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Alien Adds Five Products to Gen 2 Portfolio Alien Technology's CEO told EPC Connection attendees that the company is seeing significant sales growth for closed-loop applications of RFID, rather than demand from goods manufacturers seeking to comply with retail-industry tagging mandates.

HP Canada Partners With Universities to Create RFID Labs The joint effort, participants say, helps all involved parties conduct RFID pilots, carry out research and better serve the needs of industrial companies and other end users.

Wal-Mart, Best Buy Spearhead DVD-Tagging Pilot The retailers, along with other EPCglobal members from the media and entertainment industry, are testing RFID's ability to provide visibility into where items are located, when they were placed there and when more need to be ordered.

Small DOD Supplier Deploys RFID, Foresees Internal Benefits Nav-Aids, a 15-employee Canadian maker of test accessory kits for aircraft, has implemented a system enabling it to fulfill U.S. RFID mandates in-house.

Early Adopter Sees RFID Progress Phil Therrien, EPC manager for Kimberly-Clark, tells RFID Journal that despite a pause in the marketplace, RFID adoption is progressing and will move forward quickly in certain applications and product categories.

Metro Group's Galeria Kaufhof Launches UHF Item-Level Pilot The project involves the application of EPC tags to individual garments and the use of RFID-enabled dressing rooms and displays and a smart mirror. The participants say this is the world's first end-to-end UHF item-level application.

OAT Launches RFID Software for Tracking Work-in-Process The product is designed to make it easier for companies to configure their RFID systems to track materials and goods, and to issue alerts and take other actions based on business needs.

Microsoft to Showcase RFID-Enabled Applications at EPC Connection 2007 The software giant and its partners will demonstrate several ready-to-deploy, RFID-enabled applications at the conference, to be held Oct. 2-4, in Chicago.

RFID Smooths Production for Oil-Pipe Manufacturer Tejas Tubular Products, a provider of drill pipes and other products to the oil industry, is using EPC Gen 2 tags to help track and streamline the production process.

San Bernardino Human Services RFID-enables File Warehouse The agency is consolidating its files into one large depot, and plans to use RFID to identify, store and retrieve them.