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Italian Alpine Resort Takes Near Field Communications for Ride Tourists will be loaned NFC-enabled phones to download information and special offers and make reservations, or receive NFC-enabled contactless smart cards encoded with promotional coupons.

NXP Introducing New LF Chip for Livestock, Asset Tracking Compliant with the ISO 11784 and 11785 standards, the new IC offers an anti-collision algorithm so multiple tags can be read simultaneously, and read-write speeds that are twice as fast as those supported by other LF chips.

DPT Tries a Dose of RFID The contract drug developer and manufacturer has been exploring both RFID and 2-D bar-code serialization, and is preparing an RFID pilot for one of its customers, dermatologic drug company Galderma.

SoCal Seaports Leverage RFID to Reduce Pollution Using active tags to identify trucks serving their terminals, the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles hope to reduce truck-related air pollution by 80 percent.

Justice Department Gives Nod to EPC Gen 2 Patent Pool A group of UHF RFID technology vendors received a business review letter approving their request to negotiate patent licensing agreements as a single entity.

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.

Federal Trade Commission Holds RFID Workshop Wal-Mart's Simon Langford and other attendees discussed ways to protect consumer privacy, and the role the U.S. agency should play regarding the use of radio frequency identification.

Evigia Launches 433 MHz Active RFID Product Line The company's new EV3 product line includes seven transponders and three interrogators—all compliant with the ISO 18000-7 standard.

DOD Issues RFP for Active RFID The new request for proposal will enable the military to purchase active RFID technology from more than just a single vendor.

GS1 Australia Is Optimistic ACMA Will Adopt 4-Watt UHF Power Limit By year's end, the Australian Communication and Media Authority says it will finish weighing the results of trials testing the effect of 4-watt UHF RFID devices on the nation's GSM-based mobile phone systems.