RedPrairie Corporation, a provider of productivity software solutions, has announced it will provide mobile label printing and RFID execution applications in its warehouse management solution. The solution, which enables individual warehouse workers to encode and tag shipments, supports the Zebra P4T Series mobile thermal transfer RFID printer/encoder, as well as other printing solutions. Mobile RFID […]

The six companies involved in an NFC pilot in Switzerland have deemed the three month test a success as 90% of those participating said they liked the new technology because it was convenient and easy to use. The same percentage also said they would use the technology when it became commercially available. Credit Suisse, PostFinance, […]

Participating Subway restaurants in Canada will soon be accepting Visa’s contactless payWave cards. Chase Paymentech, the merchant acquirer of record for Subway in Canada, will handle the implementation and provide support for the contactless terminals. “We are looking forward to the opportunity to understand the impact of contactless on speed of service as well as […]

The University of Georgia’s new electronic ticketing system for football games, scheduled to be implemented this fall, may mean some empty seats since students will be unable to give away their unused tickets to other students. According to the Red and Black, the university’s independent student newspaper, a donation bank, where students can place their […]

RFID technology provider Alien Technology has announced the availability of a software kit which enables users to implement custom applications on Alien readers for the first time. The Alien RFID Custom Application (ARCA) kit gives Alien’s channel partners more distribution options by delivering more effective and better integrated RFID solutions to end users. As the […]

Better Online Solutions (BOS), an Israel-based RFID solutions provider, has announced the release of its BOSwine 1.0 tracking solution, an RFID-based platform for monitoring the life cycle of pigs. The system offers pig farmers the ability to better track developments in their herds, including preventative treatment for diseases such as the swine flu. The BOSwine […]

What tips to cope with the downturn can you share? We know the recession is affecting everyone and is causing budget cuts, some of them massive, at colleges and universities across the country. CR80News would like to know how such budget cutbacks have affected your campus card office. Have there been layoffs? Shortened hours of […]