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December 25 - 31, 2006
News from December 31, 2006
News from December 30, 2006
- Wisconsin Clinic Opts for RFID Solution
RFID Journal - USA
... 28, 2006 — Advanced Pain Management (APM), a Wisconsin-based chain of medical clinics, is using an RFID system that helps the company manage the patient charts ...
- RFID solution passes certification test
MRT (subscription) - Chicago, IL, USA
Radio frequency identification, or RFID, network infrastructure provider Reva systems recently announced that its Tag Acquisition Product passed EPCglobal ...
- Gentag Patent Adds RFID Sensor Network Capability to Cell Phones ...
ExtremeNano - New York, NY, USA
... 28 that it has been issued a patent for a way to add sensor networks to RFID readers in wireless devices such as cell phones, PDAs and laptops. ...
- DHL develops pharmaceutical RFID sensor system
UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
DHL has developed a new system for the pharmaceutical industry which improves the monitoring of temperature-controlled transports, using an RFID sensor tag ...
- Nortel to Add RFID-Enabled Services to Municipal Wi-Fi Platform
SDA Asia Magazine - Singapore
Nortel, telecommunications manufacturer, has decided to offer solutions that let municipal governments RFID-enable their existing Wi-Fi wireless infrastructure ...
- Refrigerator that 'tells owner' when stocks are low
TUV Product Service - Fareham, Hampshire, UK
A refrigerator equipped with RFID technology that informs the owner when food needs to be replenished is being developed by Samsung Electronics. ...
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News from December 29, 2006
- RFID Market for Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul Shows Particular ...
B-EYE-Network - Boulder, CO, USA
By 2011, the aerospace and defense RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) market is expected to realize revenue in excess of $2 billion. ...
- Gentag to Piggyback on NFC Technology to Read RFID Sensors
MoreRFID (press release) - TX, USA
Gentag, Inc. is pleased to announce the issuance of Patent 7,148,803 entitled "RFID Based Sensor Networks.". This broad patent covers ...
- Hacker Con Submits to Spychips
Wired News - USA
... Hackers are paying 10 euros each for the privilege of hanging special homebrew RFID tags around their necks or slapping them on their laptop bags. ...
- US medical centre adopts McKesson's RFID RTLS
UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
McKesson, the healthcare services, automation and IT provider, has announced the implementation of its new RFID solution, Horizon Real-Time Location System, at ...
- This week's overblown privacy scare, courtesy of RFID tires
engadget - Santa Monica, CA, USA
Just like how all those nefarious nasties have been stalking our women and children via Nike+iPod, it turns out the new RFID-based pressure gauges in our tires ...
- Nortel to Add RFID-Enabled Services to Municipal Wi-Fi Platform
RFID Journal - USA
Dec. 27, 2006 - Multinational telecommunications manufacturer Nortel plans to offer solutions that let municipal governments RFID-enable their existing Wi-Fi ...
- Tokyo Ginza area to be covered in RFID
Geek.com - USA
A project is currently under way that will see Tokyo's most famous shopping area covered in RFID tags in an attempt to provide a wealth of information to ...
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News from December 28, 2006
- How to disable your e-passport's RFID chip
engadget - Santa Monica, CA, USA
How well would retail store tag deactivation magnets work on the RFID units used in the passports? ... My g/f got hers and it had the RFID symbol and chip on it. ...
- RFID Adoption Tilting Towards Process Improvements, Report Finds
Managing Automation Magazine - New York, NY, USA
2006 might not have been "the year" of RFID as some pundits had predicted, but it was a time in which manufacturers large and small began deploying the auto-ID ...
- IBM Inagurates WebSphere RFID Information Center
SDA Asia Magazine - Singapore
IBM has introduced the new Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology aimed at the pharmaceutical industry. The company claims ...
- Villanova, tech group working on RFID
Philadelphia Business Journal - Philadelphia, PA, USA
... Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID, technology is growing in popularity as a means of providing identification and storing information. ...
- Expect growth for RFID in 2007, expert says
MMH.com (subscription) - Newton, MA, USA
RFID technology moved slowly, but steadily, forward in 2006, says ABI Research’s Mike Liard. Expect more of the same in 2007. ...
