An innovative new technology that strengthens PINs and passcodes with one-time grids and Personal Identification Patterns (PIP) is explored. Executive Editor Chris Corum speaks with the technology’s inventors and corporate leaders from GrIDsure on their new pattern-based unique IDs. Download MP3. Please contact [email protected] with any comments or suggestions. A brief visual explanation A user […]

ZDNet Asia reports that a project called RFID Ecosystem, where researchers give RFID tags to 50 voluntary participants to put on either themselves on their belongings, is in the works. The location of the tags will be recorded every five seconds, saved to a database and published to Web pages, ZDNet reports. The tracking, facilitated […]

The National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (Nectec) in Thailand has rolled out a five-year RFID roadmap to promote the local RFID industry and to serve potential business sectors, The Bangkok Post reports. The five-year roadmap (from 2008 to 2012) focuses on RFID use in Thailand for tracking animals and food, logistics, transportation and in […]

A story appearing in this week’s FORTUNE (by way of CNN Money) follows the charming equestrian escapades of Heidi Lemack-Beck, who “rides her horse Jazzmine around the arena at Rhythm & Blues Stables in Allentown, N.J., six pairs of electronic eyes watch every move of these skilled competitors.” How so? Cameras are tracking track the […]

The Robeson County Public Library in Lumberton, N.C., plans to install an RFID System from Integrated Technology Group (ITG), a division of Vernon Library Supplies Inc., according to a news release that went out earlier this morning. The new system will work in conjunction with the library’s existing integrated library system from Polaris, a pioneer […]

Tagsys USA Inc. has named Bill Stuek as its CEO, effective immediately, to replace Elie Simon (whom officials say is leaving the RFID systems maker to pursue other interests), Bizjournals reports. Stuek will serve as both chairman and CEO of Cambridge-based Tagsys, which makes RFID reader systems and tags. Originally founded in France in 2001, […]

Students at the University of Washington are about to begin a large-scale simulation of a future in which you and your items are tracked by tiny monitoring devices we know as RFID tags, according to a news item Wired’s science blog posted earlier. The gist: Volunteer students, engineers and staff will wear electronic tags on […]