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August 10 - 16, 2008
News from August 16, 2008
- Retailers See RFID's Potential to Fight Shrinkage
RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
15, 2008—A growing number of retailers are beginning to see RFID as a tool not only for improved product visibility, but also for preventing product ...
- Jones Apparel Group Plans RFID Pilot in Nine West Stores
RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
Jones also wants to monitor how well the RFID tags and readers will function, even during peak business hours. At one of the company's distribution centers, ...
- Intermec Large Rigid Tags: Passive RFID Tags
RFID Solutions Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
Intermec's Large Rigid tag is a truly passive UHF RFID transponder that delivers superior performance on a variety of surfaces including plastic, wood, ...
- RFID Asset Tracking
RFID Solutions Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
Venture Research Inc's Registration and Tracking systems (RTS) employ the state of the art in 915MHz (UHF) technology but are backward compatible with 13.56 ...
- Alien Technology CEO forecasts rapid growth
RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
Speaking at an RFID conference in Fargo, North Dakota, Alien Technology CEO George Everhart offered a look at his company’s recent growth spurt and ...
- Turkish Retailer Uses Hybrid EAS-RFID Tags to Stop Theft, Improve ...
RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
By Beth Bacheldor The system, designed by Turkish RFID systems integrator STS Technology, hinges on the Sarfid Hard Tag, developed by STS, which consists of ...
- MiFare RFID crack more extensive than previously thought
Computerworld - Framingham, MA, USA
April 15, 2008 (Computerworld) The ubiquitous MiFare Classic RFID chip -- used daily by millions worldwide in access control keys, subway passes and other ...
- News Briefs
Computerworld - Framingham, MA, USA
The companies will use their RFID expertise to promulgate the EPC Class 1 Generation 2 specification known as Gen2. Their plan calls for Philips to provide ...
- AFCEA International Announces Strategic Partnership With RFID4U
Eworldwire (press release) - Succasunna, NJ, USA
RFID Technology Basics helps students understand the fundamentals of RFID technology and provides an overview of RFID hardware, including different types of ...
- Datalogic Mobile
ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release) - New York, NY, USA
Wavelink's technology solves the unique challenges involved in deploying, managing and controlling auto-ID data collection (AIDC) systems and RFID, ...
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News from August 15, 2008
- UPM Raflatac Teams with International Coding Technologies to ...
MoreRFID (press release) - TX, USA
International Coding Technologies, Inc. (ICT) has developed a revolutionary wireless RFID solution for the concrete industry. ...
- iDTRONIC Releases New Compact Flash UHF RFID Reader
MoreRFID (press release) - TX, USA
The new Compact Flash UHF Reader/Writer from iDTRONIC supports the full UHF frequency band from 860 - 960 MHz. It has been designed and developed to allow ...
- IT Resellers, Systems Integrators Still Face RFID-Related Hurdles
RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
14, 2008—Although most IT resellers, systems integrators, distributors and consultants do not currently offer RFID products and services, that's likely to ...
- Sam's Club RFID compliance webinar announced
UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
epcSolutions, an RFID compliance solutions provider to suppliers of Wal-Mart and Sam's Club, has announced that it will be offering a free web-based ...
- Axcess International Reports Second Quarter 2008 Results
MarketWatch - USA
New Micro-Wireless Technology Called Dot(TM) Continues as World's Only FCC Approved Hybrid Passive and Active RFID/RTLS Solution. ...
- RFID News Roundup
RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
Removable data storage provider Imation has incorporated passive ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) RFID technology into its tape-tracking system to help its ...
- Security Expert Says RFID Tracking Is Here To Stay, But Not in ...
Wired News - USA
Gadgets under consideration include RFID tagging and tracking of luggage, and a 'non-invasive' personal RFID chip (in the form of a card or pin for the ...
- ADT introduces RFID key fob
RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
ADT is using RFID technology to make home security simpler, or at least reduce the number of passwords cluttering consumers’ minds. The security company has ...
- Diamond Management and Technology Consultants Presents a White ...
Enterprise Management Quarterly - Chicago, Illinois, USA
While the benefits of RFID may still appear out of reach, it is important to stay focused on future gains. Compliance mandates by retailers over the past ...
- Cambridge firm runs the rule over booming business of Active RFID ...
Business Weekly - UK
The RFID business is quintupling in value in the next 10 years but the Active RFID business is growing about ten times, driven by such business as the $475 ...
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News from August 14, 2008
- NXP Teams with RF-iT Solutions for RFID-enabled Anti-theft ...
