July 23 - 29, 2006

News from July 29, 2006

• RFID / EPC Technology Solutions | Texas Instruments
  TI-RFid (Texas Instruments Radio Frequency Identification Systems) is an industry leader in radio frequency identification (RFID) technology and the world's ...
• DOD Getting Gen 2 Ready
  RFID Journal - USA
  ... The interim rule expanded the categories of supplies that require RFID tags, and also increased the number of the department's Defense Distribution Centers ...
• 7th Judicial Circuit Court Select FileTrail RFID Tracking ...
  PR Web (press release) - Ferndale, WA, USA
  The 7th Judicial Circuit Court migrates to FileTrail's Web-based RFID File Tracking Solution to control case files. Manual processes ...
• Microchips raising fears
  Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland, OH, USA
  ... The legislation would fine a company $150 for forcing an employee to have a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag - the formal name for the chips ...
• Jeco announces new RFID-ready pallets
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  ... Products, designer and manufacturer of plastic pallets and containers for the printing and automotive industries since 1973, is producing RFID-Ready Pallets in ...
• Tag technology the new fashion
  Stuff.co.nz - Wellington, New Zealand
  ... And Canterbury District Health Board tags expensive medical equipment with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips so it can be easily located. ...

News from July 28, 2006

• South African companies show interest in RFID
  PC-Welt - München, Germany
  At the annual Sapics conference, held last week at Sun City, the topic that seemed to be on the tip of every delegate's tongue was RFID. ...
• US set to issue passports with RFID chips
  Computerworld - Framingham, MA, USA
  July 28, 2006 (Computerworld) -- The US Department of State is on track to start issuing passports with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips next week ...
• IBM, T3Ci test RFID data-sorting software
  United Press International - USA
  ... RFID is being used increasingly to track the flow of goods from factory to distributor to end user. The new software is designed ...
• US agencies eye RFID to save money, improve service
  PC-Welt - München, Germany
  As radio frequency identification (RFID) technology continues to mature, some US federal government agencies are eyeing it as a way to save money and improve ...
• Oracle, Sybase to offer RFID integration solutions
  PC-Welt - München, Germany
  and Sybase Inc. this week made significant RFID announcements related to integrating RFID and traditional enterprise data. Database vendors Oracle Corp. ...
• Unilever trials new RFID standard
  Silicon.com - UK
  Unilever is to test a new RFID standard that could make it easier for retailers and manufacturers to share data generated by the tiny tags. ...
• Hospital finds a bloody good RFID application
  PC-Welt - München, Germany
  RFID (http://www.networkworld.com/details/552.html?brl) tags and readers most commonly are associated with tracking goods in manufacturing and warehousing, but ...
• Royal Mail posts RFID tags to monitor deliveries
  VNUNet.com - UK
  Royal Mail is using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to monitor the flow of post, to identify problem areas and improve delivery services. ...

News from July 27, 2006

• Unilever announces trial of new RFID standard
  ComputerWeekly.com - UK
  Unilever is to be the first company to use a new RFID (radio frequency identification) standard developed by IBM and T3Ci. The standard ...
• Pallets feature molded slot for RFID tags.
  Industrial News Room (press release) - New York, NY, USA
  July 27, 2006 - RFID-Ready Pallets include slot specifically intended to accept RFID tag. Rotationally molded of linear low density ...
• US Army to RFID tag medics
  Silicon.com - UK
  3M has won a $3.7m, three-year contract with the US Army to RFID tag medical documents. The company will design and build a system ...
• Trailiner Installs AXCESS FleetTag Active RFID System
  Telematics Journal - Oyster Bay, NY, USA
  AXCESS International Inc., a leading provider of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) solutions and Real Time Location Systems (RTLS), announces the ...
• Mattel introduces RFID-enabled game console
  TG Daily - USA
  San Diego (CA) - Mattel, a company known for its children's toys, introduced the HyperScan RFID-enabled game console at the recently completed Comic-Con ...
• Semi-passive RFID Provider Intelleflex Lands $15.5m
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  Intelleflex, the Silicon Valley-based provider of battery-assisted RFID platform solutions, today announced $15.5 million in a Series B round of equity funding ...
• Cars, Radios & RFID
  Unstrung - New York, NY, USA
  New deployments and analyst reports demonstrate that the applications that can be enabled via RFID are quickly expanding. For instance ...
• Integration the key to effective RFID
  Ferret - Australia
  ... This story, told by IBM, describes a world where RFID technology allows one simple act to trigger other events, such as a credit card purchase and the updating ...
• RFID in the Cold Chain: Justifying and Deploying Your Cold Chain ...
  MoreRFID (press release) - TX, USA
  The University of Kansas is offering a two-day RFID Cold Chain implementation course, RFID in the Cold Chain: Justifying and Deploying Your Cold Chain Solution ...

