Tired of finding strange cats lounging about your living room, or the occasional raccoon in the liquor cabinet, all because your backdoor cat flap is a relic from the 20th century? A British firm has the solution. Cambridge Resonant Technologies has announced that its licensee SureFlap has launched the first product to include its OnTune […]

Editor Zack Martin examines the missing links in protecting and authenticating online identity for social networking sites, especially for minors. With sites like MySpace and Facebook having millions of users, some younger than ten years old, people want to talk about how to protect the children. But at what cost? And will strong authentication ever […]

The 3M Corporation has entered into a cooperative marketing agreement with RFID tech company Sirit. The agreement with 3M’s Traffic Safety Division will create a global distribution for Sirit’s tag and reader technology in a variety of applications for the Electronic Vehicle Registration and transportation markets. St. Paul, Minn.-based 3M is already a leading supplier […]

Atmel Corp. and Melexis Microelectronic Integrated Systems N.V. have announced their Yuma+ development kit for contactless, highly secure RFID transactions. The Yuma+ kit allows developers of secure RFID systems to work without an in-depth understanding of the complex details of cryptography in order to deploy secure host-client RFID systems that depend on mutual authentication and […]

The Delta View Habilitation Centre, an assisted living residential center located south of Vancouver, British Columbia, has begun using RFID tags to keep track of vital equipment. If tracking equipment is successful, administrators plan to expand the program to help keep an eye on residents suffering from dementia, reports Toronto’s Globe and Mail. Initially, the […]

Heathrow, the UK’s busiest airport, recently began a six-month trial of RFID tags for use in tracking passengers’ baggage. The trial will involve tagging around 50,000 bags each month belonging to passengers traveling or transferring on Emirates Airline between Heathrow and Dubai. The tags will only be coded with the passenger name and destination, though […]

UPM Raflatac, a leading global manufacturer of RFID tags and inlays, has opened its new, $100 million plant in Dixon, Illinois, about 100 miles west of Chicago. The plant will produce pressure sensitive labelstock. The Dixon plant is the second U.S. manufacturing presence for UPM Raflatac, and part of a nearly $270 million worldwide development […]