October 14 - 20

News from October 20, 2007

• A New Class Of Medical Products: Smart Connections With RFID
  Medical Design Online - Horsham, PA, USA
  Countless companies worldwide use Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) to improve internal efficiencies, adding to their value proposition and increasing ...
• More on the UK RFID EPCIS middleware pilot
  ComputerWeekly.com - UK
  ... more details of its proposed trial for EPCIS middleware which could help already RFID-aware organisations create and drive a business case for RFID. ...
• Aionex Adopts skyetek's Embedded RFID Solution to Ensure Patient ...
  MoreRFID (press release) - TX, USA
  skyetek, Inc., the leading provider of embedded RFID solutions, announced that Aionex has adopted skyetek's RFID reader technology to streamline delivery of ...
• Staples Business Depot Sees Positive Results from Active Tag Test
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  To do this, the retailer has been using intellitracker active RFID tags and readers, a proprietary system made by RFID systems provider absolutesky
• RFID News Roundup
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  One of five RFID-focused California state bills introduced by Senator Joe Simitian was signed into law at the close of the legislative calendar: Governor ...

News from October 19, 2007

• Building a Better RFID Reader
  bMighty.com - Manhasset, NY, USA
  By Naomi Grossman ThingMagic's Yael Macguire figured out how to get RFID tags to be read more easily and accurately. Now he believes there is nothing this ...
• Slow RFID Market Gets Microsoft Push
  CNNMoney.com - USA
  Many industry observers have been disappointed by the sluggish pace of RFID adoption. Backers preach patience, while saying Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) MSFT ...
• NAIT and Academia offer RFID training in Alberta
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  As part of the Fall 2007 schedule, students will have the opportunity to register for The Fundamentals of RFID as well as an RFID Return on Investment (ROI) ...
• Goodyear and NASCAR use RFID tags to track racing tires
  MMH.com - Newton, MA, USA
  The unique ID numbers in the RFID tags will help Goodyear keep track of the thousands of tires it leases to NASCAR racing teams, and they’ll also help ...
• RFID: A "State" of Mind
  Rfid.org - Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  There seems to be two different approaches to RFID adoption being taken by states these days. On the one hand, there are those states that seem to be saying ...
• OMRON RFID Announces Compatibility with Microsoft BizTalk Platform
  Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA, USA
  Omron’s V750 RFID reader product line supports a variety of global frequency bands including those specified for use in the United States, Japan and Korea. ...
• Tag, You're It
  TIME - USA
  Tiny radio frequency identification (RFID) computer chips with the needles used to implant them under the skin sit next to a dime for scale. ...
• RFID Implant Cancer Questions Concern Patients
  Web Services Journal - Montvale, NJ, USA
  Glass-encapsulated RFID transponders from companies like VeriChip are implanted under the skin. A special scanner must be used to reveal a 16-digit code ...
• RFID: Thinking Outside the Box, Part 2
  TechNewsWorld - Sherman Oaks, CA, USA
  By Andrew K. Burger "We don't see unique attributes of the SMB sector in terms of RFID usage. Both large and small companies are using RFID for many ...

News from October 18, 2007

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News from October 17, 2007

• Alien Races Into RFID Runner Tracking
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  RFID products and services provider Alien Technology has announced that its tags and readers will by deployed by Sweden's Racetimer, which organizes and ...
• IBM Uses RFID to Track Conference Attendees
  PC World - USA
  At its Information on Demand conference in Las Vegas, IBM is deploying RFID technology on name tags worn by attendees that automatically tracks their ...
• Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Runners Save Time By Using RFID ...
  Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA, USA
  Racetimer of Sweden, an Alien Technology Value Added Solutions Provider (VASP), has implemented RFID at race events around Europe to benefit more than two ...
• Today's RFID Update
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  RFID printer manufacturer Zebra has agreed to acquire Navis for $145 million. Headquartered in Oakland, California, Navis provides logistics solutions to ...
• Reproductive Clinic Uses RFID to Guarantee Parental Identity
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  Until the RFID system was deployed in September, Overlake, like other in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics, relied on the diligence of its employees to ...
• RFID tags help you to choose clothes
  ZDNet Blogs - USA
  A German department store, the Galeria Kaufhof in Essen, part of the Metro retailing group, is using RFID technology in a new way. ...
• CYBRA Teams with Solzon to Develop i5/OS RFID Software
  IT Jungle - New York, NY, USA
  by Alex Woodie IBM doesn't think i5/OS is an appropriate platform on which to develop a radio frequency identification (RFID) application, but that doesn't ...

