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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.

Indonesia's Special Forces Unit Adopts RFID An RFID-enabled identity card enables soldiers to purchase items, and might soon be expanded to enable access to their medical history.

London Paper Issues RFID Card to Increase Reader Loyalty The Evening Standard hopes its Eros card will boost newspaper sales.

Wireless Sensor Adoption Expected to Grow Tenfold According to a survey of industrial companies, 40 percent of respondents plan to deploy wireless solutions to monitor machine health.

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.

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.

Schuitema Tests NFC Phones in a C1000 Grocery Store The Dutch retailer gave RFID-enabled phones to 100 customers, who use the devices to receive deposits from bottle-return machines, make charitable donations and pay for purchases.

MasterCard Rolls Out Contactless Carpet in the U.K. The credit card association claims 60 percent of Britons under 25 years old, and 49 percent of those ages 25 to 34, would use debit or credit cards more often than cash if the cards were RFID-enabled.

Hong Kong Shoppers Use RFID-enabled Mirror to See What They Want Mi-Tu, a high-end retailer, has installed RFID-enabled mirrors, catalogs and security systems designed to improve the shopping experience and boost sales.