“EPCGlobal says it has developed a super-high frequency EPC standard that will lower the entry barriers of Chinese companies hoping to use RFID. The standard drops the unit price of each RFID tag from US$0.5 to US$0.08. The code reader also declines to below US$1000. Meanwhile, China is also pressing on making its own RFID standard to protect its information security and enterprises’ interests.”
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The GSM Association has announced that 45 of the world’s leading mobile operators have committed to supporting and implementing SIM-based NFC services. Chief among these companies are China Mobile and China Unicom, which account for nearly 800 million subscribers throughout China. Other major operators include Deutsche Telekom, KT Corporation, Orange, SK Telecom, Telefónica, Telecom Italia, Turkcell, Verizon, and Vodafone. Click here for a full list. read more »A journalist for the Mingpao Daily has managed to spoof a biometric self-service kiosk used for immigration clearance at the Hong Kong-China border, according to a PC Advisor article. read more »Taiwan’s HTC Corporation is now offering customers in Chongqing City of western China an NFC-enabled smart phone geared towards mobile payments, according to Focus Taiwan. read more »Switzerland’s LEGIC has announced two new partnerships that will bring the company’s contactless smart card technology to China. Radio Frequency Systems, a manufacturer of contactless smart card technology, will use the LEGIC advant 4000 chip generation to create new reader modules for access control applications. read more »A research team at the Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) at North Dakota State University (NDSU) has developed an antennaless RFID tag designed to offer enhanced tracking of metal and liquids. read more »Leo InnoTech (LIT) and UPM RFID have carried out a large-scale item-level RFID implementation for a Chinese apparel company focusing primarily on warehouse logistics optimization. read more » |