News from October 16, 2007

• California Bans Forced RFID Implants For Humans
  InformationWeek - Manhasset, NY, USA
  A California state senator criticized the RFID industry for being AWOL on the issue and says they should have supported the legislation. ...
• Details of RFID World Asia 2008 announced
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  Now in its fifth year, RFID World Asia 2008 promises to be an event where over 3000 retail, CPG, supply chain and logistics, pharmaceutical, healthcare and ...
• Zebra Technologies to Acquire Navis
  CNNMoney.com - USA
  Our ability to combine software systems with integrated real-time RFID, RTLS and GPS asset identification will position Zebra as a more valued strategic ...
• California Law Bans Forced Human RFID Tagging
  eWeek - New York, NY
  By Renee Boucher Ferguson California's governor signs a bill that makes it illegal to require citizens to accept RFID implants. ...
• Wal-Mart's RFID Refresh
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  PC World reports on comments made by Ron Moser, Wal-Mart's RFID strategy leader, at the Taiwan International RFID Applications Show last week in Taipei. ...
• ISV Completes A $20000 RFID Install For An Electronics Manufacturer
  IT Reseller Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  This ISV (independent software vendor) expects to grow sales revenue by 20% in 2007 with the help of RFID (radio frequency identification) installations. ...
• Making sense of UWB RFID
  MMH.com - Newton, MA, USA
  RTLS systems use active and passive RFID technology to track the location of assets in a warehouse, factory, yard, port or even up and down a highway. ...
• Privacy Concerns Dog IT Efforts to Implement RFID
  Computerworld - Framingham, MA, USA
  At the same time, champions of the technology contend that not enough is being done to promote the value of RFID. For example, they say, it can be used to ...
• RFID Journal, AIM Europe Produce Auto-ID Seminar
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  Oct. 15, 2007—RFID Journal has announced a partnership with AIM Europe to produce a seminar for those seeking to understand how RFID and other ...
• The Four Pillars of RFID
  DMReview.com - New York, NY, USA
  By William McKnight RFID technology is conceptually easy to understand. So is data warehousing, and we know there's a lot to data warehousing. ...

News from October 15, 2007

• We Built This City on RFID
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  By Kevin Ashton Oct. 15, 2007—At the end of June, hundreds of people met in Berlin to discuss ways to make the European Union an economic center for RFID. ...
• China RFID Market Grew 23 Percent in Second Quarter of 2007
  RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  China's RFID market grew nearly 25 percent to reach the $1.076 billion mark in the second quarter of 2007, says Beijing market research firm Analysys ...
• How the non-Fonterras track and manage stock
  National Business Review - New Zealand
  It covers their key areas of interest - barcoding, radio frequency terminals and RFID [radio frequency identification]. "Sato was so impressed with what ...
• RFID: Thinking Outside the Box, Part 1
  CRM Buyer - USA
  By Andrew K. Burger "The most important issues to address in RFID today are education and ROI. RFID is a mystery to many industries at this point. ...
• Wal-Mart is Changing Its RFID Tune, Launching a New Set of Pilots
  Supply Chain Digest - Dayton, OH, USA
  The second two new pilot programs are clearly aimed at refocusing Wal-Mart's RFID efforts at programs that can have a more immediate and clear return for ...
• How to Select the Right RFID Tag
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  RFID tags contain a microchip and antenna, and come in a wide variety of sizes and form factors. Some are as small as a grain of rice and encased in glass, ...

News from October 14, 2007

• Behind Printronix Deal: RFID Bust, SOX Costs
  Orange County Business Journal - Irvine, CA, USA
  Radio frequency identification tags, known as RFID, use a chip and a tiny antenna to store and send information. The tags could be read by computers from a ...
• RFID EPCIS middleware pilot
  ComputerWeekly.com - UK
  The middleware required to enable RFID to work effectively is still evolving. To date, there has been more discussion of the tags, the readers, ...