STAPLES Business Depot will equip four additional stores with AbsoluteSKY’s intelliTRACKER Product Suite in early 2008. According to a news release dispatched this morning, STAPLES’ decision follows a highly successful installation of the automated, long-range inventory tracking system by the Fujitsu/AbsoluteSKY team in May 2007. “The results have been so impressive that we want to […]

Alien Technology today announced the expansion of its RFID deployment within well-known sour cream manufacturer Daisy Brand’s distribution centers in Texas and Arizona. For Daisy, which has been using RFID to track goods since 2005, the RFID expansion in 2008 includes the installation of the new Alien ALR9900 enterprise-class readers at distribution centers in Casa […]

Wegmans Food Markets, a $4 billion supermarket operator based in Rochester, N.Y., may use RFID to improve organization and speediness to its in-store pharmacies, RFID Journal reports. According to the Journal, retailer is planning to test an RFID-based drug-tracking system, the goal of which will be to determine whether placing RFID tags on customers’ prescription […]

We’re hearing a few reports from overseas media that – despite loud protests from civil-rights groups – prisoners in the British jails may be chipped with RFID tags. “Instead of being contained in bracelets worn around the ankle, the tiny chips would be surgically inserted under the skin of offenders in the community, to help […]

TAGSYS, a maker of item-level RFID infrastructure products, today announced the Medio(TM) L400 – which it calls the industry’s first self-diagnostic and self-correcting long-range HF RFID reader. TAGSYS also announced that the Medio L400 will be compatible with the highly-anticipated, next-generation, high-performance EPCglobal RFID standard-HF Version 2 (V2)-via a simple firmware upgrade. TAGSYS Announces Intelligent […]

iDTRONIC, a supplier of RFID hardware, today introduced the high-performance UHF Long Range Reader UHF-LR with a read range of up to 10 meters. The reader is described by the company as having a “robust design,” and comes in a very small form factor, with both USB and RS232 serial interfaces. It can be connected […]

RFID technology provider Sirit Inc. and NXP Semiconductors, the independent semiconductor company and RFID chip supplier founded by Philips, today announced they will jointly host an open Webcast on Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 11 a.m. EST. The Webcast, “Capturing the Value of Gen 2 Custom Commands,” will focus on use cases and benefits of […]