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, including...

RFID takes off at U.S. airports 

By Merrill Douglas

According to the International Air Transport Association, or IATA, bar-code scanners used in baggage-handling systems capture data accurately only 80%...

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 and wireless...

Calif. Senate approves RFID privacy bill 

The California State Senate approved Bill 768, the Information Protection Act of 2006, in a 30-7 vote. Bill 768 requires the California Research Bureau...

Patent squabble erupts over RFID technology 

Intermec filed suit against Alien Technology in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware for patent infringement. The lawsuit alleges that...

DOD contract includes RFID technologies 

ODIN Technologies chose Symbol Technologies to support its recent contract awarded from the U.S. Defense and Logistics Agency, a Department of Defense...

University provides RFID guidance to beef producers 

A new publication from South Dakota State University offers guidance to beef producers interested in using radio frequency identification technology to...

China postal service chooses RFID to track mail 

Symbol Technologies landed a contract with the China Post, which will use the company's rugged, reusable radio frequency identification tags, XR400 fixed...

RFID tracks inventory at Air Force hospital 

Wilford Hall Medical Center at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, installed Mobile Aspects' iRISupply, a computerized inventory system that uses RFID to...

Boeing and FedEx test active RFID tags 

Boeing and FedEx partnered for an in-service evaluation of RFID tags used to monitor airplane parts for FedEx's MD-10 freighters. Inentec Solutions will...

Hong Kong airport deploys wireless system 

Cisco Systems announced that the Airport Authority of Hong Kong has deployed its Unified Wireless Network Solution. The 802.11 a/b/g solution supports...

Symbol launches multi-network RF switching platform 

Glenn Bischoff

Symbol Technologies announced the Wireless Next Generation, or Wi-NG, architecture that lets users centrally manage voice and data communications over...

U.K. aviation company deploys RFID to track airplane parts 

Symbol Technologies will supply radio frequency identification technology to Virgin Atlantic Airways as part of a pilot project to track critical, high-value...

ARINC and Impeva land $20 million U.S. Army contact 

ARINC Engineering Services and Impeva Labs have been awarded a five-year, $20 million U.S. Army contract to integrate wireless communications and automatic...

U.S. Army buys RFID-enabled satellite transceivers 

Comtech's Mobile Datacom subsidiary secured a $12.6 million contract from the U.S. Army to supply its Movement Tracking System (MTS) next-generation Model...