August 3 - 9, 2008

News from August 9, 2008

• What's Brewin: An RFID Game Plan
  Nextgov - Washington, DC, USA
  The budget, as far as I can determine, primarily covers installation of a passive RFID infrastructure -- which scans tags placed on cases and pallets ...
• Alanco/TSI PRISM Issues Commitment Clarification for Puerto Rico ...
  MarketWatch - USA
  The DOC has not issued a contract or a commitment to install an RFID system at any facility at this time. We regret any confusion our previous release may ...
• Researchers Work on Using RFID to Calculate an Item's Carbon Footprint
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  A demo of the prototype RFID system determining a product's carbon footprint. If individual items or cases of items can be identified, it would be possible ...
• At William Ashley, RFID Staff Name Tags Improve Service
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  ... of these pulses makes them less vulnerable to RF interference from objects and other RF noise, relative to conventional RFID real-time locating systems. ...
• Intermec IF30 Fixed RFID Reader
  RFID Solutions Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  The IF30 is a cost-effective, high-performance, fixed reader that reliably reads and writes UHF RFID tags in "RF noisy" environments. ...
• Tutorial: Radio Basics for UHF RFID--Part VIII
  Embedded.com - San Francisco, Ca., USA
  Modulations used for RFID readers are constrained by the need to provide power to passive tags and are thus profligate users of spectrum relative to the ...
• RFID kits available
  ITWeb - Gauteng, South Africa
  BY ILVA PIETERSE , ITWEB CONTRIBUTOR ThingMagic, a developer of RFID technologies, has announced a variety of different RFID kits available for purchase ...
• GAO RFID Expands Portfolio to
  NewDesignWorld (press release) - Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
  Toronto, Canada - GAO RFID Inc., a leading provider of RFID solutions has added Identec Solutions' Intelligent Long Range Technology to its ever-expanding ...

News from August 8, 2008

• California's FasTrak system completely insecure
  Yahoo! Tech - Sunnyvale, CA, USA
  Security researchers are finally getting around to telling us what we probably all should have guessed years ago: California's FasTrak system, the RFID tag ...
• Black Hat organizers punt totally hackable RFID badges
  Register - London, England, UK
  In an interesting twist, a researcher is calling out conference organizers for supplying 4500 attendees with an RFID-enabled badge that has widely known ...
• Model 5300rfid label printer-applicator
  DC Velocity - North Attleboro, MA, USA
  The system helps meet the emerging RFID labeling requirements of retailers and club stores. It also helps companies that wish to streamline the tracking of ...
• Fertilizer seller adopts RFID yard management
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  Consequently, Intelleflex has recently announced an RFID-based installation for John Taylor Fertilizers Company. With the new RFID solution, John Taylor is ...
• Report: Unhackable e-passports hacked within minutes
  BetaNews - USA
  He used publicly available code, a £40 ($78 USD) card reader and two £10 ($19.50 USD) RFID chips. Supporters of the e-passport technology counter that even ...
• Precyse Technologies' RFID System Uses Beacons to Extend Reach
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  The iLocate solution, provided by Israeli RFID company Precyse Technologies, is being utilized by freight managers, agriculture equipment manufacturers and ...
• Kiland chooses AAID for RFID solutions
  RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  Kiland Business Management Systems, a software developer, has selected AAID Security Solutions, a manufacturer and distributor of long-range RFID products, ...
• RFID goes prime time in Beijing Olympics
  CNET News - San Francisco, CA, USA
  Despite the Chinese government's current uptight security measures, the RFID chips embedded in Olympics tickets will be not carrying personal information. ...
• Interest Increasing In RFID Applications, Survey Shows
  InformationWeek - Manhasset, NY, USA
  Forty-six percent of the companies said their customers they have implemented at least one RFID solution. That includes pilot projects and production ...
• Four new RFID inlays
  DC Velocity - North Attleboro, MA, USA
  Avery Dennison RFID introduces four new inlays to its RFID product portfolio with the AD-224, AD-631, AD-824, and AD-840. The new UHF inlays are EPC Class 1 ...

