Australia-based Savcor has announced plans to increase its focus on the RFID technology market, signally its intentions with the acquisition of another Finnish player in the industry, and a new contract to supply UPM Raflatac. Savcor has purchased Intune Circuits, a producer of antennas used in RFID tags and inlays. Savcor gains Intune’s global customer […]

Dutch researchers at Radboud University recently teamed with Progress Software to keep an eye on the health of participants in the world’s largest walking event. With a creative use of RFID technology, the researchers were able to keep tabs on walkers’ temperatures from within. Volunteers in the study swallowed a “pill” prior to their marching. […]

Libramation, a Canadian provider of library automation technology, has announced it will begin using a new RFID chip. The chip, from NXP, offers both increased privacy protection and a 40-year guarantee for data retention. NXP’s ICODE SLI-SY chip will be used in all of Libramation’s future RFID projects, but company representatives emphasized the appeal that […]

L-1 Identity Solutions has won the State Department’s contract for a new border crossing card. The five-year, $25 million contract will provide as many as 10 million cards to visa applicants who frequently cross the U.S.-Mexico border. The RFID-enabled border crossing card is integrated with the U.S. passport card system. L-1 began producing the passport […]

Sonoco, the world’s largest manufacturer of fiber-based tubes and cores used in packing paper products, has launched an RFID-enabled tracking solution for its customers. In cooperation with IPICO, Sonoco created the Intellicore, a fiber core with embedded RFID tags to enable customers to automatically identify, track and locate paper rolls at any point in the […]

Planners of South Africa’s Govtech 2008, a large government-sponsored technology conference, will issue RFID-enabled name tags to track attendees. The host organization, the State Information Technology Agency (SITA), plans to use information gathered through the tags to improve future events. The tracking system will feature active RFID personnel tags issued to each conference attendees and […]

ABI Research has placed Motorola at the top of its latest worldwide ranking of passive UHF reader vendors. Alien Technology and Impinj filled the second and third slots in what researchers called a tight competition between the industry leaders. ABI points to a combination of strong shipments, solid product innovation, and persistent market presence from […]

Network infrastructure provider SonicWALL has selected InSync Software’s Edgeware platform and Asset Tracking Solution to create a visible inventory system as well as provide an indisputable performance metric for its suppliers. SonicWALL will use the InSync system to improve in-transit times, lead times, lower inventory levels and manage the performance of devices provided by other […]

A Dutch court has rejected a request from NXP to prevent the publication of a scientific study of the security of the firm’s MIFARE Classic technology. The requested restraining order was against researchers with the University of Nijmegen, whose research into the cryptography of the Mifare Classic questions the chip’s security. The court ruled that […]

Spartanics, in collaboration with Systec, has announced the availability its new Spartanics-Systec Fineprint Cylinder Screen Printing Line, a cylinder-configured screen printing system. The system is equipped to produce RFID labels among other other high-quality label applications. The new units can produce pre-printed material from any printing process, such as flexo or digital, and has automatic […]