How Do Radio Waves Travel From One Radio to Another?

Please explain how this occurs. —Name withheld ——— Technically speaking, it doesn’t. Radio waves don’t travel from one radio to another—they travel from a transmitter to a receiver. Devices that both transmit and receive are called transceivers. Radio...

RFID Journal Releases RFID Marketer’s Handbook

The guide, based on a survey of 200 current and potential RFID end users, as well as data regarding RFID Journal’s 90,000 registered users, reveals which companies are investing in RFID technologies—and how to convert them into customers.

Where Can I Learn About Physical Markup Language?

I recently came across an old MIT Web site about Physical Markup Language (PML) that has missing sections and apparently has not been updated since 2002. I searched the Web for other sources of information about this subject, but there seems to be very little out...

Where Might I Find Tiny RFID Tags?

I am attempting to conduct research about very small radio frequency identification tags. I see that Hitachi released a tag in 2007 with dimensions of 0.05 millimeter by 0.05 millimeter, but I haven’t seen anything since, nor have I found similar, or smaller,...

Can NFC Proximity Cards Be Utilized to Pay for Goods Virtually?

Would it be possible to set up an online financial Web application in which a user would have a virtual account and be able to pay for items via a proximity card using NFC technology? —Name withheld ——— It would be technically feasible, but it might not be practical....