Alien Technology today announced the expansion of its RFID deployment within well-known sour cream manufacturer Daisy Brand’s distribution centers in Texas and Arizona. For Daisy, which has been using RFID to track goods since 2005, the RFID expansion in 2008 includes the installation of the new Alien ALR9900 enterprise-class readers at distribution centers in Casa […]

Wegmans Food Markets, a $4 billion supermarket operator based in Rochester, N.Y., may use RFID to improve organization and speediness to its in-store pharmacies, RFID Journal reports. According to the Journal, retailer is planning to test an RFID-based drug-tracking system, the goal of which will be to determine whether placing RFID tags on customers’ prescription […]

We’re hearing a few reports from overseas media that – despite loud protests from civil-rights groups – prisoners in the British jails may be chipped with RFID tags. “Instead of being contained in bracelets worn around the ankle, the tiny chips would be surgically inserted under the skin of offenders in the community, to help […]

TAGSYS, a maker of item-level RFID infrastructure products, today announced the Medio(TM) L400 – which it calls the industry’s first self-diagnostic and self-correcting long-range HF RFID reader. TAGSYS also announced that the Medio L400 will be compatible with the highly-anticipated, next-generation, high-performance EPCglobal RFID standard-HF Version 2 (V2)-via a simple firmware upgrade. TAGSYS Announces Intelligent […]

iDTRONIC, a supplier of RFID hardware, today introduced the high-performance UHF Long Range Reader UHF-LR with a read range of up to 10 meters. The reader is described by the company as having a “robust design,” and comes in a very small form factor, with both USB and RS232 serial interfaces. It can be connected […]

RFID technology provider Sirit Inc. and NXP Semiconductors, the independent semiconductor company and RFID chip supplier founded by Philips, today announced they will jointly host an open Webcast on Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 11 a.m. EST. The Webcast, “Capturing the Value of Gen 2 Custom Commands,” will focus on use cases and benefits of […]

Three enterprising, philanthropic college students are helping Mercy Medical Center employ some of the latest retail technology at its volunteer-operated gift shop, a Northwest subsidiary of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports. The students, computer-science majors at University of Arkansas, have custom-built a software program enabling Mercy to use RFID in its gift shop. “With the implementation […]

The verdict is finally in: Enterprises are reporting big business benefits from RFID deployments. But what strategies are best, going forward? Aberdeen Group, in its latest report, delves into this question in early 2008, analyzing all that’s so-called “Best in Class.”   

For those of you not keeping minute-to-minute tabs on New Hampshire analyses, there’s lots going on in California … and Portugal. Vue Technology, a provider of item-level RFID solutions, today announced that Byblos, a major Portuguese book retailer, has rolled out the world’s largest single-store, item-level RFID deployment in Portugal’s largest bookstore, Byblos Amoreiras. Byblos […]

U.S. consumers are keen to use their mobile handsets for making in-store payments, but the majority only wants to have one credit/debit account for making those purchases, according to a new ABI Research survey of consumer attitudes. Much of the work on developing a standard application platform across NFC handsets has been geared at providing […]