Wireless Facilities wins defense RFID deal 

Wireless Facilities this week announced that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has agreed to purchase the company’s radio frequency identification (RFID) readers as part of the agency’s project to use passive RFID technology in its supply chain...

Intermec makes RFID announcements 

Intermec Technologies on Wednesday announced it has been awarded a blanket purchasing agreement to provide the Department of Defense (DOD) and the U.S. Coast Guard with passive UHF radio frequency identification (RFID) with fixed-mounted and transportable readers...

First SD card RFID reader for handhelds unveiled  

TradeWind Technologies announced it has introduced an RFID reader that it says is the world’s first commercially available reader in the SD card form factor...

British retailer expands RFID trial 

Marks & Spencer, a retailer of apparel, furniture and household goods headquartered in London, said it would expand a trial of radio frequency identification technology to 53 of its 433 stores in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland and Hong Kong in Spring 2006...

Impinj, TI agree to cooperate on RFID development 

Northrop Grumman unveils RFID compliance solution 

Northrop Grumman recently unveiled Illuminos, a “software-development toolkit” that enables the interaction of user-developed radio frequency identification solutions with RFID readers and printers from various suppliers...

Nokia introduces RFID-based solution 

Nokia recently introduced the Field Force Solution, which enables real-time, two-way interaction between the client software, Nokia’s Local Interactions Server and a company's existing back-office systems...

Intermec unveils more powerful RFID technology  

Intermec Technologies Corp. recently the Intellitag Generation 2 UHF radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, which the company said has been demonstrated and will be implemented in 2005...

Intermec suspends licensing policy to boost RFID 

Intermec Technologies Corp. has suspended its RAND licensing program for the EPCglobal Generation 2 RFID standard for 60 days...

Georgia toll authority upgrades RFID system 

The Georgia State Road and Tollway Authority said last week it would become the first toll facility in the continental U.S. to upgrade its RFID toll collection system by using a paper-thin, lower-cost, battery-less windshield sticker tag...

RFID platform designed to ease integration 

SAP AG and Infineon Technologies AG jointly announced this week a radio frequency identification platform that is designed to help companies deploy RFID...

Intermec RFID readers receive European certification 

Intermec Technologies said this week that its radio frequency identification equipment became the first to be certified as compliant with the newly approved...

Symbol adds RFID products and solutions 

Symbol Technologies this week introduced the Distribution Center 400, which the company is describing as the industry's first EPC-enabled turnkey radio...

Airbee unveils wireless protocol software for RFID applications 

Airbee Wireless this week introduced standards-based software for use in radio frequency identification applications. Specifically, the software allows...

Sirit Technologies and Data Ltd. combine on mobile RFID solutions 

Sirit Technologies and Data Ltd. announced this week the introduction of three mobile radio frequency identification solutions. The solutions include...