues Guidelines for Ensuring RFID Security
  Government Technology - Folsom, CA, USA
  Retailers, manufacturers, hospitals, federal agencies and other organizations planning to use radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to improve ...
• RFID Trends and Tips: Mark Roberti
  Rfid.org - Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  RFID Connections spoke with Mark Roberti, Founder and Editor of RFID Journal for his thoughts on the latest trends in RFID and the upcoming RFID Journal ...
• Lowry and Impinj to Deliver High Performance UHF Gen 2 RFID Solution
  SYS-CON Media - Montvale, NJ, USA
  The addition of Impinj's GrandPrix solution, comprising the Monza(TM) tag chip and Speedway(TM) reader, to Lowry's line of endorsed RFID products expands ...
• RFID used for diamond retail
  TUV Product Service - Fareham, Hampshire, UK
  Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology is being used by jewellery manufacturers to help track the sale of diamonds and to provide a solution for ...
• Patent for Mobile Aspects Augments Leadership Role for Healthcare ...
  Wireless Design & Development Asia - Singapore
  Mobile Aspects, the industry leader in providing RFID-enabled solutions to improve medical device and supply management for hospitals, has received a patent ...
• 'Little 500' Bike Race Sports 21st Century Indiana University RFID
  MidwestBusiness.com - Chicago, IL, USA
  This year, state-of-the-art RFID technology was fitted on some teams by Team iCycle from the Indiana University School of Informatics to provide precise ...
• Unique RFID Tag Application from RCD Technology Extends Utility of ...
  SYS-CON Media - Montvale, NJ, USA
  The enhancement of its POP terminals with optional RFID technology improves the overall consumer experience by enabling the customization of service ...
• Software Simplifies RFID Input for Pharma Applications
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  The pharmaceutical industry doesn't have a single, common RFID standard for item and shipment identification, but Blue Vector has created a system that ...
• South Korea's mobile RFID technology gets ISO nod
  Electronics Supply & Manufacturing - USA
  A ministry spokesman said the mobile RFID technology, developed by the country's state-run Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, ...

News from April 26, 2007

• Blue Vector Announces a Pharmaceutical Edition of its RFID ...
  B-EYE-Network - Boulder, CO, USA
  Blue Vector Systems recently announced a Pharmaceutical Edition of its RFID automation platform. This solution offers pharmaceutical manufacturers, ...
• Asia RFID Market Needs Gov't Boost
  BusinessWeek - USA
  Radio frequency identification (RFID) will grow alongside the barcode technology in the Asia-Pacific region over the next few years, where government ...
• RFID virus buster builds wireless firewall
  Inquirer - Harrow, Middlesex, UK
  "SPYCHIPS," some privacy campaigners call RFID. Two years ago, when Melanie Rieback in 2005 was hunting for a research topic for her PhD, she settled on ...
• Calif. RFID security bill advances
  InfoWorld - San Francisco, CA, USA
  Simitian's measures specifically require a moratorium in the use of RFID chips in Calif. driver's licenses and student IDs or records, based on privacy and ...
• RFID at the Car Wash
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  Innovative Concepts Systems, a company that develops car-care technologies, has introduced an RFID-based automatic payment system designed to help ...
• California Moves to Prohibit RFID in Licenses and Education
  Public CIO - Folsom, CA, USA
  The California Senate recently passed two bills that would prohibit public-sector use of RFID tags in driver licenses and education for a period of three ...
• RFID Helps Gem Dealers Track the Diamonds They Buy, Cut and Sell
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  April 25, 2007—Diamond manufacturers are using Magellan's phase jitter modulation (PJM) RFID technology to track their stones by simultaneously capturing ...
• New Software Position at AdvantaPure Focuses on RFID Products for ...
  PR.com (press release) - Levittown, NY, USA
  Johnson will focus on sales and service of the company's RFID products, including GammaTag(TM) gamma-sterilizable RFID tags and the Hose Track(TM) process ...
• Drivers License with RFID Chips Seek to Provide Cheaper ...
  Broadband Wireless Exchange (press release) - Gilbert, AZ, USA
  "The Smart Card Alliance, whose members provide both secure RF contactless smart card and RFID products, supports efforts by border states to boost security ...
• Alien Technology Secures $33 Million In New Round Of Funding for RFID
  Broadband Wireless Exchange (press release) - Gilbert, AZ, USA
  Organizations use Alien's RFID products and services to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and security of their supply chains, logistics and asset ...

