Macy’s Inc. recently announced that its Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s stores are launching RFID technology tags to manage store merchandise and to keep track of replenished inventory both on hand and in the warehouses. Replenishment goods on hand have been tracked for the past two years at select Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s stores as well as at [...]

The New Zealand government has decided to move forward with a national electronic livestock identification system to track cattle activity. The national project has proposed that animal tracking be done by all producers. This tracking will be mandatory for cattle that will be required to be tagged with NAIT-approved RFID tags starting July 2012. The [...]

(RFIDWorld.ca) Technology, Patents and Licensing Inc. (TPL), recently announced that it is selling its RFID Patent Portfolio. TPL is a patent analysis, strategy and transactions firm and it developed the patent portfolio over the last five years. The patent portfolio covers aspects of RFID tracking and tracks certain techniques and databases for tracking critical items. [...]

At a medical conference in India, Vicinity RFID Solutions Pvt. India, has created a tracking solution using UPM UHF Gen 2 RFID tags. This solution has been created to be utilized for event tracking and in this case will be used at a medical conference. ThingMagic Astra Readers, will be provided by Fedders Lloyd Corporation [...]

(RFIDWorld.ca) Zander Livingston, CEO of Truecount Corporation, a RFID for retail software firm, will share his RFID expertise with supply chain professionals in an educational session entitled, “The Promise of RFID” during the 26th Annual Materials Handling & Logistics Conference, September 18 – 21, 2011 in Park City, Utah. With the supply chain on the [...]

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Vail Ski Resorts has enabled RFID technology, providing its visitors to use a social networking application that helps skiers and snowboarders to track and share each other’s progress while on the slopes. The program is called EpicMix and it allows anyone that purchases an RFID-enabled ticket on the slopes [...]

GAO RFID Inc. is offering its passive UHF Prox RFID tag to companies for tracking and management purposes of small assets. Small assets include objects such as routers, servers, disk drives and other hardware tools. The tags have especially been made to track metal objects but are very effective near other materials as well. The [...]

SimpleNFC and UPM RFID have teamed up to sell products on a newly launched website. They are offering a huge selection of NFC tools for building NFC solutions from which a variety of markets can benefit. SimpleNFC.com features and NFC Starter Kit, NFC tags from UPM RFID and many other tools to enable NFC solutions. [...]