News from August 7, 2008

• RedPrairie's warehouse manager to use RFID
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  The system supports the use of RFID technology, as well as 2-D barcodes and other AIDC technologies to help track inventory and assets within the ...
• RuBee suggested as alternative to RFID
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  Unlike RFID, which generally becomes line-of-sight in harsh environments, RuBee is volumetric - its signals are unaffected by steel, water or living ...
• Fresh Warehousing Selected as St Louis Area Material Handler for ...
  PR Web (press release) - Ferndale, WA, USA
  Fresh Warehousing has been selected by iGPS to handle RFID for Cott Beverages and Dial RFID to support iGPS (Intelligent Global Pooling System) RFID ...
• Review: Aluratek's Tornado Drive Swirls Bits Into RFID Territory
  CRN - Manhasset, NY, USA
  And if the 480 Mbps USB 2.0 transfer speed doesn't impressive you, the radio frequency identification (RFID) data encryption might just win over its ...
• RFID Study Evaluates Item-Level Retail Performance
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  By John Burnell Retailers can achieve very good RFID read rates for typical item-level tagging applications, but performance can vary widely depending on ...
• RFID Helps ZF Speed Transmission Shipments
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  The RFID application improves the shipping process by reducing the time required for handling containers. Now the company is performing tests to determine ...
• TWN3 Multi-Format RFID Reader: Easy to Integrate While Offering ...
  die-news.de - Solingen, Germany
  Munich (Germany), 6 August 2008 – Elatec Vertriebs GmbH has expanded its TWN3 RFID reader line to five models. In addition to the TWN3 reader with LEGIC® ...
• TWN3 Multi-Format RFID Reader: Easy to Integrate While Offering ...
  PresseBox (Pressemitteilung)(Abonnement) - Karlsruhe, Germany
  (pressebox) Munich, 06.08.2008 - Elatec Vertriebs GmbH has expanded its TWN3 RFID reader line to five models. In addition to the TWN3 reader with LEGIC ...
• LCWaikiki of Turkey Implements Alien(R) RFID Solution for Garment ...
  MarketWatch - USA
  As a result of the STS/Alien RFID garment tagging project, LCWaikiki has been able to markedly improve efficiency in stocktaking and stock transfer and ...
• RFID expert group releases tyre quality guidelines
  European Rubber Journal (subscription) - London, UK
  Warrendale, Pennsylvania -- AIM Global, the RFID trade association has released its RFID Guideline REG 396, titled, RFID chips and transponders ...

News from August 6, 2008

• REG completes verification procedures for RFID for tires
  RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  The guidelines were put together by the RFID Experts Group and are expected to help the entire industry in developing new RFID technology to be used with ...
• ThingMagic.com offers RFID development kits
  RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  ThingMagic, a developer of RFID technologies, has announced a variety of different RFID kits available for purchase from their Web site. ...
• Thai Researchers Study RFID for Managing Prawns and Other Food Fish
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  The team released preliminary results of trials examining the use of RFID to monitor broodstock—cultured species that are kept separate for breeding. ...
• UHF Gen 2 RFID Reader with Integrated Antenna Offered by GAO RFID
  PR-USA.net (press release) - Varna, Bulgaria
  Toronto, Canada - GAO RFID now offers a Gen 2 RFID reader/writer with an integrated antenna that is an ideal solution for both single and dual antenna ...
• Fluensee Acquires TrenStar's RFID Software
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  Fluensee will integrate TrenStar's software with its own software solutions that integrate RFID, sensors and other input technologies for asset tracking. ...
• RFID technology maker Sirit widens Q2 loss to $2.2 million from ...
  The Canadian Press - Toronto
  During the quarter, Sirit completed the acquisition of RSI ID Technologies Inc., a manufacturer of antennas, inlays and tags for specialized, passive RFID ...
• IT Channel Seeing Growth in RFID Projects, CompTIA Survey Reveals
  PR Web (press release) - Ferndale, WA, USA
  The worldwide survey of 155 IT companies found that 46 percent of their customers have implemented one or more RFID solutions, either as pilot projects or ...
• UA Study Shows Promise for Item-level Use of RFID in Retail
  ArkansasSports360.com - Little Rock, AR, USA
  By Arkansas Business Staff Researchers say a new study by the RFID Research Center at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville shows further promise for ...
• ThingMagic.com Online Store Delivers RFID to a Wide Variety of ...
  MarketWatch - USA
  Each kit provides a complete RFID reader software and hardware solution for testing, prototyping and developing embedded, mobile, portable and handheld RFID ...
• The RFID Experts Group (REG) Completes Work On Verification
  Data Collection Online (press release) - PA, USA
  "This RFID guideline is an important step in developing a comprehensive look at RFID tag quality," states Dan Mullen, president, AIM Global. ...

