November 19 - 25, 2006

News from November 25, 2006

• Holy Cow - RFID-enabled beef traceability a cut above the herd
  ITWorld Canada - Canada
  ... This abattoir uses radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to comply with rigorous animal traceability requirements that still govern the Canadian ...
• Designing an FPGA-Based RFID Reader
  Components in Electronics - London, UK
  You can implement a practical, standards-compliant RFID reader using off-the-shelf RF components and FPGAs. James Wong, Niladri ...
• United Kingdom: What Value RFID?
  Mondaq News Alerts (subcription) - London, UK
  ... radio wave. RFID is very exciting as it can mean we know the status of real time products or environments in real time. The technology ...
• RFID Systems Integration
  RFID Solutions Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  Both the need to share information between different functional groups and the desire to fully leverage investments in technology have made systems integration ...
• JAPAN: Suits Company reaps benefits from RFID
  just-style.com - UK
  The Suits Company (SC) - a popular apparel store that sells young men's suits – is adding RFID tags to all suits on its sales floor in Ginza, Tokyo. ...

News from November 24, 2006

• Sirit Appoints Pioneering RFID Engineer to Lead Development Team
  Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
  TORONTO, Nov. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Sirit Inc. (TSX: SI - News), a leading provider of radio frequency identification (RFID) reader technology, today ...
• Cost wrangles delay airline RFID take-off
  VNUNet.com - UK
  Adoption of radio frequency identification (RFID) by the aviation industry has been slow despite predictions that the sector could lead the way in use of the ...
• Beef Tracking, the RFID Way
  RFID Journal - USA
  ... 23, 2006 — Canadian beef producer Atlantic Beef Products (ABP), headquartered in Albany, Prince Edward Island, is using hooks embedded with RFID chips to track ...
• Avery Dennison Announces RFID Initiatives For China
  ChinaTechNews.com - Beijing, China
  Avery Dennison (AVY) has launched of its RFID business in Asia Pacific and introduced its technology transfer initiative which is aimed at providing better ...
• US oil field adopts RFID for personnel safety
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  ... be the seventh largest oil field in the continental US, and all employees, contractors and visitors at the oil field now wear dual-active RFID-enabled badges ...
• Nisa-Today's DC Uses RFID to Secure Trailers
  RFID Journal - USA
  ... Today's , the United Kingdom's largest grocery buying and distribution consortium of independent retailers and wholesalers, is operating an RFID-based system ...
• Philips launches RFID medical asset tracking
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  Royal Philips Electronics says that its Medical Systems division is launching the new 'Philips Asset Tracking Solution', a turn-key solution used for locating ...

News from November 23, 2006

• Textile RFID tag breaks performance record
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  The item-level RFID provider TAGSYS says that its textile-friendly RFID tags for industrial laundries are breaking performance records, both in terms of speed ...
• ThingMagic Mercury4 RFID Reader Certified for South Korea
  MoreRFID (press release) - TX, USA
  ThingMagic, Inc. (www.thingmagic.com), a leading developer of RFID technology, announced the Mercury4 RFID reader has received Ministry of Information and ...
• RFID Drives Fight Against Counterfeit Car Parts
  RFID Journal - USA
  ... an automatic pedigree system and fight counterfeiters, Manufacturers' Qualification and Validation Program (MQVP) is taking steps to add RFID technology to its ...
• RFID tracks-and-traces miners and equipment
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  In Australia, the BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance has rolled out RFID technology in mines, giving it the ability to track and trace over 17,000 individual ...
• RFID: Is Your Wallet Giving Out Your Credit Card Info As You Walk ...
  American Chronicle - Beverly Hills, CA, USA
  The new RFID technology used in the plastic cards (not all cards use RFID yet) may be transmitting that financial & personal info right now from your pocket or ...
• Medline Markets RFID System for Surgical Sponges
  RFID Journal - USA
  ... 22, 2006 — Medline Industries, a US distributor of medical supplies, has begun marketing a medical system that uses RFID to detect any surgical gauze, towels ...
• RFID accelerates safety checks
  VNUNet.com - UK
  Low-cost airline Flybe is considering attaching radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to onboard safety equipment such as life jackets to speed up the ...
• Hot Countries for RFID
  IDTechEx - Cambridge, UK
  IDTechEx keeps a close eye on which countries are eagerly adopting RFID and which are not. Our sources include intensive travelling ...
• Fulham stays on the ball with RFID
  TUV Product Service - Fareham, Hampshire, UK
  Fulham football club is utilising RFID technology to track supporters in a bid to improve queue efficiency and boost safety at its Craven Cottage grounds. ...
• SAVR Communications: Training The Next Generation Of RFID Talent
  RFID Solutions Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  Irving, TX – SAVR Communications and DeVry University are joining efforts to educate new RFID (radio frequency identification technology) talent. ...

