CenTrak, a provider of RTLS systems for the indoor tracking of equipment and people, has debuted its IT-740 Staff Badge, touted by the firm as the world’s thinnest hybrid active RFID tag currently on the market. Measuring in at a thickness of only 3 millimeters, the badges are nearly as thin as ordinary, non-RFID enabled […]

Motorola has announced the production of a new series of business-class fixed RFID readers. The FX7400 series of readers offer the functionality of standard readers in a sleek, compact package appropriate for retail stores, offices, and other business environments where a less industrial appearance is desirable. The lightweight reader design enables its installation under point-of-sale […]

RedPrairie Corporation, a provider of productivity software solutions, has announced it will provide mobile label printing and RFID execution applications in its warehouse management solution. The solution, which enables individual warehouse workers to encode and tag shipments, supports the Zebra P4T Series mobile thermal transfer RFID printer/encoder, as well as other printing solutions. Mobile RFID […]

RFID technology provider Alien Technology has announced the availability of a software kit which enables users to implement custom applications on Alien readers for the first time. The Alien RFID Custom Application (ARCA) kit gives Alien’s channel partners more distribution options by delivering more effective and better integrated RFID solutions to end users. As the […]

Better Online Solutions (BOS), an Israel-based RFID solutions provider, has announced the release of its BOSwine 1.0 tracking solution, an RFID-based platform for monitoring the life cycle of pigs. The system offers pig farmers the ability to better track developments in their herds, including preventative treatment for diseases such as the swine flu. The BOSwine […]

I have to admit, if you would have asked me about Twitter a couple of months ago I wouldn’t have been able to tell you what it was. But then I started reading more about the micro-blogging site and decided to investigate. I started twittering on March 26 (First tweet: Writing the summer cover story […]

China-based Invengo Technology Corporation, developer of a range of RFID products from inlays to reader modules, has named Can/U.S. Enviro-RFID as its North American distributor. Under the terms of the agreement, Can/U.S. Enviro-RFID, which bills itself as the continent’s only dedicated value-added RFID solutions distributor, will serve as Invengo’s sole channel to serve its North […]