Earlier this year, Northrop Grumman was named as one of four contractors to work on the Department of Defense’s huge RFID III contract. The company is offering some insight into its role in the $429 million, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract, which will be in effect for the next three years, with as many as seven […]

Ford Motor Company’s new concept car offers a glimpse at the auto company’s vision of the family car of the future. What does America’s least financially-troubled car maker envision the family of the near future requiring? RFID technology, among other things. The Transit Connect Family One concept has an RFID-enabled computer in the dashboard, enabling […]

Bhima & Brothers Jewellers (B&BJ), a jewelry retailers with stores throughout southern India, has introduced an RFID-enabled tracking solution. The system integrates RFID tags with handheld PDAs and point-of-sale billing mechanisms to automate many stock management functions of the jewelry industry. The RFID solution was designed by MphasiS, a division of EDS and uses hardware […]

Malaysia has become the first Asian nation to introduce a government-run livestock tracking program based on RFID technology. In the first phase of the program 80,000 head of cattle across the country will receive RFID ear tags. The program, which is funded by the Veterinary Department of Malaysia’s Ministry of Agriculture and Agro-based industries, was […]

When SNIF Labs Inc. introduced its flagship product, the SNIF tag, the target audience was America’s canine population and the owners who obsess over them. But a combination of lean financial times and imaginative university researchers have led the company to a completely different market, the staff of an Arizona hospital. SNIF tags (the acronym […]

Thanks to financial incentives offered by the state, French RFID inlay maker ASK-IntTag has moved into a former IBM assembly plant in Essex Junction, Vermont. The company, in a joint effort with Wisconsin’s WS Packaging, will adapt the facilities to produce inlays for use in drivers’ licenses, passports and transit cards. Vermont’s Department of Economic […]

China’s Daily RFID has launched a new mini RFID tag for metal surfaces. The tag, measuring just 9 millimeters in diameter, uses a 3M-designed self-adhesive backing to attach to any metal surface. The 13.56 MHz RFID Metal Tag-08 is compliant with ISO 15693 and ISO 14443 standards. The tag offers a read range of up […]