The chip maker's new software package enables users to read and write to an RFID tag from a PC, laptop or handheld device, by clicking on a tag icon displayed on their existing operating system's desktop to view a tag's data, and then dragging the file icon to the tag to encode it.

UPM RFID debuts a bunch of new UHF RFID tags; Voyantic announces upgrades to reader tester and measurement software; Omni-ID launches family of RFID tags for tracking tools, rental equipment; InSync Software unveils Sapphire iApp Platform 4.0 for RFID-, GPS- and sensor-driven solutions; Metalcraft offers double-sided variable printing for RFID and bar-code products; CipherLab intros UHF handheld Bluetooth RFID reader; CAEN RFID's integrated UHF RFID USB/Bluetooth interrogator; InfoChip's tiny HF Bluetooth reader, embeddable UHF tag; Jolly supports Zebra Technologies' UHF RFID printers.

The provider of software and services for the life-sciences industries has added support for EPC Gen 2 UHF tags and readers, to automate the process of conducting inventory counts of cages filled with laboratory animals, enabling billing and care records.

Researchers at North Dakota State University develop antenna-less on-metal RFID tag; HID Global introduces IronTag UHF transponder for tracking metal assets; Atlantic City, Michigan resorts add UHF RFID uniform-tracking systems; University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust implements AeroScout RTLS; Savi teams with SGS on tracking services, intros new software; Unique Micro Designs offers sample quantities of RFID tags.

A Florida group is studying ways to track the temperatures of food rations traversing the U.S. military's supply chain, and is developing software that would calculate how temperature could alter shelf-life.