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“Food and Drug Administration officials released new policy guidelines today designed to stimulate the use of passive radio frequency identification (RFID) tags for prescription drugs, and Purdu Pharma officials said they will start using the technology this week on shipments to two large customers of the company’s OxyContin narcotic pain treatment drug. FDA officials recommended […]

Rom Eizenberg is the Director of Marketing and Business Development at Precision Location Systems of Tel Aviv, Israel and Milan, Italy. The company specilizes in identification, location and control technologies for the asset management market. Your company uses cameras and RFID together to increase the accuracy of asset tracking systems. What prompted the development of […]

“x_Tract is designed to monitor key environmental parameters, such as temperature and time, for thermally sensitive goods as they move through a supply chain. GLI claims that the product provides a more efficient and cost effective means of achieving ‘near real time’ traceability. This is a critical time for food companies that rely on freight […]

Shipping giant UPS has studied RFID for a number of years, yet hasn’t adopted the technology for its world-wide operation. The company delivered some 3.4 billion packages and documents last year. “RFID hasn’t been adopted for widespread use, but we do have pilots currently underway,” said Donna Barrett, UPS’ technology public relations manager from the […]

Nurez Khimji is the Chief Financial Officer of eXI Wireless. Their RFID based HALO system prevents infant abductions in healthcare facilities. How dire is the problem of abductions within health care facilities? A single abduction from a healthcare facility has a tremendous negative impact on the family, the staff and the hospital itself. The monetary […]

“If a farmer wants to count animals through a four-metre-wide gateway, two or more will be going through at once and that could result in shielding of signals or even double-counting of some tags. The situation is worse than that of trying to get all the goods on a pallet read as they enter a […]

“Final pieces are being put in place for NFC technology to enable contactless point of sale transactions. The best way to look at NFC, Michielsen says, is as a step forward in radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. “NFC is RFID,” he says. “The chips used in cellular handsets for NFC technology act as both a […]

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David C. Wyld is a Professor of Management at Southeastern Louisiana University, where he directs the Strategic e-Commerce Initiative. In recent months, news on the United States’ airlines has been bleak. With rising fuel prices, high cost structures and cut-throat competition from start-ups, America’s legacy carriers are struggling to stay in the air and out […]