Libramation, a Canadian provider of library automation technology, has announced it will begin using a new RFID chip. The chip, from NXP, offers both increased privacy protection and a 40-year guarantee for data retention. NXP’s ICODE SLI-SY chip will be used in all of Libramation’s future RFID projects, but company representatives emphasized the appeal that […]

L-1 Identity Solutions has won the State Department’s contract for a new border crossing card. The five-year, $25 million contract will provide as many as 10 million cards to visa applicants who frequently cross the U.S.-Mexico border. The RFID-enabled border crossing card is integrated with the U.S. passport card system. L-1 began producing the passport […]

Sonoco, the world’s largest manufacturer of fiber-based tubes and cores used in packing paper products, has launched an RFID-enabled tracking solution for its customers. In cooperation with IPICO, Sonoco created the Intellicore, a fiber core with embedded RFID tags to enable customers to automatically identify, track and locate paper rolls at any point in the […]

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s US VISIT program is one of the largest identification projects started after 9/11. The program has been collecting fingerprints from travelers entering the U.S. for years, but the program is supposed to also be collecting them at exit to confirm that individual’s are leaving the country. Regarding ID Editor […]

The U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced that the new U.S. Passport Card is in production and is being distributed. The Passport Card is a wallet-sized document for land and sea travel between the United States and Mexico, Canada, the Caribbean and Bermuda. It is not valid for international […]

Planners of South Africa’s Govtech 2008, a large government-sponsored technology conference, will issue RFID-enabled name tags to track attendees. The host organization, the State Information Technology Agency (SITA), plans to use information gathered through the tags to improve future events. The tracking system will feature active RFID personnel tags issued to each conference attendees and […]

ABI Research has placed Motorola at the top of its latest worldwide ranking of passive UHF reader vendors. Alien Technology and Impinj filled the second and third slots in what researchers called a tight competition between the industry leaders. ABI points to a combination of strong shipments, solid product innovation, and persistent market presence from […]