VoIP provider adds RFID  

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RFID tags sales expected to reach 1.7 billion in 2007  

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Market research firm IDTechEx projected that more than 1.7 billion radio frequency identification tags will be sold in 2007...

NordicID unveils RFID hand-held  

Finnish hand-held terminals and data-collection developer Nordic ID launched the PL3000 hand-held computer for UHF RFID data-collection systems...

BIO-key submits tender offer for biometric ID developer 

BIO-key, which develops mobile wireless technologies for first-responders, has offered $1.29 per share to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of ComnetiX...

U.S. agency deploys RFID 

The U.S. Social Security Administration is using Intermec’s radio frequency identification technology, the company announced...

RFID tested on European loading docks 

RF and RFID solutions provider Checkpoint Systems announced it has been involved in a series of UHF RFID technology trials supervised by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, or ETSI, task group 34...

Intermec launches RFID system for forklift operators  

Intermec introduced the Adaptable Load Backrest and Antenna Cell system, a radio frequency identification (RFID) system that lets forklift drivers gather real-time inventory data...

RFID solution passes certification test  

Radio frequency identification, or RFID, network infrastructure provider Reva systems recently announced that its Tag Acquisition Product passed EPCglobal compliance testing for application-level events, or ALE, certification...

South Carolina hospital uses RFID to track equipment  

McKesson announced that the Spartanburg (S.C) Regional Medical Center implemented its Horizon Real-Time Location System, the company’s new RFID solution...

University gets RFID hardware donation  

Intermec donated mobile RFID hardware to the University of Arkansas RFID Research Center, including the company’s 761 ruggedized mobile computer and IP4 portable RFID reader....

Universities land award for RF technology research  

The New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research has awarded a $305,500, Center for Advanced Technology Development award to the Rochester Institute of Technology, Syracuse University and SUNY at Buffalo. ...

Nissan invests in RFID  

WhereNet Corp. announced that Nissan North America is deploying its standards-based WhereNet active RFID, real-time locating system technology to automate its inbound supply chain and outbound delivery chain. ...

Detention facility uses RFID to track juveniles  

Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Alanco Technologies will provide a Wi-Fi compatible, RFID inmate-tracking system for the Indianapolis, Ind.-based Marion County Juvenile Detention Center. ...

Tire company purchases RFID system to track assets  

Hackensack, N.J.-based ID Systems announced Canadian Tire Retail—a hard goods retailer that operates 462 stores—will deploy its Wireless Asset Net industrial vehicle management system...

Asset management solution adds RFID component  

Vector Networks added an RFID capability to its existing Vector Asset Management Professional, an IT asset management solution. ...

Active RFID market to explode by 2016  

IDTechEx’s recently released report, “The Business Case for Active RFID,” noted the industry is rapidly growing and sales of active systems ...

Report: Aerospace and defense RFID market to reach $2 billion by 2011  

ABI Research this week said in a report that the market for radio-frequency identification (RFID) solutions deployed by aerospace and defense companies will exceed $2 billion by 2011...

RFID pilot project launched  

EPCglobal, which is working to develop Electronic Product Code standards that support the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies...

Glucose-sensing RFID microchip gets U.S. patent  

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded Digital Angel a patent for its syringe-implantable, glucose-sensing passive RFID microchip. ...

WJ unveils RFID chipset  

WJ Communications has developed the WJC200, a RFID UHF silicon reader chipset. It meets ECPglobal, Gen2 ISO 18000-6C ...

Texas heart hospital purchases RFID to track devices, supplies  

The Heart Hospital Baylor in Plano, Texas, will implement Mobile Aspects’ RFID inventory-management system to store...

Army depot invests in active RFID technology  

Pennsylvania-based Tobyhanna Army Depot has expanded its use of WhereNet’s active RFID, real-time locating system technology to streamline the repair and overhaul of defense electronic systems. ...

Food supplier incorporates mobile computers, RFID  

AmeriQual Group, a producer, packager and distributor of long-shelf-life food products, has deployed Symbol Technologies’ mobile computer, RFID ...

Symbol launches new RFID reader  

Symbol Technologies launched the RD5000, a mobile Gen 2 RFID reader that can be mounted on a forklift in conjunction with the company’s ...