News from April 25, 2007

• Korea's RFID Technology Adopted as World Standard
  Chosun Ilbo - Seoul, South Korea
  The technology known as Object Identifier or OID allows cell phones to read RFID tags. Through OID cell phone, users can read product data on RFID tags. ...
• RFID Sensor System Promoted for Highway Safety
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  RFID is routinely used to collect highway tolls. Now an Australian firm is planning to use the technology to prevent highways from taking their toll on ...
• Softeon's Sponsors Web Videocast on the RFID-Enabled Warehouse ...
  PR Web (press release) - Ferndale, WA, USA
  Softeon will be the lead sponsor of an important and educational Videocast April 27 on "The RFID-enabled" WMS, broadcast by Supply Chain Digest and The ...
• McAfee Report Hypes RFID Threat
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  The report, issued semiannually by McAfee Avert Labs based on its research into high-tech threats, reads, in part: "RFID readers could contain ...
• Skill Shortage Thwarts RFID Growth
  RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  A senior official from the Computing Technology Industry Association spoke at RFID Connect Asia 2007 on the scarcity of professionals well versed in RFID ...
• Evaluation Kit enables customization of RFID solutions.
  ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release) - New York, NY, USA
  April 23, 2007 - With 125 kHz ATA2270-EK1 Demo Kit, users can evaluate and prototype LF IDIC®s, which are used in broad range of RFID applications, ...
• RFID-Based Asset Tracking in Manufacturing
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  Companies have been successful, however, in identifying internal ROI-based applications for RFID. Asset tracking in its various forms is one of the focal ...

News from April 24, 2007

• Blue Vector Unveils RFID Platform for Pharmaceutical Industry
  PharmaLive.com (press release) - Newtown, PA, USA
  These include support for intelligent dock door, conveyor, shelf, and desktop RFID automation stations--either from Blue Vector or from third parties--as ...
• California Legislature Considers RFID Card Bans
  InformationWeek - Manhasset, NY, USA
  The bill would place a three-year moratorium on the use of RFID technology in driver's licenses and school ID cards. By KC Jones ...
• RFID Forum: Penn State Erie Hosts RFID Forum With Alien Technology
  RFID Solutions Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  Alien Technology Corp., which is headquartered in Morgan Hill, Calif., and is a sponsor of the RFID Center of Excellence at Penn State Erie, ...
• Xterprise Launches XAM(TM) 2.0 Software Application for the RFID ...
  Market Wire (press release) - USA
  XAM™ 2.0 is designed to run on the Microsoft BizTalk RFID platform for communications with readers, sensors and other devices. XAM™ 2.0 can be Web-based or ...
• McAfee: RFID chips exposing users to danger
  Computerworld - Framingham, MA, USA
  The report warns that as RFID technology becomes more pervasive, the risk for users increases dramatically. The study notes that the technology is ...
• Skill Shortage Knocks Down Global RFID Business' Growth
  PRLog.Org (press release) - Bucuresti, Romania
  Org) – Scarcity of professionals well versed in radio frequency identification (RFID) technology is a major problem that global IT Industry is encountering ...

News from April 23, 2007

• RFID "is becoming mainstream"
  TUV Product Service - Fareham, Hampshire, UK
  The use of radio frequency identification (RFID) is becoming mainstream, it has been claimed by the chief executive officer of a company which recently ...
• Skill Shortage Knocks Down Global RFID Business' Growth
  InvestorIdeas.com (press release) - Point Roberts, WA, USA
  Scarcity of professionals well versed in radio frequency identification (RFID) technology is a major problem that global IT Industry is encountering today. ...
• Alien, SAIC team to enhance Navy’s RFID capabilities
  Reliable Plant Magazine - Tulsa, OK, USA
  Alien Technology Corporation recently announced that Alien Gen2 radio frequency identification (RFID) readers and tags are being deployed as part of the US ...
• SkyeTek and Impinj Lead RFID Reader Providers in Customer Satisfaction
  Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA, USA
  “This study reflects the success we are experiencing in the marketplace and further validates that our RFID reader solutions, both hardware and software, ...

News from April 22, 2007

• EPC Standard Could Breathe New Life Into RFID
  InformationWeek - Manhasset, NY, USA
  The ratification last week of an electronic product code standard could give RFID a needed boost by finally giving businesses a common method to capture and ...
• InfoWeek Story Says New Standard May 'Breathe New Life' into RFID
  RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  The ratification last week of an EPC standard could give RFID a needed boost by finally giving businesses a common method to capture and share collected ...
• RFID's so easy with TAGeasy, even for the US DOD
  Gadgetell - Chesterfield, MT, USA
  As I've mentioned before, RFID (radio-frequency identification) is one of those industries in which I wish I had bought lots and lots of stock. ...
• Tyco Unveils RFID Kit for DoD Suppliers
  RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  Tyco Electronics' newly released RFID kits are ready to go for suppliers that want to meet the Department of Defenses's latest RFID mandates. ...
• Tyco Electronics Unveils RFID Compliance Kits in Support of the ...
  Helicopter Association International - Alexandria, VA, USA
  April 20, 2007 – Tyco Electronics announced three solution kits to help suppliers prepare to meet the Department of Defense's RFID mandate. ...
• Authentication and Security
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  April 23, 2007—As RFID becomes more ubiquitous in every sector of industry, commerce and services, it will have a huge impact on the way that business ...
• Former FDA senior policy advisor to speak at Interphex 2007
  CleanRooms Magazine - Nashua, NH, USA
  With a heavy emphasis on electronic pedigree and authentication security the three day RFID conference track "will provide attendees with the knowledge they ...
• Pharma RFID Adoption Still Slow
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  April 23, 2007—Despite several leading pharmaceutical companies' positive experiences in testing RFID, as well as encouragement from the US Food and Drug ...