News from July 26, 2006

• Lowry opens RFID training course registration
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  Lowry Computer Products, a provider of wireless, RFID, bar code and data collection solutions, is offering a three day training class - A System's Approach to ...
• AudioTel Uses RFID to Protect Financial Data
  RFID Journal - USA
  July 26, 2006 -- AudioTel, an Addison, Texas, provider of software and services for financial institutions, is using an RFID-based access-control and asset ...
• Summary of Baird RFID Monthly for July
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  Wealth and asset management firm Robert W. Baird & Co. has released its RFID Monthly for July. Baird has given RFID Update permission ...
• Sokymat launches RFID tags for harsh industries
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  Sokymat SA has unveiled a new RFID tag called the 'IN Tag' designed for harsh industrial and outdoor environments, available in both low and high frequency ...
• RFID: Ensuring Personal Privacy is Good Business
  Rfid.org - Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  In another recent thrashing of RFID, Vrije Universiteit ( Holland ) Professor Andrew Tanenbaum is quoted as saying, "Industry thinks nothing about invading ...
• IBM and T3Ci Tests New RFID Standard
  ebizQ - New Rochelle, NY, USA
  IBM and T3Ci announced they have successfully completed interoperability testing of a new RFID industry software standard. The standard ...
• Car Dealership Finds RFID the Key to Increased Sales
  RFID Journal - USA
  July 27, 2006 -- Bob Lewis Automotive Family, a car retailer in California's San Francisco Bay area, is using an RFID key tracking system for vehicles at its ...
• Army Taps 3M for RFID Tracking of Medical Records
  Baseline - New York, NY, USA
  3M, the makers of Scotch Tape and Post-It Notes, announced July 25 it's inked a three-year deal with the US Army to develop and install an RFID-based system to ...
• RFID Printer/Encoder Sales Seen Booming in Next Five Years
  Supply & Demand Chain Executive - Gilbert, AZ, USA
  Natick, MA -- July 26, 2006 -- The global market for radio frequency identification (RFID) printer/encoders and applicators reached an estimated $11 million ...

News from July 25, 2006

• Symbol launches next generation RFID reader
  AME Info - United Arab Emirates
  (NYSE: SBL), The Enterprise Mobility Company^TM, has introduced the Symbol XR480 EU, an industrial-class radio-frequency identification (RFID) reader that ...
• Medical Distributor Puts RFID Tags on Equipment
  RFID Journal - USA
  July 25, 2006 -- Wren Medical Systems, a Midwest medical distributor, is affixing RFID tags to many of the products it rents and sells so the company and its ...
• RFID: Tear On the Dotted Line
  Dr. Dobb's Journal - San Mateo, California, USA
  That's certainly appears to be the case with RFID clipped tag technology, also know as "privacy enhancing RFID tag.". Clipped tag ...
• RF Code Shows RFID Technology
  techrockies.com - Salt Lake City,UT,USA Mesa, Arizona-based RF Code announced today that it is providing Ohio University with its RFID solutions to allow for permanent, interactive demonstration of ...
• AIM Global Announces 2006 RFID Executive Summit
  Rfid.org - Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  ... association recognized as the worldwide authority on automatic identification and mobility today announced plans for their third annual RFID Executive Summit ...
• RFID Bill of Rights
  MMH.com (subscription) - Newton, MA, USA
  Privacy advocates want to limit the use of RFID to applications that will never touch the consumer without a person's consent. Last ...
• Is Hewlett-Packard Challenging RFID Tags?
  Industry Week - USA
  ... Users could also add information to the chip through the device. Interested in information related to this topic? Subscribe to our weekly RFID eNewsletter.
• Can You Say SKU in RFID?
  InternetNews.com - USA
  ... pop up. In the data-tagging world of RFID, amid the billions of bits data sensors are pumping out, the issue is the same. How do ...

