Kishore Biyani-promoted Future Group, owner of brands such as Pantaloon Retail, Big Bazaar and Food Bazaar, is all set to enter into a tie-up with Cisco Systems, one of the world’s largest networking companies, to implement RFID technology across all its retail formats in India, reports India’s English newspaper, The Economic Times. According to sources, […]

San Diego, Calif., company Awarepoint Corporation, a provider of active RFID real-time location system solutions to the healthcare market, announced today it has been granted U.S. Patent No. 7,324,824. The patent covers Awarepoint’s mesh network plug-in sensor appliance and describes the use of a plug-in network appliance to perform a bridge between two wireless communication […]

Seattle-based Zonar Systems said Wednesday it is providing RFID technology to the school bus industry through its new ZPass identification system. ZPass identifies when and where a student enters or exits the school bus to enhance their safety and security. “RFID technology now makes the job easier and gives school bus operators, school officials and […]

RFID and technology developer Freedom Shopping, Inc., has reached a breakthrough with its the retail industry’s first OEM offering that plugs into existing cash registers and point-of-sale terminals to enable RFID checkout and more. “This fundamentally changes the way stores will operate – sales increase, labor costs decrease and ‘intelligent security’ reduces shrinkage,” said Rob […]

Parents Appreciate the Extra Vigilance Seattle-based Zonar Systems said today it is providing RFID technology to the school bus industry to answer the iconic 1969-television question, “It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are?” The company’s patented ZPass system identifies when and where a student enters or exits the school bus enhancing their […]

We hear Cold Storage, a Singapore supermarket chain, says it will introduce a ‘technology-enabled’ shopping trolley by the end of the year. The trolley, which has been produced by Media Cart Asia, will be able to identify the shopper’s location and profile via RFID and, as a result, will be able to display information such […]

Alien Technology and Hardcard Systems, a leading motorsports management and consulting firm, today announced the completion of the first rounds of field testing using RFID for motorsports timing and scoring. In tests conducted at Buttonwillow Raceway in California in December 2007, Hardcard and Alien used standard Gen 2 UHF RFID tags, antennas, readers and software […]