The 6-month trial acceptance of PayPass contactless payments in select New York City subway terminals is underway. The cards and keychain tags from Citibank can be used for transit travel and anywhere else PayPass is accepted. MasterCard, MTA and Citigroup Trial Fast and Convenient “Tap & Go™” Payments in Select NYC Subway Stations NYC Subway […]

In another collaboration for world dominance in RFID (or at least to make current product lines better), Zebra Technologies Corp. just announced plans to license Magellan’s Phase Jitter Modulatin (PJM) RFID technology. What’s that, you say? “Ratified in 2004, PJM is an HF RFID system specified in an existing global standard: ISO/IEC 18000-3 mode 2, […]

RFID’s getting much bigger in Europe, as evidenced by the European Commission. The organization just announced it is launching a public consultation on RFID, says an article posted online at ZDNet UK (and on numerous other Web sites). The purpose: to learn what others think about the technology, its uses, and its future potential (in […]

Here’s the good news: Dutch trial of battery-powered RFID tags in standard medication blister packages, sponsored by Novartis, clearly shows the benefits the technology can have for patient compliance. However, cost is still too high for adoption, ccording to this article posted earlier. The study included 275 patients, 600 packs of Novartis’s hypertension medication Diovan […]

RFID-based track-and-trace provider Identec Soutions, of Lustenau, Austria, secured nearly $15 million (USD) in financing from investors, the company announced earlier this week. Identic Solutions plans to use the dough as a basis for long-term expansion and market leadership in industrial active RFID systems. This means increasing activities in system development and standardization (thus, strengthening […]

Some 1,000 Coca-Cola vending machines in Philadelphia will soon be accepting MasterCard PayPass using USA Technologies’ radio frequency-enabled e-Port payment terminal that was developed specifically to accept MasterCard PayPass and other forms of contactless payments. The roll-out follows successful trials in vending machines in New York City and Atlanta. PURCHASE, N.Y.–MasterCard International has teamed with […]

UK-based Innovision Research & Technology has released a low-cost NFC option, Topaz, which the company says is ideally designed for applications requiring a small amount of memory, such as a smart poster or one-touch set-up applications. Topaz meets the type 1 tag format of the NFC standard and is one of only three proprietary tag […]

The NFC Forum, launched in 2004 to promote and advance the use of near field communication technology, and which recently unveiled its technology architecture, laying the foundation for future NFC-enabled products, has now grown to include some 80 organizations. WAKEFIELD, Mass.–The NFC Forum, a non-profit industry association advancing the use of near field communication (NFC) […]

(This article originally appeared in a 2005 issue of RFIDOperations) By Gene J. Koprowski, RFIDOperations Faced with the prospect of millions of silicon-based RFID tags dumped in landfills, researchers are trying to create an environmentally-friendly tag. NCR Corp. researchers are now producing passive RFID tags inlaid on a roll of paper. They are experimenting with […]

Perhaps no city’s more deserving of generosity than New Orleans. And as such, one of the city’s most prominent libraries is getting a boost, RFID style. American RFID companies TAGSYS AND Integrated Technology Group (ITG) have teamed up to donate fully automated, item-level RFID infrastructure to New Orleans Public Library in the city’s Bywater neighborhood. […]