RFID provider Vue Technology this week announced that New Balance, the global athletic company, has successfully implemented an item-level RFID solution to track footwear from the distribution center to the corporate factory store. Using Vue Technology’s TrueVUE Platform combined with tags from Avery Dennison Retail Information Services, and handheld and fixed RFID readers and antennas […]

STAPLES Business Depot will equip four additional stores with AbsoluteSKY’s intelliTRACKER Product Suite in early 2008. According to a news release dispatched this morning, STAPLES’ decision follows a highly successful installation of the automated, long-range inventory tracking system by the Fujitsu/AbsoluteSKY team in May 2007. “The results have been so impressive that we want to […]

TAGSYS, a maker of item-level RFID infrastructure products, today announced the Medio(TM) L400 – which it calls the industry’s first self-diagnostic and self-correcting long-range HF RFID reader. TAGSYS also announced that the Medio L400 will be compatible with the highly-anticipated, next-generation, high-performance EPCglobal RFID standard-HF Version 2 (V2)-via a simple firmware upgrade. TAGSYS Announces Intelligent […]

iDTRONIC, a supplier of RFID hardware, today introduced the high-performance UHF Long Range Reader UHF-LR with a read range of up to 10 meters. The reader is described by the company as having a “robust design,” and comes in a very small form factor, with both USB and RS232 serial interfaces. It can be connected […]

For those of you not keeping minute-to-minute tabs on New Hampshire analyses, there’s lots going on in California … and Portugal. Vue Technology, a provider of item-level RFID solutions, today announced that Byblos, a major Portuguese book retailer, has rolled out the world’s largest single-store, item-level RFID deployment in Portugal’s largest bookstore, Byblos Amoreiras. Byblos […]

German department store chain Karstadt is now piloting item-level RFID in stock system, according to news reports. Karstadt avoided the higher cost and complexity of conventional item-level RFID configurations by using ADT Security Services’ new Sensormatic iREAD RFID platform instead. In a pilot at its 30,000-square-meter Düsseldorf store, Karstadt seeks to improve its overall store […]

Progressive Gaming International, a provider of diversified products and services used in the gaming industry worldwide, and Gaming Partners International, a casino currency and table game equipment vendor, announced today that Foxwoods Resort Casino has selected the Paulson chip embedded with high-frequency RFID tracking technology along with the Chip Inventory System (CIS) table management system. […]

SkyeTek, Inc.’s embedded RFID reader technology, recently announced that Gaishan Technology, a manufacturer of products to assist the visually impaired, has adopted SkyeTek’s RFID reader technology to deliver intelligent, innovative solutions to assist the sight-impaired. RFID Reader: Gaishan Technology Leveraging SkyeTek’s Secure RFID Reader Technology To Assist The Seeing-Impaired 11/19/2007 SkyeTek, Inc., the leading provider […]

ABI’s latest batchof good news for the RFID industry is to the tune of $8.4 billion – that’s the amount the market research firm exects worldwide markets to reach in 2012. Starting from a base of more than $3.8 billion in revenue in 2007 is a a 24 percent growth over 2006, and the curve […]

Sybase iAnywhere this morning announced its “continuing momentum” for the adoption of its RFID Anywhere software infrastructure to power innovative applications developed for organizations such as MGF Logistique, Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group (DTG), Mutual Drug and Throttleman. RFID Anywhere is Sybase’s software infrastructure that provides a customizable environment for developing and managing robust, highly-distributed RFID […]