Joining the growing list of casinos around the world which are introducing RFID-enabled solutions to their gaming tables, the Foxwoods Resort Casino has announced it is replacing its old chips with RFID-enhanced ones. The casino in eastern Connecticut, which is owned by the Mashantucket Pequot tribe, is phasing out 49 different types of chips used […]

Tego Inc., a RFID tag provider headquartered in Waltham, Mass., has introduced a new passive tag with a high memory capacity. The company claims that the new TegoTag has broken through previous memory limitation barriers for tags without a power source, offering up to 2500 times the storage capacity of the average passive tag on […]

Earlier this month, Unisys Corporation announced its selection by the U.S. Army Program Executive Office-Enterprise Information Systems as one of four contractors for the U.S. government’s RFID III program. The program has announced the full roster of contractors; in addition to Unisys, Systems & Processes Engineering Corporation , Northrop Grumman Information Technology and Savi, a […]

Ferroxcube, an international supplier of soft ferrites, has introduced a new HF RFID tag. The Ferroxtag, available with epoxy and silicon seal packaging, is designed for use in specialized environments including in liquids or on metal surfaces. The tag construction features oxygen-iron powder sintered (a process used in metallurgy and ceramics in which a solid […]

China’s Daily RFID has introduced a new UHF RFID-enabled document management solution. The system integrates RFID smart labels and multi-tag RFID readers to enable efficient tracking and management of documents. The new solution places adhesive UHF RFID labels on each document. The labels have a long-range readability of up to 5 to 6 meters and […]

Zetes Industries, a European provider of automatic ID solutions including RFID products, will take over the activities of Bopack Systems, a developer of labeling machines. The move expands Zetes’ capabilities in the “print and apply” sector of the identification industry. In addition to the design and manufacture of labeling machines, Bopack had positioned itself as […]

GAO RFID Inc. has launched a Reverse Polarity RFID antenna cable. The coaxial cable is used for antenna connections that use an RP-SMA (reverse polarity) male connector on one end and an RP-SMA female connector on the other end. The new cable is designed to make connections in situations where a UHF antenna must be […]

Integrated Technology Group (ITG), a provider of library automation technologies, has partnered with Sirsidynix, a software company also specializing in library automation systems, to implement RFID-enabled solutions for libraries in Oregon and Kentucky. In Oregon, the Albany Public Library is updating a recently remodeled building with several solutions from ITG, including Apex XpressCheck patron self-service […]

The Sam’s Club division of Wal-Mart has announced a dramatic decrease in the penalty fee it will charge suppliers who do not use RFID-enabled pallets to ship their goods. The change comes after major changes a year ago in Wal-Mart’s own RFID requirements. The Sam’s Club plan originally required suppliers to be tagging the pallets […]

Frankfurt, Germany, will play host to the Large-area, Organic and Printed Electronics Convention (LOPE-C) this June. The convention, co-sponsored by the Organic Electronics Association and Messe Frankfurt Ausstellungen GmbH, will cover a broad range of topics associated with the developing technology, from the materials, processes and equipment involved in the manufacture of organic electronics, to […]