October 21 - 27, 2007

News from October 27, 2007

• Desperately Seeking RFID Assistance
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  By Mark Roberti I regularly receive e-mails from folks looking for assistance with RFID projects of one kind or another. Two recent correspondents are ...
• Outlook Strong for RFID Printers, Bucking Doubts
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  Adoption of RFID printer/encoders is poised for strong growth, and the products will remain the leading method for users to create and encode their own RFID ...
• Atlas RFID Solutions Automotive Retail Technology Solution
  RFID Solutions Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  Auto dealerships around the world are beginning to realize the tremendous benefits of real-time inventory tracking systems utilizing RFID technologies. ...
• RFID Solution optimizes identification in data centers.
  ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release) - New York, NY, USA
  October 26, 2007 - Netc envision provides integrated, customized, RFID-enabled media barcode label solution that can be interfaced with data security, ...
• Doncaster school tracks pupils with RFID chips in their uniforms
  ComputerWeekly.com - UK
  Secondary school kids are being tracked at a Doncaster school using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags in their uniforms. Ten pupils at Hungerhill ...
• New Vermont driver's license with RFID tag may pose security risk
  SecureIDNews (press release) - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  ... that Vermont's new $1.5 million voluntary Enhanced Driver's License/ID (EDL/ID) program may pose a security risk because of flaws in its RFID tags. ...
• RFID News Roundup
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  UPM Raflatac has introduced a warranty for RFID tags sold for library book-tagging applications. The guarantee covers the lifetime of a book in standard ...
• Arphid Watch: RECALLING RFID Conference report
  Wired News - USA
  By Bruce Sterling October 26, 2007 | 1:32:41 PMCategories: Arphid Watch "Recalling RFID was held on Friday the 19th and Saturday the 20th of October at de ...
• Hitachi Makes Smallest RFID Chips in the World
  The Future of Things - Jerusalem, Israel
  The Japanese giant Hitachi has developed the world's smallest and thinnest Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chip. Measuring only 0.15 x 0.15 millimeter ...

News from October 26, 2007

• RFID Control suits multi-product assembly lines.
  ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release) - New York, NY, USA
  October 25, 2007 - Designed to automatically make control decisions, TROMR8 RFID Programmable Relay Controller lets user run different processes for ...
• UK Kids Get RFID Chips In School Uniforms
  InformationWeek - Manhasset, NY, USA
  Trevor Darnborough, whose company Darnbro filed for a patent on securing RFID tags to clothing, hopes to other schools will be interested. ...
• TheStreet.com on Investing in RFID
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  Investor site TheStreet.com published an article yesterday entitled What Do I Need to Know About RFID Stocks? While the key takeaway is the same as ever ...
• Parma's RFID Lab Plans Pork Pilot
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  By Rhea Wessel Oct. 26, 2007—The RFID Lab at the University of Parma is designing a pilot to test EPCglobal-compliant hardware throughout the supply chain, ...
• BrainTrust Query: Can RFID replace good supervision?
  RetailWire (subscription) - Cranford, NJ, USA
  The recent announcement by Wal-Mart that one of its new goals for radio frequency identification (RFID) is to use in-store hotspots combined with pallet ...
• Mexican politician stumbles over RFID in Berlin Marathon
  RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  The Netherlands based company, ChampionChip, invented time keeping based on RFID tags thirteen years ago. Since this time, hardly any large road race can do ...
• Ford World Rally Team Uses RFID-Enabled DVDs for VIP Tickets
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  By Claire Swedberg Oct. 26, 2007—RFID-based ticketing solutions company Eventixx is providing the Ford World Rally Team with RFID-enabled DVDs that act as ...
• Marine Expeditionary Force exercise demonstrates portable RFID system
  RF Design - New York, NY, USA
  Fortress Technologies has demonstrated a secure, wireless backbone as part of a deployable radio frequency identification (RFID) kit during a III Marine ...
• RF-iT Solutions provides Austrian outdoor experts Northland with ...
  MoreRFID (press release) - TX, USA
  Soon RFID technology will be used not only to label jeans and everyday wear but also textile products designed to meet high demands. ...
• RFID Standards - An Interview with Paul Chartier
  IT-Director.com - USA
  Paul is a Principal with Praxis Consultants; the Project Editor of ISO/IEC 24753, which deals with communication between the application and an RFID ...

News from October 25, 2007

• Kiwi firm scores RFID deal
  New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
  American RFID chip maker SkyeTek has announced a lucrative deal with Kiwi-based Tracient Technologies. SkyeTek's radio frequency identification computer ...
• Healthcare adopts RFID
  ITWeb - Gauteng, South Africa
  By Vicky Burger, ITWEB Portals Content / Relationship Manager AT&T has released a portfolio of radio frequency identification (RFID) tracking systems for ...
• Debenhams says RFID is paying off
  ComputerworldUK - UK
  By Computerworld UK reporter Debenhams has completed a £6m roll-out of RFID tagging technology across its 142 stores, which it says is already improving ...
• UPM Raflatac RFID tags enable innovative CD/DVD solutions
  MoreRFID (press release) - TX, USA
  UPM Raflatac, CDA, Brooks Automation and Stora Enso Digital Solutions have launched a new CD/DVD solution featuring an integrated RFID tag. ...
• RFID pilot project launched to test electronic product code
  FoodProductionDaily.com - Montpellier, France
  RFID technology is helping to transform logistics by providing a means of tracking and tracing individual products throughout the supply chain. ...

