“In its June issue, Consumer Reports rates laptops and PCs, considers the safety and comfort of bike helmets, and offers the top gas grills for $500 or less. It also provides its readers with a seven-page, in-depth look at RFID tags, which one day will likely be embedded in just about every product the magazine, which has 4 million subscribers, writes about. “The purpose of the report was to explain what the technology is and what kinds of concerns need to be addressed,” mainly that identity thieves could find a means of using RFID technology to aid in the unauthorized collection of personal information, says Andrea Rock, Consumer Reports senior editor and the author of the article.”
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Holland 1916 announced its rugged RFID Nameplate Tag designed for automating the inspection and audit processes found in mining, construction, and oil rigs. Made up of of stainless steel to endure the harshest environments, Holland’s embedded RFID tags are attached to the various location stations of safety equipment. This enables inspectors and auditors to electronically record locations and upload an automated record of time, location, personnel and equipment status to the inspection software using handheld RFID readers. read more »Singapore, Canada, the United States, Kenya and South Korea have topped MasterCard’s newly released Mobile Payments Readiness Index (MPRI), an analysis of 34 countries and their readiness to use three types of mobile payments: person to person, mobile Web commerce and NFC-enabled mobile contactless payments at the point of sale. read more »Austriamicrosystems has developed two new RFID reader chips combining low power operation, small size, and low cost to enable RFID implementation in embedded portable and consumer devices. read more »The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) announced the publication the new 802.15.4f-2012 standard for active RFID and RTLS. This new standard will enable interoperability between systems and give end users a wider selection of vendors, whereas in the past the choice has been limited to a single source that supplies a proprietary technology platform. read more »American Express has announced that it is adding its Consumer, Open Small Business and Serve cards to the Isis Mobile Wallet platform. American Express now joins Chase, Capitol One and BarclayCard in enabling its card holders to make NFC payments and collect rewards using an Isis-enabled mobile phone. read more »The Tamil Nadu Cooperative Milk Producers’ Federation Ltd., Aavin, in Chennai, India has gotten off to a rough start, with many participants complaining about incorrect data stored on government-issued smart cards, reports The Hindu. read more » |