MoreRFID (press release) - TX, USA
RFID is already being used successfully in anti-theft applications, ranging from car immobilization to theft control of DVDs in retail. ...
- AIM Global Hosts Executive Event at RFID World
MoreRFID (press release) - TX, USA
Leading analysts from IDTechEX and Robert W. Baird will deliver market perspectives; European board member, Frithjof Walk will give a presentation on RFID ...
- Tata Interactive Systems Wins APEX Award
MoreRFID (press release) - TX, USA
Global e-learning Provider, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) Wins an APEX Award for its Web-based Training Program on RFID. The RFID on the Web program ...
- Italian RFID Lab Gets Fashion-Forward
RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
13, 2008—The RFID Lab at Italy's University of Parma> has been attracting an haute couture crowd. In fact, a representative from Dolce & Gabbana has joined ...
- Nine wireless companies to watch
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough, MA, USA
This year we find that smartphone accessories are all the rage, while RFID improvements and keeping energy costs down are but a couple of the leading ...
- ADT boosts home security with RFID keyfob
UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
With a simple wave of a small RFID-enabled key-tag at the alarm's touch pad, the ADT home security system can now be activated or disarmed. ...
- Rfidium Announces New "Leprechaun" Stock RFID for Box and Pallet ...
Industrial Embedded Systems (press release) - St Clair Shores, MI, USA
by Don Dingee Sunnyvale, CA – August 12, 2008 – Rfidium, the complete design, prototyping and production RFID antenna inlay provider, announced today the ...
- Arphid Watch: In Your Underwear
Wired News - USA
The conference features two days of speeches and events to advance apparel-industry uses for controversial Radio Frequency Identification or RFID technology ...
- UK theme park offers RFID-enabled memories
RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
With the help of RFID-enabled wristbands and a system of video cameras, UK amusement park Alton Towers is offering its patrons personalized videos ...
- New Multifrequency HF/LF Industrial Handheld computer for ...
openPR (press release) - Hamburg, Germany
(openPR) - Moers, 13.08.2008 The RFID expert company TECTUS expands their RFID handheld reader portfolio and reacts with it on many customer requests for a ...
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News from August 13, 2008
- Turkish retailer rolls out RFID garment tagging
UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
LCWaikiki is a fast-growing apparel retailer and, as a result of the RFID garment tagging project, the company has been able to significantly improve ...
- Outdoor Clothing and Equipment Retailer Tests RFID-EAS Tags
RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
The tag, which UPM Raflatac unveiled in 2007, functions as a passive EPC Gen 2 UHF RFID tag, as well as a security tag that alerts retail store employees ...
- iDTRONIC Releases the New Compact Flash UHF RFID Reader as the ...
Newswire Today (press release) - London, UK
NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Ludwigshafen, Pfalz, Germany, 08/12/2008 - iDTRONIC, a leading supplier of RFID hardware solutions, announced today the ...
- Jones Apparel Group Commences Item-Level RFID Pilot in Select Nine ...
SmartBrief - Washington, DC, USA
11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Jones Apparel Group, Inc. today announced that it has initiated a program to evaluate Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) ...
- Daily RFID - New low-cost RFID tags ring the changes
Electropages (press release) - Poole, England, UK
A new 13.56MHz RFID Tag, from Daily RFID, China, is a 28mm by 12mm square tag engineered to provide a read range from 70mm to 100mm basing on a normal ...
- "USB Stick" RFID Reader Debuts
RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
"We're in the zone between higher-end industrial readers and lower-end mobile devices," BrightCard founder and president David Finkelstein told RFID Update. ...
- Nine West pilots item-level RFID
Retail Customer Experience - Louisville, KY, USA
NEW YORK — Jones Apparel Group Inc. announced that it has initiated a program to evaluate RFID technology in select Nine West retail locations. ...
- RFID News: CompTIA Research Shows Channels for RFID Still Immature
Supply Chain Digest - Dayton, OH, USA
As RFID has in general failed to meet the growth expectations many predicted a few years ago, the lack of reseller and systems integrator support likely ...
- More IT companies adopting RFID
Logistics Management - Newton, MA, USA
More information technology companies are jumping on the RFID bandwagon, lured by a greater familiarity and affordability, according to a survey by the ...
- RFID due for an overhaul
FierceCIO - Washington, DC, USA
One of the topics that I had planned to write about on Friday has to do with RFID. So imagine my interest when I read about a lawsuit filed by the ...
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News from August 12, 2008
- 2008-08-11 22:57:02 - Global RFID Market Analysis till 2010 - a ...
