September 30 - October 6

News from October 6, 2007

• Tracient Handheld RFID Reader Ideal For Apparel
  RFID Solutions Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  Tracient Technologies' handheld RFID readers are being used in an apparel stocktaking application in Singapore. SeeNow Pte Ltd, an RFID solutions provider, ...
• Atlas RFID Solutions Automotive Manufacturing Technology Solution
  RFID Solutions Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  RFID can automate the process of managing inventory real-time and verify correct component assemblies. Through real-time visibility of inventory and ...
• USA : Chamber to discuss Future of RFID technology on Oct 10
  Fibre2fashion.com - India
  The US Chamber of Commerce will hold an informational summit that will address the future of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology at the Ronald ...
• Intermec IF61 Enterprise Reader: Smart RFID Reader
  RFID Solutions Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  In order for RFID readers to do more than simply read and act as a data conduit, they need processing speed and ample memory. With the powerful combination ...
• Wal-Mart, Sam's Club Pushes RFID Further Along
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  Rather than just rolling the technology out across the company, she explained, Wal-Mart is concentrating on using RFID to improve specific business ...
• RFID Helps the Blind
  RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  Now, we're hearing about all kinds of ways the technology known as RFID can help others. The TellMate, a scanner and label reader, uses RFID tags that can ...
• Dillard's Announces Item-Level RFID Pilot
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  US retailer Dillard's this week announced the initiation of an item-level RFID pilot program at a number of its stores. The announcement is light on details ...

News from October 5, 2007

• HP pushes RFID adoption
  eChannelLine - North York, Ontario, Canada
  HP has unveiled new Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, including software and services to facilitate integration with RFID solutions from SAP ...
• EPCglobal Certifies EPCIS Software, Foresees Stronger RFID Adoption
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  By Mary Catherine O'Connor and Beth Bacheldor Oct. 4, 2007—Deploying RFID technology using the Electronic Product Code (EPC) infrastructure of hardware and ...
• RFID history goes back 60 years
  Holmen Courier - Holmen, WI, USA
  Throughout the 1950s and '60s, research in the United States, Japan and Europe helped to advance RFID technology, and companies began selling antitheft ...
• BlueBean RFID Simple Dock Door Solution Kit
  DC Velocity - North Attleboro, MA, USA
  Designed for companies interested in using RFID to manage inventory and track assets through the supply chain, the BlueBean RFID Simple Dock Door Solution ...
• Pramari Announces Open Source RFID Simulation Product
  Earthtimes.org - New Zealand
  Built in collaboration with the University of Arkansas and other leading RFID organizations, Rifidi Designer marks the first product providing an end to end ...
• Radio-Frequency Identification Tags, Smart Tags, RFID, Security...
  Newswise (press release) - USA
  "The key innovation is applying the technology to RFID tags, since they're such tiny devices with very small memories." RFID tags are already used in ...
• Wal-Mart's Faltering RFID Initiative
  Slashdot - USA
  itphobe writes "Baseline magazine has up an in-depth look at Wal-Mart's years-old RFID initiative. Things apparently haven't gone so well for the retail ...
• Dillard's Announces Pilot RFID Tagging Program
  Today's THV - Little Rock, AR, USA
  Dillard's Inc. says it will start a pilot program this month using radio frequency identification, widely known as RFID, tagging of items for sale in its ...

News from October 4, 2007

• Savi and Comtech 'RFID-GPS-SATCOM' System Orders Surpass 10000 ...
  CNNMoney.com - USA
  for more than 6000 Savi active Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) reader modules. This order, announced here today at the EPC Connections Conference, ...
• NXP unveils smarter UHF label RFID chips
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  The new chips provide scalable EPC numbers up to 240 bits, offering flexibility when using RFID in multiple applications requiring different EPC codes and ...
• RFID Action Heats Up
  Motley Fool - USA
  According to RFID Update, Microsoft's entry into the RFID field was a "watershed moment" because it was purported to lower the cost of implementing an RFID ...
• RFID Printer Maker Printronix Acquired for $108M
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  Printronix, a leading manufacturer of RFID smart label printer/encoders, plus thermal label and impact printers, announced yesterday it is being acquired ...
• Aionex Adopts SkyeTek's Embedded RFID Solution to Ensure Patient ...
  Earthtimes.org - USA
  Aionex is leveraging SkyeTek's M1 HF SkyeModule to RFID-enable emergency rooms, operating rooms, and intensive care units. The readers provide Aionex's ...
• Alien Tech expands training courses in RFID technology
  Dayton Daily News (subscription) - Dayton, OH, USA
  By Staff reports SPRINGBORO — — Alien Technology Corp. is expanding the training courses and professional training offered at its RFID Solutions Center, ...
• Reva Systems Debuts Turnkey EPCIS Event Reporting Enabling ...
  Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA, USA
  EPCIS is a ratified EPCglobal standard designed to facilitate RFID data sharing between organizations within enterprises and across trading partner ...
• Dillard's to test RFID
  Home Textiles Today - New York, NY, USA
  The RFID-enabled will function like a barcode and contain only the Electronic Product Code unique to each garment. The tags are designed to be removed at ...

