Yahoo! News – Radio Rx “The Red Cross is planning to run a pilot test using RFID to track blood packets, and several drugmakers are experimenting with RFID in distribution and packaging centers. Pharmacy chains, hospitals and HMOs hope to use the technology on boxes of drugs to aid in recalls. And once the chips […]

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–July 30, 2003–Wave Systems Corp. (NASDAQ: WAVX) and Cubic Defense Applications, the defense segment of Cubic Corp. (AMEX: CUB), today announced a strategic partnership where Cubic will integrate Wave’s EMBASSY(R) technologies into a new line of versatile smart card readers. These readers will be offered in several form factors, such as standalone Universal […]

BY ANDY WILLIAMS, CONTRIBUTING EDITOR A focus on securing borders is leading countries to review their official government-issued documents. Simple paper documents—the passports of old—are simply no longer adequate in this modern, post 9-11 world. This is giving rise to the inclusion of advanced identification technologies, including biometrics, PKI, and contactless chips. While countries have, […]

Contactless technology is playing a major role in tracking patients—U.S. personnel as well as prisoners of war—in Iraq. Fleet Hospital Three, a nine-acre, 116-bed facility operated by the U.S. Navy in Southern Iraq, is using radio frequency identification technology from Texas Instruments to track the status and location of hundreds of wounded soldiers, airmen, prisoners […]

Princeton Junction, NJ, February 24, 2003 – Speakers and attendees at the recently concluded Smart Card Alliance Mid-Winter Conference were all in agreement that applying technology to protect identities and the privacy of individuals presents an excellent market opportunity. “The smart card industry is positioned ideally to address macro-trends in the growing smart card market,” […]

   Wyse Technology, the domain experts in server-centric computing (SCC), will demonstrate how thin clients can create a more secure computing enterprise at the 2003 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference, this week in San Diego. With increased pressure on healthcare organizations to adhere to the new rules of the Health Insurance Portability and […]

Pharmaceuticals giant Pfizer employs more than 8,000 people at its manufacturing facility in Sandwich, Kent, England. When the company investigated access control alternatives to better secure facilities and protect staff, they looked to contactless technology to provide the solution. A team of vendors joined forces to deliver a multifunction system to the company. Swiss RFID […]