Minnesota’s Digital Angel Corp., which makes identification, location-tracking and condition-monitoring technology, announced today that it has received an order for 630,000 compliant RFID tags valued at more than $600,000 from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The cattle ear tags are for the USDA’s National Animal Identification System (NAIS) initiative. Digital Angel Corporation Receives […]

The Hose Track Identification and Lifecycle Analysis System from AdvantaPure – just released last week – is supposedly full of advantages. The tracking system, developed for hose assemblies and is now used for other process components (e.g., bio-bags, pumps, filters, diaphragm valves, UV lamps, tanks, and vessels), uses RFID to track individual parts. In tracking, […]

Are there still Americans who haven’t heard about Wal-Mart’s efforts with RFID? Perhaps so. It certainly explains to some degree why prominent stores are working to enhance its visibility. Last week, Wal-Mart, Best Buy and other members of EPCglobal’s Media and Entertainment Industry Interest Group announced they are conducting an item-level DVD-tagging pilot with EPC […]

By Russ Ryan, Vice President, National Biometric Security Project Numerous national and civilian security applications will see improvement in functionality because of newly published biometric standards. Biometrically enabled passports will be made more robust because of new standards that define a general specification for physical characteristics, layout and security. A new FBI Electronic Fingerprint Transmission […]

Visa has made a new key fob payment device embedded with Visa payWave available: the Visa Micro Tag. The Visa Micro Tag is designed to easily attach to a key ring, and allows cardholders to pay by simply waving their Visa Micro Tag in front of a contactless payment terminal without the need to physically […]

Visa is partnering with a Taiwan telephone company and bank along with mobile phone provider Nokia to launch a six-month trial of near field communication. Besides NFC, the program will also include over-the-air (OTA) personalization, Visa payWave contactless payments and merchant direct marketing offers sent directly to the phone. Taiwan, Singapore, San Francisco–Visa International is […]

Secretary Michael Chertoff says the use of Pass cards, as part of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, will be ready to go by next summer. But at least one industry expert tells Government Computer News this week that DHS running out of time to test and deploy a new technology solution in the proposed passport-alternative […]

As debates continue over cross-border identification schemes, privacy advocates as well as technology experts are trying to avoid a security threat by not allowing simple RFID enhanced drivers’ licenses to be deployed. According to InterGovWorld.com, “one US security expert said, the RFID tag is stupid.” The real goal is to find a way to speed […]

Harvard University Employees Credit Union has begun issuing Debit MasterCard cards enabled with the MasterCard® PayPass™ payment functionality, allowing Harvard University employees, faculty, students, alumni and Harvard teaching hospitals and affiliated organizations the speed and convenience of contactless payments. Harvard University Employees Credit Union is the first credit union to announce that it is issuing […]

Worldwide, legislation is driving RFID rollouts for animal tagging, often subsidized by governments. Why? concerns over animal health, potential bio-terrorism, food safety, international trade, and improving supply chain management have made animal and meat traceability essential. With Asia Pacific having the highest livestock population globally, the RFID animal tagging market in the region is set […]