Chipping Your Kid
PC Magazine editor-in-chief Lance Ulanoff thinks it’s a good idea to implant RFID tags in children.
New Zealand Refueling Company Tanks Up With RFID
Mini-Tankers is using passive HF tags and interrogators to track its customers’ fuel consumption, improve billing and simplify administrative tasks.
RFID Academic Convocation Issues Call for Papers
The sixth RFID Academic Convocation, being held in conjunction with EPC Connection, will focus on how to overcome impediments to adoption and achieve a return on investment from RFID and EPC networking technologies and standards.
Apparel Tags Provide Unlikely Solution for Pipe RFID
Perseverance and a novel approach led integrator Barcoding Inc. to find a UHF RFID tag its customer could use to accurately identify metal pipes. Gen2 labels designed to identify garments succeeded where tags developed for use on metal didn’t work and other frequencies failed.
Office Depot Accepting Contactless Payments
The office supply merchant is the first major retail establishment outside of fast-food restaurants, convenience stores and theaters to adopt Visa payWave and similar RFID-enabled credit cards.
Falabella Plans Second Item-Level RFID Pilot
The Latin American department-store operator says it learned valuable lessons from its first item-level pilot, yielding an inventory accuracy of 98.4 percent and a 25 percent reduction in out-of-stocks.
Semiconductor Maker Cuts Production Time with RTLS
Multibillion dollar semiconductor manufacturer Freescale Semiconductor is using RTLS technology to track wafers through the fabrication process. The system from AeroScout has been installed at one facility in Texas and reportedly saves several minutes at multiple steps in the production process.
GlaxoSmithKline Remains Committed to RFID
Contradicting a recent news report, the drugmaker says it will continue conducting pilots to demonstrate how RFID can be used to secure the pharma supply chain.
RFID-Guided Video System Gives Equestrians Their Best Shot
At New Jersey’s Rhythm and Blues Stables, riders and trainers view their performance on the arena’s big screen, with the optimum camera angle displayed at all times.
NFC Phones on Shelves Later This Year
When RFID Update spoke with NFC Forum board member David Turner a few weeks ago, he predicted that commercially available NFC-enabled handsets would debut before year-end. Sure enough, today $6 billion Taiwanese device manufacturer BenQ announced that it will have a new NFC phone on shelves in just that timeframe.