“In a recent shenanigan at a Wal-Mart store, techno-fraudsters printed out fake barcode labels and, in one instance, a $100 mattress rang up at checkout for the price of a bunch of bananas. But what if Wal-Mart had been in the habit of attaching RFID tags rather than barcodes to mattresses and bananas? Would the […]

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“The [EPC – ISO disagreement] concerned eight bits of data in the EPC numbering scheme. ISO designates these eight bits for an Application Family Identifier (AFI) to identify the source of the product, but EPCglobal, which refers to these eight bits in an EPC as a EPC header, was concerned that ISO would not set […]

Wired News “The federal intelligence overhaul that became law last month while creating a new national intelligence director and beefing up border patrols also aims to close loopholes for identity fraud that some of the Sept. 11 terrorists used to get aboard the jets they hijacked. … Privacy advocates warn that the new federal standards […]

“Avid’s business practices are placing at risk the lives of animals whose owners have purchased RFID (radio frequency identification) chips for the very purpose of protecting their pets” according to the lawsuit filed by Crystal Import Corp. of Birmingham, Alabama. The microchip manufacturer filed the lawsuit Dec. 29 in U.S. District Court for the Northern […]

“The ScripTalk Audible Prescription system, which uses radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, was selected last summer as the sole audible prescription-reading device that Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities can now purchase for patients. To hear the device recite prescription information, a patient positions the battery-powered hand-held RFID reader within a few inches of the […]

The 599th Transportation Group under the Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command was designated by the U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM) today to serve as the single port manager to offload critical supplies supporting tsunami relief efforts in Thailand. The 599th will oversee all operations at the Port of Laem Chabang as six ships from the […]

“At the moment Europe’s plans for ID consists of two biometric identifiers, facial and fingerprint, for passport and for visas and residence permits for third country nationals. The passport plans theoretically stem from ICAO’s standard for biometric passports (which only requires facial) and from US requirements for biometric passports for visitors (again, facial acceptable) from […]

“Mitsubishi Electric Corporation developed a technology that combines RFID tags and cameras for controlling elevators. With their technology, elevators don’t make people wait for them. Instead, they wait for people. By combining RFID and image processing, they claim that their system could tell if a person wanted to use an elevator or was just waking […]

“45. Dick Cantwell, vice president of Auto-ID, Gillette While others are talking about radio frequency identification (RFID), Cantwell is making it work. He is among the bleeding-edge adopters of RFID for the supply chain – Cantwell started an RFID initiative at Gillette well before Wal-Mart Stores’s infamous adoption mandate. He is sharing his expertise and […]