Cisco today announced an Intelligent Foundation for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) to help enterprises introduce RF technologies into the supply chain to increase visibility into product information and optimize business flow for lower operating costs. The most agile, scalable and highly secure RFID solution portfolio offered in the industry, the Cisco RFID Solution delivers integrated […]

“It’s a simple program that plays videos full screen, the playback is triggered by placing an object containing a tag on the reader. The software detects the tag and plays the video associated with it. (In the picture you can see where it was used, there was a table where some of the objects had […]

Oyster, Transport for London’s popular transit fare payment card, is about ready for a new benefit for its more than two million users. They’ll soon be able to use their contactless card to make small purchases–coffee, newspapers, milk–at participating retailers. TfL in July released what it calls its shortlist of seven companies or consortia bidding […]

Ross Stapleton-Gray is Stapleton-Gray & Associates’ principal analyst and the founder of the Sorting Door Project. What are the goals of the Sorting Door Project? It is intended to examine RFID, surveillance and privacy issues. In a nutshell, while the read ranges of passive RFID tags are fairly short, they might be readily scanned in […]

New offering promises to lower card acceptance fees and empower retailers “We had two prerequisites – installation within hours and return on investment within months,” said CEO Tom Bartz when announcing Accelitec’s new contactless payment solution. These are lofty goals for any payment system, but particularly for one that can enable credit, e-check/ACH, and stored […]

In an effort to foster the integration of its eNFC chips into handsets and consumer electronics, INSIDE is offering a new toolkit to industry developers. INSIDE helps the mobile industry integrate the eNFC chip in all consumer electronic devices Aix-en-Provence, France – August 10th, 2005: INSIDE is proud to announce the launch of a set […]

Gulf States Toyota, a regional Toyota distributor for 145 dealers, has selected IBM and WhereNet Corp., both leaders in wireless solutions for tracking and managing enterprise assets, to provide an active RFID tracking system for processing more than 190,000 cars annually. Gulf States Toyota made the investment in the system to better serve its dealers, […]

“A cross-correlation algorithm that assesses the degree of similarity between the base-line scan and the new scan allows the paper’s identity to be verified. The odds of two pieces of paper having similar patterns are greater than 1,000 to one. These fingerprints raise the possibility of securing documents without resorting to controversial solutions like RFID […]

The latest ammunition in the continuing struggle to keep secure areas secure may come in the form of a small handheld biometric reader that can identify a fingerprint or read a bar code off a truck, license tag, or ID card. With contact and contactless capability, the new reader from the Canadian company, Labcal, can […]

“The application uses high-frequency RFID tags embedded in bank seal bags that can be identified by RFID readers installed inside the bank’s network of 200 safes. When a cash-in-transit employee delivers the money via seal bags, the RFID reader identifies the tag from within the metallic environment, confirming the bag’s arrival. Previously, bank employees had […]