Cost issues and a lack of consistent frequency standards are at the heart of the holdup for the pharmaceutical industry’s slow adoption of RFID, according to Health Industry Insights, an IDC company. The market research firm draws upon 143 life science industry leaders in its latest survey, which covers additional roadblocks (like security and privacy […]

Everyone’s given the government some slack over lost laptops. Just talk to the Census Bureau. But a new RFID release from AXCESS tackles that problem: the ActiveTagTM wireless RFID system for locating, tracking, and protecting laptop computer assets and criticaldocuments. The growing rate of laptop thefts has reached epidemic proportions, and reinforces the need for […]

Alien Technology’s Gen2 RFID readers and tags are being deployed as part of the U.S. Navy’s Advanced Traceability and Control program, which will help manage the movement and tracking of Navy and U.S. Marine Corps’ materials that need fixing. The materials will be traced from overseas locations like Iraq back to Naval Aviation Depots and […]

In ceremonies at Sydney’s Mascot Airport, the Australian Defense Force (ADF) launched the first RFID-tagged shipments from Australia into the Middle East that can be automatically tracked by interoperable RFID networks built for coalition forces by Savi Technology, a Lockheed Martin company. The shipments aboard an air freighter launched Australia’s full-scale deployment of active RFID-tagged […]

Millipore Corporation (NYSE:MIL), today announced that it is the first company to successfully integrate RFID technology with filtration products used to manufacture biopharmaceutical drugs. The new RFID capability will be branded as SMART Technology and will be introduced at the upcoming INTERPHEX(R) 2007 Conference, which is being held April 24-26, 2007 at the Jacob K. […]

With well more than half of all autographed items likely fake, memorabilia dealers are turning to technology for help By David Wyld, Contributing Editor The business of sports has grown rapidly worldwide. According to the most recent report from the Sports Business Journal, the size of the American sports industry has reached an astonishing US$213 […]

“Unlike other solutions in the industry that simply put encrypted data on a tag, making them easily copied or cloned, our technology makes the tag an active participant in authenticating and protecting its contents,” said SecureRF CEO, Louis Parks, upon the release of the company’s new Lime Tag for the pharmaceutical market. It ain’t no […]

Intelligentz is targeting all who need to meet Department of Defense RFID Mandate with its new Pangaea WAWF. The product, approved by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), is getting demo time at Washington, D.C., area conferences this month as an acceptable form of electronic submission for invoices and receiving reports. Instead of going through […]

Start paying attention to announcements about RFID tracking products in the pharmaceutical market. You’re going to see more of them in the coming months. AdvantaPure will feature its range of RFID tracking products at the upcoming Interphex pharmaceutical industry trade show in New York. The company’s new gamma sterilizable RFID tag, GammaTag, is designed to […]

Need a soda pronto before hopping on a flight? Frequent milers at Atlanta International are in luck. They can now make cashless payments at cold-drink vending machines using RFID-enabled credit cards. Give thanks SkyeTek, Inc., a provider of embedded RFID reader technology, which recently announced this first consumer application resulting from its partnership with Isochron […]