News from August 5, 2008

• RFID and Financial Transactions: Will Mobile Phones Replace ...
  Rfid.org - Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  Some consumers are leery of RFID and contactless cards. They see mobile devices as a better option since they can choose whether or not to enable them with ...
• Report Supports UHF RFID for New Zealand Animal Tracking RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  A pilot project in New Zealand generated strong evidence that ultrahigh frequency (UHF) RFID technology is better suited to livestock tagging in that ...
• DAILY RFID unveils jewelry tag
  RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  DAILY RFID has announced the launch of their new RFID Jewelry Tag, designed to enable automatic jewelry tracking in retail, wholesale, or secured storage ...
• SMARTRAC to supply RFID inlays for Cairo Metro card
  RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  SMARTRAC NV has announced its selection as supplier of RFID inlay to the Cairo Metro’s contactless transit card project. SMARTTRAC’s PRELAM inlays will ...
• The Booming Business of Active RFID and RTLS
  Supply & Demand Chain Executive - Gilbert, AZ, USA
  By Dr. Peter Harrop Cambridge, MA — August 4, 2008 — The radio frequency identification (RFID) business will quintuple in value in the next ten years but ...
• Packaging industry discusses merits of bar codes v RFID
  ComputerWeekly.com - UK
  The latest edition of Packaging News has an interesting discussion on the merits of RFID against the use of bar codes. For now, it concludes that, ...
• MIKOH Launches Smart&Secure Warehouse
  MarketWatch - USA
  As RFID adoption grows, the threat of inventory theft and tampering multiplies due to increased process automation and decreased manual interaction and ...
• RFID And Other AIDC Technologies Track Inventory And Assets From
  RFID Solutions Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  The system supports the use of RFID, 2-D barcodes and other AIDC technologies to track inventory and assets within the distribution center, ...
• Securing China for the Olympics and beyond
  United Press International, Asia - Hong Kong, USA
  China is also using well-established technologies like radio frequency identification (RFID) and global positioning systems (GPS) to track the movement of ...
• DAILY RFID Jewelry Tag to track the market communities
  Fibre2fashion.com - Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
  DAILY RFID recently announced availability of their RFID Jewelry Tag designed to automatic Jewelry tracking to market communities, secured storing and other ...

News from August 4, 2008

• HF Metal Tag-05,the RFID Tag for Mount-on-Metal tagging
  TechRepublic - Louisville, KY, USA
  We specialize in producing arguably the world's most extensive line of RFID Tag,RFID Label,Smart Card and RFID Reader, which are suitable for any vertical ...
• RFID's the ticket for secure Games
  EETimes.com - USA
  The bright lights will also shine on high-tech ticketing and food-tracking systems built on radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology. ...
• Innovation stars hit the world stage
  EETimes.com - USA
  ... weather forecasting, surveillance and security, RFID-enabled tickets and the latest drug-testing gadgets will be vindicated on and off the fields. ...
• Tracking a Shopper's Habits
  MIT Technology Review - Cambridge, MA, USA
  Getting better data about product sales was a big reason why retailers like Wal-Mart and Target pushed radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, ...
• Logica and Kortenburg demo aviation RFID
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  Logica and Kortenburg showed an airworthy and ATA (Air Transport Association) compliant RFID-Tag at the Berlin Air Show. The tags were on the DLR aircraft ...
• INDIA: RFID tags ready for use in apparel retailing
  BharatTextile.com (subscription) - Mumbai, India
  (Did you know that the most recent figures show that New Zealand's imports totaled $14.3 billion?) (In recent years, Turkey's share of global cotton ...
• Vijay Kumar pioneers RFID tag manufacturing in India
  Economic Times - Gurgaon, Haryana, India
  As a result, the company has leapfrogged the tech evolution process and now makes, among other things, RFID tags deployed by the Malaysian police to track ...
• RFID World 2008
  Contactless News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  The Industry's First RFID Event invites you to our biggest, broadest conference and exhibition yet! The first RFID event to bring you Walmart’s Linda ...
• Daily RFID releases latest jewellery tag
  Merinews - New Delhi, India
  Daily RFID has launched radio-frequency identification jewellery tag for automatic jewellery tracking to market communities and secured storing. ...

News from August 3, 2008

• Advanced ID Partners with Brazil Distributor
  Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles, CA, USA
  According to Fabio Pinto, the managing executive of AIDO BR, "We are excited to strengthen our capabilities for the penetration of the RFID market in Brazil ...
• RFID - "not a patch on barcodes" say retailers
  newswireless.net - London, UK
  We have some RFID activity in the UK, but it's only a handful of projects." Domino, of course, is a booster of RFID, being one of the major players in the ...
• USA: Avery Dennison President To Address RFID
  BharatTextile.com (subscription) - Mumbai, India
  Dean A. Scarborough, president and chief executive officer of Avery Dennison Corporation, will host a special presentation and discussion during the RFID in ...
• RFID Jewelry Tag
  PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien, Austria
  2008-08-02 09:52:24 - DAILY RFID ( www.rfid-in-china.com ) recently announced availability of their RFID Jewelry Tag designed to automatic Jewelry tracking ...