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Portuguese Book Megastore Deploys Item-Level RFID System At its new store, Byblos is applying EPC Gen 2 tags to 250,000 books, games and videos to help customers locate and learn about their products, and to provide inventory and security applications.

Intermec Unveils Tag Reader-Writer; Celerant RFID-enables Its Retailer Software At the National Retail Federation's annual trade show, Intermec debuts a new EPC Gen 2 tag interrogator, while Celerant Technology adds RFID to its retail management system.

Wegmans Eyeing RFID for Prescription Management The supermarket operator is planning to test whether placing RFID tags on customers' prescription orders will make locating and ringing up the orders faster and more accurate.

Carolinas Medical Center Expands Its RFID Deployment The hospital has added 26 RFID-enabled medical supply cabinets to its cardiac catheterization and electrophysiology labs, helping it cut inventory costs and improve operations.

University of Florida Improves Lab-Animal Tracking The school's animal-care services department has eliminated errors and reduced labor costs with an RFID cage-inventory system that issues an alert when rodents go uncounted.

Monsanto Hopes to Sow Benefits by Tagging Seed Packets The company's Agracetus division is set to launch a pilot next month to evaluate RFID for tracking cases of experimental seeds.

Eco-friendly Clothing Store Plans to Debut With RFID When Maskyelin opens for business in April, its employees will employ an RFID system that tracks products in the store and enables customers to purchase items without standing in line.

Growers and Grocers Get Into Plastic Pallet Pool While the plastic pallets' lightweight and environmental benefits first wooed its customers, iGPS hopes RFID-powered traceability will convince more to begin using its pallets.

Raflatac Releases RFID Tags With Built-In EAS Optimized for retail applications, the EPC Gen 2 tags are designed to be read equally well from all directions—even on densely stacked garments—and have an electronic article surveillance function that can be switched on and off.

Intelleflex Partners With Motorola, Secures $15.5M in Funding The provider of battery-assisted passive UHF tags will work with Motorola Enterprise Mobility's RFID division to launch new high-performance RFID hardware.