A monthly look at government activity at the state and federal levels By Ronald E. Quirk Jr., Esq., Venable LLP During the past month, RFID regulatory trends appear to have shifted. In previous months, the states and the federal government worked to introduce bills aimed at requiring retailers to protect consumer privacy. Now, some states […]

Maintenance and paperwork reductions add to benefits By Marisa Torrieri When the fleet you manage runs on an indoor landscape spanning 220 acres, it’s hard to keep track of who’s running what equipment. And if you have contractors from other companies working on the weekends, you might have no way of guaranteeing they have the […]

By John Edwards As the largest bicycle supplier in the United States and maker of some of the world’s best known models, there was no hiding from Wal-Mart’s RFID edict. And even though Pacific Cycle had no experience with RFID and Ed Matthews, the Wisconsin company’s director of information systems, possessed only a passing knowledge […]

Trailblazing retail giant decides to keep rolling out after successful world-famous pilot program By Stephen Barlas With the Gen 2 standard all but a reality, Metro Group, the large German retailer, is getting ready to push its pilot RFID program to a second stage. Since November, 20 consumer goods vendors have been tagging pallets destined […]

How secure is your ID card system? Fargo Electronics wants to help you find out. They have developed a series of self-assessment questions that will help card managers determine the gaps in their ‘supposedly’ secure ID cards. This non-proprietary interactive website tool was launched in April. “We felt there was an awareness that needed to […]

By Lauren Lowrey, Contributing Editor Don’t let the flying owl or the acronymic name fool you into thinking this new initiative isn’t soaring. WISE, Women in Security Electronics, is the newest non-profit organization to hit the security industry, and it’s headed by five prominent women in the industry. Knowing the industry needed a one-of-a-kind organization […]

Trying to account for every piece of paper running through your copiers and printers could be a lesson in futility … particularly for colleges dealing with multiple constituencies, each with different printing needs and different ways of paying for the services. Equitrac, Inc., a Plantation, Florida-based company, has been handling those document accounting functions for […]