WASHINGTON-Privacy advocates have rallied around a new California initiative that would prohibit driver's licenses and other identity documents issued by the state from containing radio frequency identification chips. "This is all about individual privacy, personal safety and financial security," said state Sen. Joe Simitian...
WASHINGTON-The Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Postal Service announced plans to deploy radio frequency identification technology, an emerging wireless capability predicted to generate more than $1 billion in Western Europe alone by 2007.Asa Hutchinson, undersecretary for border and transportation security at Department...
The number of worldwide mobile users will nearly reach 2 billion by the end of 2005 as penetration rates surpass 100 percent in some countries, according to a new study by Deloitte's Technology, Media and Telecommunications group. The study indicates voice will continue to...
WASHINGTON-On Wednesday, the Government Printing Office awarded contracts to four additional companies for testing electronic passports that use radio-frequency identification technology.On Track Innovations Ltd. said its U.S. subsidiary won one of the contracts. OTI is based in Israel."We are very pleased that the GPO...
PalmOnePalmOne Inc. announced its VersaMail 2.7 wireless e-mail software is available for Treo 600 smart phones. Treo 600 users will now have access to Internet Message Access Protocol, said the company. Features include automatic mail retrieval and notification; Web content support; in-box management; and...
Provigent Inc., which makes system-on-chip solutions for broadband wireless, said its PVG310 single-chip modem is now generally available. The company said the modem uses cross-polarization interface cancellation technology to increase wireless channel capacity. The XPIC technology supports the co-channel dual-polarization operation, which allows simultaneous...
CHICAGO-The Computing Technology Industry Association and The Association for Automatic Identification and Mobility plan to cooperate on developing a vendor-neutral certification program for radio-frequency identification technology in an attempt to address an industrywide shortage of RFID experts, which is slowing adoption of RFID technology....
WASHINGTON-The American Civil Liberties Union said it obtained State Department documents that show the Bush administration ignored security and privacy warnings by experts and foreign governments when it was promoting new passports using passive radio frequency identification technology, an action the group warned will...
CHICAGO-The Computing Technology Industry Association and The Association for Automatic Identification and Mobility announced plans to cooperate on developing a vendor-neutral certification program for radio-frequency identification technology.The groups said the certification initiative is an attempt to address an industrywide shortage of RFID experts, which...
WASHINGTON-The Food and Drug Administration launched a new initiative to study the use of radio frequency identification technology to improve the safety and security of drugs, an effort with major implications for high-tech vendors and systems integrators that parallels plans of major retailers and...
WASHINGTON-The Food and Drug Administration has launched a new initiative to study the use of radio frequency identification technology to improve the safety and security of drugs, an effort with major implications for high-tech vendors and systems integrators that parallels plans of major retailers...
WASHINGTON-The Republicans' ability to retain control of the White House and Congress in Tuesday's elections will nonetheless prompt changes at the GOP-led Federal Communications Commission, including the likely departure next month of Democratic FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein.The defeat of Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle...
WASHINGTON-BearingPoint Inc., a top business consulting and systems integration firms, said it is one of four firms companies awarded a contract by the Government Printing Office to help develop and test an electronic passport using radio frequency identification technology. BearingPoint said this is the...
DALLAS-AirGate Technologies, a subsidiary of The X-Change Corp., said it has completed an RFID prototype for car child safety seats.The prototype uses the company's Smart Buckle technology incorporated into a standard child seat. Miniature RF transmitters send a low-power signal to a reader mounted...
RICHMOND, British Columbia-eXI Wireless Inc., which provides wireless identification and location technologies, said its radio-frequency identification technology and services are now available to original equipment manufacturer vendors.The company said its new RFID products and services will allow OEMs to develop products for supply chain...
CUPERTINO, Calif.-Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is being used to enable contactless payment solutions for consumers in various venues, all in the name of making the buying experience faster and more convenient.On Track Innovations Ltd. and Smart System Technologies Inc. announced a...
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is being used to enable contactless payment solutions for consumers in various venues, all in the name of making the buying experience faster and more convenient.On Track Innovations Ltd. (OTI) and Smart System Technologies Inc. (SST) announced a partnership...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-In a stock-for-stock merger, Multek Inc. has entered into an agreement to acquire Sheldahl.Multek, a Flextronics subsidiary, makes rigid circuit boards while Sheldahl makes high-performance tapes and flexible printed circuit materials for the worldwide automotive and data communication markets.The deal will close...
Symbol Technologies Inc. will acquire Matrics Inc., which designs and manufactures electronic product code (EPC)-compliant radio frequency identification (RFID) systems, for $230 million. "The acquisition of Matrics is a significant step in executing our plan to be a leader in RFID and expands our...
HOLTSVILLE, N.Y.-Symbol Technologies Inc. will acquire Matrics Inc., which designs and manufactures electronic product code (EPC)-compliant radio frequency identification (RFID) systems, for $230 million."The acquisition of Matrics is a significant step in executing our plan to be a leader in RFID and expands our...
WASHINGTON-While retailers and manufacturers insist they can safeguard consumers' rights by self policing radio frequency identification systems, some groups see an opening to argue for broad-based privacy legislation applicable to a host of emerging wireless technologies.That RFID proponents and advocates have such starkly different...
"It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state." -Bruce SchneierImagine a world where your every possession-clothes, books, cash-could be precisely and invisibly tracked. In this world, your purchases, movements and activities could be monitored in real time...
Radio Frequency Identification tags-labels the size of a credit card or smaller containing a silicon chip and an antenna-are destined to replace the ubiquitous bar code, and can be attached to items large and small, from shipping crates to shoes.Businesses will be the first...
