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Suppliers Find No Incentive to Adopt RFID for Direct Store Delivery A report issued by international trade association Global Commerce Initiative recommends suppliers and retailers initially focus instead on using RFID for products shipped to distribution centers.

Mojix Takes Passive UHF RFID to a New Level The startup draws on RF expertise from deep-space signal processing to create a system that it says will offer improved performance, new capabilities and lower deployment costs.

American Apparel Makes a Bold Fashion Statement With RFID The retailer has already adopted item-level tagging at its Columbia University store, and expects to RFID-enable its 16 other New York City locations during the next three months.

Weyerhaeuser Offers High-Volume Source Tagging, But Demand Still Low The company is supplying pretagged cardboard boxes to several of its customers, and plans to license its process for manufacturing RFID-tagged cardboard to International Paper and other firms.

All Eyes on FDA for Drug E-Pedigree Now that California has extended its electronic-pedigree deadline to 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration could become the first governing body to issue e-pedigree requirements for protecting the pharma supply chain—assuming it meets its goal.

R&D Firm Developing Passive Ultra-Wideband RFID Martec says its system will offer improved read range and other benefits compared with traditional passive RFID tags, and cost less than systems using active tags.

Turnkey Self-Service Store Would Employ RFID Instead of People The prefabricated transportable structure, developed by a European startup, features RFID interrogators at the point of sale and exit door, enabling a retailer to operate without staff, and to quickly open up new branches to meet demand.

RFID Payment Fobs Fail to Woo Consumers AmEx has pulled its RFID-based key fobs off the shelf, but pundits say NFC-enabled phones hold better promise and RFID-based card usage should continue to grow.

USDA Pushes Plan to Move NAIS Forward The U.S. Department of Agriculture's seven-point plan is aimed at getting 70 percent of all cattle in the country enrolled in the National Animal Identification System by 2010.

Impinj Announces Next-Gen Monza Chip The new Monza 3, the chipmaker says, offers a read range as much as 40 percent longer than that of other EPC Gen 2 RFID chips.