I'm not sure if this was deliberate or an accident, but a company has come up with a catchy name for a new tag to affix to metal surfaces to reduce interference from the metal. It's called a...

Are you in the Philadelphia area during summers and in the heat are you dying to have your favorite Coca-Cola then let RFID get it for you. In case one has an RFID enabled payment card in the...

We all know that cargo container security is an issue receiving increasing attention. (Let's hope it is receiving more attention from the good guys than the bad guys!) Every time you turn around,...

This article is particularly for those who are fed up of RFID in their lives and want to free themselves from the clutches of RFID. Lately we have seen RFID in our clothing, food, passport, licenses,...

RFID tags have come of age now and have reduced to half the size of a grain of sand. As per the FDA regulation GSK has started to tag its medicines for HIV treatment. Trizvir is the drug that Glaxo......

Capton, a San Francisco based provider of liquor monitoring technology has come up with The Beverage Tracker. This system has been installed at the Treasure Island, a Las Vegas casino to keep an...

Over the years the sales of DVD has been flattening and studios have been giving greater emphasis to supply chain management to increase their profits from each title. Warner that used to support...

A few days ago, Gautam Chhabra, my co-editor here at the RFID Weblog, linked to an interesting article about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) recent action with regard to using...

Philips has come up with a new RFID chip meant for the library industry and it offers enhanced password protected security and privacy features. The chip called ICODE-SLIS addresses a number of...

AimGlobal is running an interesting poll on its website, asking the question: "What is your view on the accuracy of reporting on RFID in the mainstream media?" The responses are revealing....

RFID has taken the world by surprise. It is being used in various fields, ranging from pharmaceuticals to even sports goods now. IPICO Inc. has come up with its sports timekeeping solutions that is...

FDA will be asking pharmaceutical companies to use electronic tags for tracking products from factory to pharmacy. This could result in creation of business opportunities for technology firms ranging...

Ekahau has come up with the third generation T301-A Wi-Fi tag. This third generation tag is an improvement over the second generation tag as it has a longer battery life, smaller form factor and...

MasterCard and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) would be conducting trials of an RFID based contactless debit card which would replace cash for low value payments. The trials of the Oyster Card style...

Recently, in all my spare time (ha!), I contributed a chapter to a new book entitled "RFID Security." The main author of the book is Frank Thornton (a really nice guy), with contributions...

Are you prone to ticket scalping and hooliganism? Do you have a previous history of causing havoc at World Cup matches? Then probably it is not the right time for you to attend World Cup matches in...

A movement is afoot in the European Union to require or encourage retailers and manufacturers to either kill an RFID tag or transfer control of it to the end user, when an item containing the tag is...

If somebody is a fan of legendary singer Frank Sinatara, then they must be knowing about Hoboken, the place to which he belonged. The same city is going ga-ga over RFID and is making use of Symbol...

Heard of RuBee? No, then let me tell you that it is a standard called IEEE 1902.1 which is expected to give retailers and manufacturers an attractive alternative to RFID for many applications, mainly...