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Mercy Medical Center Preps RFID-Enabled Gift Shop
In an effort to streamline inventory management, purchases, theft reduction and sales promotions, volunteers working at the store will apply EPC Gen 2 tags to items for sale, and read them using RFID-enabled terminals.

Boeing Approves Intelleflex Chip, Weighs Higher-Memory Fujitsu Tag
With the silicon needed for a 64-kilobit parts tag finally ready, the company is getting closer to achieving its vision for a parts-tagged plane.

Sam's Club Tells Suppliers to Tag or Pay
The Wal-Mart division has required its suppliers to apply RFID tags to pallets by Jan. 31, or it will charge a service fee to cover its cost of tagging the pallets itself.

Wegmans Eyeing RFID for Prescription Management
The supermarket operator is planning to test whether placing RFID tags on customers' prescription orders will make locating and ringing up the orders faster and more accurate.

Tracking Totes With RFID Gives Co-Op Fast Results
To cut down on theft of high-value items, a U.K. retailer cooperative has adopted RFID-enabled totes to improve shipment visibility.

Monsanto Hopes to Sow Benefits by Tagging Seed Packets
The company's Agracetus division is set to launch a pilot next month to evaluate RFID for tracking cases of experimental seeds.

An Interview With Impinj CEO Bill Colleran
Impinj CEO Bill Colleran spoke with RFID Journal Editor Mark Roberti about the state of the market for UHF EPC systems, trends for 2008 and Impinj's product plans.

Reliance Readies for RFID
One of India's largest retailers has been testing RFID technology and is preparing applications to be used at its hypermarkets and supermarkets, as well as its electronics and convenience stores.

Raflatac Releases RFID Tags With Built-In EAS
Optimized for retail applications, the EPC Gen 2 tags are designed to be read equally well from all directions—even on densely stacked garments—and have an electronic article surveillance function that can be switched on and off.

Intelleflex Partners With Motorola, Secures $15.5M in Funding
The provider of battery-assisted passive UHF tags will work with Motorola Enterprise Mobility's RFID division to launch new high-performance RFID hardware.


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