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1. Digital content doubles every 18 months

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... with the number of mobile users set to treble. Meanwhile, non-traditional IT devices such as wireless meters, automobile navigation systems, industrial machines, RFID readers, and intelligent sensor controllers, ...

2. IBM brings RFID to Volkswagen's entire supply chain

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   IBM and Volkswagen announced a plan yesterday to bring RFID technology to everything in Volkswagen's entire supply chain. Vendors will be required to tag every item they manufacture with RFID, or put ...

3. Qualcomm adds RFID-enabled tech to cell-phones

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   ... less than 100 ms sync times (1/10th second). NFC is compatible with RFID technology, allowing the potential of a wide range of in-store uses, such as product gathering, unique identification and other ...

4. CES 2009: Microsoft demos Internet-enabled coffee maker, plans more devices

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   ... interface will be standardized in a similar way. Some early envisioned applications are refrigerators that monitor what's been added or removed (requiring RFID chips on everything??), thereby automatically ...

5. RFID industry touts accuracy and speed in tracking both people and products

   (Security/Security Features)

     RFID tags have long been touted as the successor to  bar codes for tracking products, but did you know that they can help track people as well?  At the Thailand RFID Forum in Bangkok, ...

6. Motion C5: Mobile technology helping real people

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   ... disinfection.  It has space in the case for an optional 1D or 2D barcode reader.  It has an integrated ISO15693 compliant 13.56 MHz RFID reader, as well as its own 13.56 MHz RFID tag, a 2.0 Megapixel ...

7. First Look: Paraben's anti-RFID Passport StrongHold bag

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Yesterday we reported on Paraben's RFID-blocking StrongHold bag which claims to block unwanted RFID signals from reaching the newer US passports. Paraben has since sent us a few bags for further testing. ...

8. Infineon supplies RFID chips for US passports

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Infineon is the first company to announce a major contract to supply RFID chips that will be integrated in US passports. The chips will carry digital copies of the citizen's picture as well as the printed ...

9. How the 'freeze-the-field' rule led to NASCAR's Mobile Technology Center

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   ... - eventually - every race. (After Steve Worling and his team produce a duplicate vehicle for 2007, it will be equipped with the same hardware and software.) Steve Worling shows an AMB TranX Pro RFID transponder ...

10. Blackhat 2006: Explosive risks in RFID-enabled passports?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Security experts speaking today at Blackhat 2006 warned about potential vulnerabilities in RFID passports. Criminals can identify very specific passports from several meters away - which creates a whole ...

11. The push for RFID cards for US border crossings

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

      From Government Computer News Government Computer News is reporting today on a debate within the US Department of Homeland Security over whether to embed RFID identifiers within identity cards, ...

12. Japanese government plans to sprinkle RFID tags over disaster areas

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    RFID tags are already being used to track groceries and pharmaceuticals, but the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications now wants to use the technology to help find disaster survivors. ...

13. "Faraday caged apparel" - RFID-blocking wallets introduced

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    A small company has started selling RFID-blocking wallets and passport cases that promise to block unauthorized scans against RFID cards and passports. A small company has started selling RFID-blocking ...

14. Multi-chip RFID packages to substitute multiple RFID cards

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    The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) demonstrated at the RSA Security Conference a four chip RFID card that integrates a contactless sensor manufactured by HID. Dan Greenwood, MIT's Media Lab ...

15. RFID passports coming in two months

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      This December, the State Department will start issuing RFID-tagged passports. The embedded tags will contain the person's name, nationality, sex, birth date, place of birth, issuing office and a ...

16. California legislation limiting RFID use in drivers' licenses tabled

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      In the face of fierce opposition from high-tech companies, landmark California state legislation to limit public agencies from using radio frequency devices was dealt a major setback Thursday.  ...

17. Could RFID tags clutter the earth?

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      As RFID tags enter recycling mills as part of old corrugated containers, the question arises as to tags environmental impact. As RFID tags enter recycling mills as part of old corrugated containers, ...

18. Federal report warns of RFID misuses

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      In a report published Friday, the Government Accountability Office said that 13 of the largest federal agencies are already using RFID or plan to use it. In a report published Friday, the Government ...

19. Researchers easily cracked RFID car alarm system

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Researchers from Johns Hopkins University could crack car alarm system used in millions of cars, based on radio-transmitter chips that make possible high-security car keys and swipe-by gasoline ...