Paxar demos Gen 2 label production; TAGSYS, STMicroelectronics interoperable; Germany picks Philips chip for passports; HP Taiwan reselling PDC bands for patient tracking; Wavetrend, OxLoc make traceable active ID system; Printronix, Impinj show Gen 2 interoperability.
Research firm Gartner this week released an assessment of the Rapid Start Licensing Program from Intermec Technologies, which began June 1st and will conclude the 31st of August.
RFID services company Ship2Save has begun operating a facility that tags goods according to customer mandates and ships them to their ultimate destination.
ABI Research, a technology research firm based in Oyster Bay, New York, believes that the answer to recently reported RFID doldrums can be summed up in three words: plug-and-play.
With help from Kimberly-Clark, the RFID vendors developed software to connect their platforms and integrate RFID data across a company’s business applications.
The government of Hong Kong is backing a HK$14 million project that uses the EPCglobal Network to provide end-to-end supply chain visibility for companies manufacturing in China’s Pearl River Delta.
The government is funding a project to develop middleware to make it easier for companies to integrate RFID data with their existing back-end systems.
At Microsoft’s Tech•Ed event yesterday in Orlando, Florida, the company announced a new RFID infrastructure aimed at making RFID deployments simpler and cheaper.
Symbol Technologies has embedded Microsoft’s Windows CE operating system in its new XR400 reader.
The financial services company has started issuing contactless payment cards nationwide for its ExpressPay program.