Great Falls, Va.-based epcSolutions, Inc., announced the release of version 3.5 of its RFID software, RFIDTagManagerTM. The 3.5 release now provides complete DoD mandate compliance, with the added benefit of UID. With the 3.5 release, it is possible to submit a combined RFID/UID WAWF remittance and material handling document, as well as a hard copy […]

After a few years’ worth of successful pilot testing, Purdue is ready to tag – for real – and track bottles of the controlled painkiller OxyContin, RFID Journal reports. The company plans plans to migrate from the Symbol EPC Class 0 passive UHF inlays it currently uses to EPC Gen 2 passive UHF inlays containing […]

Purdue Pharma plans to integrate Impinj’s high-speed, RFID-enabled pharmaceutical packaging line. The production-level deployment of Impinj’s GrandPrix UHF RFID suite – which includes Speedway readers and tags powered by Monza chips – is scheduled for the second quarter of 2007. Purdue Pharma Selects Impinj Gen 2 RFID Item-Level Tagging Technology for First-of-Its-Kind High-Speed Packaging Line […]

Bruno Moreau, a co-founder of French contactless card provider ASK, has been named the company’s new CEO, replacing another co-founder, Georges Kayanakis, who will be retiring by the end of the year. Sophia-Antipolis–Bruno Moreau, ASK co-founder, former Deputy General Manager and Business Development Manager at ASK, has taken over ASK’s CEO position. Georges Kayanakis, had […]

Alien Technology’s new CEO is George W. Everhart, a man with more than 25 years of “executive leadership experience” in a number of companies, including 3Com Corporation, Fujitsu Personal Computer Corporation, and Apple Computer. Morgan Hill, Calif.-based Alien manufactures tags and other RFID products for the retail, consumer, manufacturing, defense, transportation and logistics, pharmaceutical, and […]

RFID cell phones are on the way. Today’s clue: Gentag, Inc. was issued a patent that will allow it to create RFID-based sensor networks for consumer, industrial, and government applications. The emergence of near-field communications (NFC) is expected to accelerate the availability of RFID cell phones. Gentag to Piggyback on NFC Technology to Read RFID […]

Intermec, that Everett, Wash., company known for its RFID readers, printers, tags, and similar whatnots, is donating a slew of mobile hardware to the University of Arkansas’ RFID Research Center. The newly formed university is focused on the retail, manufacturing, and transportation domains – students and burgeoning RFID experts examine the use of RFID and […]

IBM’s clients will be able to securely share and analyze accurate and real-time data generated by RFID tags thanks to the computer Goliath’s new WebSphere RFID Information Center. The technology is based on a recently completed EPCglobal standard called EPCIS, which provides a standard way to securely communicate the data created by sensors and RFID […]

RFID tagging on an item-level for pharmaceuticals is 100 percent reliable, according to packager Owens-Illinois (O-I) and RFID company Impinj. Two demonstrations were conducted at the RFID Health Care Industry Adoption Summit in Washington, using a near-field ultrahigh frequency (UHF) Gen 2 RFID solution consisting of readers and chips from Impinj and item-level embedded RFID […]

Data’s encrypted, alright. But that doesn’t mean it’s safe among slick drug counterfeiting types, who are capable of cloning captured tags. What you need is strong readers and mutual authentication, say the folks at SecureRF, which just announced a new RFID tag with onboard security and cold-chain management features. The startup’s latest UHF tag includes […]