News from November 22, 2006

• '100% reliability' of RFID pharmaceuticals demonstrated
  TUV Product Service - Fareham, Hampshire, UK
  RFID tagging on an item-level for pharmaceuticals is 100 per cent reliable, according to packager Owens-Illinois (OI) and RFID company Impinj. ...
• Delegates from six continents attracted to the 7TH RFID Networking ...
  MoreRFID (press release) - TX, USA
  Delegates from around the world gathered at the 7th RFID Networking Forum on November 9th at the Olympia 2 Conference Centre in London to attend a range of one ...
• E-learning programme on RFID available on-line
  Learningbusiness.fi - Helsinki, Finland
  Abhisam Software announced that a new on-line version of the e-learning programme on Radio Frequency ID(RFID) is now available, in addition to the CD based ...
• Finnair Expands RFID Use to Manage Employees, Tasks
  E-Commerce Times - USA
  ... of the Finnair Group. The wireless technology for the IBM RFID solution is supplied by Nokia (NYSE: NOK) . With air traffic volumes ...
• RFID 'beneficial' for perishable goods
  Mikrofax eProcurement News - London, UK
  Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology could be the answer to reducing billions of dollars of waste that affects suppliers of perishable goods in the ...
• Mobile operators 'want RFID'
  TUV Product Service - Fareham, Hampshire, UK
  ... To be embedded in a handset along with an RFID chip, the NFC software would allow mobile users access to a host of new capabilities. ...
• Certicom launches Certicom Security for RFID Product ...
  Ferret - Australia
  Certicom Corp., has launched Certicom Security for RFID Product Authentication, a solution that ensures authenticity and prevents counterfeiting of high-value ...
• UHF Gen 2 RFID Delivers 100% Read Accuracy for Item Tagging
  Material Handling Management (press release) - Cleveland, OH, USA
  "These results are a true breakthrough in item-level RFID implementation," said Michael Liard, research director, RFID & Contactless at ABI Research. ...
• Paxar rolls out new prototype RFID mirror
  Retail Bulletin - Croydon, UK
  Paxar has formed a new working initiative with thebigspace to market and roll out magicmirror, a new interactive RFID mirror to the UK retail market. ...

News from November 21, 2006

• RFID Summit: The Promise of the Active Tag
  Circuits Assembly - Atlanta, GA, USA
  ... Thus it is easy to grasp why supporters of active RFID are so high on its future. If the hype at the Active RFID Summit last week ...
• Symbol Technologies positioned in Visionaries Quadrant for RFID by ...
  AME Info (press release) - United Arab Emirates
  ... that Gartner, Inc., a leading industry analyst firm, has listed Symbol in the 'Visionaries' quadrant in its report 'Magic Quadrant for RFID Generation 2 ...
• Who won the 2006 RFID Breakthrough Awards?
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  The 2006 RFID Breakthrough Awards were announced at the RFID Breakthrough Awards Gala Dinner in London, recognising the successes and reward the achievements ...
• RC Group wins RFID projects in southeast Asia
  Life Style Extra - UK
  LONDON (AFX) - RC Group Ltd (RCG), provider of biometric ID, security and RFID systems, said it has won several radio frequency identification (RFID) projects ...
• UK near top of RFID league table
  TUV Product Service - Fareham, Hampshire, UK
  A new index has ranked the UK as second only to the USA in its adoption of RFID. According to a new study by consultancy firm IDTechEx ...
• RFID keeps Canadian railway trucks on track
  Techworld.com - London, UK
  ... Ontario until the railway company enlisted the help of Bell Canada and Symbol Technologies, to deploy ruggedised radio frequency identification (RFID) tags on ...
• Who really uses RFID?
  Manufacturer.com - UK
  (Following is a guest editorial from Louis Sirico and Andy Kowl of RFID Switchboard, www.rfidsb.com). There seems to be confusion ...
• Item-level RFID tagging 100% reliable, say firms
  In-PharmaTechnologist.com - Montpellier, France
  20/11/2006 - Packaging maker Owens-Illinois (OI) and RFID provider Impinj say they have demonstrated 100 per cent reliability of radiofrequency identification ...
• Operators want RFID in phones
  ZDNet UK - UK
  ... The short-range wireless technology would be based on having a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip embedded in the handset, along with some sort of NFC ...

News from November 20, 2006

• Everything You Need to Put RFID to Work
  RFID Journal - USA
  ... Each year, we survey our readers and ask them what they'd like to learn about RFID—and what speakers they want to hear from—at our annual RFID Journal LIVE ...
• Surveillance is really getting under my skin
  The Observer - UK
  ... One of these new technologies is RFID (radio frequency identification), which are inexpensive microchips that give out information when activated by a scanner. ...

News from November 19, 2006

• RFID Opportunity For Companies In Shanghai
  ChinaTechNews.com - Beijing, China
  You'd figure that with all the talk about RFID in China, the biggest and best exhibitions and conventions would have already implemented RFID name badges. ...
• RFID Passports Cracked
  Hard OCP - Plano, TX, USA
  There has certainly been a ton of controversy surrounding the idea of RFID Passports for sometime now. Most people were a little ...
• Emerging Signs of an RFID Payoff
  E-Commerce Times - USA
  By Mohsen Attaran. The decision about whether to go with RFID is one that many companies may have to make eventually. RFID tagging ...
• Sybase RFID Enterprise RSA Signature Forgery
  SecuObs - France
  DESCRIPTION: Sybase has acknowledged a vulnerability in Sybase RFID Enterprise, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security ...