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Dubbed the Wireless Credential Exchange, the company’s SoC devices would work in tandem with Monza RFID chips to render them inoperable if lost or stolen.

If someone builds a better doorknob, will the world beat a path to their door? Well, at least the competition will drop by for a look. That was the case at

By Drew Robb What a difference a century makes. When Thomas Edison was tinkering with electric light bulbs, he could have had no idea how fast things would progress technologically. But from those relatively humble, yet revolutionary, beginnings the company he founded, General Electric (GE), is now harnessing the Internet of […]

June 16, 2014 ‒ Raleigh, NC ‒ Entigral, a leader in asset and inventory tracking software using RFID, is pleased to announce a strategic partnership and reseller agreement with ID Integration, Inc., a systems integrator of marking, scanning and tracking systems based in Mukilteo, Washington. ID Integration will be reselling Entigral’s leading sensor automation software platform, TraxWare®, into the aerospace, government, and manufacturing segments. Under this agreement, ID Integration will resel…

ABR Industries is proud to announce a new high-quality line of LMR® type cables specifically designed for the RFID industry. Our family of LMR® type cables are used in a number of applications: connecting radios to antennas, as Wi-Fi antenna cable, GPS antenna cable, RFID antenna cable and more.

TAMPERE Finland, June 18, 2014 – Confidex launches today the all new Confidex Survivor™ and Survivor B™, two new UHF RFID hard tags that optimize and redefine the traditional size-performance trade-off of passive UHF tags. Confidex Survivor™ is an all-surface-tag for applications where maximal read range and durability in extreme environments are the key requirements. Since its launch in 2006, Survivor has been the premier reference tag in the domain of high performance and heavy-duty C1G2 hard tags. It has been trusted by customers in the most demanding industrial and logistics applications, for example to manage or track roll cages, containers, and field equipment in harsh, open environments.

The event, to be held on Aug. 12-13, will be co-located with the Lean Construction Conference, and will focus on helping companies in these sectors employ RFID to improve their business operations.

This spring in Orlando, Fla., Walt Disney World began providing a dual-frequency (13.56 MHz and 2.4 GHz) RFID wristband known as the MagicBand to all of its resort guests after they book a Walt Disney World hotel reservation. Guests not staying at a Disney hotel can purchase an RFID-enabled ticket at the gate, which provides access through entrances and other features also accessible via the MagicBand.

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For credit card company American Express (NYSE: AXP), the U.S. Open in Pinehurst is a pilot program for what execs are telling me could be the new interactive technology status quo.

Every spring, hundreds of thousands of people descend on the city of Austin, TX, to partake in a cornucopia of music, technology, and film. Tech entrepreneurs mingle with filmmakers, while musicians belt out powerful vocals to the crowds that make their way through the chaotic traffic of downtown Austin. It’s cross-pollination at its best and it’s called SXSW. You have to be there to truly understand it. This year the SXSW team and Austin City emergency services team used Telemetry’s real ti…

Global aircraft company Airbus has moved forward with multiple radio frequency identification projects aimed at increasing the visibility of its parts worldwide, as well as tools and containers, both internally and externally. Last week, the firm announced the use of hybrid RFID Integrated Nameplates to supplement its standard, non-RFID nameplates. When attached to a part, the RFID version provides identifying information not only in text and bar-code form, but also by means of its passive EPC G…

As soon as I heard that my ‘FastPass‘ to Disney contained an RFID tag I knew, given that I know the technology, that Disney would be keeping very close tabs of me while I was in Orlando.

But, I was NOT prepared, because I had never heard about it, that we would have to provide FINGERPRINT data in order to enter the parks! I was gobsmacked!

As a Green Holder I had abrogated my privacy rights decades ago. The Feds have fresh fingerprints of all 10 of my digits and closeups of my right ear — the ear supposedly even more unique than fingerprints. So I don’t have a problem with folks taking my fingerprints. They already have them. Ditto for the kids. We have had them voluntarily fingerprinted as part of a safeguard the kids ID program. I think it was run by the police. Deanna (like I) has also been fingerprinted because she has volunteered in the school system. So, they have all our fingerprints.

By Mark Keefe, American Rifleman Worried about having your credit card hacked? How about if a criminal, a hacker or even a government agency could turn your gun on or off anytime they wanted? While