Systems integrator Miles Technologies announced its support for Avery Dennison’s Gen 2 RFID inlays, to be used in Benchmark LAB, a Chicago-based training center designed to provide RFID users with a real-world factory setting for RFID training and certification. The RFID Benchmark LAB is a training center offering courseware to help users achieve the CompTIA(r) […]

In ceremonies at Sydney’s Mascot Airport, the Australian Defense Force (ADF) launched the first RFID-tagged shipments from Australia into the Middle East that can be automatically tracked by interoperable RFID networks built for coalition forces by Savi Technology, a Lockheed Martin company. The shipments aboard an air freighter launched Australia’s full-scale deployment of active RFID-tagged […]

In a move intended to help the company transform itself into a high-tech drug management company, InfoLogix acquired an RFID patent from DDMS Holdings. The “patent” actually consists of five U.S. patents and 10 pending patent applications, and allows coverage to be extended to applications in more than 30 countries including China and Japan, as […]

While only 6.5 percent of retailers surveyed are spending money on RFID technology today, twice that have budget allocated toward RFID implementation, says a new report by Aberdeen Group. In “RFID: Roadmap for Retail,” the consulting and market research firm reveals that retailers are dropping mandate-driven RFID initiatives in favor of programs that will address […]

Attention, legal types: FileTrail, Inc., has unveiled its RFID Tracking Kit, which provides a comprehensive but economical “solution” for file tracking and records management for the small to medium-sized law firm. The latest kit combines FileTrail’s browser-based software with Gen 2 RFID technology – straight out of the box.   

Wal-Mart has partnered with the University of Arkansas and Blue Cross Blue Shield to study how RFID devices might best be used to improve the health-care industry’s supply-chain challenges. According to online publication Campus Technology, Wal-Mart is pledging $1 million over the next five years to open the Center for Innovation in Health Care Logistics, […]

Alien Technology Corporation today announced that Alien Gen2 RFID readers and tags are being deployed as part of the U.S. Navy’s ATAC (Advanced Traceability and Control) program to help manage the movement and tracking of Navy and U.S. Marine Corps retrograde materials from overseas back to Naval Aviation Depots and commercial vendor repair facilities in […]

How can RFID help secure the pharmaceutical supply chain? Learn about ePedigrees and whatnot this month. Louis Parks, founder and CEO of SecureRF Corporation will give a presentation titled “RFID in the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain – Security Challenges and Opportunities” on Wednesday, April 25, from 3:15-4:15 p.m. at INTERPHEX2007 conference Jacob K. Javits Convention Center […]

U.K. express parcel delivery firm City Link is now up and running with what the publication Supply & Demand Chain Executive calls “the world’s largest deployment of Wi-Fi-based active radio frequency identification(RFID) tags.” In the first stage of deployment, RFID tag manufacturer AeroScout and its UK partner JDH Consultancy Limited, installed 15,000 specially designed, rugged […]

Dates: March 27 – 28, 2007 Venue: Gaylord Texan Resort Location: Dallas, Texas URL: http://www.shorecliffcommunications.com/RFID07/ Contact: CMP Technology, click here Description: RFID World 2007 returns to Dallas for the RFID/EPC industry’s largest industry exhibition, conference and demonstration. Attend to meet RFID systems suppliers, integrators, enabling solutions providers – and hear educational sessions on RFID in […]