- What's for Dinner? Ask the Fridge
Korea Times - South Korea
... Korea’s second-largest producer of home appliances, is now developing a futuristic refrigerator equipped with radio frequency identification (RFID) technology ...
- RFID Keeps Canadian Terminal on Track
Top Tech News - Woodland Hills, CA, USA
Before the deployment of RFID tags, Canadian National Railway personnel jotted the serial numbers of the containers and their destination on a clip board. ...
- The return on investment from RFID may be in the stores
MMH.com (subscription) - Newton, MA, USA
Manufacturers and distributors in the retail supply chain are looking to the store for their ROI from RFID, says ARC Advisory Group. ...
- US brings in RFID chips
Inquirer - Harrow, Middlesex, UK
... Apparently the best approach is hitting the passport with a blunt, hard object. A nonworking RFID doesn’t invalidate the passport, so you can still use it. ...
- TPMS standardization, sensor proliferation direct vs. indirect ...
Modern Tire Dealer - Akron, OH, USA
By Kevin Rohlwing. Aluminum valve stem sensors with adjustable valve stem angles are standard equipment on some vehicles and most ...
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News from December 27, 2006
- eBizITPA Announces Upcoming RFID Training Classes
MoreRFID (press release) - TX, USA
RFID is changing the face of supply chain management. Small and medium-sized businesses have the opportunity to learn about RFID ...
- Top supply chain opportunities in 2007
Electronics Supply & Manufacturing - USA
... 3. RFID —RFID is gaining ground in supply chain systems around the world, and adoption is just going to increase. Retail is one ...
- Disable your passport's RFID chip
Help Net Security - Croatia
All passports issued by the US State Department after January 1 will have always-on radio frequency identification chips, making it easy for officials – and ...
- Disabling the RFID in the New US Passports?
Slashdot - USA
... writes "Along with the usual Jargonwatch and Wired/Tired articles, the January issue of Wired offers a drastic method for taking care of that RFID chip in your ...
- Gaming Partners International to Showcase RFID Casino Currency at ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
During the Exhibition, GPI will introduce its innovative, RFID-based Electronic Chip Surveillance (ECS) system utilizing 125 KHz RFID tags embedded in the ...
- Project to tag Tokyo neighborhood with RFID
Computerworld - Framingham, MA, USA
... 26, 2006 (IDG News Service) -- A location-based services trial that will see a famous Tokyo neighborhood blanketed with around 10,000 RFID (radio frequency ...
- 10,000 RFID tags to blanket Tokyo's Ginza neighborhood
engadget - Santa Monica, CA, USA
... the US and A look like a technological backwater, what with the crazy phones, 1Seg, and speedy internets, but now they're running a bunch of RFID trials to ...
- Uses of radio frequency ID raise doubts
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX, USA
By VICTOR GODINEZ / The Dallas Morning News. Experts say research shows that people who know they have an RFID-enabled card tend to spend more than others. ...
- RFID lends itself into a lot of business applications
Express Pharma - Mumbai, India
RFID seems an answer to the counterfeiting stricken pharma industry. ... What kind of value can RFID add to pharmaceutical distribution? ...
- RFID Ltd urges airlines to try out its BagChip tags
UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
In the US, RFID Ltd is urging airlines to participate in tests of its BagChip RFID luggage identification and tracking solution. ...
- Social Network Users Have Ruined Their Privacy
Slashdot - USA
Steve Kerrison writes "There's little point in worrying about ID cards, RFID tags and spyware when more and more people are throwing away their privacy anyway ...
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News from December 26, 2006
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News from December 25, 2006
- Scaling Down RFID Investments
RFID Journal - USA
... Critics of RFID technology have been quick to point to such announcements, claiming the market continues to be driven more by hype than by reality. ...
- Will RFID Cross the Chasm in 2007?
RFID Journal - USA
... to adoption in the retail/consumer packaged goods supply chain, and that the real issue is return on investment (see What's Holding Up Rapid Adoption of RFID ...
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