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien, Austria
Global RFID Market Analysis till 2010 discusses the global RFID industry rationally and helps clients to analyze the opportunities and factors critical to ...
- RFID Helps Car Wash Customers Cruise Through Lines
RFID Journal - Melville,NY,USA
11, 2008—Car-wash operator Cruz Thru Express is employing an RFID system it designed itself to automate the way it provides services to its customers. ...
- Eat an RFID-tagged Pill Before a Run, Prevent Over Heating
Wired Blogs - USA
But if a recent over-heating prevention study is any indication, you're going to have to add another item to that list: an RFID-enabled pill. ...
- Jones Apparel Group steps into item-level RFID
RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
The Jones Apparel Group has announced the launch of a pilot program testing the use of item-level RFID tracking in a number of its Nine West retail stores. ...
- Accusations of Anti-RFID Bias Are Deserved
RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
By Mark Roberti I received an e-mail from an editor at a Dutch health-care site who felt my recent editorial, Good and Bad News About RFID in Hospitals, ...
- Turkish Retailer Plans Big Item-Level RFID Expansion
RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
By John Burnell LCWaikiki , one of the largest apparel retailers in Turkey, is using RFID to track products at the item level at its flagship store in ...
- 2008-08-11 18:43:02 - RFID Industry Analysis 2006 - a new market ...
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien, Austria
RFID Industry Analysis 2006 provides a comprehensive discussion on the current trends, demand and revenue forecast, figures, business opportunities, ...
- Jones Apparel Group Commences Item-Level RFID Pilot in Select Nine ...
MarketWatch - USA
Retailer to utilize item-level RFID with state-of-the art solutions and support from Avery Dennison, inCode Wireless, Motorola, RFID Sherpas LLC and Vue ...
- Asset tracker: IT channel seeing growth in RFID projects
Manufacturing Business Technology - Oak Brook, IL, USA
Information technology (IT) channel companies say their customers are showing more interest in RFID technology. A worldwide survey of 155 IT companies ...
- Apparel RFID 2008-2018
Printed Electronics World (press release) - Cambridge, UK
Numerous apparel companies have reported increased sales of up to 20% using RFID to monitor shelf stock levels. It is now emerging as the first major ...
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News from August 11, 2008
- AIM unveils tyre RFID quality guidelines
UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
AIM Global has announced the public availability of its Global RFID Guideline entitled 'RFID chips and transponders - Verification and qualification of ...
- Ensuring RFID's Bottom Line Payoff
Data Collection Online (press release) - PA, USA
By Sato America, Inc. Whether a business leapt at the opportunity to become one of the first suppliers with RFID tagged products or now finds itself ...
- The multi-modal warehouse
MMH.com - Newton, MA, USA
End users now have a variety of technologies to choose from to execute the processes managed by a warehouse management system (WMS), including voice, RFID ...
- Judge zips MIT students lips on mass transit fare exploits
Ars Technica - Boston, MA, USA
Loopholes in fare card RFID chips and magnetic strips employed by many transit systems across the US are not unheard of, but three Massachusetts Institute ...
- RFID Bookshelf
RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
11, 2008—With a rapidly growing number of enterprises recognizing RFID's ability to track and monitor people and things, expedite shipments, ...
- SecureRF's National Science Foundation Grant for Secure RFID Tags ...
PR-CANADA.net (press release) - Murino, Montenegro
SecureRF, developer of the world's first linear-based security methods, was granted additional funds to create security protocols for UHF passive RFID tags ...
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News from August 10, 2008
- Two weeks of embarrassing passport news
Gadling - Santa Monice, CA, USA
RFID (radio frequency identification) chips in passports have been a hugely controversial issue. Ever since the first trials were conducted, ...
- Massachusetts sues to halt Defcon subway card hacking
CNET News - San Francisco, CA, USA
... attacks to completely break the CharlieCard," an RFID card that the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority uses on the Boston T subway line. ...
- GAO RFID Expands Portfolio to Include Identec Products
Free Press Release Center (press release) - Toronto, Canada
GAO RFID Inc., a leading provider of RFID solutions has added Identec Solutions?Intelligent Long Range Technology to its ever-expanding solutions portfolio. ...
- epcSolutions Offers Sam's Club RFID Compliance Training Webinar
PR.com (press release) - Levittown, NY, USA
Great Falls, VA, August 09, 2008 --(PR.com)-- epcSolutions, the leading RFID compliance solution provider to suppliers of Wal*Mart and Sam's Club with over ...
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