There’s a black market for luxury car parts, and they’re especially vulnerable movin port to port across a supply chain. Thus, European logistics service provider Unipart is now tracking Jaguar car parts in real time (as they move from the U.K. to New York-area and Oakland, Calif. ports) via the SaviTrak RFID info service provided […]

Will this mean the end of Mad Cow disease? St. Paul, Minn.’s Digital Angel Corporation says sales of its electronic RFID livestock tags in Canada and the U.S. are doing so well, the company expects to have sold 1.9 million tags by the end of September. That’s nearly 12 percent higher than the total of […]

Intermec Inc.’s RFID Gen 2 equipment got the EPCglobal stamp of approval today, when the international, not-for-profit standards organization awarded Intermec’s RFID Large Rigid Tag andIM5 RFID radio module the “Gen 2 hardware interoperability” marks – after successful completion of independent testing by MET Laboratories in Baltimore, Md. The Intermec RFID Large Rigid Tag is […]

NXP, formerly Philips Semiconductors, has been tapped as one of the suppliers of the United States’ new e-passport project. The company’s SmartMX passport chip solutions meet the ICAO data security and access standard selected for the security in new passports. This standard prevents illicit reading of e-passports by requiring that the passport be physically open […]

Philips Semiconductors is now sporting a new name–NXP, for “Next Experience.” The company’s CEO, Frans van Houten, released the company name during a consumer electronics show in Berlin and follows last month’s announcement of Philips’ sale of 80% of its semiconductor business to a private investment group. Fifty years of innovation and a rich IP […]

AeroScout beefed up its active Wi-fi-based RFID tag – the AeroScout T2 – with cool, new features. Among the neat-o enhancements, announced via a company press release: a built-in temperature monitor and motion sensors for asset-management capabilities. The motion sensor provides transmission control based on the movement of the tag, improving real-time location accuracy in […]

Infineon Technologies AG today announced that it received a multi-million piece purchase order from the United States government to supply the highly-secure integrated circuit technology for the new electronic passport. Designed to facilitate international travel by allowing automatic identity verification, faster immigration inspections and greater border protection and security, the new passports include a computer […]

As the U.S. begins issuance of the new ePassports to citizens, Infineon has received an order for secure chips for the new program in the “multi-million piece” quantity. Government forecasts suggest that the U.S. will distribute 15 million of the new passports in the first full year of issuance. New US Passports Contain Secure Identification […]

Real-time location/sensor company RF Code unveiled a new business model that includes a suite of products to help track high-value assets and people. Yes, people. And that’s not all, says the press release issued by RF Code. Under the TAVIS™ RTLS platform name, RF Code is expanding its hardware, software, professional services and support capabilities, […]

Semiconductor and RFID tech company Impinj today unveiled its new Gen 2 RFID chips – for those who want the kind of chips that can store detailed product information for specialized applications. The new chips with enhanced functionality are the Monza/ID chips with secure, factory-programmed product identification numbers, as well as Monaco/64, the first in […]