Alien Technology has reached a partnership agreement with Chinese RFID manufacturer Arizon RFID Technology Co. Ltd., to produce Alien inlays for the Chinese market. Arizon has one of the world’s largest RFID manufacturing facilities and is well-positioned in the Chinese market, and Alien brings extensive experience in manufacturing mass volumes of inlays and wide name […]

Authorities at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach plan to go live with their new RFID security systems for trucks accessing the ports on November 1, 2008. As that deadline looms, the number of applications for the Drayage Truck Registry is exceeding expectations. One of the benefits of the new system is that, […]

Expanding on news first reported yesterday, the Army Program Manager Joint–Automated Information Technology (PM J-AIT) office has awarded a contract for the purchase of passive RFID technology. ODIN Technologies has been named as a prime contractor in the deal, and joining ODIN in that role are CDO Technologies, Code Plus, Lowry Computer Products Inc., Northrop […]

RFID labeling has cut down significantly on errors at one unit of Mayo Clinic, according to a new study. A new system implemented last year at the clinic’s high-volume gastroenterology and colorectal surgery outpatient endoscopy unit has significantly reduced the frequency of mislabeled specimens, according to the study presented this week at the annual meeting […]

ODIN Technologies has been selected as the prime contractor for a $75 million U.S. military contract. The Passive Radio Frequency Identification (pRFID) contract was awarded by the US Army’s Product Manager Joint-Automatic Identification Technology Office for total AIT and RFID. Under the terms of the contract, ODIN will work with its partners SRA, Unisys, KTS […]

Systems integrator CDO Technologies will deliver passive RFID hardware, software and professional services to the Department of Defense, U.S. Coast Guard, North Atlantic Treaty Organization and other federal agencies–a contract with a potential value of $75.5 million. Under the contract terms, CDO can be awarded task orders from the Army, Defense Logistics Agency and others […]

Fujitsu Transaction Solutions Inc. announced that Staples Business Depot will install additional stores with AbsoluteSKY’s intelliTRACKER inventory tracking system. The announcement comes on the heels of the results from an initial five-store pilot of the system. During the pilot, the intelliTRACKER system proved more accurate than physical counts, and shrinkage for the tagged inventory was […]

Datamars announced the expansion of its RFID reader portfolio with the launch of the new high-frequency, mid-range reader, R-IN1300 MID, suited to applications in the industrial laundry sector where manual count and sorting processes are required. Datamars is a global supplier of RFID-based solutions for textile and companion animal identification. With its reduced size and […]

Syntag Manufacturing LLC signed an agreement with the Peerless Chain Company to provide synthetic, durable RFID Chain Tags. RFID Chain tags provide an electronic interface via an internal radio transponder to computer driven inspection systems and asset tracking programs. The Syntag product is a patent pending engineered composite material that overcomes the radio frequency blocking […]

ImageID, a provider of image-based supply chain solutions, announced DUAL (Detection of Unlabeled Asset’s Location), the only currently technology capable of detecting and indicating the location of untagged assets on a pallet. The reader enables the tracking of packages or other assets that have corrupted tags, tags that are hidden from view, or ones that […]