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News For The Week Of August 25
RSA Security Designs RFID Blocker
New RFID Tag with More Memory
Privacy Group Focuses on RFID
LITI Offers Retail RFID System
Flint Ink Sets Up RFID Antenna Unit
FEATURED STORY
AWID: Accessing New RFID Markets
OPINION
Save Our Infrastructure
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TOP NEWS
RSA Security Designs RFID Blocker
RSA Security, one of the leading providers of digital security products, has come up with a scheme for protecting privacy while enabling consumers and businesses to get the benefits of RFID tags. It is proposing "blocker tags" that will prevent RFID tags in the same reader field from being read.
Full Story
New RFID Tag with More Memory
Maxell, a subsidiary of Tokyo's Hitachi Maxell, has introduced the ME-Y2000 Series, a group of read-write RFID tags with more memory than the company's ME-Y1001 tag, which held 128 bytes. The three new ME-Y2000 tags, by comparison, hold 1 kilobyte, 2 kilobytes and 4 kilobytes of data.
Full Story
Privacy Group Focuses on RFID
The International Association of Privacy Professionals, a nonprofit association for privacy and security professionals, held an audio conference last week on radio frequency identification. The aim was to educate corporate privacy officers and other IAPP members about the concerns surrounding RFID.
Full Story
LITI Offers Retail RFID System
Leading Information Technology Institute, a Japanese company that sells IT systems primarily to Japan's garment industry, has launched an RFID retail inventory product. The company says its MD Shop helps staff locate products quickly, provides accurate information about what's in a store and reduces the time spent taking stock.
Full Story
Flint Ink Sets Up RFID Antenna Unit
Flint Ink, the world's second largest producer of commercial inks, has revealed the name of a previously announced unit charged with developing conductive inks that can be used for RFID antennas, printed electronics and smart packaging. The unit is called Precisia, and it already has trials for its conductive inks underway with RFID tag manufacturers, including Alien Technology and RT Circuits, as well as with a number of packaging and labeling specialists.
Full Story
FEATURED STORY
AWID: Accessing New RFID Markets
Applied Wireless Identification, an access control specialist, wants to be a player in the market for RFID supply chain systems. The company is already selling both fixed and handheld UHF and 13.56 MHz readers. And it plans to develop custom chipsets for handheld and low-cost fixed readers. This Vendor Profile explains the company's product development efforts and approach to RFID systems.
Paid Content
OPINION
Save Our Infrastructure
It’s time for governments around the world to take action to secure not just the Internet and the power generation and distribution grid, but all of the key infrastructure elements that supply chains rely on. That includes air traffic, roads, shipping lanes, ports and satellite communications.
Full Story
SPECIAL SPONSORED SECTION
RFID Opportunities and Challenges
RFID can provide a wide variety of benefits across many different industries. But there are also major obstacles to overcome in deploying the technology. The two biggest hurdles: building an infrastructure that handles the data and then making use of the data.
Full Story
RSA Security Designs RFID Blocker
RSA Security, one of the leading providers of digital security products, has come up with a scheme for protecting privacy while enabling consumers and businesses to get the benefits of RFID tags. It is proposing "blocker tags" that will prevent RFID tags in the same reader field from being read.
Full Story
New RFID Tag with More Memory
Maxell, a subsidiary of Tokyo's Hitachi Maxell, has introduced the ME-Y2000 Series, a group of read-write RFID tags with more memory than the company's ME-Y1001 tag, which held 128 bytes. The three new ME-Y2000 tags, by comparison, hold 1 kilobyte, 2 kilobytes and 4 kilobytes of data.
Full Story
Privacy Group Focuses on RFID
The International Association of Privacy Professionals, a nonprofit association for privacy and security professionals, held an audio conference last week on radio frequency identification. The aim was to educate corporate privacy officers and other IAPP members about the concerns surrounding RFID.
Full Story
LITI Offers Retail RFID System
Leading Information Technology Institute, a Japanese company that sells IT systems primarily to Japan's garment industry, has launched an RFID retail inventory product. The company says its MD Shop helps staff locate products quickly, provides accurate information about what's in a store and reduces the time spent taking stock.
Full Story
Flint Ink Sets Up RFID Antenna Unit
Flint Ink, the world's second largest producer of commercial inks, has revealed the name of a previously announced unit charged with developing conductive inks that can be used for RFID antennas, printed electronics and smart packaging. The unit is called Precisia, and it already has trials for its conductive inks underway with RFID tag manufacturers, including Alien Technology and RT Circuits, as well as with a number of packaging and labeling specialists.
Full Story
FEATURED STORY
AWID: Accessing New RFID Markets
Applied Wireless Identification, an access control specialist, wants to be a player in the market for RFID supply chain systems. The company is already selling both fixed and handheld UHF and 13.56 MHz readers. And it plans to develop custom chipsets for handheld and low-cost fixed readers. This Vendor Profile explains the company's product development efforts and approach to RFID systems.
Paid Content
OPINION
Save Our Infrastructure
It’s time for governments around the world to take action to secure not just the Internet and the power generation and distribution grid, but all of the key infrastructure elements that supply chains rely on. That includes air traffic, roads, shipping lanes, ports and satellite communications.
Full Story
SPECIAL SPONSORED SECTION
RFID Opportunities and Challenges
RFID can provide a wide variety of benefits across many different industries. But there are also major obstacles to overcome in deploying the technology. The two biggest hurdles: building an infrastructure that handles the data and then making use of the data.
Full Story