News from October 24, 2007

• RFID Journal Launches RFID Health-Care Event
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  Oct. 23, 2007—RFID Journal has announced plans to produce a one-day conference focused on helping health-care providers understand how the technology can ...
• Gamma solutions provide answers for frequently asked questions on RFID
  Ferret - Australia
  RFID (radio frequency identification) is a fast, automatic identification technology similar in application to bar code technology but uses radio frequency ...
• Datalogic introduces Matrix 400 2D RFID imager
  Automation.com (press release) - Eden Prairie, MN, USA
  Datalogic Group is the third largest world manufacturer and leader in Europe for bar code readers, rugged mobile computers, and RFID systems. ...
• Galeria Kaufhof shoppers try out RFID Magic Mirror
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  Avery Dennison Retail Information Services Group has also contributed its RFID printer Monarch 9855 RFMP ME to the project, and is also supplying all the ...
• RFID platform boosts Debenhams' profits
  Silicon.com - UK
  By Andy McCue Department store chain Debenhams has credited investment in a new IT platform and its ecommerce website for helping to boost annual profits to ...
• Active RFID the leading technology in cargo security, but search ...
  Canadian Transportation & Logistics - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  Meanwhile, a number of passive RFID technology vendors have now started working with other standards bodies to formulate a standard for less expensive ...
• TheStreet Weighs in on Hot RFID Stocks
  RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  RFID "pure plays" that have had a rough time include Applied Digital Solutions and Digital Angel -- "each saw share prices drop over 40 percent since ...
• What Do I Need to Know About RFID Stocks?
  TheStreet.com - USA
  Every other week, I get bombarded with investment pamphlets tooting RFID stocks. I tried to do some research on them, but there isn't much material out ...

News from October 23, 2007

• RFID Tech Misunderstood in Privacy Debates
  TechNewsWorld - Sherman Oaks, CA, USA
  By S. Scharf Governments at both the local and national levels are responding to privacy concerns about RFID technology by moving to regulate, if not ban, ...
• Retail promotions to benefit from RFID
  IGD Supply Chain Analysis - Watford, England, UK
  Both Metro and Wal-Mart recently announced a change of tack in their implementation of RFID technology. Both will now focus on the use of RFID on ...
• Sushi á la RFID
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  Allard, a former technology entrepreneur and employee of Microsoft, believed RFID could not only be used to ensure freshness but also help the restaurant ...
• New RFID Middleware Mitigates Risk, Expands Value
  MoreRFID (press release) - TX, USA
  RFID Middleware has evolved. No longer just a required interface between the physical and logical worlds, middleware has become a robust tool that provides ...
• California: No RFID Chip Implants to Track Employees
  Associated Content - Denver, CO, USA
  In case you are wondering, it is the same kind of radiofrequency identification (RFID) chip that your dog has under its skin in case it gets lost. ...
• BL ident: A New Level of RFID
  Design News - Newton, MA, USA
  BY THIS AUTHOR TURCK recently launched its BL ident RFID system, targeted to the industrial arena. Product Marketing Manager Mark DiSera describes the new ...
• IBM Uses RFID to Track Conference Attendees
  Computerworld - Framingham, MA, USA
  The company said it would remove the RFID chips from the name tags of people who didn’t want them, but only 2% of the 6500 attendees took it up on the offer ...
• Is your child at school? Check their RFID chip to find out
  Mobile Digest - London, England, UK
  Trials of RFID tagging of schoolchildren has just begun at Hungerhill School in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Ten kids have had these microchips sewn into ...
• Tracient Technologies Leverages SkyeTek for Enhanced Handheld RFID ...
  Earthtimes - London, UK
  The reader can be connected quickly to any Bluetooth enabled device, such as PDA's, cell phones, PCs, and laptops, giving these devices rapid RFID ...
• New Smart Boxes Provide Alternative to RFID Labels
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  Domino Integrated Solutions Group and HIDE-Pack don't think smart labels are the smartest method of RFID tagging, and have developed an alternative. ...

News from October 22, 2007

• How Wal-Mart lost its technology edge
  Computerworld New Zealand - Auckland, New Zealand
  The company has even suffered in its sweet spot, with serious setbacks to its deployment of radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags throughout its supply ...
• Chip to now track consumer behaviour in stores
  Hindu - Chennai, India
  A new hardware-software combination designed by a company called ConsumerVision has been prepared using the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology ...
• RFID Gathers Momentum in Europe
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  By Mark Roberti Oct. 22, 2007—A couple of years ago, we ran a cover story in RFID Journal magazine entitled "Europe Finds Its Own Path to ROI. ...
• The Shift to Value Up Front
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  By Brendon Ouimette Oct. 22, 2007—The key issue surrounding RFID during its emergence as a technology has been how to best derive value from it. ...
• AT&T offers RFID technology for healthcare
  ArabianBusiness.com - Dubai, Umm al Qaiwain, United Arab Emirates
  by ArabianBusiness.com staff writer on Sunday, 21 October 2007 AT&T has announced the availability of a portfolio of radio frequency identification (RFID) ...

News from October 21, 2007

• Islands of Automation: Hawaii Sponsors RFID Trial
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  The fiftieth state is trying to be first in food traceability with an RFID pilot program to track produce from the farm to the supermarket. ...
• Hackers Space: the Final Frontier
  Wired News - USA
  Some of the things that come from hackerspaces are fascinating - Lara Sobel's RFID proof wallets, made from trash and essentially an open source project. ...
• Atlas RFID Solutions Retail Technology Solution
  RFID Solutions Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  Retailers around the world are beginning to realize the tremendous benefits of supply chain tracking systems utilizing RFID technologies. ...
• RFID Snuffs Out Inefficiencies at Tobacco Plant
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  Eight months ago, the company deployed an RFID system to streamline the moisture-monitoring operation. As a result, says Durga M. Dash, ITC's quality ...
• French firms scout for rail business in India
  Economic Times - Gurgaon, Haryana, India
  The expertise of the companies varies from RFID technology to designing of transportation spaces. In fact, more and more foreign rail companies are looking ...