September 2 - 8, 2007

News from September 8, 2007

• Wal-Mart And RFID: How High Should I Jump?
  InformationWeek - Manhasset, NY, USA
  So it goes with Wal-Mart's RFID mandate. In August 2003, the world's largest retailer announced that it would require all suppliers to put RFID tags with ...
• Complete RFID Compliance Solution: RFID Mandates
  RFID Solutions Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  The Complete RFID Compliance Solution will enable you to comply with the mandates defined by the Department of Defense and WalMart. ...
• Finnish Parking Pilot Taps RFID Tags and NFC Phones
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  7, 2007--The Finnish city of Oulu, together with RFID system integrator ToP Tunniste, has begun piloting a parking system on streets and in garages that ...
• Dutch Agency Employs RFID to Track Social Services
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  By Rhea Wessel Sept. 7, 2007--Dutch social services provider Werk aan de Wijk is employing NFC-enabled cell phones as mobile point-of-sale (POS) terminals. ...
• Genus Overseas launches RFID based smart card Pre Paid meter
  Equity Bulls - Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
  Genus Overseas Electronics Ltd has announced that it has come out with a RFID based contactless smart card Pre Paid meter, which has distinct advantages ...
• Did Radio (Waves) Kill The Biometric Star?
  eWeek - New York, NY
  Mobile payments also added to the biometric problem, although the mobile payment approach of an RFID chip embedded inside a phone really turns that phone ...
• China is Making Great Effort to Develop RFID
  NetworkWorld.com - Southborough, MA, USA
  China, Ministry of Information Industry recently revealed that China would expand the scale and number of its RFID pilots in the near future. ...
• Intermec Small Rigid Tag: Passive RFID Tags
  RFID Solutions Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  Intermec's Small Rigid Tag (SRT) is a truly passive UHF RFID tag designed for superior performance on a variety of surfaces. The tag available in both EPC ...

News from September 7, 2007

• Calif. Makes Another Run at RFID Regulation
  eWeek - New York, NY
  By Renee Boucher Ferguson Legislation to ban forced implantation of RFID chips in humans is on Schwarzenegger's desk and could impact other states' plans. ...
• Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Symposium to be Held at Baylor
  Baylor University - Waco, TX, USA
  By Megan McClane From September 27-28, 2007, Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business will conduct the third-annual "RFID Integrated Supply Chains" ...
• RF Technologies, OSI Integrate RFID-Generated Alerts With Telephony
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  For instance, if a nursing home patient, or a resident at a senior-care facility, presses an RFID-enabled call button for help, an alert appears on a pager. ...
• Smart Card Alliance Says No to Long-Range RFID Choice for Enhanced ...
  Market Wire (press release) - USA
  Even as manufacturers of RFID, the Alliance attests to the fact that long-range RFID, the most likely technology to be selected by DHS, is an inappropriate ...
• RFID Streamlines Slab Logistics, Opening The Way For Significant
  IT Reseller Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  Evidence of this activity is all around us in the form of barcoded products, and more recently, products bearing radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. ...
• NEC Claims First Multi-Frequency, Multi-Protocol RFID Device
  eWeek - New York, NY
  6 that it developed the world's first RFID device that can read and write tag data in the three most common RFID frequencies, it gave a boost for today's ...
• RFID: A Business Revolution Providing Strategic and Competitive
  Computerworld - Framingham, MA, USA
  (Source: AT&T) Advancements in radio frequency identification technology are causing big changes in supply chain management. ...
• RFID Solutions: Securing the Commerce of Tomorrow -- Oct. 10
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  A premiere event at the new CMP TechMash Boston, RFID World Boston brings together the foremost luminaries on RFID technology and implementation to discuss ...
• RFID News Roundup
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  The profile's objective is to enable users of RFID technology to more easily install and integrate readers into networks in such applications as factory ...

