Apparel and footwear companies are using RFID for a multitude of applications, everything from managing raw material quality to improving the shopping experience, according to speakers at the RFID Journal AAFA Apparel & Footwear Summit held this week in New York City.....

Revenue from the North American RFID market is expected to climb steadily to nearly a half-billion dollars in the next six years, according to a new study released this week by research and consulting firm Frost & Sullivan.....

The Braille system has become a ubiquitous tool for enabling the blind to read and write. However, S.J. Chin, founder of Singapore-based GaiShan Technology, thinks RFID could become a much richer, more powerful tool for those with visual impairments.....

The Chemical Industry Data Exchange (CIDX) a trade association made up of more than 80 chemical producers, suppliers, marketplaces and industry consultants is encouraging members to avail themselves of a business model designed to help chemical companies more quickly establish a return on investment (ROI) from their EPC RFID deployments.....

Pan Am Games security based on RFID badges; tag market nears $1 billion; Ekahau, VeriChip collaborate on real-time location systems; Dollywood visitors paying with Sunny Money.....

RFID Journal, the world's leading media and events company covering radio frequency identification (RFID), and EPCglobal North America, a not-for-profit member organization supporting the adoption of EPC technology, today announced that the University of Arkansas' RFID Research Center, a leading RFID lab, will conduct four live demonstrations of EPC technology in the exhibit hall at EPC Connection 2007.....

Researchers in Europe are testing whether radio frequency identification technology can be used to document the production of a Spanish cheese called Queso Cabrales.....

The RFID Lab at the University of Parma and several partners have completed a pilot tracking the temperatures of cherries shipped from the field by Apo Conerpo, a producer of fresh fruit, to stores owned by Italian retailer Conad. The pilot was conducted in the cities of Modena and Albenga, Italy.....

Smart Messaging, a new service Alliance Tech will debut at the show, is designed to enable exhibitors to target sales messages in the form of advertorial videos to individual attendees. Next to each display screen located throughout the exhibit floor, Alliance Tech will mount an RFID interrogator, which will collect the unique registration number encoded to each tag in its read range.....

FamilyMart, a Japanese retail chain owned by the corporate giant Itochu, has completed a two-phase pilot of an item-level RFID system at two of its busiest Tokyo stores. The project included tagging popular items to demonstrate how item-level tagging could speed the point-of-sale (POS) process and reduce queues during the busy early-morning and lunch rush hours.....

The University of East Anglia (UEA) library, in Norfolk, England, has adopted an RFID book-handling system enabling it to automate most of its circulation services. This frees up the library's staff to provide additional research help to students and other patrons.....

SPAR, a supplier of merchandising and other marketing services to retailers and product manufacturers, is testing RFID technology in retail locations to track promotional displays, as well as personnel entering and exiting stores to help maintain those displays.....

After a year of research and development, the EU-funded BRIDGE project is readying five pilots involving numerous European businesses looking to test EPC Gen 2 RFID technology. The pilots, all slated to start in the fall, will test RFID in several industries: retail, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, distribution and logistics, and services.....

A skills shortage in radio frequency identification technology is hurting the deployment of RFID, more than two-thirds (69 per cent) believe there is not a sufficient 'pool of talent' in RFID technology to hire from,the solution is to get more individuals trained and certified on RFID technology.....

RFID transponder tag that is made solely with flexible organic devices......

The use of RFID to capitalize on data flow in global supply chains could be one of the most-significant developments since enterprises first explicitly recognized the importance of information flow in the supply chain.......

Contactless technology,it is experiencing a surge, there is still much confusion over the similarities and differences between RFID and contactless smart card technology.....

It's hardly a new application, but a convergence of technologies and expertise has pushed asset tracking and management to the foreground......

Wireless tracking systems could be used to protect patients in hospitals and students on campuses, backers of the technology said.......

RFID Tags and standards are clearly important for RFID's widespread adoption, they represent only one part of the storythe part that's is enamoured with the technology of air interface protocols, hardware specifications, and chip manufacturing techniques....