News from October 3, 2007

• Standards-Based Active RFID Products From Savi Certified by ...
  CNNMoney.com - USA
  The certifications pave the way for further global expansion of Savi's active RFID networks, which automatically monitor the location, security and ...
• HP Canada Partners With Universities to Create RFID Labs
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  By Claire Swedberg Oct. 2, 2007—HP Canada's RFID Customer Experience Center, located at the company's headquarters in Mississauga, Ontario, attracts several ...
• RFID item-level tagging takes a step forward
  MMH.com - Newton, MA, USA
  First, it represents a trend away from technology-based approach to RFID and toward a solutions-based approach, one that involves multiple vendors coming ...
• Alien Unveils New RFID Tags, Readers, And Strategy
  InformationWeek - Manhasset, NY, USA
  By Mary Hayes Weier Alien Technology introduced new RFID tags and readers on Tuesday, along with a new strategy: focus more on the opportunity for ...
• RFID Tags: Introducing New Pipeline RFID Tags For Harsh
  RFID Solutions Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  William Frick & Company Building on its long relationship with the Gas/Water Pipeline industry, William Frick & Co. has expanded its SmartMark RFID offering ...
• IBM Advances Use of Open Standards in RFID Solutions
  CNNMoney.com - USA
  In a separate development, GS1 EPCglobal has certified the IBM WebSphere RFID Information Center version 1.1 as fully compliant with the EPCIS standards for ...
• Ascom launches RFID-based 'Nurse Call' system
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  ... of on-site wireless communication throughout Europe and North America, has launched a new nurse call system with positioning technology using RFID tags. ...

News from October 2, 2007

• Another Day, Another RFID Trial
  New York Times - United States
  Will Smith's useful daily RFID Update drew my attention last week to a recent press press release that won't do anything to ease their concerns. ...
• New RFID Technologies Announced at RFID World Boston Design News - Newton, MA, USA
  BY THIS AUTHOR RFID technologists, distributors and thinkers from around the world joined together last week at RFID World in Boston, MA. ...
• RFID struggles in battle over bogus drugs
  EETimes.com - USA
  The electronics industry has been counting on RFID's adoption as the antidote to drug counterfeiting. But legal wrangling and federal foot-dragging, ...
• iPallet: new intelligent pallet speaks RFID language
  FreshPlaza - Netherlands
  Thanks to the RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) technology, iPallet is able to communicate with the whole firm's logistics. Inserting a little RFID ...
• Comtech wins $605m US Army RFID, GPS contract
  Computer Business Review - UK
  View Article The deal includes Comtech's MT-2012 mobile satellite transceivers that have global positioning system and embedded RFID technologies, ...
• RFID in Singapore
  RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  The company A*STAR is pushing ahead with efforts to help Singapore firms adopt RFID technology, according to news reports. Four agreements signed on ...
• Project lays RFID groundwork
  Australian IT - Australia
  The project did not mean the company was moving to RFID in the supply chain yet, he said. Instead the main focus of the system would be security. ...
• Avalign Becomes an RFID Channel Partner
  RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  Illinois company Avalign Technologies, Inc., a medical device outsourcing company, announced today its agreement to become a "Channel Partner" for the RFID ...
• OMRON Expands RFID UHF EPC Gen2 Inlay Product Range
  Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA, USA
  The 'Scorpion', designed to seize the growing section of the RFID tag market that demands long read range in a compact form factor, is scheduled for launch ...
• RFID Compliance in Retail Supply Chain Follows Bar Code Trajectory ...
  Supply Chain Digest - Dayton, OH, USA
  Wal-Mart's RFID initiative over the past three years? No, it's Kmart's bar code compliance program of the early 1990s. The parallels between today's RFID ...

News from October 1, 2007

• Advanced ID signs Malaysian RFID tyre inspection deal
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  Advanced ID reports that, in Malaysia, Kit Loong has signed an exclusive three year commitment contract for its RFID and Pneu-Logic tyre inspection products ...
• Business As Unusual
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY,
  USA RFID is a growing part of monitoring the flow of cargo and people, including port employees and truck drivers. Regardless of how you may be using RFID in ...
• RFID for Everyone
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  By Elgar Fleisch and Thorsten Staake As RFID becomes ubiquitous in various industries, the efficiencies it brings to supply chains will extend to other ...
• The Buck Starts With CEOs
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  It seems strange to me that people could still be unaware major players are getting significant benefits from RFID technologies today. ...
• Intelleflex launches new RFID tag for metals & liquids
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  Intelleflex has announced the availability of its new SMT-7100 RFID tag with high performance even when near metals, liquids and other materials that can ...
• Organic Growth: Conference Tries Printed RFID Tags
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  The recently concluded Organic Electronics Conference in Germany successfully trialed a new line of printed RFID tags on its event tickets. ...

News from September 30, 2007

• Arphid Watch: Recalling RFID conference
  Wired Blogs - USA
  RFID (radio frequency identification) uses radio waves to identify people, animals or objects carrying encoded microchips. For government and industry, ...
• RFID visas soon for visitors to Malaysia
  Malaysia Star - Malaysia
  Immigration director-general Datuk Wahid Md Don said the chip-based visa using the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) microchips would contain the ...
• The Eyes Have It
  Outlook (subscription) - New Delhi, India
  Under the project, the government will tag its assets and files with Radio Frequency Identity (RFID) tags or barcodes that can be read with hand-held ...