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RFID Snuffs Out Inefficiencies at Tobacco Plant At its cigarette factory in Calcutta, ITC passive RFID tags help monitor tobacco moisture content at each stage of production.

Ohio Boutique Takes a Unique Approach to RFID Clothing merchant Industry Standard uses the technology to support social retailing, which lets shoppers confer with friends before making buying decisions.

Sonrai RFID-Enables Its Trash Compacters Retailers can use the RFID tag reads as a final data point indicating goods have been received and put out on the sales floor.

RFID Journal, AIM Europe Produce Auto-ID Seminar At the third annual RFID Journal LIVE! Europe conference and exhibition, AIM Europe will host preconference sessions to educate attendees about a range of auto-ID topics, including how to use bar codes and RFID in tandem.

HP, Nosco, SupplyScape, Systech Intl. Team Up on E-Pedigree Solution The companies are offering an integrated solution of software, hardware, RFID tags and 2-D bar-coded labels and services designed to help fight drug counterfeiting and create electronic pedigrees.

European EPC Competence Center to Provide Training at RFID Journal LIVE! Europe 2007 The EECC, founded by GS1 Germany, Deutsche Post World Net, Karstadt Warenhaus and Metro Group, will share experiences gained by these companies over the past four years with attendees looking to leverage EPC/RFID technologies.

Alien Adds Five Products to Gen 2 Portfolio Alien Technology's CEO told EPC Connection attendees that the company is seeing significant sales growth for closed-loop applications of RFID, rather than demand from goods manufacturers seeking to comply with retail-industry tagging mandates.

EPCglobal Certifies EPCIS Software, Foresees Stronger RFID Adoption At its annual member conference, EPCglobal says its work in setting and testing industry standards is beginning to pay off, and that its focus has shifted to helping companies deploy RFID.

HP Canada Partners With Universities to Create RFID Labs The joint effort, participants say, helps all involved parties conduct RFID pilots, carry out research and better serve the needs of industrial companies and other end users.

Wal-Mart, Best Buy Spearhead DVD-Tagging Pilot The retailers, along with other EPCglobal members from the media and entertainment industry, are testing RFID's ability to provide visibility into where items are located, when they were placed there and when more need to be ordered.