Over the next few months, 12 mobile operators will run trials of contactless mobile payment services in Australia, France, Ireland, Korea, Malaysia, Norway, The Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Turkey and the U.S. as a precursor to commercial launches. The MicroRead® NFC chip from INSIDE Contactless will power the critical contactless payment transactions in most of the […]

Innovision Research & Technology has announced the winners of its NFC Innovation Awards, the first UK-based competition to find the most innovative applications of NFC tags for the everyday mobile handset user. The competition required UK-based academic teams of up to four participants to produce an abstract proposing a novel NFC application using the firm’s […]

Innovision Research & Technology has announced the winners of its NFC Innovation Awards, the first UK-based competition to find the most innovative applications of NFC tags for the everyday mobile handset user. The competition required UK-based academic teams of up to four participants to produce an abstract proposing a novel NFC application using the firm’s […]

EM Microelectronic, the semiconductor company of the Swatch Group, has shipped over 250 Million Tag-Talks-Only (TTO) UHF RFID chips, primarily for the manufacturing of intelligent labels for garment tagging in the fashion industry. Marks & Spencer’s RFID initiative in apparel is known to be the world’s largest item-level tagging project and thereby establishes EM’s UHF […]

Confidex, a company specializing RFID design, manufacturing and engineering, has unveiled Confidex Pino, an EPC Generation 2 RFID tag that enables users to economically track wooden pallets, one of the most common transit items used throughout the world. RFID Tags: Confidex Introduces New RFID Tag To Trace Wooden Assets 1/23/2008 Confidex, a fast growing company […]

Asure Software, a manufacturer of workforce management software, today announced the availability of Visual Asset Manager (VAM) for RFID. VAM for RFID extends the core asset management software of VAM for customers wanting to manage, monitor, and protect assets utilizing active RFID tags from RF Code. Asure Software Announces Active RFID Tag Integration With Its […]

Mobile provider Turkcell and Garanti Bank in Turkey this month launched a Near Field Communication trial for mobile payments involving a contactless MasterCard PayPass credit card application stored on the SIM card of a mobile phone. E-Kart, collaborating with Giesecke & Devrient is supplying the NFC-enabled SIM cards. In addition, Venyon, a joint venture between […]

Wal-Mart says it’ll charge suppliers to its warehouse stores a fee of $2 for every pallet not tagged with RFID starting Jan. 30, InformationWeek reports. Yowzers! According to the story, the timeline (outlined in a letter earlier this month to Sam’s Club) is as follows: The timeline is as follows: Jan 30, 2008: pallet-level tagging […]

Mobile provider Turkcell and Garanti Bank in Turkey this month launched a Near Field Communication trial for mobile payments involving a contactless MasterCard PayPass credit card application stored on the SIM card of a mobile phone. E-Kart, collaborating with Giesecke & Devrient is supplying the NFC-enabled SIM cards. In addition, Venyon, a joint venture between […]

Unisys Corp. has won a task order worth as much as $62.2 million over five years from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency to deploy readers and other technologies to support the use of RFID tags on new identification cards at the U.S. borders, Washington Technology reports. Unisys of Blue Bell, Pa., will install […]