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Italian Retail Pilot Quantifies RFID's Many Benefits The participants, which include ham-maker Parmacotto and supermarket operator Auchon, tracked tagged cases of food as they moved from production to sales floor.

German Study Finds Most RFID Deployments Deemed a Success University of Freiburg researchers, interviewing several hundred RFID users, found more than 70 percent expect to amortize their investment within four years.

Australia's Woolworths Supermarket Chain Studies RFID The retailer is testing the technology's ability to cost-effectively track produce shipments and monitor temperatures.

Pacific Coast Producers Works Through Challenges to Realize Benefits By studying the RFID data it receives from Wal-Mart, the canned goods supplier has reduced out-of-stocks by 50 percent and boosted sell-through rates for the promoted products.

Wal-Mart, DOD Point to Sustained Progress Leaders of the two flagship EPC users say they are not backing off their respective RFID efforts, and that both organizations have made "sustained progress."

Kovio Unveils Printed-Silicon HF RFID, Chip Tag The low-cost chip complies with the ISO 14443A standard and can contain 128 bits of factory-encoded data; commercial products should be available in 2009.

AIM Global to Develop Protocols for Testing Effects of RFID Emissions in Health Care By early 2009, the auto-ID industry association hopes to publish a set of methodologies that can be used to determine the impact of tag and reader transmissions on medical devices, drugs, blood and human physiology.

RFID Helps Cabueñes Hospital Monitor Patients, Accelerate Treatment The Spanish facility is using EPC tags and readers to not only track a patient's movements and location, but also access clinical information.

DOD Needs to Enforce Its Own RFID Mandate, Says Inspector General Many suppliers and contracting officers are failing to comply with the U.S. Defense Department's directive for applying passive RFID tags to certain shipments, according to a recent investigation by the DOD's inspector general.

Mojix to Demo Passive UHF RTLS at EPC Connection 2008 The company, a startup with a revolutionary approach to RFID, will demonstrate the ability of its STAR system to read and locate EPC Gen 2 tags in real time at EPCglobal North America's fifth annual event.