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News For The Week Of Oct. 27
IP Launches RFID Integration Services
RFID Transit Cards Help Retailers
Marrying Boxes and Tags
Dockside Cranes Get Brains
Matrics Lands Japanese Distributor
FEATURED STORY
TI-RFid Broadens its Spectrum
OPINION
Precedents Set
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TOP NEWS
IP Launches RFID Integration Services
International Paper spent three years deploying an RFID system at a warehouse that is part of its mill in Texarkana, Texas. Now, it wants to turn that experience into a new line of business. The world’s largest forest products company announced that its smart packaging unit will offer comprehensive RFID integration services.
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RFID Transit Cards Help Retailers
In the past six years, public transportation use in the United States has increased 22 percent, with Americans taking an estimated 9.4 billion trips in 2002. As ridership increases, the public transportation industry is looking to improve its fare payment systems. Contactless and contact smart cards are becoming an increasingly attractive option, according to the Smart Card Alliance's new white paper “Transit and Retail Payment: Opportunities for Collaboration and Convergence.”
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Marrying Boxes and Tags
Intellident, a bar code and RFID systems integrator based in Manchester, England, has accepted an offer to sell a majority shareholding in the company to the U.K. packaging specialist LINPAC Group. The exact size and value of the investment have not been disclosed, but Intellident says it will utilize the new capital to expand its offerings.
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Dockside Cranes Get Brains
WhereNet, a provider of wireless asset-management systems that utilize RFID tags to track goods, has enhanced its offering by integrating optical character recognition with technology from PACECO, a maker of cranes and other container-handling equipment for marine terminals. The new offering—called the WhereNet Marine Terminal Management Solution—replaces the manual processes that terminal operators now use to track containers from ships to terminals, and vice versa.
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Matrics Lands Japanese Distributor
Matrics, an RFID systems provider in Columbia, Md., has signed an agreement with Marubeni Corp. to become the distributor for Matrics in Japan. Marubeni will market Matrics RFID solutions through its Mighty Card subsidiary.
Full Story
FEATURED STORY
TI-RFid Broadens its Spectrum
Texas Instruments has been a leading provider of RFID tags and readers for more than a decade. The company, headquartered in Dallas, focused on low-frequency (125 KHz) and high-frequency (13.56 MHz) systems. For the past couple of years, it watched competitors selling UHF systems steal the limelight (if not market share). Now TI is getting into the UHF market in a big way. This Vendor Profile explains the company’s new market strategy.
Premium Content
OPINION
Precedents Set
Marks & Spencer has taken privacy concerns seriously in setting up an RFID trial. Other retailers would be smart to learn from its example.
Full Story
IP Launches RFID Integration Services
International Paper spent three years deploying an RFID system at a warehouse that is part of its mill in Texarkana, Texas. Now, it wants to turn that experience into a new line of business. The world’s largest forest products company announced that its smart packaging unit will offer comprehensive RFID integration services.
Full Story
RFID Transit Cards Help Retailers
In the past six years, public transportation use in the United States has increased 22 percent, with Americans taking an estimated 9.4 billion trips in 2002. As ridership increases, the public transportation industry is looking to improve its fare payment systems. Contactless and contact smart cards are becoming an increasingly attractive option, according to the Smart Card Alliance's new white paper “Transit and Retail Payment: Opportunities for Collaboration and Convergence.”
Full Story
Marrying Boxes and Tags
Intellident, a bar code and RFID systems integrator based in Manchester, England, has accepted an offer to sell a majority shareholding in the company to the U.K. packaging specialist LINPAC Group. The exact size and value of the investment have not been disclosed, but Intellident says it will utilize the new capital to expand its offerings.
Full Story
Dockside Cranes Get Brains
WhereNet, a provider of wireless asset-management systems that utilize RFID tags to track goods, has enhanced its offering by integrating optical character recognition with technology from PACECO, a maker of cranes and other container-handling equipment for marine terminals. The new offering—called the WhereNet Marine Terminal Management Solution—replaces the manual processes that terminal operators now use to track containers from ships to terminals, and vice versa.
Full Story
Matrics Lands Japanese Distributor
Matrics, an RFID systems provider in Columbia, Md., has signed an agreement with Marubeni Corp. to become the distributor for Matrics in Japan. Marubeni will market Matrics RFID solutions through its Mighty Card subsidiary.
Full Story
FEATURED STORY
TI-RFid Broadens its Spectrum
Texas Instruments has been a leading provider of RFID tags and readers for more than a decade. The company, headquartered in Dallas, focused on low-frequency (125 KHz) and high-frequency (13.56 MHz) systems. For the past couple of years, it watched competitors selling UHF systems steal the limelight (if not market share). Now TI is getting into the UHF market in a big way. This Vendor Profile explains the company’s new market strategy.
Premium Content
OPINION
Precedents Set
Marks & Spencer has taken privacy concerns seriously in setting up an RFID trial. Other retailers would be smart to learn from its example.
Full Story