News from September 6, 2007

• BlueStar Adds Additional epcSolutions RFID Software to Product Catalog
  HULIQ - Hickory, NC, USA
  BlueStar is expanding its epcSolutions distribution agreement to now include all the company's RFID software products. Florence, KY, and Great Falls, ...
• Airbus to Present Case Study at RFID Journal Live! Europe
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  5, 2007--RFID Journal announced today that Carlo K. Nizam, head of value-chain visibility and RFID at Airbus, will deliver a keynote address at RFID Journal ...
• RFID Readers Get Boost With Bluetooth
  InformationWeek - Manhasset, NY, USA
  The pen-sized IDBlue can be used as a stylus and has enough data storage capacity to read thousands of RFID tags without linking to a computer. ...
• Med Distributor Converts to Gen2 RFID for Item Tracking
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  A Spanish medical products distributor is equipping its warehouses to track all the products it handles by RFID. MBA Grupo , which distributes orthopedic ...
• Fear Over Forced RFID Tagging
  Tech Insider - Washington, DC, USA
  Last week the California Senate passed by a 28-9 vote a bill to ban the implantation of a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag in anyone who objects to ...
• Beyond the tag: Finding RFID value in manufacturing
  Reliable Plant Magazine - Tulsa, OK, USA
  Radio frequency identification (RFID) has always been considered a forward-looking technology. Today, most of the focus is on how emerging Electronic ...

News from September 5, 2007

• CA Senate Passes RFID Tagging Bill
  Technology News Daily - Scottsdale, AZ, USA
  RFID "tags" are tiny chips with miniature antennae that can be embedded in almost anything. Using radio waves, RFID can help identify and track people, ...
• California Passes Bill To Ban Forced RFID Tagging
  InformationWeek - Manhasset, NY, USA
  Simitian calls forced "tagging" of humans with RFID chips the ultimate invasion of privacy. By KC Jones California legislators want to prohibit people from ...
• Hong Kong Shoppers Use RFID-enabled Mirror to See What They Want
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  4, 2007--Upscale fashion label and retailer Mi-Tu has outfitted two of its Hong Kong shops with RFID-enabled mirrors and electronic displays. ...
• HEI, Inc. Closes on Sale of RFID Division Assets
  CNNMoney.com - USA
  4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- HEI, Inc. announced today that it has closed on the sale of substantially all of the assets of its RFID division to Smartrac ...
• US state bans forced RFID tagging of humans
  VNUNet.com - UK
  The California state Senate has approved legislation to bar employers from forcing workers to have RFID chips implanted under their skin. ...
• Motorola on Aviation Adoption of RFID
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  The aviation industry has long been considered a prime candidate for RFID adoption. RFID Update spoke with Pankaj Shukla, director of RFID business ...

News from September 4, 2007

• University hospital installs RFID to track inventory
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  DMC Harper University Hospital in Detroit, USA, will implement an RFID-enabled inventory management system to store, track, and manage the utilisation of ...
• RFID Tags: The End of American Common Sense?
  North Star Writers Group - Grand Rapids, MI, USA
  These tiny transmitters, known as radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, pop into the news from time to time, always accompanied by much hand-wringing ...
• California Blocks Mandatory ID Implants in Employees
  DailyTech - Chicago, IL, USA
  Radio Frequency ID chip-maker VeriChip's slogan is "RFID for people." The company grabbed headlines in October 2004 when it gained FDA approval for its ...
• 'Promiscuous' RFID a data threat , warns Privacy watchdog
  Computerworld New Zealand - Auckland, New Zealand
  By Randal Jackson Auckland | Monday, 3 September, 2007 In a keynote address to last week's Privacy Awareness Week opening forum, she said although RFID ...
• Blog: The internet's lost luggage department
  New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
  However, if my bag had a RFID (radio frequency identification) tag on it, all it would take to find it is for someone to drive through the baggage handling ...
• Active RFID used in tracking laptops launched
  Hindu - Chennai, India
  3 (PTI): Orizin Technologies Pvt Ltd, a leading provider of RFID solutions, having its Indian operations in Mysore, today announced the launch of Active ...
• California Blocks RFID Implants In Workers
  Slashdot - USA
  InternetVoting writes "California has passed a bill banning companies from requiring employees to have RFID chips surgically implanted. ...
• Health barcodes cheaper, safer than RFID, says author
  Computerworld New Zealand - Auckland, New Zealand
  Some experts, such as IBM partner Bill Doak, have advocated RFID as a state-of-the-art tool for patient identification. However, report author Bruce ...

News from September 3, 2007

No news available.

News from September 2, 2007

• IIIT organises a program on RFID Technology
  Merinews - India
  It was conceived by its MD & CEO, Mr. Ashim A Patil, as an initiative to have more trained and certified RFID resources in India . ...