Veratag, a New York-based start-up, says that a decades-old technology used in atomic microscopes can be adapted to establish a new level of security for RFID application. Micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) have been used for about 20 years by scientists measuring molecular structures. Now a new technology based on them, MEMSflakes, could replace traditional RFID […]

Intermec has announced that the IF61 Smart Reader is validated as a remote platform to host IBM data capture applications. The Smart Reader allows customers to deploy RFID without a stand-alone middleware PC or separate controller device for each RFID reader or each physical location. The Intermec IF61 provides users of IBM-based RFID applications the […]

Earlier this month, IBM and OATSystems announced they would be providing software to Airbus for what they called the largest RFID project in the history of the manufacturing industry Airbus is now offering more details on what will be involved in their aggressive end-to-end restructuring of the manufacturing process. The transformation is expected to take […]

UK-based Juniper Research released a study that predicts retailers will have issued almost 3 billion mobile coupons to customers by 2011. The study also predicts that mobile ticketing will become more popular over the next few years, with 2.6 billion tickets worth $87 billion, delivered by 2011. The study attributed the increased interest in mobile […]

MasterCard and Spanish banking groups La Caja Insular de Ahorros de Canarias and EURO 6000 are to trial a miniature version of its contactless PayPass card. The mini card is small enough to attach to a keyring. The PayPass technology will enable customers to pay for purchases of less than 40 Euros by tapping their […]

Affiliated Computer Services Inc. has signed on to expand its global public transit service capabilities with the acquisition of Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Transport Management Systems business for $42.5 million. TMS is the nation’s leading provider of GPS-based fleet management systems, the acquisition makes ACS the only company capable of providing both fare collection and fleet […]

Industry trade association AIM Global marked Earth Day with an examination of environmentally-friendly RFID applications, finding that the green sector is one of the most promising segments for the RFID market. RFID is now being used in a wide array of civic environmental programs, including the monitoring of vehicle emissions, the collection of recyclable materials, […]

VeriChip plans to begin marketing its Health Link RFID implants directly to consumers later this month. The implant offers the ability to carry personal health records at all times, readily accessible to emergency medical personnel even if the patient is unconscious, unresponsive or confused. The direct-to-consumer campaign will launches April 28 in southern Florida and […]

Norwegian banking group DnB Nor and local telco Telenor have revealed plans to establish a new mobile payments program. The new mobile payments system, called Trusted Service Manager (TSM) Nordic, will be a subsidiary of Doorstep. The move comes at the same time as a public trial of near field communications (NFC)-based contactless mobile payments […]

Beginning in June, people in Wellington will be able to pay for bus tickets and everyday items in stores using the Snapper card, a contactless smart card that investor Infratil hopes will become more widely used than conventional eftpos cards, reports New Zealand’s Stuff.co.nz. Infratil has set up a subsidiary, Snapper Services, to market the […]