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Alien Technology Announces New EPC Gen 2 Chip The Higgs 3 chip is more sensitive to RF signals than earlier models, sports a read password to secure data and comes with 512 bits of user memory.

Pelican RFID-Enables Its Cases Using electronic seals from Mikoh, the company is selling models that can be sealed with RFID closures—as well as RFID retrofitting kits for previously purchased cases.

Soccer Fans Use RFID Cards to Gain Admission and Buy Food The Manchester City Football Club is issuing season tickets containing 13.56 MHz RFID tags, enabling them to unlock the stadium's turnstiles, and to function as contactless PayPass payment cards.

Tagged High School IDs Improve Student Flow, Enforce Rules A Chicago-area institution implemented an RFID-based system allowing only authorized pupils to leave the campus during lunch, or to enter the student lounge.

Companies, Agencies Use Clandestine RFID Systems to Catch Thieves The NOX system includes RFID readers embedded in walls, surveillance cameras and—in some cases—luminescent dust to track the movement of personnel and assets.

NXP Announces New, More Secure Chip for Transport, Access Cards According to the company, the chip is backward-compatible with the less-secure Mifare Classic chip, recently hacked by two research groups.

Wedge Device Aims to Ease RFID Setup Created for small and midsize businesses that use bar-code technology to identify assets, personnel or products, the product is designed to provide a low-cost means for migrating to RFID.

University of Arkansas Study Finds RFID Can Add Value to EAS The researchers compared RFID-based theft-deterrent applications with traditional electronic article surveillance technologies, both RF and acousto-magnetic.

Army National Guard Tracks Assets A PICS RFID system enables U.S. Army National Guard divisions to locate laptop computers and other electronics as they are moved in and out of their Washington, D.C., headquarters.

Researchers Say Sharing Is the Key to Privacy for EPC Tags Three computer scientists say they have devised a means of protecting tag data by using a method that disperses pieces of a decryption key among multiple RFID tags.