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Omron Adds Secure RFID Protocol to EPC Gen 2 Reader The company says the interrogator is the first on the market to include support for the data-protecting protocol, developed in Japan and expected to be available on tags made with Hitachi's µ-chip Hibiki.

HP Launches Service That Applies Tags to Items It Ships The company will affix EPC Gen 2 RFID tags to the blade servers and other IT assets its customers order, enabling them to begin tracking the items' locations as soon as they receive them.

Real Estate Files Found With RFID Madison Abstract is using an EPC Gen 2 RFID system it helped design to track hundreds of client files throughout its offices.

New Testbed Promises to Hasten RFID Tag Development The system, created by Georgia Tech's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, emulates and measures the performance of multiple passive RFID tags and prototypes.

IBM Offering IT Asset-Tracking Solution The system, which uses high-performance EPC Gen 2 RFID tags from Omni-ID, has already been deployed at five data centers.

Startup Designs Firewall to Ensure RFID Network Security NeoCatena's security appliance is designed to protect an RFID network from counterfeit RFID tags, and from attempts to use malware-encoded tags to introduce a virus to back-end systems—or to steal sensitive data.

Kimberly-Clark Sees Positive Results With PINC Trailer Tracker System The CPG maker is using passive EPC Gen 2 RFID tags to identify and locate 900 trailers at one of its manufacturing facilities, saving hours of labor.

U.K. Auto-ID Center Focuses on Small, Midsize Firms The facility re-creates a small town to demonstrate how RFID works in real life, and to instill visitors with new ideas about how to profit from the technology.

Mojix Takes Passive UHF RFID to a New Level The startup draws on RF expertise from deep-space signal processing to create a system that it says will offer improved performance, new capabilities and lower deployment costs.

R&D Firm Developing Passive Ultra-Wideband RFID Martec says its system will offer improved read range and other benefits compared with traditional passive RFID tags, and cost less than systems using active tags.