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Citibank in CR Issues NFC / RFID Payment Stickers With Credit Cards

Citibank in CR Issues NFC / RFID Payment Stickers With Credit Cards

Tweet Recently Citibank in Czech Republic issued NFC / RFID payment stickers with each new credit card. Together with credit card giant MasterCard Citi will automatically issue the NFC Stickers with each new Citi Life, Citi Life Metropole, Citi Broker Consulting, Citi BILLA and Citi CSA credit cards. The service will be complimentary and free [...]

March 1 2013 | Posted in Consumer RFID, NFC News, RFID News | Read More »

Mario Kart Becomes Real Life with the Help of RFID Technology

Mario Kart Becomes Real Life with the Help of RFID Technology

Tweet (RFIDWorld.ca) Waterloo Labs, a group known for running cowboy engineering projects has been able to make the famous Nintendo video game ‘Mario Kart’ a reality using Go Karts and RFID technology. Mario Kart is one of Nintendo’s most popular racing games due to players having the ability to pick up special items like bananas [...]

January 23 2013 | Posted in Consumer RFID, RFID News | Read More »

VingCard Elsafe Donates RFID Locks to Give Kids The World Village Charity

VingCard Elsafe Donates RFID Locks to Give Kids The World Village Charity

Tweet (RFIDWorld.ca) VingCard Elsafe, the global leader in hospitality security and part of the ASSA ABLOY Group, today announced their continued involvement with Give Kids The World Village (GKTW) in Kissimmee, Florida. In their latest charitable contribution, VingCard Elsafe provided 140 Signature RFID locks to outfit the resort’s villas and VISIONLINE software for the front [...]

September 19 2012 | Posted in Consumer RFID | Read More »

RFID Keychain with NFC Allows for Payments via iPhones and Android Devices

RFID Keychain with NFC Allows for Payments via iPhones and Android Devices

Tweet RFID equipped keychains are now available thanks to China RFID. The company has introduced the latest NFC (near field communication) tag-03 in a keychain to read with iPhones and Android devices.  Each NFC tag keychain contains a unique NFC chip to let people pay by simply tapping the tags on their mobile phone. By [...]

July 5 2012 | Posted in Consumer RFID | Read More »

Pet RFID Tracking Management System Released

Pet RFID Tracking Management System Released

Tweet (RFID World Canada) Daily RFID has recently introduced pet RFID tracking tags in line with the current rising popularity of pet rfid tracking systems. The RFID tag is equipped on a collar and barely visible within the collar. It is also known as the UHF Animal Card and is designed for long range UHF [...]

May 30 2012 | Posted in Consumer RFID, RFID News | Read More »

RFID Social Media Gains Coachella Additional Fans

RFID Social Media Gains Coachella Additional Fans

Tweet (RFIDWorld.ca) Using help from Intellitix, an RFID technology provider for live events, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival gained an additional online audience of 30 million when over 30,000 fans registered for “Live Click” around the festival site. The system was in place during the two weekends when the event took place. The [...]

May 18 2012 | Posted in Consumer RFID, RFID News | Read More »

Ottawa’s Royal Bank Bluesfest Adopts Innovative RFID technology

Ottawa’s Royal Bank Bluesfest Adopts Innovative RFID technology

Tweet Continuing its rich history of innovation, Canada’s largest blues festival—ranked by Billboard Magazine as one of North America’s top-ten most successful music events—the RBC Royal Bank Bluesfest, has today announced that it will be adopting cutting edge RFID (radio-frequency identification) cashless payment and access control technology. During the July 4-15 event in Ottawa, more [...]

April 26 2012 | Posted in Consumer RFID, RFID News | Read More »

Parking Control Problems to be Diminished by New RFID Parking System

Parking Control Problems to be Diminished by New RFID Parking System

Tweet (RFID World Canada) Daily RFID in China has introduced a new parking system so that traditional parking control problems can be diminished. The functional RFID system will benefit specific parking areas and gated communities. It will help to find specific parking areas, to check parking records and to understand the overall parking condition. The [...]

April 19 2012 | Posted in Consumer RFID, RFID News | Read More »

Mercedes Benz Canadian Autoshow Tour Uses RFID CRM & Social Program

Mercedes Benz Canadian Autoshow Tour Uses RFID CRM & Social Program

Tweet (RFID World Canada) Bash Interactive, announced their launch of a RFID-tap-to-like Facebook & joint E-Brochure CRM program for the Mercedes Benz Canadian Autoshow Tour. The Mercedes Benz RFID, E-Brochure and Tap to Like program officially launched in Montreal, Quebec on January 2012, and will be also used in the Toronto Autoshow starting February 17th, [...]

February 8 2012 | Posted in Consumer RFID, RFID News | Read More »

Truecount Develops RFID Software To Keep Event Merchandise Fine-Tuned on the Road

Truecount Develops RFID Software To Keep Event Merchandise Fine-Tuned on the Road

Tweet (RFID World Canada) As the charitable arm of rock band Phish, The WaterWheel Foundation spends nearly 100 days on the road each year, packing, transporting, unpacking and then repacking thousands of The WaterWheel Foundation logoed items that are awarded to fans who support the foundation’s non-profit work. WaterWheel is staffed largely by volunteers on [...]

January 27 2012 | Posted in Consumer RFID, Retail RFID, RFID News | Read More »