News from July 24, 2006

• Active RFID: Wren Medical Systems, Inc. Initiates The Use Of RFID Solutions Online
  (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  Wren Medical Systems, Inc. ("Wren Medical"), a Chicago area based medical company, is introducing an RFID-based software solution for management of medical ...
• Rage against RFID
  Washington Technology - Washington, DC, USA
  People have this Hollywood view of RFID as being a chip implanted in a person ... RFID technology consists of a microchip with an antenna and a remote reader. ...
• Retail sector still dominant in RFID; but other uses growing ...
  Silicon Fen Business Report - Cambridge, UK
  Major retailers are driving demand for radio frequency identification (RFID) tags on pallets and cases, according to Cambridge-based research firm IDTechEx ...
• Demand-Driven Supply Networks Give RFID Momentum
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  ... You may already be leveraging your own, your distributors', your customers', or retailers' RFID data to react more expeditiously to increasingly volatile demand ...
• United States Army Awards Contract to 3M for Pilot RFID Program To ...
  Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco ,CA, USA
  ... July 24, 2006--3M has been awarded a $3.76 million contract to develop and install a system that uses radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to track ...
• BOMBAY UNPLUGGED One heinous international conspiracy (RFID chips)
  Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth, TX, USA
  ... We now call this widely abused technology the RFID chip, and we find it in everything from the tollbooth payment tags we carry in our cars to the ...
• RFID Journal Appoints New Sales Executive
  RFID Journal - USA
  July 24, 2006 -- RFID Journal LLC, the event producer and publisher of the RFID Journal magazine and Web site, announced today that it has appointed John ...
• RFID Training: Lowry Computer Products Opens Registration For
  RFID Solutions Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  Lowry Computer Products, a leading provider of wireless, radio frequency identification (RFID), bar code and data collection solutions, will offer the three ...
• VeriChip's human-implatable RFID chips clonable, sez hackers
  engadget - Santa Monica, CA, USA
  ... anyone needed more proof that we're all living in a Philip K. Dick novel, a pair of hackers have recently demonstrated how human-implantable RFID chips from ...
• Perfect Alternatives to RFID?
  RFID Journal - USA
  ... First, there was RuBee, which one publication said could spell the death knell for RFID. ... Let's set the record straight. Both of these technologies are RFID. ...

News from July 23, 2006

• HYPERSCAN GAME SYSTEM LAUNCHES
  GameIndustry.com - Washington,DC,USA Creating a whole new category of play, this hybrid gaming system utilizes CD-ROM and RFID technology, bringing the best of collector card games and video games ...
• Like It Or Not, RFID Is Coming
  WISC - Madison, WI, USA
  The decision by Wal-Mart (WMT) and other retailers to require that their largest suppliers attach inventory-tracking RFID (radio frequency identification ...
• RFID: price no longer the limiting factor with tags
  Computerworld New Zealand - Auckland, New Zealand
  The cost of radio TAGS IS NO longer the inhibiting factor when it comes to adopting radio-frequency -identification (RFID), says Laxman Bhatia, regional ...
• Researchers developing anti-RFID device
  engadget - Santa Monica, CA, USA
  Ever wonder if you'd object to currency, clothing, or even your body getting embedded with an RFID chip? The idea isn't that far ...
• What's RFID's medical role in disaster management?
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  PatientCentral Technologies has unveiled 'DisasterSync', its RFID-based disaster management system for hospitals and healthcare systems, in conjunction with ...