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• RFID "starter kit" is low-cost entry to asset management

  By John Cox | 13 April, 2012 08:37

  Nowadays, you don't have to be a Wal-Mart or Johnson & Johnson to deploy RFID. A kind of "RFID starter kit" from Tego lets much smaller businesses exploit the latest generation of large-memory, programmable tags.

• Father of RFID, Charles Walton, passes at 89

  By Bob Brown | 29 November, 2011 07:34

  Charles Walton, inventor of the RFID technology now common everywhere from warehouses to retail stores to public libraries, has died at the age of 89 in California.

• CeBIT 2011: Innovative RFID integration revolutionises slopes at Perisher

  By Patrick Budmar | 31 May, 2011 17:02

  The winter chill of the Snowy Mountains swept over CeBIT on day one when Perisher CEO Peter Brulisauer’s presented a case study entitled Tech Blizzard hits the Australian slopes.

• RFID: Protection, privacy and prevention

  By Spandas Lui | 06 December, 2010 16:45

  Some people call them smart labels. Others call them ‘spy chips’. No matter which way you look at it, radio frequency identification (RFID) tags are proliferating at a rapid pace.

• RFID could ease hunt for lost IT gear

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 13 October, 2010 04:53

  If concerns about cost and security can be overcome, RFID technology could help solve a growing problem in large data centers: losing track of IT equipment.

• IT asset tracking system combines RFID, infrared for rack-level identification

  By Ann Bednarz | 09 September, 2010 07:04

  RF Code today announced a new system that uses a combination of radio frequency identification (RFID) and infrared technology to keep tabs on the location of individual IT assets, right down to the rack level.

• Ice cream with (RFID) chips to go

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 15 May, 2010 03:41

  Businesses are using Radio Frequency ID (RFID) tags to track everything from large shipping containers, to livestock to tiny electronic components. It's unlikely though if any business is using the technology for the same purpose as Izzy's Ice Cream Cafe in St. Paul, Minn.

• Controlling RFID tags to protect privacy

  By Nick Barber | 19 April, 2010 06:30

  A researcher is working on technology he hopes will be able to control RFID tags and protect private information.

• 163 million smartbooks to ship in 2015

  By Lexton Snol | 23 February, 2010 23:49

  A new research study estimates that 163 million "smartbooks" will ship worldwide in 2015 - a significant rate of growth given that the very first models only appeared in 2008.

• IBM appeals to girls with microchipped butterflies

  By Jennifer Kavur | 02 September, 2009 07:55

  Tracking Monarch butterflies on their route from Toronto to the Mexican border might be just what a 12-year-old girl needs to spark daydreams about growing up to design her own micro RFID chip.

• IBM middleware interprets data from RFID, other sensors

  By Stephen Lawson | 19 August, 2009 05:15

  IBM on Tuesday introduced middleware that can gather data from a wide variety of networked sensors, analyze it, and feed it into other enterprise applications that can also use the data to make decisions.

• RFID to help keep the world's mail on time

  By Stephen Lawson | 12 August, 2009 06:48

  One of the world's newest communications technologies soon will be used to track one of the oldest.

• Freecom puts swipe-card security on hard drive

  By John E. Dunn | 18 July, 2009 00:36

  Storage vendor Freecom has come up with a new external USB hard drive that can only be accessed using an RFID (radio frequency identification) swipe card.

• Interactive maps debut on Tokyo subway

  By Martyn Williams | 21 April, 2009 09:16

  Travellers on Tokyo's subway system are getting some high-tech help finding their destinations with the start of trials Monday of an interactive map system.

• Researchers find problems with RFID passport cards

  By Stephen Lawson | 24 October, 2008 12:04

  RFID tags used in two new types of border-crossing documents in the U.S. are vulnerable to snooping and copying, a researcher said on Thursday.