This year’s PICNIC technology and art conference in Amsterdam featured a number of “Social RFID Games” designed to demonstrate new, fun applications of the technology as well as promote social interactions among the thousands of people attending the conference. Attendees were given their very own RFID “ik tag,” which granted them access to the games […]

Over the past six years, small appliance manufacturer Conair (Cuisinart, Waring, Rusk, Scunci) has reported tremendous success using RFID in its factories and supply chains. With RFID Conair has reportedly reduced labor costs, increased cash flow and improved inventory management and on-shelf availability. As one of Wal-Mart’s top 100 suppliers, in 2003 Conair was faced […]

French technology company Twinlinx, created by two former executives of INSIDE Contactless, has rolled out what it calls an NFC sticker that will run on the new Windows smart phone due out next month. The company’s MyMax sticker also offers backward compatibility with the earlier Windows Mobile 6.1 version. MyMax is a thin electronic sticker […]

Spain’s NextPoint Solutions has just released EPC Hotspot, its new software that shows the best location to affix RFID tags on a given product, as well as defines the highest performance configuration for RFID readers. EPC Hotspot works by creating color-coded 3D virtual representations of pallets to determine the optimum tagging area on the pallet […]

Dress for Success South Central PA, a charity organization that provides professional attire and career development tools for disadvantaged women, has announced its plan to implement an RFID inventory management system in its three stores, mobile unit and warehouse. Using retail RFID projects as a model, Dress For Success has selected a solution that combines […]

The Philippines’ Land Transportation Office (LTO) has mandated that beginning in October of this year all motorists will be required to install RFID tags in their vehicles, according to a report on BusinessWorld.com. The project marks an attempt by the government to crack down on cart theft, unregistered vehicles, and other violations. The tags, which […]

In an effort to lower logistics costs, Thailand’s National Innovation Agency (NIA) has released a report advocating nation-wide adoption of RFID logistics tracking systems for managing transportation and the shrimp industry. For monitoring metropolitan transportation, the NIA has singled out B-Move, an RFID system co-developed by Southeast Asia Technology and Burapha University’s Logistics Department. Under […]

AeroScout announced that York Hospital in Pennsylvania has implemented AeroScout’s Wi-Fi-based RFID asset tracking solution in emergency, biomedical engineering and transportation departments. The solution deployed at York Hospital, a 580-bed WellSpan community teaching hospital, consists of AeroScout’s MobileView software and Wi-Fi tags. These tags are attached to mobile hospital assets, including gurneys, infusion pumps, feeding […]

The Southern Sydney Regional Organization of Councils (SSROC) is working to outfit eight libraries in New South Wales, Australia with RFID tracking systems, a move that would require the purchase of 1.5 million tags. The SSROC believes that implementing an RFID system complete with security gates at entrances and exits will significantly reduce incidences of […]

SCM Microsystems and Bluehill ID AG, have entered into an agreement to combine their respective companies, subject to certain regulatory and shareholder approvals. Under the agreement SCM will make an offer to the Bluehill ID shareholders to acquire all shares of Bluehill. Both companies are focused on access control, identity management and RFID technologies and […]