Bruno Moreau, a co-founder of French contactless card provider ASK, has been named the company’s new CEO, replacing another co-founder, Georges Kayanakis, who will be retiring by the end of the year. Sophia-Antipolis–Bruno Moreau, ASK co-founder, former Deputy General Manager and Business Development Manager at ASK, has taken over ASK’s CEO position. Georges Kayanakis, had […]

Alien Technology’s new CEO is George W. Everhart, a man with more than 25 years of “executive leadership experience” in a number of companies, including 3Com Corporation, Fujitsu Personal Computer Corporation, and Apple Computer. Morgan Hill, Calif.-based Alien manufactures tags and other RFID products for the retail, consumer, manufacturing, defense, transportation and logistics, pharmaceutical, and […]

Want to see a quick ROI with your RFID investment? Think again. According to The Worldwide Manufacturing Top 10 Predictions report, most companies continue to resist moving beyond RFID pilots for the lack of business justification, although tag prices have decreased and new technology generations have improved effectiveness. According to the report, the long term […]

Nokia’s new NFC-capable handset can “touch to connect” to a wide range of services, including information sharing, service initiation and payment and ticketing. The slim phone was introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Las Vegas–At the 40th annual Consumer Electronics Show here, attendees are displaying credentials to enter the show floor where […]

VeriChip (a subsidiary of Applied Digital Solutions), earned a patent today for its portable RFID asset location system. The patent, No. # 7,116,230, combines RFID tagging technology with a portable receiver to track the location of assets within a fixed setting, such as a building or warehouse. Rather than relying on a network of fixed […]

Canada, which embraced a national cattle identification program several years ago, recognized the need for a trace back system to protect its $3 billion beef export business. Today, the nation is successfully using RFID to track cattle, according to news reports. As of Sept. 1, 2006, all Canadian cattle leaving their farm of origin were […]

Just three days into ‘07 and a number of healthcare and biotech pilots have concluded with flying colors. To start, 3M and Mayo Clinic today announced the completion of a five-month pilot program with the installation of a state-of-the-art, track-and-trace RFID system in Mayo Clinic’s endoscopy surgical suites, where patient tissue samples are collected. The […]

RFID cell phones are on the way. Today’s clue: Gentag, Inc. was issued a patent that will allow it to create RFID-based sensor networks for consumer, industrial, and government applications. The emergence of near-field communications (NFC) is expected to accelerate the availability of RFID cell phones. Gentag to Piggyback on NFC Technology to Read RFID […]

Intermec, that Everett, Wash., company known for its RFID readers, printers, tags, and similar whatnots, is donating a slew of mobile hardware to the University of Arkansas’ RFID Research Center. The newly formed university is focused on the retail, manufacturing, and transportation domains – students and burgeoning RFID experts examine the use of RFID and […]

Part of the AVISIAN Publishing Expert Panel series to be published throughout December 2006 Manuel Albers, NXP Semiconductors From ultra thin smart card ICs that are finer than a human hair, to infusing an extra layer of patient safety to pharmaceutical products, 2007 will bring the development of contactless and RFID technologies closer to the […]