Intermec RFID reader meets Cisco standard 

Intermec Technologies Corp. said this week that its IF5 radio frequency identification reader has become the first RFID device to be designated as interoperable with Cisco Systems’ RFID solution. ...

Report: RFID hospital market to hit $8.8 billion by 2010  

Dublin, Ireland-based Research and Markets issued a report this week that predicted the hospital market for radio frequency identification technologies would grow to $8.8 billion by 2010. ...

Symbol RFID reader wins Gen 2 certification 

Symbol Technologies announced this week that EPCglobal has given Symbol’s XR400 radio frequency identification reader Generation 2 certification. ...

Zebra Technologies expands ‘smart’ label capabilities 

Zebra Technologies has added converting equipment for producing so-called smart labels...

Vehicle-tagging solution addresses high-speed chases 

By: By Glenn Bischoff

DENVER--Each year in the U.S. police officers engage in about 100,000 high-speed chases, 70% of which last 10 minutes or less and 85% of which involve non-violent offenders...

Padcom joins RSA Secured Partner Program 

By: By Donny Jackson

Padcom, a provider of continuous remote-access software, this week announced it has joined the RSA Secured Partner Program...

Alien RFID reader now compatible with Microsoft infrastructure  

Alien Technology and Microsoft have achieved compatibility between Alien’s ALR-9800 enterprise radio frequency identification (RFID) reader and Microsoft’s RFID infrastructure, both of which will be supported by Microsoft’s RFID technology...

PEAK opens RFID test lab 

PEAK Technologies has opened its radio frequency identification test and integration laboratory at the company's headquarters in Columbia, Md....

Feds tap Intermec for RFID engineering services 

Radio frequency identification technology vendor Intermec has contracted with the federal government to provide RFID technical engineering services to the Department of Defense and the U.S. Coast Guard...

University lab demos RFID applications  

The University of Wisconsin-Madison will inaugurate its RFID Lab on Friday, August 12, 2005, with demonstrations of emerging radio frequency identification (RFID) applications in various industries and a luncheon address by Patrick Sweeney, CEO of ODIN Technologies and author of "RFID for Dummies"...

RFID Wal-Mart compliance unveiled 

Barcoding Inc. has released three radio frequency identification kits that enable companies to address Wal-Mart mandates regarding customers, technology and future investments...

Texas Instruments makes RFID announcements 

By: By Donny Jackson

Texas Instruments this week announced that it has begun shipping radio-frequency-identification (RFID) chips--inlays and straps--based on Generation 2 (Gen 2) protocol, marking the company’s entrance into the retailer-centric RFID market...

Intelligent Systems announces RFID solution for retailers 

Intelligent Systems has unveiled a set of intelligent radio frequency identification networking hardware and software offerings, allowing retailers to deploy item-level tracking solutions...

Paratek awarded $1.987 million DMEA contract  

Paratek Microwave Inc. received a $1.987 million contract award from the Defense of MicroElectronics Activity (DMEA) to further research and development on state-of-the-art concepts for military radio frequency identification (RFID) antennas...

Symbol, IBM, Philips demonstrate Gen 2 RFID interoperability  

By: By Donny Jackson

Symbol Technologies, in cooperation with IBM and Royal Philips Electronics, this week demonstrated interoperability between radio frequency identification (RFID) tags based on the new EPC Generation 2 standard and older Gen 1 tags....